The Architecture of London Pubs (1966)
Stephen Gardiner The Architecture of London Pubs .In the mid-sixties, architect and writer, Stephen Gardiner, wrote recurrent socio-cultural architectural analysis for The London Magazine. This installment, on the state of that bastion of so-called English cultural activity, the pub, originally appeared in the December 1966 edition of The London Magazine. . . What’s happened to […]
SAML: A Technical Primer
If you just want to start integrating SAML right away, check out the SAML quickstart. You can get a SAML integration working end-to-end within a few hours. This article is for folks who want to understand SAML at a deeper technical level, or how they could implement SAML without using an open-source library like SSOReady. […]
Prep: Golang Comptime
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Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine ‘Planetary Boundaries’
A sea turtle swims in a coral reef in Hawaii. Ocean acidification, found to be on the brink of crossing a boundary into higher-risk territory, can affect coral skeleton formation. Toby Matthews via Ocean Image Bank Our planet has not passed its latest health check-up. A new assessment of Earth’s life-support systems shows that six […]
AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
Research Published 26 September 2024 Authors Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini Our AI method has accelerated and optimized chip design, and its superhuman chip layouts are used in hardware around the world In 2020, we released a preprint introducing our novel reinforcement learning method for designing chip layouts, which we later published in Nature and […]
CA law means stores can’t say you’re buying a game if you’re merely licensing it
When you turn on your Xbox Series X, open the Microsoft Store, and buy Farming Simulator 22, you might think you own the game, but you’d be wrong. You actually paid for a license to play the game — not to own it. Companies can revoke the license at any time. It doesn’t happen all […]
The Fight to Save Chile’s Glorious White Strawberry
It’s nearly Christmas in the foggy Nahuelbuta Range of south-central Chile and berries the size and color of ping-pong balls are ripening in small gardens that tumble down steep forested slopes. The dwindling number of aging farmers who still cultivate these frutillas blancas have just five weeks to comb these gardens and harvest their goods. […]
Binance founder ‘CZ’ leaves prison on Friday–along with his $60B fortune
On Friday, Changpeng Zhao will step out onto the streets of Long Beach, California as a free man for the first time in months. Since April, Zhao—who everyone knows as “CZ”—has been in federal custody after agreeing to return to the U.S. from Dubai in order to serve a four-month sentence for failing to implement […]
Rewriting Rust: A Response
Assumed Audience: Hackers, Rustaceans, and anyone interested in programming language design. Epistemic Status: Quite confident. The ideas are partially implemented and working. This post is partially an ad! Introduction josephg wrote a post about what he’d like to see in future Rust, or another programming language following Rust. Unbeknownst to josephg, that language is coming […]
The Mega65
Finally, after waiting patiently for over two years for my pre-order, my MEGA65 arrived a today! I bought and paid for this way back in May of 2022 but production was delayed first by Covid and then by the resulting chip shortage that followed. The tedium of waiting has all been washed away now that […]