This Unreal Engine Generated Face Almost Escapes The Uncanny Valley And It's Freaking Us Out
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Programmer's Guide to Meltdown
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kotlin | Downloading and Installing JDK and IntelliJ
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Property-based testing (with a sprinkle of JavaScript)
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Measuring OS X Meltdown Patches Performance
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"Some anti-virus vendors are using techniques to bypass Kernel Patch Protection by injecting a hypervisor which they use to intercept syscalls and make assumptions about memory locations — memory locations which are now changing with the Meltdown fixes."
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JavaScript Markdown WYSIWYG Editor
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Event sourced process managers (example in Ruby)
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Handling of CPU bugs disclosure 'incredibly bad': OpenBSD's de Raadt
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SPMD Program Compiler for CPU from Intel is Open Source
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Osmo Coding Jam - Kids Programming Fun
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Let's Encrypt - Security Issue with tls-sni-01 and Shared Hosting Infrastructure
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Rails 5.2 supports descending indexes for MySQL
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What’s new in ECMAScript 2018
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How to Use Machine Learning in Mobile Apps
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Debugging small OS kernels (part 1)
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A Cute Comic Intro to Load Balancers
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Nginx Tutorial #2: Performance
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Writing a C Compiler, Part 5
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Splitting a Monitoring Monolith into Separate Components
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