"A shrinking number of kids are reading widely and voraciously for fun," writes a New York-based children's book author in the Atlantic. But why? The ubiquity and allure of screens surely play a large part in this — most American children have smart Tweet
Anyone have career advice for this anonymous Slashdot reader? I've had a great career from 1992 to today. I've been a front line coder for most of that, but also a team lead, a supervisor, a project manager, a scrum master, etc.. My career has been marked Tweet
Google recently announced new regional and multi-regional capabilities for Cloud Spanner. The distributed SQL database now supports configurable read-only replicas and introduced a "zero-downtime" instance move service. By Renato Losio Tweet
Learn about Grafana Loki, a log aggregation system that's part of the Grafana ecosystem. Related Stories Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions Difference Between Deployment and ReplicaSet in K Tweet
Learn about different lightweight distributions of Kubernetes and when to use them. Related Stories Difference Between Deployment and ReplicaSet in Kubernetes Difference Between Pod and Contai Tweet
Slashdot reader quonset writes: In an effort to more personalize a customer's experience, the U.S. restaurant chain Panera Bread is rolling out palm-scanning technology which will link the palm print with the customer's loyalty program. According to Paner Tweet
2023-03-26 05:52:41 @ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Bob Metcalfe is the sole winner of the 2022 Turing Award. He keyed the development of Ethernet technology growing out of his PhD thesis while at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. Previous recognitions of his work include the IEEE Medal of Honor and the Nation Tweet
It's one of America's best hospitals — a nonprofit "academic medical center" called the Cleveland Clinic. And this week it installed an IBM-managed quantum computer to accelerate healthcare research (according to an announcement from IBM). IBM is cal Tweet
This chart made by Toby Ord shows four things: • Everything we can observe now is the ‘observable universe’. • Everything we can ever observe if we stay here is the ‘eventually observable universe’. • Everything we can ever observe Tweet
This chart made by Toby Ord shows four things: • Everything we can observe now is the ‘observable universe’. • Everything we can ever observe if we stay here is the ‘eventually observable universe’. • Everything we can ever observe Tweet
400 undersea cables carry 95% of the world's international internet traffic, reports Reuters (citing figures from Washington-based telecommunications research firm TeleGeography). But now there's "a growing proxy war between the United States and China o Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes Neowin: Google Project Zero is a security team responsible for discovering security flaws in Google's own products as well as software developed by other vendors. Following discovery, the issues are privately reported to vendors Tweet
Docker has announced the second technical preview of Docker+Wasm, aiming to make it easier to run Wasm workloads and extending runtime support by including Fermyon's spin, Deislabs' slight, and Bytecode Alliance's wasmtime runtime engines. By Sergio De Tweet
An anonymous reader shares this report from the New York Post: Disgruntled Amazon corporate employees are reportedly devastated after a top human resources executive shot down an internal petition that asked the tech giant's leaders to nix its return-to-o Tweet
Hackaday recently shared some thoughts on "purpose-built" distros: Some examples are Kali for security testing, DragonOS for software-defined radio, or Hannah Montana Linux for certain music fans. Anyone can roll their own Linux distribution with the ri Tweet
The Free Software Foundation held their annual LibrePlanet conference last week — and announced that Eli Zaretskii, co-maintainer of GNU Emacs, won their "Advancement of Free Software" award. "He has been a contributor to Emacs for more than thirty y Tweet
Toronto-based Feroot Security "found that so-called tracking pixels from the TikTok parent company were present in 30 U.S. state-government websites across 27 states," reports the Wall Street Journal, "including some where the app has been banned from stat Tweet
There's been a lot of discussion that ad-driven business models are inherently exploitative and anti-consumer. I think that's both wrong and not a helpful way to look at how to fix the problems in the tech industry. I think the problem with ad-driven mod Tweet
The Verge reports: A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a librar Tweet
OpenAI took ChatGPT offline earlier this week "due to a bug in an open-source library which allowed some users to see titles from another active user's chat history," according to an OpenAI blog post. "It's also possible that the first message of a newly-c Tweet
IHTFISP shares a report from Phys.Org: A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled. Tweet
2023-03-25 15:03:48 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Por ahora, casi nada. ¿Se sabrá más algún día? Casi seguro que no, se siente. Se sabe que los perros mapache (Nyctereutes procyonoides) se vendían de forma ilegal en el […] La entrada Qué sabemos sobre el perro mapache como animal intermediario d Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Magazine: In an unusual move, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has quietly begun a new competition for the contract to run the United States's sole dedicated particle physics laboratory. Announced in Janu Tweet
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Hosted, an offering for customers with the most stringent requirements, including classified, restricted, and top-secret data. It complements Google Distributed Cloud Ed Tweet
Dozens of the world's largest natural history museums revealed on Thursday a survey of everything in their collections. The global inventory is made up of 1.1 billion objects that range from dinosaur skulls to pollen grains to mosquitoes. The New York Time Tweet
A recent survey on supply chain security practices found that some practices are widely adopted but key practices are lagging behind. Key practices, such as generating provenance, were noted for lagging behind in adoption. The survey also found that the Tweet
During the latest Pi Day, AWS announced Mountpoint for Amazon S3, an open-source file client to deliver high throughput access on Amazon S3. Currently in alpha, the local mount point provides high single-instance transfer rates and is primarily intended Tweet
With GPT so hot in the news right now, and seeing lots of impressive demos, I'm curious to know, how are you actively using GPT to be productive in your daily workflow? And what tools are you using in tandem with GPT to make it more effective? Have you w Tweet
Intel: Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in H Tweet
Uranus & Neptune are near-twins in mass and size, making them a natural science experiment. Neptune is colder, making it bluer; Uranus is tipped sideways, giving it extreme weather, with summers that last 21 years. hubblesite.org/contents/news… #Ne Tweet
A strange thing I've noticed on Twitter lately. When I tweet actively, my followers go down. When I get busy and go silent, my followers go up. Maybe people like the idea of me more than the reality? Tweet
I was discussing the new wave of AI tools with an old colleague of mine the other morning. We’ve accumulated a lot of experience over the years - both having actively coded almost all our lives and doing it professionally for a large chunk of that time (I Tweet
Hey @coreyspowell , here's a similar set of @keckobservatory near-infrared Uranus images we put together leading up to the 2007 ring-plane crossing. Atmospheric methane absorption darkens the planet at these wavelengths, which makes the rings and high- Tweet
Uranus looks especially weird in this 2007 image from Hubble. At the time, the rings were edge-on relative to Earth, so it required a tricky double exposure to show the planet along with its almost-invisible rings. hubblesite.org/contents/medi… #Hubbl Tweet
For years, the Hubble telescope has been watching Uranus as it slowly wheels around the Sun. I've pulled together some of the best images. Look at the changing angle of Uranus's sideways rings, and its unexpectedly active storms. hubblesite.org/conten Tweet
Individual behavior patterns may skew studies. A "STRANGE" new approach could help. The post Animal Personalities Can Trip Up Science, But There’s a Solution appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
AWS and NVIDIA announced the development of a highly scalable, on-demand AI infrastructure that is specifically designed for training large language models and creating advanced generative AI applications. The collaboration aims to create the most optimi Tweet
2023-03-24 21:40:21 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Todos los años a finales de junio se publica el nuevo listado JCR de revistas con índice de impacto; muchas revistas logran entrar, mientras otras son expulsadas. La editora jefe […] La entrada Clarivate anuncia las revistas expulsadas del Web of Tweet
2023-03-24 21:14:49 @ Ole Begemann: iOS Development
And what it can teach us about SwiftUI’s stack layout algorithm I have one more thing to say on the relative sizing view modifier from my previous post, Working with percentages in SwiftUI layout . I’m assuming you’ve read that article. The following i Tweet
Bruce Weber, writing last week for The New York Times: For most of his career, Pepitone undermined his own gifts with his rambunctious and self-destructive behavior. He had money problems and marital problems. His night life began after night games; h Tweet
Posted by Yasmine Evjen, Community lead, Android DevRel The community of Android developers is at the heart of everything we do. Seeing the community come together to build new things, encourage each other, and share their knowledge encourages u Tweet
Second, asteroid risks are real! There are no planet-killers headed our way, but many smaller, undiscovered asteroids could cause regional damage. The upcoming NEO Surveyor mission will help reveal what's out there so we can prepare if necessary. (5/5) Tweet
Comment Note: Before starting this week’s intro, I want to emphasise that I am not an impartial observer of today’s news. I would have covered this announcement no matter what the open-source project was, but I Tweet
Two important lessons from asteroid 2023DW. First, the media aren't going to write headlines that say "No Asteroid Danger, Everything Fine"! So mentally add a lot of "maybes" and question marks when you see stories like this. (4/n) #risk #reality Tweet
With better observations, the impact risk of asteroid 2023DW is now estimated to be less than 1 in 22,000,000, effectively zero. It's no longer on the risk list for NASA or ESA. (3/n) neo.ssa.esa.int/search-for-a… cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/ #NoIm Tweet
It's hard to estimate the odds of an asteroid impact from just a few observations. Early reports may indicate a high risk. Follow-ups usually reveal that the true path of the asteroid will miss Earth. That's what happened with asteroid 2023DW. (2/n) #r Tweet
A couple weeks ago, the media were buzzing about an asteroid that had 1/500 odds of hitting Earth in 2046. Now we know the real risk -- the part of the story that doesn't make the headlines. (a short thread 1/n) #2023DW #asteroids Tweet
Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
The study of exoplanets is a key part of the James Webb Space Telescope’s science goals. We asked Webb’s Deputy Observatory Project Scientist Christopher Stark of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to tell us about one of the ways Webb studies other worlds Tweet
Another rogue patcher. The post Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
The Gumbel distribution, named after Emil Julius Gumbel (1891–1966), is important in statistics, particularly in studying the maximum of random variables. It comes up in machine learning in the so-called Gumbel-max trick. It also comes up in other applica Tweet
Recent updates to the WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework, including the ability to convert older .NET Framework-based apps to .NET 6, 7, or 8+ and new features like the Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer. Upgrading to newer frameworks creates Tweet
2023-03-24 10:54:19 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
He participado en el episodio 408 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Ep408: Uracilo en Ryugu; Loeb, Naves y UAPs; Teletransporte Contrafáctico; Segmentación; Agujeros Negros», 23 mar 2023. «La tertulia semanal […] L Tweet
Building a thriving open source ecosystem is important to Swift’s success, and open source packages are the building blocks that help power countless Swift projects. As the number of packages increases, discovery becomes critical for developers needing to Tweet
My first opinion piece, for @openmind_mag , covers something I've been interested in for years - science diplomacy - and how scientists should realise how their work plays into geopolitics. openmindmag.org/articles/sci… Tweet
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage. Asia Orangio Asia and the DemandMaven team help founders makes sense of marketing and focus on things that count. She Tweet
AWS has released a library to help convert a Spring Boot application into an AWS Lambda. We look at how to use this library and how to deal with long cold start times. Tweet
You’ve probably heard there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—and also that near the center of our galaxy there are a lot more stars. But did you ever think hard about what the Galactic Center is like? I didn̵ Tweet
You’ve probably heard there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—and also that near the center of our galaxy there are a lot more stars. But did you ever think hard about what the Galactic Center is like? I didn̵ Tweet
a world to win: webassembly for the rest of us WINGOLOG.ORG Today I’d like to share the good news that WebAssembly is finally coming for the rest of us weirdos. This fantastic blog post is a write-up of a talk that Andy Wingo gave at a recen Tweet
Devin Coldewey, writing at TechCrunch: The team’s knowledge, acumen and extensive objective testing contributed to reviews that famously reached near-comical lengths at times, but that was because shortcuts simply were not taken: You could be sure tha Tweet
2023-03-23 23:31:11 @ Ole Begemann: iOS Development
SwiftUI’s layout primitives generally don’t provide relative sizing options, e.g. “make this view 50 % of the width of its container”. Let’s build our own! Use case: chat bubbles Consider this chat conversation view as an example of what I want to b Tweet
Giordano Bruno is one of the youngest large craters on the Moon. When it formed, the blast tore across the surface and dropped huge chunks of rock. On the airless Moon, all that chaos is still perfectly preserved. lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/1274 #impac Tweet
New generation serverless event middleware for building event-driven applications has graduated to Top-Level Project. Wilmington, DE – March 15, 2023 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more th Tweet
Quanta has an article out today about the wormhole publicity stunt, which sticks to the story that by doing a simple SYK model calculation on a quantum computer instead of a classical computer, one is doing quantum gravity in the … Continue reading Tweet
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) exists to provide software for the public good with support from more than 70 sponsors. ASF’s open source software is used ubiquitously around the world with more than 8,400 committers contributing to 320+ active proje Tweet
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.25. Highlights of this update include support for Pod Security Admission (PSA), general availability of ephemeral containers, and new values for con Tweet
Last fall, a team of physicists announced that they had teleported a qubit through a holographic wormhole in a quantum computer. Now another group suggests that’s not quite what happened. The post Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question firs Tweet
Each one identifies an instance of the subclass for the window. The post How unique must the <CODE>uIdSubclass</CODE> parameter be when I call <CODE>SetWindowSubclass</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
In my fall jobs post , I had trouble predicting this season's CS faculty job market but I didn't expect this: strong supply and strong demand, something we haven't seen since the early '80s when the then young CS departments were ramping up. We ha Tweet
Mathematician Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882. She made groundbreaking advances in abstract algebra, and her eponymous theorems articulated the deep connection between symmetries and conserved quantities in physics. Image: Public domain, photograp Tweet
Markov’s inequality is very general and hence very weak. Assume that X is a non-negative random variable, a > 0, and X has a finite expected value, Then Markov’s inequality says that In [1] the author gives two refinements of Markov’ Tweet
We’re thrilled to announce Business of Software Conference USA is relocating to Raleigh, NC – one of the fastest growing tech clusters in the USA. BoS Conference USA will take place from 1-4 October 2023 It will be held at the Fletcher Opera Th Tweet
Making code more efficient often ends up saving carbon. Storing less information and compressing it can also lower your carbon footprint. There are open-source projects and standards and guides available that can be used to increase sustainability in sof Tweet
BMK has recently written about the challenges and DevEx compromises faced by engineers within traditionally non-technical enterprises. McKinsey Digital also recently published a report which asserts that every company is a software company. We report o Tweet
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a third-generation distribution with a high-security standard, predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates. By Steef-Jan Wiggers Tweet
Kotlin Multiplatform is steadily progressing toward Stable, and the technology’s ecosystem is continuing to expand and mature. None of this would be possible without the community’s contributions. In order to celebrate the community’s creation of articles, Tweet
Kotlin Multiplatform is steadily progressing toward Stable, and the technology’s ecosystem is continuing to expand and mature. None of this would be possible without the community’s contributions. In order to celebrate the community’s creation of articles, Tweet
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.15, adding new features that improve interacting with Envoy and troubleshooting issues within the service mesh platform. The release introduces improvements to Envoy access logging as well as adding in Consul Envoy extensi Tweet
A quick and practical comparison between pods and containers in Kubernetes. Related Stories Introduction to MicroK8s Difference Between Deployment and ReplicaSet in Kubernetes Getting Star Tweet
Remember Hipstamatic, the original retro filter camera app for iPhone? At its peak in 2012, photographer Ben Lowy shot the cover image for Time magazine using it. Hipstamatic never really disappeared, but it seemingly lost relevance. Well, they’re b Tweet
Is this a U2 special with Letterman emceeing, or a Letterman special featuring Bono and The Edge playing stripped down versions of some of U2’s best songs? Yes. It felt perfectly balanced to me. Funny but not a comedy, wonderful music but not at all a con Tweet
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Microsoft is now letting anyone preview Microsoft Loop, a collaborative hub offering a new way of working across Office apps and managing tasks and projects. Much like Notion, Microsoft Loop includes workspaces and Tweet
Today at MartianCraft we are recognizing National Puppy Day by sharing pictures of our furry coworkers. As a fully remote company, our pups get to spend a lot of time with us at MartianCraft. They even make regular appearances in our vide Tweet
A while back, I tried to power my Christmas lights using solar power , but it didn’t work out as planned - there simply wasn’t enough daylight (and more importantly sunlight) to charge up the battery. Undeterred, I decided to see if I could power my l Tweet
A vulva by any other name … causes confusion and unnecessary suffering. The post Why Doctors Can’t Name Female Anatomy appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
Posted by Parul Tyagi, Developer Marketing Every month, over 2.5 billion people visit Google Play to discover millions of apps and games, which are created by people with all sorts of backgrounds, who founded companies big and small. Tweet
Andrew Cunningham, reporting for Ars Technica: Amazon has plans to lay off at least 27,000 workers this year, including 9,000 that were announced in an internal email Monday morning . One unexpected casualty: Digital Photography Review, also known as Tweet
And 'Oumuamua might not be so strange after all! A new study has identified a population of "dark comets" in our own solar system. They also move on their own, probably also by puffing off invisible gas. news.cornell.edu/stories/202… #DarkComets #ast Tweet
Whole books have been written (ahem) about how strange 'Oumuamua was. But so far, astronomers have observed only two interstellar objects moving through the solar system. We don't know what is strange and what is normal. Tweet
The new theory about 'Oumuamua is simple and plausible. In interstellar space, water ice breaks down into hydrogen gas. When the comet approached the Sun, pockets of trapped gas escaped and gave it a nudge. I'm not saying it's not aliens...but it's almo Tweet
This is the most convincing explanation I've seen for 'Oumuamua, the interstellar object that accelerated strangely as it flew away from the Sun. Most likely it was pushed by puffs of invisible hydrogen gas. Sorry -- not aliens! news.berkeley.edu/2023/ Tweet
We sat down with Bryan Helmig, the CTO and founder of Zapier, to talk APIs and interoperability, and learn more about the company’s first-ever public API: Natural Language Actions (NLA). Tweet
Are you even writing a coroutine? The post Why am I getting a weird error about <CODE>promise_type</CODE> when I try to write a coroutine? part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage. Saielle DaSilva Saielle’s an invaluable leader, designer, and curator of culture balancing both a detailed index of de Tweet
The American researcher was recognized for his central role in inventing, standardizing and commercializing the ubiquitous networking technology. The post Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Pioneer, Wins Turing Award first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction. The post Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? fi Tweet
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWee Tweet
“Underscore” David Smith: Widgetsmith has just achieved a remarkable milestone, surpassing 100 million downloads since its launch in September 2020. A number that I can’t really wrap my mind around. A number larger than the population of all but 14 co Tweet
2023-03-22 03:09:26 @ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Defining the problem often means more than solving it Avrim Blum is the CAO at TTIC who got his degrees at MIT and then was at CMU almost for 25 years: CAO is Chief Academic Officer; TTIC is Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago; MIT is Massachusetts I Tweet
If you could see in X-rays, one of the brightest things you’d see in the night sky is the Vela pulsar. It was formed when a huge star’s core collapsed about 12,000 years ago. The outer parts of the star shot off into space. Its core collapsed i Tweet
If you could see in X-rays, one of the brightest things you’d see in the night sky is the Vela pulsar. It was formed when a huge star’s core collapsed about 12,000 years ago. The outer parts of the star shot off into space. Its core collapsed i Tweet
Simon Aarons: Introducing acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel’s inbuilt screenshot editing tool, Markup, enabling partial recovery of the original, unedited image data of a cropped and/or redacted screenshot. Huge thanks t Tweet
Chance Miller, writing for 9to5Mac: Earlier this month, 9to5Mac exclusively reported that the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro will have new unified volume buttons and a new “pressing type” mute button. Now, freshly-leaked CAD files have corroborated our repo Tweet
Complex organic molecules like those in asteroid Ryugu must have rained down on the early Earth, possibly coaxing the emergence of life. Full paper analyzing the Ryugu samples here: nature.com/articles/s41467-0… #astrobiology Tweet
The other day I was talking with someone I met while I was doing my postdoc at Vanderbilt and Eric Schechter’s book Handbook of Analysis and its Foundations came up. Eric was writing that book while we were there. He kindly listed me in the acknowle Tweet
2023-03-21 22:42:04 @ Ole Begemann: iOS Development
Problem The Photos app on macOS doesn’t provide a keyboard shortcut for the Export Unmodified Original command. macOS allows you to add your own app-specific keyboard shortcuts via System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Sho Tweet
Companies across multiple industries, such as advertising and marketing, retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, and financial services, increasingly look to supplement their data with data from business part Tweet
Real recordings will be called fake and fake recordings will be leaked as purportedly real. I don’t think the general population is prepared for this, and I worry that news media organizations aren’t either. Tweet
Improve usability and get relief from managing open source FFmpeg on AWS with our open source solution to deploy FFmpeg packaged in a container and managed by AWS Batch. Tweet
Oracle has released version 20 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes seven (7) JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panam Tweet
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and Spring is almost here! If you’re curious about AWS news from the previous seven days, I got you Tweet
Researchers at Google have open-sourced EvoLved sIgn mOmeNtum (Lion), an optimization algorithm for training neural networks, which was discovered using an automated machine learning (AutoML) evolutionary algorithm. Models trained with Lion can achieve b Tweet
For decades, mathematicians have been inching forward on a problem about which sets contain evenly spaced patterns of three numbers. Last month, two computer scientists blew past all of those results. The post Surprise Computer Science Proof S Tweet
Well, I mean, it's a different processor. The post Why does the usage of the initial registers of a Win32 process depend on whether it is a 32-bit or 64-bit process? appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
The K2 Compiler is going stable in Kotlin 2.0 The main highlights of Kotlin 2.0 include: Faster K2 Compiler, which is more extensible by design. A new data flow analysis algorithm, which leads to better smart casts. The new version of the Kotlin IDE Tweet
The K2 Compiler is going stable in Kotlin 2.0 The main highlights of Kotlin 2.0 include: Faster K2 Compiler, which is more extensible by design. A new data flow analysis algorithm, which leads to better smart casts. The new version of the Kotlin IDE Tweet
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage. April Dunford April is an executive consultant, speaker, and author who helps technology companies make complicated pr Tweet
2023-03-21 08:47:17 @ Complex Projective 4-Space | Where exciting things happen
David Smith, Joseph Myers, Craig Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have discovered an aperiodic monotile: a polygon that tiles the plane by rotations and reflections, but cannot tile the plane periodically. Any tiling induced by the monotile is scalemic: t Tweet
Here’s an uncomfortable fact: at most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’re doing something wrong. Kolide’s new report, The State of Sensitive Data , shines a l Tweet
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. WorkOS is like “Stripe for enterprise features.” They make it easy for developers to build features needed by enterprise customers, such as Single Sign-On and SCIM. Shipping these feature is important Tweet
Tim Urban, on Twitter: We can illustrate this by comparing how people react to an upcoming talk by a speaker they disagree with. High-rung thinkers find a lot of value in having their beliefs challenged. Low-rung thinkers, not so much. But only the id Tweet
We are proud to participate in Google Summer of Code as a mentor organization again this year. #GSoC is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. This summer, ASF community members and committers Tweet
One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London. The post What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT? appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
After announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta three months ago, TypeScript 5 has finally reached general availability. Among the most relevant changes are extended support for decorators to enable their placement before or after export and export defaults, the ne Tweet
Speaking of TV commercials for camera phones, Apple’s new 30-second spot for the iPhone 14’s new yellow color features a protagonist who does nothing with his iPhone other than use it as a camera. ★ Tweet
Jon Porter, The Verge: Samsung has published an English-language blog post explaining the techniques used by its phones to photograph the Moon. The post’s content isn’t exactly new — it appears to be a lightly edited translation of an article poste Tweet
The intrepid travelers are widely dispersed despite their sedentary lifestyle. The post How Snails Cross Vast Oceans appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
The wonderful people over at Quiet Light are happy to announce they’re taking attendees on a tour of Cambridge before early registration on Sunday 26 March! The CambridgeOpen top Tour Bus will take round all the sights of Cambridge: Queen’s Roa Tweet
Right. I said in the 8.0.0 blog post that it might be a good release. It was. Apart form the little bug that caused it to crash in several test cases. So now we shipped curl 8.0.1, which is almost identical apart from a single commit that was reverted. Exa Tweet
2023-03-20 15:00:28 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
With Live Activities, your app can provide up-to-date, glanceable information — like weather updates, a plane’s departure time, or how long it’ll be until dinner is delivered — right on the Lock Screen. What’s more, thanks to lively features like the Tweet
Thinking about how this could be used. The post On the proper care and feeding of the enigmatic <CODE>GetDistanceOfClosestLanguageInList</CODE> function appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
The apparent size of a distant object can be measured by projecting the object onto a unit sphere around the observer and calculating the area of the projected image. A unit sphere has area 4π. If you’re in a ship far from land, the solid angle of t Tweet
Kotlin is taking part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time! GSoC is a global online program focused on bringing new contributors into open-source software development. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a 12-week programming project Tweet
Kotlin is taking part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time! GSoC is a global online program focused on bringing new contributors into open-source software development. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a 12-week programming project Tweet
2023-03-20 10:51:10 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T05E20, «Un malagueño gana la carrera para poder observar el cielo», 09 mar 2023 [14:22 min.], del programa de radio “Ciencia para Todos”, en el […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T05E20: Un malagueño gana la car Tweet
2023-03-20 10:50:30 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T05E19, «Sara García, la astronauta que investiga el cáncer «Quiero que mi trabajo contribuya a mejorar la vida de la gente»», 23 feb 2023 [14:58 […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T05E19: Sara García, la astrona Tweet
2023-03-20 10:49:14 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T05E18, «Recordamos la trayectoria del arqueólogo recientemente fallecido Cecilio Barroso, descubridor de la cueva del Boquete de Zafarraya», 09 feb 2023 [14:58 min.], del programa […] La entrada Ciencia para to Tweet
Exactly one month since the previous release, we are happy to give you curl 8.0.0 released on curl’s official 25th birthday. This a major version number bump but without any ground-breaking changes or fireworks. We decided it was about time to reset Tweet
If you could see X-rays, maybe you’d see this. Near the Galactic Center, the Fermi bubbles would glow bright… but the supernova remnant Vela, the neutron star Scorpius X-1 and a lot of activity in the constellation of Cygnus would stand out. Sc Tweet
If you could see X-rays, maybe you’d see this. Near the Galactic Center, the Fermi bubbles would glow bright… but the supernova remnant Vela, the neutron star Scorpius X-1 and a lot of activity in the constellation of Cygnus would stand out. Sc Tweet
R(k) is the least n such that for all 2-colorings of the edges of \(K_n\) there is a monochromatic \(K_k\) (so there are k vertices such that the coloring restricted to the edges between those k vertices is constant) Here is some history. If I mi Tweet
Time flies when you are having fun. Today is curl‘s 25th birthday. The curl project started out very humbly as a small renamed URL transfer tool that almost nobody knew about for the first few years. It scratched a personal itch of mine, Me back then Tweet