Here is the text of the talk I gave at the Go SF meeting in June, 2012. This is a personal talk. I do not speak for anyone else on the Go...
I studied physics in university, and at one point asked a professor if I should learn German, because it seemed all the key texts of early ...
This article attempts to give a sort of ‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is in high (ish) level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that they need or want to learn C.
When you resize, rotate, or in any way transform an image; or more generally when you resample some discrete signal, the software you are using must interpolate between the discrete points to produce a result. Linear and cubic interpolation are easy to explain, but Lánczos interpolation, one of the most popular methods, is more interesting. In this post we will build up to how Lánczos interpolation works, pulling in various interesting topics on the way.
Here’s a method that’s new to me – a silver gelatin print printed in the darkroom, using an iPhone to provide the image and the light source. I took this photo a good few years ag…
On Tuesday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced which post-quantum cryptography they will standardize. We were already drafting this post with an educated guess on the choice NIST would make.
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Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix --- but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we'll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux perf.
Il 7 gennaio 1953 il capo del progetto statunitense sulla bomba all'idrogeno andò a lavarsi nel bagno del suo treno: non sapeva che sarebbe stata una pessima giornata
Sperimentata da alcune persone durante la pandemia, per lungo tempo prima della rivoluzione industriale fu una pratica normale e diffusa