Resilience4j, a lightweight fault tolerance library designed for functional programming, has released version 2.0 featuring support for Java 17 and dependency upgrades to Kotlin, Spring Boot and Micronaut. This new version also removes the dependency on Tweet
Axios reports: As Amazon prepares to debut its long-delayed Prime Air drone delivery service, it's also showing off a smaller, quieter drone that will be ready in 2024 and could be making regular deliveries in major cities by the end of the decade. The 8 Tweet
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Since 1999 fiction writers have tried starting and finishing the composition of 50,000-word novels in November for "National Novel Writing Month". But for the last nine years, programmers have instead tried gen Tweet
This week's Java roundup for November 28th, 2022 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JavaFX 20, Spring Integration 6.0, Spring Vault 3.0, Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-RC3, AWS introduces Lambda SnapStart, Quarkus 2.14.2, 2.13.5 and 2.15.0.CR1, Apache Camel 3.18 Tweet
The Boston Globe reports that U.S. Senator Ed. Markey just sent a letter to more than 20 car manufacturers asking them to continue including AM radios in future car models — including electric vehicles: Some EV manufacturers have raised concerns even Tweet
The writers of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story "had an idea for a sequel that would have been even darker and more morally ambiguous," writes Screen Rant: Rogue One told the story of how the Rebel Alliance gained access to the Death Star plans, and further e Tweet
Activision’s blind faith in the infallibility of their RICOCHET anti-cheat software , combined with a buggy and unstable Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II release, has resulted in faulty, permanent, and unappealable player account bans that prevent users Tweet
Brian Leroux, CTO at Begin, recently introduced Enhance, a new HTML framework, at QCon San Francisco. Enhance heavily lies on web standards and progressive enhancement for future-proof web applications. Enhance provides file-based routing, reusable Custo Tweet
When it comes to the official requirements for graduating from a U.S. high school, there's a push for changes. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp looks at 2014: Making computer science courses 'count' would not require schools to offer computer science o Tweet
This post will look at rotating a matrix 90° and what that does to the determinant. This post was motivated by the previous post. There I quoted a paper that had a determinant with 1s in the right column. I debated rotating the matrix so that the 1s would Tweet
Palo Alto, California began investigating where its recycling goes over four years ago, reports NBC News. The results? Palo Alto's best reckoning, today, is that about 40% of its recyclable material stays in North America, where it's supposed to be proces Tweet
Facing higher prices for natural gas, Germans are now embracing climate-friendly heat pumps, reports the New York Times. "So much so that heat pumps are often sold out, and the wait for a qualified installer can last months." The German government is amon Tweet
My thanks to Doxie for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their new Doxie Pro scanner. When the world went went home for work, Doxie asked themselves how they could adapt document scanning to make any size space work better. They nailed it with Doxie P Tweet
NVIDIA is proud of its role in the first commercially available smart tractor (which began rolling off the production line Thursday). Monarch Tractor's MK-V "combines electrification, automation, and data analysis to help farmers reduce their carbon footpr Tweet
Marc Tessier-Lavigne is president of Stanford University. He's also "the subject of a university investigation," reports SFGate, "following a report from the school's newspaper, the Stanford Daily, that he committed scientific research misconduct" in paper Tweet
I’ve gotten to be quite good at the actual coding part after a decade or so of programming. I’m not looking for better code practices, although I’ll obviously still learn and grow there. What I’m seeking is reading material regarding how to manage projec Tweet
Axios reports: "Although a quantum computer isn't expected until 2030, at the earliest, updating current encryption standards will take just as long," writes Axios, "creating a high-stakes race filled with unanswerable questions for national security and Tweet
IEEE Spectrum reports: In October, a startup called Jidu Automotive, backed by Chinese AI giant Baidu and Chinese carmaker Geely, officially released an autonomous electric car, the Robo-01 Lunar Edition. In 2023, the car will go on sale. At roughly US Tweet
I recently ran across an elegant equation for the area of a triangle in the complex plane with vertices at z1, z2, and z3. [1]. This formula gives the signed area: the area is positive if the points are given in countclockwise order and negative otherwise Tweet
The Wall Street Journal reports: In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world's most valuable company, say people involved in the discuss Tweet
At re:Invent, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Omics, a managed service for storage, analysis, and elaboration of genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. The service is designed for healthcare and life science organizations to enha Tweet
"Graduate students at Northeastern University were able to organize and beat back an attempt at introducing invasive surveillance devices that were quietly placed under desks at their school," reports Motherboard: Early in October, Senior Vice Provost Dav Tweet
A reader submits a report: Artificial Intelligence (AI) research company OpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT, a prototype dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural language and responding in natural language. It has since taken the inte Tweet
You can read the news in Military Times magazine. "Coming just after the 25th anniversary of the release of the cult classic Starship Troopers (November 1997), Offworld Industries and Sony Pictures Consumer Projects are bringing the fight against the Arach Tweet
The previous post showed that if a vector field F over a simply connected domain has zero curl, then there is a potential function φ whose gradient is F. An analogous result says that if the vector field F has zero divergence, again over a simply connecte Tweet
The previous post discussed the fact that the curl of a divergence is zero. The converse is also true (given one more requirement): a vector field F is the gradient of some potential φ function if ∇×F = 0. In that case we say F is a conservative vector fi Tweet
The best way to understand the “physicists create wormholes in the lab” nonsense of the past few days is as a publicity stunt (I should credit Andreas Karch for the idea to describe things this way), one that went too … Continue reading Tweet
The various combinations of divergence, gradient, and curl are confusing to someone seeing them for the first time, and even for someone having seen them many times. Is the divergence of a curl zero or is it the divergence of a gradient that’s zero? Tweet
Apple released a set of optimizations to Core ML to enable running the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model on Apple Silicon-powered devices running the latest iOS or macOS versions, respectively iOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1. By Sergio De Simone Tweet
Image by rawpixel.com on FreepikThese days, it seems like Artificial Intelligence is taking over the world. But you don't have to escape its clutches - why not have a little fun with it? One of my favorite ways to lol at AI's expense is by getting them to Tweet
At the beginning of the re:Invent conference, AWS announced the general availability of RDS Blue/Green Deployments, a new feature for Aurora with MySQL compatibility, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for MariaDB to perform blue/green database updates. By Renato Tweet
Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations. Brought to you by: Sofa : One place to organize your downtime. Squarespace : Make Tweet
Sheera Frenkel and Kate Conger, reporting today for The New York Times under the alarming headline “Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find”: Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the soci Tweet
Garrit Franke: Yesterday I was asked to allow the usage of location services for Google Maps seemingly out of nowhere. Of course I accepted. After all, I just wanted to check a route to a local business and I was in a hurry. Back home I opened Google Tweet
Speaking of entertaining legal documents that address serious issues, I’ve been meaning to link to the amicus brief filed by The Onion on behalf of Anthony Novak, who is suing the police department of Parma, Ohio in a case now before the Supreme Court. Tweet
A team of researchers at the RISELab at UC Berkeley recently released Skypilot, an open-source framework for running machine learning workloads on the major cloud providers through a unified interface. The project focuses on cost optimization automatical Tweet
Akiva Cohen, an attorney representing 22 laid-off Twitter employees, in a letter to Twitter and Elon Musk (shared, of course, on Twitter): If basic human decency and honor isn’t enough to make you want to keep your word, maybe this will: If you don’ Tweet
Comment This week saw Apple announce the 2022 App Store Awards winners. Congratulations to everyone on that list! I hope your blue cubes are as beautiful as they look in the photos. 🟦 If your goal is to joi Tweet
You can talk about hypothetical things, hoping that a real thing shows up later. The post C++ template parlor tricks: Using a type before it is defined appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
Wordle is a word game. But you can use math to optimize your chances of winning (without cheating). The post The Math Behind Wordle Guesses first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
2022-12-02 14:36:12 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
He participado en el episodio 392 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Ep392: JWST; Función de Onda; Emperador Romano; TMT; Genoma Vegetal», 01 dic 2022. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 3 Tweet
The characters 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are called Arabic numerals, but there are a lot of other numerals that are Arabic. I discovered this when reading the documentation on Perl regular expressions, perlre. Here’s the excerpt from that pag Tweet
OmniFish, the Estonia-based Jakarta EE consulting company, launched support for Jakarta EE in September 2022. This includes JakartaEE 10, GlassFish 7, and Piranha Cloud and its components like Mojarra. OmniFish recently also joined the Jakarta EE Working Tweet
Joseph Zeballos-Roig, reporting for Semafor: “It’s all bullshit,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. told Semafor. He was wary of the industry even before the recent collapse of crypto exchange FTX, he said, and recent meetings with advocates have not given him Tweet
I just heard the sad news that Igor Krichever passed away this morning at the age of 72. Igor was a great scholar, a wise man, and a wonderful human being. He will be sorely missed by his colleagues at … Continue reading → Tweet
Apple’s Machine Learning Research team: Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for Stable Diffusion in macOS 13.1 and iOS 16.2, along with code to get started with deploying to Apple Silicon devices. [...] One of the key questio Tweet
Better together: A Kubernetes and Wasm case study CNCF.IO Adobe design tools are (necessarily) complex and powerful beasts, for this reason, they have always been a pioneer of bringing desktop applications to the web, they were the creators of Fla Tweet
Darrell Etherington, writing for TechCrunch: Despite a joint statement between Ye (fka Kanye West) and Parler in October noting that the two had reached an agreement for the rapper to buy the social network , that will not come to pass, Parler owner Tweet
David Z. Morris, writing for CoinDesk, with the best “all you need to know” overview of the FTX scandal I’ve seen: Perhaps most perniciously, many outlets have described what happened to FTX as a “bank run” or a “run on deposits,” while Bankman-Fried Tweet
Posted by Monika Janota, Community Manager Lars Knudsen is a Google Developer Expert; we talked to him about how a $10 device can make computers more accessible for people with disabilities. Monika: What inspired you to become a Tweet
Today we are announcing a new Amazon Comprehend feature for intelligent document processing (IDP). This feature allows you to classify and extract entities from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and images directly from Amazon Comprehend without you nee Tweet
In 2016, we launched Amazon GameLift, a dedicated hosting solution that securely deploys and automatically scales fleets of session-based multiplayer game servers to meet worldwide player demand. With Amazon GameLift, you can create and upload a game serve Tweet
Today, we announced the preview release of Amazon CodeCatalyst. A unified software development and delivery service, Amazon CodeCatalyst enables software development teams to quickly and easily plan, develop, collaborate on, build, and deliver applications Tweet
It is increasingly common to use multiple cloud services as building blocks to assemble a modern event-driven application. Using purpose-built services to accomplish a particular task ensures developers get the best capabilities for their use case. However Tweet
I am excited to announce the availability of a distributed map for AWS Step Functions. This flow extends support for orchestrating large-scale parallel workloads such as the on-demand processing of semi-structured data. Step Function’s map state executes t Tweet
People without arms using touchscreen phones. A deaf mother whose watch lets her know that her baby is crying. A blind man whose phone tells him not just that a door is in front of him, but what it says on the door. These are the days of miracles and wond Tweet
A colleague said how they enjoyed watching the collapse of Twitter under Elon Musk. But I use Twitter to keep connected to the CS community. In Twitter I hear not only new results but ones that excite particular people. I watch the debate between those Tweet
Phil Gyford has launched a splendid new directory of blogs: For years I’ve seen people moan that “nobody blogs any more”, all while my feed reader was overflowing with new blogposts I never had time to read. I want to demonstrate that there are lots a Tweet
Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree. The situation reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia. The post Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Tweet
Editor’s Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. On the morning of Saturday, Nov. 5, an international team of planetary scientists woke up with great delight to the first Webb i Tweet
Here’s a quote I think about often: “It is faster to make a four-inch mirror and then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror.” — Bill McKeenan, Thompson’s law of telescopes If your goal is to make a six-inch mirror, Tweet
You can already attack yourself in far more interesting ways. The post Not even trying to cross an airtight hatchway: Calling a function in your own process by synthesizing a function pointer appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
A second article exploring the challenges Etsy faced as it scaled up. Tim Cochran relates how CTO Mike Fisher identified problems with the product delivery process, built a cross-functional Product Delivery Culture team to analyze the situation, Tweet
Napoleon’s theorem is usually presented as I presented it in the previous post. You start with a triangle (solid blue) and add equilateral triangles (dashed green) on the outside of the triangle. When you connect the centroids of these triangles you Tweet
At the recent re:Invent, AWS announced an update to its FaaS offering Lambda with SnapStart feature that reduces the cold start for Java Functions. By Steef-Jan Wiggers Tweet
Retrospective facilitators can develop their facilitation skills by self-study and training, and by doing retrospectives. Better retrospective facilitation can lead to higher effectiveness of change and impact the progress of an organization. By Ben Li Tweet
2022-12-01 10:18:00 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Enhorabuena a todas las oyentes del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido. Gracias a vosotras, cientófilas, se ha logrado el Premio iVoox de Ciencia de la audiencia, con 2622 votos. […] La entrada El podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido es el ganado Tweet
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources. By Daniel Tweet
2022-12-01 09:18:24 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
He participado en el episodio «La química bioortogonal, la química del click y los premios Nobel de Química 2022. Francisco Villatoro. UMA», 29 nov 2022 [iVoox], del programa de radio Luciérnagas, @Luciernagas_20, […] La entrada Francis en Luciér Tweet
Apple Newsroom has a long feature story on Oceanic+, an app that turns Apple Watch Ultra into a serious dive computer, and which was previewed extensively during the Ultra’s introduction: “One of our first goals was to keep it intuitive,” says [CEO] M Tweet
New YouTube channel from designer extraordinaire Marc Edwards. I could watch stuff like this all day. I just love watching someone who’s good at what they do, do what they do. ★ Tweet
Reed Albergotti, formerly of The Washington Post, now writing for Semafor, in a piece with the clickbait headline “Apple’s Chinese Dream Is Over”: China is also no longer cheap. Wages have skyrocketed, with the average factory worker making $6 per ho Tweet
I’m quite sure many of you are sick of Donald Trump and actively avoid reading about him. But you’ll enjoy this exquisite story on how he wound up having dinner last week with an outspoken racist and antisemite. Marc Caputo, reporting for NBC News: “I Tweet
Ted Mann and Julie Bykowicz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal ( News+ link ): That fall, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was standing at a fenced-off site affixed with Boring signs near Fort Meade and telling a videographer to “get ready” for a high-sp Tweet
Lizzie O’Leary, writing for Slate: Look: I’m sure that Tracy Bennett, the Wordle editor, is a lovely person and a skilled crossword editor. But when I do a Wordle and discover I’ve walked into someone else’s pun, I feel foolish. The butt of a middlebr Tweet
AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is a new capability of AWS Marketplace. It simplifies third-party software risk assessments when procuring solutions from the AWS Marketplace. It helps you to ensure that the third-party software continuously meets your indu Tweet
The following theorem is attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821). There’s some debate over whether Napoleon was the first to discover the theorem, but I don’t believe there’s any doubt that the theorem, like Morley’s theorem f Tweet
From July through September, the TED Idea Search: Southeast Asia 2022 applications were open to anyone living in or descended from Southeast Asia. Applicants were required to create a two-minute video as a part of their submission. After sorting through hu Tweet
The Windows Subsystem for Linux has reached GA status in the Microsoft Store, adding support for Windows 10 in addition to Windows 11. Among the most notable features in WSL 1.0.0 are opt-in systemd support and the possibility of running Linux GUI applic Tweet
Hannah Murphy, Alex Barker, and Arjun Neil Alim, reporting for The Financial Times: Multiple top advertising agencies and media buyers told the Financial Times that nearly all of the big brands they represent have paused spending on the social media p Tweet
A little birdie told me Cook was walking around campus with Musk a few minutes ago, but unsurprisingly, Musk himself broke the news. As the saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Update: “Diplomacy” is clearly Tim Cook’s middle Tweet
This morning Quanta Magazine informs us that Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer, promoting the article on Twitter with BREAKING: Physicists have built a wormhole and successfully sent information from one end to the other and Physicists Tweet
Tapbots, on Mastodon: Hello people of the Fediverse! Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory, is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thr Tweet
Jason Snell, writing a few weeks ago at Six Colors: One Home Screen is a nice feature, but it’s not an iCloud backup of your Apple TV, nor is it the Apple TV equivalent of Migration Assistant. It is exactly what its name suggests — a home-screen-synci Tweet
This is something I wrote back in June, for context see the next posting. First of all, there’s the following, which is not strictly scientific, but very relevant to how one decides to evaluate progress in a subject. The Maldacena … Continue r Tweet
2022-11-30 20:15:40 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
The busiest season on the App Store is almost here! Make sure your apps and product pages are up to date and ready in advance of the upcoming holidays. We’re pleased to remain open throughout the season again this year and look forward to accepting your s Tweet
As you move your machine learning (ML) workloads into production, you need to continuously monitor your deployed models and iterate when you observe a deviation in your model performance. When you build a new model, you typically start validating the model Tweet
In 2019, we introduced Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for data science and machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio gives you access to fully managed Jupyter Notebooks that integrate with purpose-built tool Tweet
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that can help you accelerate your ML journey. SageMaker JumpStart gives you access to built-in algorithms with pre-trained models from popular model hubs, pre-trained foundation models to help you p Tweet
AWS Machine Learning University is now providing a free educator enablement program. This program provides faculty at community colleges, minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) with the skills and res Tweet
When we talk with customers, we hear that they want to be able to harness insights from data in order to make timely, impactful, and actionable business decisions. A common pattern with data-driven organizations is that they have many different data sources Tweet
To build machine learning models, machine learning engineers need to develop a data transformation pipeline to prepare the data. The process of designing this pipeline is time-consuming and requires a cross-team collaboration between machine learning engin Tweet
Data fuels machine learning. In machine learning, data preparation is the process of transforming raw data into a format that is suitable for further processing and analysis. The common process for data preparation starts with collecting data, then cleanin Tweet
Gathering insights from data is a more effective process if that data isn’t fragmented across multiple systems and data stores, whether on premises or in the cloud. Amazon AppFlow provides bidirectional data integration between on-premises systems and appl Tweet
As companies increasingly adopt machine learning (ML) for their business applications, they are looking for ways to improve governance of their ML projects with simplified access control and enhanced visibility across the ML lifecycle. A common challenge i Tweet
Back in 1980, at my second professional programming job, I was working on a project that analyzed driver’s license data from a bunch of US states. At that time data of that type was generally stored in fixed-length records, with values carefully (or not) e Tweet
The first time I saw a reference to trilinear coordinates I thought this must be another name for barycentric coordinates. It’s not. Barycentric coordinates come up often in applications, such as when working with finite element meshes. Trilinear co Tweet
PostgreSQL has become the preferred open-source relational database for many enterprises and start-ups with its extensible design for developers. One of the reasons developers use PostgreSQL is it allows them to add database functionality by building exten Tweet
You use map apps every day to find your favorite restaurant or travel the fastest route using geospatial data. There are two types of geospatial data: vector data that uses two-dimensional geometries such as a building location (points), roads (lines), or Tweet
Today, I’m excited to announce a new, redesigned user interface (UI) for Amazon SageMaker Studio. SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all machine learning (ML) development steps with a comprehensive set of M Tweet
Posted by Wesley Chun ( @wescpy ), Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Introduction and background The Serverless Migration Station mini-series helps App Engine developers modernize their apps to the latest language runtimes, such as fr Tweet
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical JSON workloads. It is one of AWS fast-growing services with customers including BBC, Dow Jones, and Samsung rely Tweet
The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information. The post Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
Today we’ll talk about Trouble at ITER, robots that build robots, air pollution, AI that classifies supernovae, a small asteroid that hit Canada, Super GPS, a new supercomputer simulation of the sun, a quantum thermometer. And of course, the telephone Tweet
Digital astronomy with cellular automata (\(\mathbb{M}\), via). No, this is not about using CA to study patterns in the sky (though that might be interesting); it is about using UMAP dimension-reduction techniques to create something like a Hertzsprung-Rus Tweet
It triggers prefetching, but your usage pattern may mean that prefetch doesn't mean much. The post I used <CODE>FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN</CODE> but it didn’t seem to speed up my sequential scanning appeared first on The Old New Thi Tweet
Take an arbitrary triangle and draw the trisectors of each angle. Morley’s theorem says that the trisector lines will intersect at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. This theorem is surprising because out of a triangle with no symmetry pops a Tweet
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database. By Steef-Jan Wiggers Tweet
Business of Software Conference Europe 27-28 March, Cambridge UK Business of Software Conference USA (Dates and location TBC) The brightest software entrepreneurs from across the world will be meeting at BoS events throughout 2023 to interact with their pe Tweet
AWS announced that CloudFront now supports continuous deployment to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic. The new feature of the AWS content delivery network simplifies blue-green and canary deployment strategies. 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
This was the last of this year’s lectures on This Week’s Finds. You can see all ten lectures here. I will continue in September 2023. This time I spoke about quaternions in physics and Dyson’s ‘three-fold way’: the way Tweet
This was the last of this year’s lectures on This Week’s Finds. You can see all ten lectures here. I will continue in September 2023. This time I spoke about quaternions in physics and Dyson’s ‘three-fold way’: the way Tweet
When so many people went home for work, so did we. We repurposed our living rooms, kitchens, and even bedrooms to be work-from-home spaces. That time gave us a new perspective on our products. We asked, “how can we adapt document scanning to make any size Tweet
I used Mathematica to create the graphics for my previous two posts because SciPy didn’t have the functions I needed. In particular, elliptic integrals and elliptic functions in SciPy only take real-valued arguments, but I needed to use complex argu Tweet
Filipe Espósito, reporting for 9to5Mac two weeks ago: As noted by 9to5Mac readers, today’s update adds a time limit when the user chooses to enable AirDrop for everyone, not just contacts. With this change, people in China can no longer keep AirDrop t Tweet
Clive Thompson, in a piece from April: What if more developers developed a sense for the “maximum” number of things a product should do — and stopped there? What if more software firms decided, “Hey! We’ve reached the absolute perfect set of featu Tweet
MartianCraft Staff MartianCraft has been an iOS-focused design and development agency for well over a decade. We had three apps waiting for approval when the App Store rolled out. So yes, we are biased when it comes to native iOS dev Tweet
As previously announced, the Ropsten network has been deprecated and will be shut down in the coming weeks. Over the past few months, infrastructure providers have gradually stopped supporting the network and validator participation rates have been steadil Tweet
Geoffrey Fowler, writing for The Washington Post: Amazon is the first app many of us think about to buy things online. But is it actually a good place to go shopping? When you search for a product on Amazon, you may not realize that most of what you s Tweet
Cat Zakrzewski, Faiz Siddiqui, and Jeremy B. Merrill, reporting for The Washington Post: In the first quarter, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48 million on ads on the social network, according to a document reviewed by The Washingt Tweet
We've starved marshes of their essential sediment—now can we repair them in time? The post Why We Need Muck to Fight Rising Sea Levels appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
In this talk I explained the quaternions and octonions, and showed how to multiply them using the dot product and cross product of vectors. For more details, including a proof that octonion multiplication obeys |ab|=|a||b Tweet
In this talk I explained the quaternions and octonions, and showed how to multiply them using the dot product and cross product of vectors. For more details, including a proof that octonion multiplication obeys |ab|=|a||b Tweet
I'm sharing what I've learned while developing this project in terms of tech specificities product design when creating for the blockchain. The post Part 4: Beyond The Code and What I’ve Learned – Ethereum Payment first appeared on Code Capsule . Tweet
A walkthrough of the steps needed to process and validate payments from a web application on the Ethereum blockchain. The post Part 3: Processing Payments – Ethereum Payment first appeared on Code Capsule . Tweet
Join us for a happy hour during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco on January 10th. If you’re a YC alum, an investor, industry leader, or are interested in starting a bio or healthcare company, we’d love to see you there. Tweet
The work — the first-ever limit on how many whole numbers can be written as the sum of two cubed fractions — makes significant headway on “a recurring embarrassment for number theorists.” The post Mathematical Trio Advances Centuries-Old Numbe Tweet
You already had access to those files, by virtue of the fact that they ran in the first place. The post Dubious security vulnerability: Reading the files in the WindowsApps folder appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
Tim Cochran and Keyur Govande conclude their description of Etsy's cloud migration by looking at challenges, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, how they continue to learn to improve their cloud usage, and their measurements of cost and carbon Tweet
Researchers from Google's Robotics team have open-sourced Code-as-Policies (CaP), a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate robot-control code that achieves a user-specified goal. CaP uses a hierarchical prompting techniqu Tweet
In this talk I explained the E8 root lattice and how it gives rise to the ‘octooctonionic projective plane’, a 128-dimensional manifold on which the compact Lie group called E8 acts as symmetries. I also discussed how some special root l Tweet
In this talk I explained the E8 root lattice and how it gives rise to the ‘octooctonionic projective plane’, a 128-dimensional manifold on which the compact Lie group called E8 acts as symmetries. I also discussed how some special root l Tweet
One question for Brett Hollenbeck, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles. The post How Can We Spot Fake Product Reviews? appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
Learn how to manage development environments with Vagrant and understand the use cases and the different configuration options. Related Stories How to Run TestNG Tests on Jenkins Using Foresig Tweet
2022-11-29 05:00:29 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
For over a decade, the App Store editorial team has taken a moment at the end of the year to celebrate the very best apps and games. We’ve heralded the work of individual self-taught developers and huge international teams. With so many wonderful app Tweet
2022-11-29 04:00:49 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
Every year, the App Store editorial team celebrates exceptional apps that improve people’s lives while showcasing the highest levels of technical innovation, user experience, design, and positive cultural impact. Join us in celebrating the work of outs Tweet
Jason Snell: John Gruber joins Jason on Upgrade for the first time. Topics include eWorld, Apple’s iPhone production problems in China, FIFA and Qatar and the World Cup, the reasons behind Apple’s sports ambitions, BBEdit, regular expressions, Perl an Tweet
Vlad Savov, reporting for Bloomberg: * Turmoil at Apple Inc.’s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou is likely to result in a production shortfall of close to 6 million iPhone Pro units this year, according to a person familiar with assembly operations. Tweet
Vivian Wang, reporting for The New York Times from Beijing: “We don’t want lockdowns, we want freedom!” the protesters shouted as they wound westward through one of the city’s neatly manicured embassy districts, where a Four Seasons hotel stands along Tweet
Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullin, reporting for The New York Times: Yahoo is deepening its push into digital advertising, even as its competitors warn that the market is faltering. The internet pioneer, which was taken private in a $5 billion deal Tweet
There are times when NOT having computer access (is that possible anymore?) can make you MORE productive. 1) I did a lot of my Muffin Work when I was in Mexico for a bar matzah and had no computer access, and no Television in English (though Te Tweet
Speaking of asininity (albeit, thankfully, not toxic in this case), over the weekend Elon Musk, responding to some idiot’s idea that “The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?”, offhandedly tweeted : I certainly Tweet
Elon Musk: Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America? What’s going on here @tim_cook? I heard from a source who spent time working in Twitter’s ad products organization that Apple, until recently, was n Tweet
Posted by Dominik Mengelt, Developer Relations Engineer, Google Pay and Nick Alteen, Technical Writer, Engineering, Wallet What is step-up authentication? When processing payments, step-up authentication (or simply “step-up”) is the p Tweet
NASA will share a new image or spectrum from the James Webb Space Telescope at least every other week on the mission’s blog. This week, check the blog on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 11 a.m. EST for new images highlighting one of Saturn’s moons. In the meantime, le Tweet
Make a list and check it twice because Advent of Code season is almost here! We can’t wait for December 1, when the first of the 25 holiday-themed puzzles unlocks on adventofcode.com. For the second year in a row, JetBrains will be sponsoring Advent Tweet
Make a list and check it twice because Advent of Code season is almost here! We can’t wait for December 1, when the first of the 25 holiday-themed puzzles unlocks on adventofcode.com. For the second year in a row, JetBrains will be sponsoring Advent Tweet
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Connect with experts online to learn how to make the most of App Store features. Discover how to attract new customers, test marketing strategies, add subscriptions, and so much more. Live presentations with Q&A are being held through December 8 in Tweet
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precision maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals — not the signals themselves. The post The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements first appeared on Quanta M Tweet
The state of the art has moved forward slightly. The post What kind of caller diagnostic information can I get from exceptions thrown by C++/WinRT and wil?, C++20 edition appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
Of course it's there, isn't it? I mean, it's always been there. The post The case of the application that used thread local storage it never allocated appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
Conformal maps transform one region into another while preserving angles. You might solve a PDE, for example, by mapping it to a standard region, solving it there, then mapping the solution back to the original region. Some tasks are easier to do in a squ Tweet
The ability to avoid temptation is a modern superpower. With temptation ubiquitous, avoiding it is essential in fighting procrastination; keeping finances healthy; managing diet and weight; boosting productivity; and maintaining healthy relationships. Tweet
When working with the CloudKit production environment I need to be able to view data for iCloud accounts other than my development account. Development Environment I’ve been experimenting with syncing a private Core Data database with CloudKit Tweet