Having Fun with Technology

This year saw new AI models, transformative products and new breakthroughs in science and robotics.

How can it be a real website if it’s less than 7k?

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A Dutch leasing and rental firm Mistergreen now face insolvency after betting its entire future on the idea that Tesla’s cars would become highly valued

The e-scooters that clutter up pavements may seem like a new thing, but a hundred years ago, there were already people zooming around London on powered scooters.

Sometimes compilers can surprise and delight even a jaded old engineer like me

State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation

Porting a venerable library on vibes. What started as a quick WebPerl success spiraled into weeks of failed attempts, mangled ASCII diagrams, and a hard lesson about respecting the craft embedded in battle-tested code.

Background: Unrelenting pressure and an “always-on” culture can leave no time for genuine rest among young adults. While playing video games has been noted to afford cognitive escapism and relaxation, critical questions remain about the influence of popular…

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In 1975, AMD could make these processors for 50 cents and sell them for $700, providing a great financial springboard to establish the company in PC CPU making.

Lately libc++ has been adding the C++17 [[nodiscard]] attribute aggressively to every header.
(I’m not sure why this month, but libc++ my guess is that they just dropped support
for some old compiler such that all their supported compilers now permit the…

Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi

Permission checks that query on every request will break at scale. Learn how pre-computing permissions at write-time enables fast reads, with working SQL examples and an interactive demo.

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