There are significant changes happening in distributed systems.

The dubious rise of the private-security industry

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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

Open source protocol for multimedia content streaming

Watch, listen, and relive the excitement of the Apollo 11 lunar landing as experienced minute-by-minute by the courageous crew of Apollo 11 and Mission Control.

In this talk I will share my experience of developing a programming language and shell (Elvish, https://elv.sh) in Go.

The talk will cover the following topics:
A quick intro to Elvish itself, showing its full-fledged programming language and interesting…

I recently learned an interesting fact about Fibonacci numbers while watching a random number theory video on YouTube. Fibonacci numbers can be used to approximately convert from miles to kilometers and back. Here is how. Take two consecutive Fibonacci numbers…

After a few years of unhappiness, I finally write the email that saved my life.

The so-called lost decade has now stretched to three. What went wrong, asks Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.

Home Assistant Presence Simulation. Contribute to slashback100/presence_simulation development by creating an account on GitHub.

Powell's is rightly famed as a destination for book lovers, and I finally made my pilgrimage last weekend. The perils of air travel limited the inevitable splurge -- I had to fit my haul into a single backpack -- but I wound up with some nifty ...