As streaming services delete their own films and DVDs of classics go out of print, some of cinema’s most interesting movies are illegal to watch. Should you do it?

Vector embeddings by themselves are pretty neat. Binary quantized vector embeddings are extra impressive. In short, they can retain 95+% retrieval accuracy with 32x compression 🤯.

A four-decade quest to bring the quagga back is being heralded as a success, but not everyone is impressed

In this special episode of Book Overflow, Brian Kernighan once again joins Carter and Nathan, this time to discuss his book Unix: A History and a Memoir. Join them as Brian recounts what it was like working at Bell Labs, how it feels to have contributed so…

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An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!

Hello! This will be a first attempt at coming back to writing some blog posts about interesting topics I end up rabbitholing about. All the older stuff has been sadly lost to time (and “time” here mostly means a bad squarespace website).

The Fairchild Sentry 610 was optimized for engineers

We're all a bunch of chimps in a cage

The Steam client update on November 5th mentions "Fixed some miscellaneous common crashes." in the Linux notes, which I wanted to give a bit of background on. There's more than one fix that made it in under the somewhat generic header, but the one change…

What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project

The initial Apple Intelligence features aren’t exactly world-changing, but if we’re to believe Apple’s ads, they’re primarily shortcuts for those uninterested in investing time and effort.

And I thought I’d share. I used a Framework 13 mainboard as the core, added IO board to both sides of it and a couple of extra boards for the keyboard, Magsafe and the charge state button.

Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service - sjdonado/idonthavespotify

Anonymous peer-to-peer distributed communication layer built with open source tools and designed to run any traditional Internet service such as email, IRC or web hosting.

Col. Charles "Tre" Del Pizzo said the commandant of the Marine Corps ordered his removal from command after reviewing the crash investigation.

Reverse Engineering: In this guide, I'll walk you through how I create tools to find exploits in video games for bug bounty programs. Specifically, I'll focus on my research into the game Sword of Convallaria. This exploration is purely for educational purposes.…

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the death of the great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, occurred on 13 November 2014, the Grothendieck Institute organises a commemorative conference in his honour.The event will be held online on Saturday the 16th…