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Your language isn't broken, it's doing floating point math. Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers. This representation comes with some...
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Webserver Back End with Orleans Actor System, Dotnet Core and Server-Side Redux
The RROD codeMicrosoft Orleans BasicsThis project is about modern application architecture, based on Dotnet Core. Microsoft Orleans is a large codebase, that is used for running some big projects...
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Brands need to fire adtech
Brands are bailing from adtech, and news about it is coming fast and hard.The New York Times said AT&T and Johnson & Johnson were pulling their ads from YouTube, concerned that “Google is not...
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A.I. vs. M.D.
One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University’s medical center with a grinding headache. Her vision had become blurry, she...
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On mutex performance and WTF::Lock
One of the things I’ve been doing this quarter is removing Gecko’s dependence on NSPR locks. Gecko’s (non-recursive) mutexes and condition variables now use platform-specific constructs, rather than...
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Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware
I am sure the first thought that goes through the mind of many when reading this headline is "of course Comcast is ripping me off!" Comcast is one of the most hated service providers in the U.S. They...
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died
In the middle of a novel published in the Soviet Union in 1981, two young people are exchanging opinions about Russian poetry. After several names have come up, one asks the other, “And how about...
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Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype
A year ago, chatbots reemerged atop a mountain of hype that messaging marked tech’s latest paradigm shift, after messaging apps Facebook’s Messenger and Kik officially opened up to chatbots. A year...
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At Blackrock, machines are rising over managers to pick stocks
The initiative is the most explicit action by a major fund management firm in reaction to the exodus of investors from actively managed stock funds to cheaper funds that track every variety of index...
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Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC (2016)
The modern networking card (NIC) has evolved quite a bit from the simple Ethernet cards of yesteryear. As such, the way that the operating system uses them has had to evolve in tandem. Gone are the...
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The Weirdness of CRISPR
When Francisco Mojica was 25, he supported himself by tracking bacteria in the Mediterranean off the coast of a tourist haven in southeastern Spain. At the time, he was a doctoral candidate at the...
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Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds
A study by archaeologists has revealed certain people in medieval Yorkshire were so afraid of the dead they chopped, smashed and burned their skeletons to make sure they stayed in their graves. The...
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The rivalry between two billionaires is reducing the cost of space travel
Skyscrapers and giant yachts are so passé. These days a tech billionaire who wants to assert his wealth, power and, er, manhood needs a rocket to play with – and the bigger the better. Two billionaires...
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Disclosing a security issue upstream
Building services using open source software makes you part of the open source community. As a community member, you are responsible for handling any security issues you identify. This post provides an...
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In Japan, the Fax Machine Is Anything but a Relic (2013)
Yuichiro Sugahara learned the hard way about his country’s deep attachment to the fax machine, which the nation popularized in the 1980s. A decade ago, he tried to modernize his family-run company,...
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The customer is always wrong: Tesla lets out self-driving car data when it suits
Luxury car maker Tesla is throwing some drivers’ privacy under the wheels following accidents in order to defend its hi-tech self-driving car technology.And while the company has handed data to media...
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Invisible Manipulators of the Mind
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Mindsby Michael LewisNorton, 362 pp., $28.951.We are living in an age in which the behavioral sciences have become inescapable. The findings of...
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Welding for Ultrahigh Vacuum
April is National Welding Month, a time dedicated to highlighting accomplishments in this important field. At NIST in the 1960s, Ralph Orwick of the NIST Instrument Shops was challenged to build...
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Apple is developing its own graphics chips for the iPhone
Imagination Technologies, the British chip designer that provides PowerVR graphics processors for use in the iPhone and iPad, has said that Apple will no longer be licensing its technology in less than...
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Social media's effect on journalism is greater than shift from print to digital
The influence of social media platforms and technology companies is having a greater effect on American journalism than even the shift from print to digital. There is a rapid takeover of traditional...
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