Branch predictor: How many "if"s are too many? Including x86 and M1 benchmarks!
Cell phone data can help redesign cities - Big Think
With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.
Kubestriker: A security auditing tool for Kubernetes clusters - Help Net Security
Kubestriker is an open-source and platform-agnostic tool for identifying security misconfigurations in Kubernetes clusters.
Optimal flow: Building open organizations where leaders can emerge | Opensource.com
To create innovative and engaged organizations, you'll need to set the conditions for open leaders to thrive. This checklist can help.
How Discord Stores Billions of Messages | by Stanislav Vishnevskiy | Discord Blog
Discord continues to grow faster than we expected and so does our user-generated content. With more users comes more chat messages. In…
#002 jobGen - The Grand Romantic Gesture of a Hacker | Bootstrapper's Tales
My spouse had a pain point! So I built her a SaaS to solve it
The Mars Society
Low Poly Landscapes
Lovely work here by Elyse Dodge -- these look like half-finished renderings by the machine that's simulating our universe. You can keep up with her work on Instagram or get some for yourself in her shop. (via mos
How automation could turn capitalism into socialism
There can be no doubt that automation is the future of work. There’s plenty of debate as to what extent AI will displace workers in the near and far future, but the general consensus is that blue collar work is an endangered species. It’s o
Avesha Deploys Machine Learning for More Efficient Load Balancing – The New Stack
When Raj Nair founded load balancing company Arrowpoint Communications 20 years ago, load balancing was done based on some simple formulas. He sold Arrowpoint to Cisco in 2000 and went on to found a video delivery company that he sold to Ericsson. Two years ago, he returned to the load balancing challenge, this time as…
A comparison of ARM vs RISC-V Vector Extensions #RISCV #ARM @ARM « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Microprocessor with vector instructions is going to be the big thing for the future. Why? Because self-driving, speech recognition, image recognition are all based on machine learning and machine l…
Mars City State Designs Book Published! - The Mars Society
The Mars Society is proud to announce that its book, “Mars City States: New Societies for a New World”, has now been published. The book, edited by Frank Crossman, contains the twenty top designs for a one million person Mars City State, is now on sale in both paperback and kindle formats. People will soon be able to go to the Red Planet. But that very possibility opens a still more interesting – indeed truly grand – question: What will we... READ MORE >
Exploring the New Kubernetes Maturity Model – The New Stack
Regardless of whether you’re just starting to explore Kubernetes or you already have experience deploying in Kubernetes, you know by now that it is complicated and will require new skills and an adjustment in the way you think about deploying applications. Originally designed by Google and today maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…
ehang unveils tree-like vertiports for its autonomous passenger drones
autonomous air vehicle company ehang unveils 'baobab', a large tree-like tower and landing platform for its EH216 passenger drones.
A hybrid approach to work
The future of work at Google: more flexibility for your work week, more choice around where you work, and more flexibility for your life.
Why Haven't We Funded the Fucking Street Sinks Yet? - Slog - The Stranger
It's been six months since the city greenlit funding for street sinks and now its moved the goal posts on the program entirely.
Temporal documentation
Actors
ARMv9: What is the Big Deal? @ARM « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
We are at a cusp of a major shift in industry, the likes of which has not been seen in decades. Yes, this sounds dramatic, but x86 has been dominating the computing industry for decades, and is lik…
A Painstakingly Crafted Village Perches Atop a Wooden Tower in Ognyan Stefanov’s Miniature Utopia | Colossal
Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named "Skyville," which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave co
The Otherworldly Sounds of Ice
The holes drilled into Arctic, Antarctic, and glacial ice to harvest ice cores can be up to 2 miles deep. One of my all-time favorite sounds is created by dropping ice down into one of these holes -- it makes a super-coo
Pluralistic: 05 May 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
How to Spot SRE Adoption Barriers - DevOps.com
Several DevOps Institute Ambassadors and SRE subject matter experts provide insights into the barriers to further SRE adoption.
The Fashionable Mark Bryan
For the past year, robotic engineer Mark Bryan has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram by cataloguing his daily outfits that include skirts and heels. From a profile in Interview: By all accoun
Custom Keyboard with LCD #3DThursday #3DPrinting « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Brent Svac shares: This is a custom keyboard with lcd screen using a raspberry pi pico and adafruit esp32 airlift. download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D …
Pluralistic: 05 May 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The benefit of the doubt | Seth's Blog
Rarely talked about, and the heart of marketing and more than that, of culture. We can’t possibly know precisely what’s inside the book or the box or the bottle before we buy it for the…
What the World Was Like a Million Years Ago – 24/7 Wall St.
What was Earth like one million years ago? If our planet is 4.54 billion years old, a million years is not much more than an eyeblink in eternity. In human terms, however, what the world was like a million years ago is difficult to comprehend. Science has helped us understand the distant past by unlocking […]
Partcl - a tiny command language
Tcl intepreter in six hundred lines of code, customizable, extendable, covered with tests
» What3Words – The Algorithm
What3Words is a widely promoted system that is used for sharing a location using just three words. For example, ///wedge.drill.mess is located in Hyde Park.The globe is divided into 3m squares, eac…
Can Formal Methods Succeed where UML Failed? • Buttondown
Last Tuesday’s piece Why UML “Really” Died went viral. I’m glad that people enjoyed it, and I also was happy to use all that fallow research, but something’s...