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Conan is an open source, decentralized and multi-platform package manager for C/C++ that allows you to create and share all your native binaries.

Posted on Wednesday 4 Aug 2021. 1,276 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Demand for faster processing with increasingly diverse applications is prompting very different compute models.

Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough.

The primary focus of the 2020 State of DevOps report was the emergence of a self-service developer platform model that top-performing DevOps teams are adopting. The reason for adopting this model is to enable a self-service experience for application development teams. The Internal Platform Model There are many ways to refer to this platform: internal…

Top Linux developer Kees Cook calls for everyone to push more for securing Linux.

Kolmogorov complexity of an object or algorithm is the length of its optimal specification. In some sense, it could be thought of as algorithmic entropy, in the sense that it is the amount of information contained in the object. Given that graphics, the game must be of at least a few hundred megabytes, right? Well, it is just 96 kilobytes. Consider the strings 11111111111111111111111111111111 and 4c1j5b2p0cv4w1x8rx2y39umgw5q85s7. The most obvious way to describe the …

Believe the hypeAfter decades of hype, it’s only natural for your eyes to skate over corporate mission-statements without stopping to take note of them, but when it comes to ending your relationship

Your favorite multi-player games took years to develop, but surely it can’t be that bad anymore, right? The technology has gotten better…

Smart property is much more than the anemic connected things we have now. Smart property imagines a world where every thing participates in digital communities and ecosystems, working through programmable agents under the owners control.

The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia

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Devices using Arcadyan software are at risk

Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.

As a young man, I wanted to help make a new medium that would be a step forward from Gutenberg's invention. By building a Library of Everything in the digital age, I thought the opportunity was not just to make it available to everybody in the world, but to make it better-- smarter than paper. By using computers, we could make the Library not just searchable, but organizable; make it so that you could navigate your way through millions, and maybe eventually billions of web pages.

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Book notes on "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

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