Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the … Read more
My first superoptimizer – Austin Z. Henley Austin Z. Henley I work on AI + dev tools. 5/29/2023 It’s time for another useless project. For any given code snippet, is it possible to find the absolute optimal code that has … Read more
The best-known citizen of the Indian hill town of Darjeeling, Tenzing Norkay, is in residence now, though unseasonably, for the year’s climbing in the Himalayas has begun and most of his Sherpa colleagues are off helping Westerners up the peaks. … Read more
Mojo First Impressions – 2023-05-22 Launching Early Mojo officially launched on the 3rd of May, igniting an overwhelming surge of interest by directly addressing real problems that many developers encounter when optimizing code related to Machine Learning (ML) inference. The … Read more
The bathysphere on deck of the Ready, 1930-1934, from Bathysphere and Nonsuch Wildlife Conservation Society / Reproduced by permission of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Midmorning on June 11, 1930, a barge called the Ready, bearing the staff of the Department of … Read more
December 21, 2022 10:30 The world’s first portable quantum computers, Gemini Mini, Gemini and Triangulum, developed by the Chinese company SpinQ Technology, are on sale in Japan. The price for the simplest Gemini Mini 2-cubit system starts at $8,700, while … Read more
# LVDB – LLOOGG Memory DB # Copyriht (C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo # All Rights Reserved # TODO # – cron with cleanup of timedout clients, automatic dump # – the dump should use array startsearch to write it line … Read more
Credit: Mark Russinovich Recently, we learned that Microsoft will rewrite parts of the Windows kernel using the memory-safe programming language Rust. Well, it’s already happening: Azure CTO Mark Russinovich revealed that the most recent Windows 11 Insider Preview build is … Read more
MTG-I1 first image – view of Europe Animation – view of Europe This animation from MTG-I1 imagery, zooming in Europe, was made from one day’s worth of data, from 11:50 UTC 18 March to 11:50 UTC 19 March 2023. MTG-I1 … Read more
One part of creating that sense was shooting frequently during “magic hour,” the phrase filmmakers use for that brief window when the sun is setting and the world is bathed in gold. The film was shot in remote desert locations … Read more