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In a world in which high-performance code continues to be written in a fancy assembler, a.k.a. C, with no memory safety and plenty of other risks, the only recourse is to stick to software engineering basics. Reduce the amount of code in harm

Meteorite hunters who flocked to Detroit from across the U.S. after a meteor exploded are finding the fragments.

Build your own VR headset for $100. Contribute to relativty/Relativ development by creating an account on GitHub.

The year is 2032. “President Paul, the nuclear codes are 4-2-0-6-9.”

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Switch leads the way, but the entire console market is thriving.

In a career that spanned the first half of the 20th century, Henry Louis Mencken became not only one of America’s most memorable prose stylists, but also one of its most prolific ones.
Mencken (1880-1956) led many literary lives, often several at once. He…

In the context of distributed systems, canaries are used to limit the blast radius of software releases. Per the Google SRE book:

The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave

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An anonymous reader writes: When 24-year-old Donald Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming, he had no idea that he'd still be working on it 56 years later. This month he also celebrated his 80th birthday in Sweden with the world premier of Knuth's…

Some hackers make functional things that you can’t allow to be seen in polite company. Others make beautiful things that could come from a high-end store. [Marija] falls into the second categ…

Apple faces more scrutiny for an update that slowed down iPhones with old batteries.

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