Inside Nepal’s Fake Rescue Racket

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In Nepal, helicopter rescue on high altitude is, by any measure, a genuine lifesaving operation. At high altitude, where oxygen thins and weather changes without warning, the ability to airlift a stricken trekker to Kathmandu within hours has saved countless … Read more

Inside Rust’s std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?

blog.cuongle.dev
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A while ago, our team was working on a Rust project where std::sync::Mutex was everywhere. A team member suggested switching to parking_lot::Mutex instead. They heard that it has better performance, smaller memory footprint, and more predictable behavior under contention. I … Read more

A Tour Inside the IBM Z17

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Welcome to a photo-driven tour of the IBM z17. I’ve scoured the image library to pull dig deep inside these machines that most people don’t get an opportunity to see inside, and I’ll share some of the specifications gleaned from … Read more