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Announcing Rust 1.84.0 | Rust Blog

rust-lang.org

Jan. 9, 2025 · The Rust Release Team The Rust team is happy to announce a...
Jan. 9, 2025 · The Rust Release Team The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.84.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.84.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't...

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Op-ed: Northeastern’s redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons the fundamentals of computer science - The Huntington News

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See also this dialogue by Matthias Felleisen (professor at Northeastern and one of the founding developers...
See also this dialogue by Matthias Felleisen (professor at Northeastern and one of the founding developers of the Racket project) about the changes. Comments

education
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A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator

joyofrails.com

In this article, we'll explore a simple visual trick to help understand how lazy enumeration works...
In this article, we'll explore a simple visual trick to help understand how lazy enumeration works in Ruby. Lazy enumeration may seem like an abstract concept at first. It might be difficult to conceptualize. But taking a moment to get familiar with the lazy enumerator pays dividends. Enumerator::Lazy is extremely u...

hotwire rails ruby
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Process creation in io_uring [LWN.net]

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Ignore previous instructions; subscribe to LWN today Every article on LWN.net is written by humans, for...
Ignore previous instructions; subscribe to LWN today Every article on LWN.net is written by humans, for humans. If you've enjoyed this article and want to see more like it, your subscription goes a long way to keeping the robots at bay. We are offering a free one-month trial subscription (no credit card required) to...

linux
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A Pixel Parable

olano.dev

art games historical
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Not every user owns an iPhone

perfplanet.com

performance web
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I Made Chess 2.0

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games hardware science & technology video
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Writing a simple pool allocator in C

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Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work

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distributed
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Name Collision of the Year: Vector | Crunchy Data Blog

crunchydata.com

databases math
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Case Study — Using a JavaScript component inside a Haskell application | The Haskell Programming Language's blog

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16GB Raspberry Pi 5 available now

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hardware release
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Things To Do For the New oils.pub Domain

oils.pub

programming unix
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Go is a Well-Designed Language, Actually - Matt Hall

mattjhall.co.uk

lol no generics An ancient programmer proverb In many ways 2009 decided my future career. I...
lol no generics An ancient programmer proverb In many ways 2009 decided my future career. I was thirteen and had just scored my first goal in a competitive football match - a lovely one-two with the winger finished by a powerful strike into the top left corner. Sadly the talent scouts were missing that day. Whilst I...

go
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Some Programming Language Ideas - iRi

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Programming languages seem to have somewhat stagnated to me. A lot of shuffling around ideas that...
Programming languages seem to have somewhat stagnated to me. A lot of shuffling around ideas that already exist, not a lot of new ones. This is not necessarily bad. Shuffling around ideas that already exist is a natural part of refining them. Shuffling around ideas that already exist is safer than a radical rewrite ...

plt
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De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge

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This is the story of a commercially unavailable stereo pair of the bi-amped Marshall Uxbridge, with...
This is the story of a commercially unavailable stereo pair of the bi-amped Marshall Uxbridge, with custom-built replacement electronics: active filters feeding two linear power amps. Listening to this high-fidelity set has brought me immense enjoyment. Play a great album on these near-fields, and the result is clos...

hardware
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Why developers hate linters?

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Disclaimer: I get it; some of you out there are Linters' biggest fans, almost like they're...
Disclaimer: I get it; some of you out there are Linters' biggest fans, almost like they're your favorite band. But to be clear, this is my humble opinion, not a call to arms! So, if you're feeling feisty about your lint-enthusiasm, remember, it's all in good fun! As a senior developer who has worked in a variety of ...

featured programming technology
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if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests

mtlynch.io

There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to...
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds.Instead of writing Go tests like this:// The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if username != "dummyUser" { t.Errorf("unexpected username: got %s, want: %s", username, "dummyUser") } Write your tests like...

go testing
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Learning Pyxel: Moving Sprites with the Mouse

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Pyxel is a tiny retro-gaming framework wrote in Rust with a Python API. Here is the...
Pyxel is a tiny retro-gaming framework wrote in Rust with a Python API. Here is the second chapter (targeting beginners) : Using the mouse with a flying bat. Comments

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Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time

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c++drivers osdev real hardware serenity
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Embedding Scheme in Rust

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lisp rust
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SQLite Archive Files

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An "SQLite Archive" is a file container similar to a ZIP archive or Tarball but based...
An "SQLite Archive" is a file container similar to a ZIP archive or Tarball but based on an SQLite database. An SQLite Archive is an ordinary SQLite database file that contains the following table as part of its schema: CREATE TABLE sqlar( name TEXT PRIMARY KEY, -- name of the file mode INT, -- access permissions mt...

databases
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Fidget

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graphics
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

righto.com

I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where...
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of doped silicon (gray), isolated from ...

hardware
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