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One of the several Rust for Linux kernel maintainers has decided to step away from the project

Distraction blocker which monitors your mouse and keyboard. Prevents you from switching tabs and wasting your time. - datavorous/amine

People complain about Rust syntax.
I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust's syntax, they actually object to Rust's semantics.
In this slightly whimsical post, I'll try to disentangle the two.

A series on automatic differentiation in Julia. Part 1 provides an overview and defines explicit chain rules.

Learn how the National Library successfully migrated 2.2 million hours of digital radio archives (1 Petabyte) from a 2007 bit-repository to a modern Digital Preservation System, including the technical challenges, improvements, and lessons learned during…

Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring and optimizing it.

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – world of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.

Open source Twitch for developers. Contribute to algora-io/tv development by creating an account on GitHub.

There are significant changes happening in distributed systems.

The dubious rise of the private-security industry

View this post in browser Your pie doesn't need to be original (unless you claim it so) Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you...

Common Lisp, batteries included

Update Aug 30: This article is discussed on Hacker News and lobste.rs.


In distributed systems, for instance when scaling out some workload to multiple compute nodes,
it is a common requirement to select a leader for performing a given task:
only one of…

AMD’s HDMI 2.1 solution for open-source driver compatibility has been rejected