Why America's Children Stopped Falling in Love with Reading

2023-03-26 13:34:00 @ slashdot

"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

The Undeniable Street View

2023-03-26 10:31:30 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 254 # Comments: 168 Tweet

Ask Slashdot: Can an Aging Project Manager Return to Coding Unpopular Legacy Codebases?

2023-03-26 09:34:00 @ slashdot

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 Cloud Spanner Introduces Configurable Read-Only Replicas and Zero-Downtime Move Service

2023-03-26 09:01:00 @ InfoQ

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

Difference Between asText() and toString() in JsonNode

2023-03-26 07:37:28 @ Baeldung

Learn about asText() and toString() methods for working with JSON data in Java.               Tweet

Remove Entity with Many-to-Many Relationship in JPA

2023-03-26 07:34:27 @ Baeldung

A quick and practical guide to removing entity with many-to-many relationships in JPA.               Tweet

Introduction to Grafana Loki

2023-03-26 07:24:46 @ Baeldung

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

Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

2023-03-26 06:57:47 @ Baeldung

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

SAML with Spring Boot and Spring Security

2023-03-26 06:54:00 @ Baeldung

Learn how to sett up SAML2 with Spring Boot.               Tweet

Panera Bread Begins Scanning Its Customers' Palms

2023-03-26 06:34:00 @ slashdot

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

The 2022 Turing Award

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

Ruffle – Flash Emulator – Progress Report

2023-03-26 04:59:53 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 215 # Comments: 50 Tweet

U.S. home prices are the most unaffordable they've been in nearly 100 years

2023-03-26 04:13:45 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 214 # Comments: 187 Tweet

IBM Installs World's First Quantum Computer for Accelerating Healthcare Research

2023-03-26 03:34:00 @ slashdot

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

Four ‘Universes’

2023-03-26 03:00:39 @ John Carlos Baez

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

Four ‘Universes’

2023-03-26 03:00:39 @ Physics Phorums

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

I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

2023-03-26 00:05:28 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 433 # Comments: 435 Tweet

The New US-China Proxy War Over Undersea Internet Cables

2023-03-25 23:34:00 @ slashdot

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

A nasal spray protects against coronavirus including immune-evasive variants

2023-03-25 23:15:44 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 228 # Comments: Tweet

Google Security Researchers Accuse CentOS of Failing to Backport Kernel Fixes

2023-03-25 22:36:00 @ slashdot

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

Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access

2023-03-25 22:33:36 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 378 # Comments: 404 Tweet

Docker

2023-03-25 22:33:05 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 255 # Comments: 103 Tweet

Docker+Wasm Reaches Technical Preview 2, Includes Three New Runtime Engines

2023-03-25 22:00:00 @ InfoQ

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

Amazon Rejects Petition from 30,000 Workers Opposing Return-to-Office Mandate

2023-03-25 21:34:00 @ slashdot

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

DoomLinux: the Distro That Loads Only Enough Software to Play DOOM

2023-03-25 20:34:00 @ slashdot

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

Experimental library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT API

2023-03-25 19:40:14 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 352 # Comments: 129 Tweet

FSF Honors Emacs Co-Maintainer, 'Replicant' Developer, and Videoconferencing Tool Jami

2023-03-25 19:34:00 @ slashdot

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

TikTok Trackers Embedded in U.S. State-Government Websites, Review Finds

2023-03-25 18:34:00 @ slashdot

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

Are ad-driven business models bad?

2023-03-25 18:09:00 @ Geeking with Greg

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

Internet Archive Loses in Court. Judge Rules They Can't Scan and Lend eBooks

2023-03-25 17:34:00 @ slashdot

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

Time to end the speed limit in US airspace?

2023-03-25 17:30:02 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 210 # Comments: 308 Tweet

Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them

2023-03-25 17:06:40 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 497 # Comments: 367 Tweet

OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Leaked Some Payment Data, Blames Open-Source Bug

2023-03-25 16:34:00 @ slashdot

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

Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center

2023-03-25 16:08:25 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 229 # Comments: 118 Tweet

A Geometric Shape That Does Not Repeat Itself When Tiled

2023-03-25 15:34:00 @ slashdot

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

Qué sabemos sobre el perro mapache como animal intermediario de la zoonosis por SARS-CoV-2

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

Major Shake-Up Coming For Fermilab

2023-03-25 14:00:00 @ slashdot

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

Show HN: ChatGPT Plugins are a security nightmare

2023-03-25 12:39:08 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 203 # Comments: 35 Tweet

What we know about the Apple Neural Engine

2023-03-25 12:04:28 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 300 # Comments: 92 Tweet

Google Distributed Cloud Hosted Is Now Generally Available

2023-03-25 11:00:00 @ InfoQ

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

Natural History Museums Join Forces To Produce Global Digital Inventory

2023-03-25 11:00:00 @ slashdot

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

YunoHost – Operating system aiming to simplify server administration

2023-03-25 08:58:11 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 244 # Comments: 82 Tweet

Survey on Supply Chain Practices Finds Perceived Usefulness of Practice Correlates with Adoption

2023-03-25 08:00:00 @ InfoQ

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

Cloudflare disables access to ‘pirated’ content on its IPFS gateway

2023-03-25 07:59:28 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 291 # Comments: 143 Tweet

AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3

2023-03-25 06:07:00 @ InfoQ

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

Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

2023-03-25 04:39:38 @ Hacker News 200

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 Co-Founder and Semiconductor Titan Gordon Moore Dies at 94

2023-03-25 02:40:37 @ Daring Fireball

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

R to @coreyspowell: 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. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2019/news-2019-06.html #Neptune #Uranus

2023-03-25 02:29:52 @ @coreyspowell

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?

2023-03-25 01:14:03 @ @coreyspowell

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

Gordon Moore has died

2023-03-25 01:07:49 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 2535 # Comments: 222 Tweet

AI Tools in Coding: Progress or Just Optimization of the Status Quo?

2023-03-25 01:00:00 @ Atomic14

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

Judge decides against Internet Archive

2023-03-25 00:31:57 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1048 # Comments: 754 Tweet

RT by @coreyspowell: 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-altitude clouds really pop.

2023-03-25 00:28:40 @ @coreyspowell

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

We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF

2023-03-25 00:27:22 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 451 # Comments: 378 Tweet

GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data

2023-03-25 00:26:52 @ Hacker News 200

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 339 # Comments: 276 Tweet

R to @coreyspowell: 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. https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/32/2176-Image.html?Tag=Uranus&news=true #Hubble #Uranus

2023-03-25 00:23:54 @ @coreyspowell

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. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-007 #NASA #Hubble

2023-03-25 00:17:41 @ @coreyspowell

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

Animal Personalities Can Trip Up Science, But There’s a Solution

2023-03-24 22:40:59 @ Nautilus blog

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 to Collaborate on Next-Gen EC2 P5 Instances for Accelerating Generative AI

2023-03-24 21:52:00 @ InfoQ

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

Clarivate anuncia las revistas expulsadas del Web of Science y las que perderán su índice de impacto en el JCR de 2023

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

How the relative size modifier interacts with stack views

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

Joe Pepitone Dies at 82

2023-03-24 18:23:45 @ Daring Fireball

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

What it means to be an Android Google Developer Expert

2023-03-24 18:00:00 @ Google Developers

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

R to @coreyspowell: 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) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/neo-surveyor/in-depth/

2023-03-24 16:57:54 @ @coreyspowell

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

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 602 - Mar 24th 2023

2023-03-24 16:48:57 @ iOS Weekly

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

R to @coreyspowell: 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

2023-03-24 16:47:59 @ @coreyspowell

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

R to @coreyspowell: 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) https://neo.ssa.esa.int/search-for-asteroids?sum=1&des=2023DW https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/ #NoImpact

2023-03-24 16:31:15 @ @coreyspowell

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

R to @coreyspowell: 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) #risk #probability

2023-03-24 16:22:16 @ @coreyspowell

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

2023-03-24 16:19:39 @ @coreyspowell

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

The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy

2023-03-24 15:54:29 @ Quanta Magazine

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

How Webb’s Coronagraphs Reveal Exoplanets in the Infrared

2023-03-24 15:00:08 @ Nasa Webb

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

Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere

2023-03-24 15:00:00 @ old new thing

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

Java Weekly, Issue 482

2023-03-24 13:56:27 @ Baeldung

Java 20 is out! Nuff said :)               Tweet

Famous constants and the Gumbel distribution

2023-03-24 12:23:14 @ The Endeavour

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

Explore the Latest Updates to WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework

2023-03-24 11:40:00 @ InfoQ

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

Podcast CB SyR 408: Uracilo en Ryugu, Avi Loeb, teletransporte contrafáctico, segmentación de RMI y agujero negro de Maldacena

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

Swift Package Index gains Apple sponsorship

2023-03-24 09:00:00 @ Swift blog

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

RT by @coreyspowell: 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. https://www.openmindmag.org/articles/science-needs-diplomacy-diplomacy-needs-science

2023-03-24 08:46:16 @ @coreyspowell

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

Women’s History Month

2023-03-24 08:05:00 @ Business of Software Blog

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

Run a Spring Boot Application in AWS Lambda

2023-03-24 05:57:40 @ Baeldung

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

Find the N Most Frequent Elements in a Java Array

2023-03-24 05:54:56 @ Baeldung

A quick and practical guide to finding n most frequent elements in a Java array.               Tweet

Spring R2DBC Migrations Using Flyway

2023-03-24 05:36:16 @ Baeldung

Learn how to use Flyway migrations for a Spring Data R2DBC application.               Tweet

The Galactic Center

2023-03-24 02:00:47 @ John Carlos Baez

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

The Galactic Center

2023-03-24 02:00:47 @ Physics Phorums

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

Issue #187

2023-03-24 01:00:00 @ WASM Weekly

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 on Amazon Killing DPReview

2023-03-23 23:49:55 @ Daring Fireball

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

Working with percentages in SwiftUI layout

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. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/1274 #impact #Moon

2023-03-23 22:11:03 @ @coreyspowell

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

THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW TOP-LEVEL PROJECT APACHE® EVENTMESH 

2023-03-23 21:25:59 @ ASF

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

Not Quite What Happened

2023-03-23 20:08:08 @ Not Even Wrong

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

Sponsor Success at Apache: Google

2023-03-23 17:48:44 @ ASF

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 Announces Kubernetes 1.25 Support for EKS

2023-03-23 17:30:00 @ InfoQ

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

Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question

2023-03-23 15:27:36 @ Quanta Magazine

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

How unique must the uIdSubclass parameter be when I call Set­Window­Subclass?

2023-03-23 15:00:00 @ old new thing

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

A Strange Hiring Season

2023-03-23 14:58:00 @ Computational Complexity

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

RT by @coreyspowell: 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, photographer unknown

2023-03-23 14:51:24 @ @coreyspowell

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

Strengthen Markov’s inequality with conditional probability

2023-03-23 13:16:46 @ The Endeavour

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

Business of Software Conference USA Relocates to Raleigh NC

2023-03-23 12:49:38 @ Business of Software Blog

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

Green Software Development - What Can You Do Now, and Where is the Industry Heading?

2023-03-23 12:36:00 @ InfoQ

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

Improving Developer Experience in Non-Technical Organisations with BMK

2023-03-23 12:04:00 @ InfoQ

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

AWS Releases New Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Amazon Linux 2023

2023-03-23 11:00:00 @ InfoQ

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

Shout-Out to Kotlin Multiplatform Content Creators!

2023-03-23 08:50:57 @ Kotlin Blog

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

Shout-Out to Kotlin Multiplatform Content Creators!

2023-03-23 08:50:57 @ Kotlin news

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 Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool

2023-03-23 08:00:00 @ InfoQ

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

Difference Between Pod and Container in Kubernetes

2023-03-23 06:06:05 @ Baeldung

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

Introduction to QuestDB

2023-03-23 05:38:18 @ Baeldung

A brief introduction to QuestDB, a column-oriented database designed for time-series and event data, and how to create, query and remove data.               Tweet

Convert a Number to a Letter in Java

2023-03-23 05:31:00 @ Baeldung

Learn a few ways of converting an integer to an English letter.               Tweet

Welcome Back, Hipstamatic

2023-03-23 04:59:00 @ Daring Fireball

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

Recommended: ‘‎Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming With Dave Letterman’

2023-03-23 02:05:50 @ Daring Fireball

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

Microsoft Loop : Notion :: Teams : Slack

2023-03-23 01:39:08 @ Daring Fireball

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

Happy National Puppy Day

2023-03-23 01:00:00 @ The Syndicate

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

Energy Scavenging - Can we keep our electronics running indefinitely?

2023-03-23 01:00:00 @ Atomic14

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

Why Doctors Can’t Name Female Anatomy

2023-03-22 23:30:02 @ Nautilus blog

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

Launching new #WeArePlay stories from India

2023-03-22 22:00:00 @ Google Developers

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

Amazon Layoffs Will Shut Down Camera Review Site DPReview After 25 Years

2023-03-22 20:44:23 @ Daring Fireball

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

R to @coreyspowell: Bottom line:

2023-03-22 18:12:52 @ @coreyspowell

Bottom line: Tweet

R to @coreyspowell: 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. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/03/first-known-interstellar-interloper-resembles-dark-comet #DarkComets #astronomy

2023-03-22 18:09:31 @ @coreyspowell

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

R to @coreyspowell: 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.

2023-03-22 18:01:07 @ @coreyspowell

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

R to @coreyspowell: 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 almost certainly not aliens.

2023-03-22 17:56:38 @ @coreyspowell

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! https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/03/22/surprisingly-simple-explanation-for-alien-comet-oumuamuas-weird-orbit/ #comet #interstellar

2023-03-22 17:48:38 @ @coreyspowell

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

Building APIs for AI: An Interview with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig

2023-03-22 16:59:00 @ YC

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

Why am I getting a weird error about promise_type when I try to write a coroutine? part 2

2023-03-22 15:00:00 @ old new thing

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

Women’s History Month

2023-03-22 10:05:00 @ Business of Software Blog

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

Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Pioneer, Wins Turing Award

2023-03-22 09:57:37 @ Quanta Magazine

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

Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

2023-03-22 07:53:03 @ Quanta Magazine

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

This Week in Rust 487

2023-03-22 05:00:00 @ This Week in Rust

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

Widgetsmith Hits 100 Million Frigging Downloads

2023-03-22 03:17:13 @ Daring Fireball

“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

Problems Better Than Solutions

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

The Vela Pulsar

2023-03-22 02:00:36 @ John Carlos Baez

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

The Vela Pulsar

2023-03-22 02:00:36 @ Physics Phorums

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

‘aCropalypse’: Android and Windows Bugs Allow Cropped-Out Content From Screenshots to Be Recovered

2023-03-22 01:29:13 @ Daring Fireball

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

Solid State Volume Buttons and Mute Switch on iPhone 15 Pro Models

2023-03-22 01:23:59 @ Daring Fireball

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

did a...dad write this?

2023-03-22 01:06:10 @ @coreyspowell

did a...dad write this? nitter.net/jayvanbavel/status/1637921892576157696#m Tweet

R to @coreyspowell: 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: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36904-3 #astrobiology

2023-03-22 00:46:47 @ @coreyspowell

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

There’s a woset in my reposit

2023-03-22 00:45:04 @ The Endeavour

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

Keyboard shortcuts for Export Unmodified Original in Photos for Mac

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

The Dwarf Planet on Our Doorstep

2023-03-21 21:04:42 @ Nautilus blog

The series of fortunate astrophysical events that gave us Ceres. The post The Dwarf Planet on Our Doorstep appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet

AWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw Data

2023-03-21 20:22:45 @ AWS Blog

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

★ It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes

2023-03-21 19:19:57 @ Daring Fireball

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

Create a Managed FFmpeg Workflow for Your Media Jobs Using AWS Batch

2023-03-21 18:45:32 @ AWS Open Source News

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

Java 20 Delivers Features for Projects Amber, Loom and Panama

2023-03-21 16:45:00 @ InfoQ

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

AWS Week in Review – March 20, 2023

2023-03-21 16:38:20 @ AWS Blog

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

Google Uses AutoML to Discover More Efficient AI Training Algorithm

2023-03-21 16:00:00 @ InfoQ

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

Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians

2023-03-21 15:22:50 @ Quanta Magazine

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

Why does the usage of the initial registers of a Win32 process depend on whether it is a 32-bit or 64-bit process?

2023-03-21 15:00:00 @ old new thing

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

Kotlin News: Kotlin 2.0, Interview With John O’Reilly and Nicola Corti, and More

2023-03-21 14:32:43 @ Kotlin Blog

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

Kotlin News: Kotlin 2.0, Interview With John O’Reilly and Nicola Corti, and More

2023-03-21 14:32:43 @ Kotlin news

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

Women’s History Month

2023-03-21 10:00:16 @ Business of Software Blog

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

Aperiodic monotile

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

[Sponsor] Kolide — Zero Trust for Okta

2023-03-21 03:06:36 @ Daring Fireball

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

WorkOS

2023-03-21 02:58:41 @ Daring Fireball

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 ‘Social Authoritarianism’

2023-03-21 02:57:18 @ Daring Fireball

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

ASF to Mentor GSoC Contributors in 2023

2023-03-21 01:10:03 @ ASF

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

What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT?

2023-03-21 00:13:01 @ Nautilus blog

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

TypeScript 5 GA Extends Decorators, Stabilizes New Module Resolution Option, and More

2023-03-20 23:00:00 @ InfoQ

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

Apple’s ‘Hello Yellow’ TV Commercial

2023-03-20 21:50:12 @ Daring Fireball

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

Samsung Responds, Hand-Wavingly, to Fake Moon Photos Controversy

2023-03-20 21:13:08 @ Daring Fireball

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

How Snails Cross Vast Oceans

2023-03-20 20:13:28 @ Nautilus blog

The intrepid travelers are widely dispersed despite their sedentary lifestyle. The post How Snails Cross Vast Oceans appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet

Quiet Light takes Attendees on a tour of Cambridge

2023-03-20 16:33:53 @ Business of Software Blog

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

curl 8.0.1 because I jinxed it

2023-03-20 15:00:31 @ daniel.haxx.se

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

10 questions with the Live Activities team

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

On the proper care and feeding of the enigmatic Get­Distance­Of­Closest­Language­In­List function

2023-03-20 15:00:00 @ old new thing

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

Solid angle of a star

2023-03-20 14:38:02 @ The Endeavour

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

Apply to Google Summer of Code – Kotlin Projects Available

2023-03-20 14:06:11 @ Kotlin Blog

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

Apply to Google Summer of Code – Kotlin Projects Available

2023-03-20 14:06:11 @ Kotlin news

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

Ciencia para todos T05E20: Un malagueño gana la carrera para poder observar el cielo

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

Ciencia para todos T05E19: Sara García, la astronauta que investiga el cáncer

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

Ciencia para todos T05E18: Cecilio Barroso, descubridor de la cueva del Boquete de Zafarraya

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

curl 8.0.0 is here

2023-03-20 08:15:13 @ daniel.haxx.se

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

Scorpius X-1

2023-03-20 02:00:56 @ John Carlos Baez

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

Scorpius X-1

2023-03-20 02:00:56 @ Physics Phorums

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

New Upper Bound on R(k). WOW!

2023-03-20 01:47:00 @ Computational Complexity

 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

twenty-five years of curl

2023-03-20 00:05:15 @ daniel.haxx.se

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

Fossified: curl 25 years

2023-03-19 16:49:59 @ daniel.haxx.se

Over in our podcast Fossified, we did an entire episode dedicated to curl’s 25th birthday. Enjoy! Tweet