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A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
Not the US Hosting and Still Not Paying Moms.
There’s a new paper out called “PivCo-Huffman” (HTML version with annotations here) and it’s very interesting. Normal Huffman decoding (and, to a lesser extent, encoding) is inherently quite serial. We can get explicit parallelism by...
Enjoyed the last of the Selkirk Bannock A busy week catching up, dealing with a bit of fallout while I was OOO, picking up a few high-priority bits and doing some product-y evaluation of our backlog Some more good work on rootly-go this...
6 years ago, my son was born on Father’s Day of all days. Today we celebrated both his birthday and Father’s Day. Next one will be in 2037 (I think).
A local ride.
When trying to type using an input method on GTK4 it simply doesn’t work. The same input methods work on GTK3, Qt5, Qt6, and a variety of other applications which don’t use any of these toolkits. GTK4 is the sole outlier. Running with...
Vamp legend Theda Bara returned to the screen in an espionage comedy, playing an American agent with an explosive egg being pursued and hampered by Hal Roach luminaries like James Finlayson and Oliver Hardy. Home Media Availability:...
Super nice light this evening. Love these birds.48 words · 2 images
I have suspected this for a while now...
Mozilla a lancé il y a peu un « VPN » gratuit dans Firefox. Je mets VPN entre guillemets car techniquement, il s'agirait plus d'un proxy... Mais bref, ils fournissent donc gratuitement un moyen de faire transiter notre navigation sur le...
While we’ve accepted that websites don't need to look the same everywhere, we seem to be stuck on a new hurdle: the idea that websites need to function the same everywhere.
# This is an RSS-only post. It's a secret! Read more about RSS Club. I'm tired of my "open a tab to the 'front page of the internet'" behavior. When I first used the internet, I had a rich set of bookmarks that turned into RSS feeds. I...