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It's part of my eternal quest to find the memory safety holy grail: something as powerful as Rust's borrow checking, yet something as simple and flexible as reference counting or garbage collection. 0 1
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Analyzing Eufy Security Ecosystem and reverse engineering of its doorbell component
Topics: Security
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Software developers, the GNU Project urges you to avoid hosting your repositories on GitHub. This is to avoid being on the receiving end of harmful practices, and avoid leading others to be victims too. This article focuses on a few of GitHub's worst...
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Short answer: It depends. Git stores "objects" as zlib compressed data. So the exact size of a commit will depend on the compressibility of your files (which is basically a function of the amount of repetition in them).
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Abstract: Developers often prefer flexibility over upfront schema design, making semi-structured data formats such as JSON increasingly popular. Large amounts of JSON data are therefore stored and analyzed by relational database systems. In existing...
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases
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You know what's funnier than 24?
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How dynamic shredding makes the vast majority of queries in Logfire a thousand times faster, with early adopter customers reporting more than 1000x improvement on query performance.
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No single component can promise consistency. The Kafka spent years and had rewrite significant parts of their tool proving this point. After all that work, they still say the guarantee is yours to hold.
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We explore how to speed up binary search by batching independent searches with NumPy's vectorized operations. We then reformulate the algorithm so all searches progress together with only $O(1)$ additional memory, port it to C++, and achieve up to a 25×...
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Tokenizer-free language models remove the inductive bias of fixed tokenizers by modeling text directly as bytes, but the resulting longer sequences substantially increase computation and eliminate explicit text abstractions. We ask whether this additional...
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Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs, CuriousMarc came across some Harris ICs labeled "...
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The story of a 2D vehicle physics prototype created in 1996 and later remastered as Motion Lab.