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Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that priori
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Those who upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 LTS are in for a treat as the amount of improvements on offer is vast. In addition to getting to enjoy all of the great new features Ubuntu 24.04 brings LTS upgra
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Ubuntu Pro Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, is offering a new security take on its popular Ubuntu desktop and server: Ubuntu Pro. This is an expanded security take on the Ubuntu Long-Term Sup
You say you're perfectly happy with your current Ubuntu Linux release and really, really don't want to move from it? Boy, does Canonical have a deal for you. A new Ubuntu Pro add-on extends the securi
Canonical’s 10th Long Term Supported release sets a new standard in performance engineering, enterprise security and developer experience. London, 25 April 2024. Today Canonical announced the release
Job description Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we've been building our all-in-one product, developing new
TL;DR: to call a program from C, use fork then execve. There is no way to directly start a new process from a program file; instead, we must fork (clone) the current process, then in child process, we
I recently received an email from Netflix which nearly caused me to add my card details to someone else’s Netflix account. Here I show that this is a new kind of phishing scam which is enabled by an o
WebAssembly basically allows non-frontend languages, such as Rust or Python, to run in a web browser. But web developer and Enhance maintainer Ryan Bethel wondered: Could you reverse that paradigm and
Canadian nature photographer Liron Gertsman captured one of the best total solar eclipse photos PetaPixel has ever seen. Gertsman’s remarkable wildlife photo, The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring, was
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, t
Today Instapaper launched Summaries, which is a feature I’ve wanted to build for a long time. Summaries help readers both understand an article before reading it, and help them recall the details of p
Today it is trivially easy to play games on a computer with one’s friends over the internet. I can log into a game like Fortnite, party up with a squad and chat in either the game’s built-in voice pro
Early last year we began building a paradigm-shifting CI/CD platform to provide unmatched capabilities and the best developer experience in CI/CD. Today, we’re launching Mint. Most CI/CD platforms wer
Apr 18 2024 I’ve been on the lookout for a ethernet switch that I don’t hate, the problem with a lot of higher speed (10G and above) ethernet switches is that they are quite expensive new and if you b
AI is supercharging coding — and developers are embracing it. In a recent StackOverflow poll, 44% of software engineers said that they use AI tools as part of their development processes now and 26% p
Before we start: AI tooling for software development feels like it has hit "peak hype" across mainstream media. We would like to do a "reality check" and find out how engineers and teams are using the
View Source Simple state management with agents In this guide, we will learn how to keep and share state between multiple entities. If you have previous programming experience, you may think of global
Attributes and properties are fundamentally different things. You can have an attribute and property of the same name set to different values. For example: It seems like fewer and fewer developers kno
Long Island public school districts persuaded more than 100 tenured educators accused of misconduct — including sexual and physical — in the past decade to resign by continuing to pay their salaries a
Forty years ago, Padgett Powell’s erudite coming of age novel Edisto was released and introduced readers to a 12-year-old literary prodigy named Simons Everson Manigault. Following an acrimonious sepa
Myopia, or the need for corrected vision to focus or see objects at a distance, has become a lot more common in recent decades. Some even consider myopia, also known as nearsightedness, an epidemic. O
Sometimes gush is the only appropriate response and the amazingness never gets any less amazing. The 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon launch has now been marked by this fascinating documentar
Erlang is renowned for its remarkable fault tolerance and high concurrency. Erlang's scheduler efficiently handles many lightweight processes. The scheduler plays a crucial role in managing processes,
The U.S. Capitol Building. Photo: Geoff Livingston. In some ways, the Capitol Hill Citizen is radically traditional. The new alternative newspaper from Ralph Nader and his team at the Washington, D.C.
Yerba mate is a great hobby, not only because it is delicious and good for your health, but also because it has lots of unique accessories that can be fun to collect and that can be an interesting con
Many photographers shun the supplied camera neck strap for one of the Peak Design models. The choice has just broadened with a new color and other small changes. I wonder whether Peak Design realized
in Philosophy | April 19th, 2024 Leave a Comment A week ago, Big Think released this video featuring philosopher Daniel Dennett talking about the four biggest ideas in philosophy. Today, we le
If you haven’t been inducted into the PC gaming community yet, you might have some doubts about what exactly constitutes “gaming PCs”. After all, isn’t every PC fundamentally the same? Well, in many ways, yes. But, there are also a lot of differences between gaming PCs and regular PCs, right from…
"I really enjoy writing the songs and performing and the other things that we do," David Byrne says of his work in Talking Heads. Jordan Cronenweth/Courtesy of A24 Talking Heads founding member David
In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. The two publishing houses made up 37 percent and 11 percent of the market share, according to the filing, and combined they would have con
Sculpture by Alicia Martin One thing the PRH/SS merger trial revealed is that publishing has a lot of problems. This is very true! At the same time, many of the problems seem to have mutated into unbe