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Git's basic model is a wonderfully simple system of blob trees and commit chains that one can explain in 5 minutes to anyone. Further up the stack, that wonderful simplicity devolves into a mess of commands and flags developers with 20 years of git...
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Riddle me this Batman: how much precision are these calculations evaluated at? If you answered ‘double’ and ‘float’ then you score one point for youthful idealism, but zero points for correctness. The correct answer, for zero-idealism points and forty two...
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Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world's most widely-used voice agents, and it would be good if it didn't suck. The idea that Apple would...
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My last few articles on bus sniffing the IBM 5150 have been building up to this one. We're going to leverage our bus sniffer and sniffer ...
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Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging arou...
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ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform.
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We are pleased to announce the Pyodide 314.0 release. This release focuses on standardization and packaging, marking a significant milestone in the Python-in-the-browser ecosystem. PEP 783 is Accepted: What Does It Mean? The acceptance of PEP 783:...
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Software as Craft: a First Look at Syntropy - Noteflakes
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In 1980, Intel released the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, a chip that could make math up to 100 times faster. As well as arithmetic...
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Webxdc mini apps run securely inside your chats: games, polls, collaboration tools and more. No internet access, no tracking, no accounts needed.