Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On October 11, 1999, Nvidia released its GeForce 256, its first product that it described as a GPU. What made the Nvidia GeForce 256 the first GPU? I’m sure 3dfx fans would argue that 3dfx made GPUs, and it seems
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The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Mapping them to concepts from C# and the now-defunct C++/CX.
The post One way of thinking about access specifiers in C++/WinRT implementation types appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Micah Lee
• Micah Lee
I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood
Terence Eden’s Blog
• Terence Eden
Developers suck at writing documentation. We like to say RTFM but often there ain't no FM to R. At best we have a half-arsed collection of notes, some obsolete tips, and a link to a desolate forum full of people asking the same questions again and again. That's no way to treat our users. I naïvely believe there's a better way. As I've written before, you should sit down and actually test your …
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
Telecommunications pioneer Ward Christensen was born October 23, 1945 in West Bend, Wis. He died aged 78 October 11, 2024 in Rolling Meadows, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. Christensen invented the Xmodem file transfer protocol and co-invented the bulletin board
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Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions
Bit of a niche link, but I've been waiting for this for a couple of days - I even told ChatGPT to check for it:
Clone https://github.com/actions/python-versions and git pull once an hour until they add the stable 3.15 - then tell me about it
Now that this has landed, you can add "3.15" to a GitHub Actions testing matrix to run tests against the new Python release.
Tags: github, python, github-actions, chatgpt
Construction Physics
• Brian Potter
Propane in air conditioners, Anduril making submarine parts, nuclear reactors on the moon, the robotic hand landscape, and more.
Terence Eden’s Blog
• Terence Eden
I'll be radically honest here - I never really got the idea of "Test Driven Development". I'm much more of a "telnet into production and damn the consequences" kind of guy. Look, it's much more fun and my cardiologist recommends severe shocks every now and again. The essence of unit testing is pretty simple: Feed a function some data See how it responds Send it good data and if it returns…
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On October 9, 2008, Infogrames completed its purchase of Atari Inc. The deal, which the two companies agreed to in May, led to speculation that the acquisition would be the end of Atari. Instead, it had the opposite effect, though
The post The Infogrames-Atari merger of 2008 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world
The Digital Antiquarian
• Jimmy Maher
This article tells part of the story of John Romero. At id, the company was rolling in millions of dollars and we just had walls. It was the whole Carmack idea of, “I don’t need anything on my walls, all I need is a table and a computer and a chair,” instead of, “Okay, we’ve […]
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