Can Ease of Creation Lead to Decrease in Quality & Value?
Why does so much new music sound the same? Why does a song feel almost worthless when you can stream every album ever recorded for the price of one CD? And... is software next?
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Why does so much new music sound the same? Why does a song feel almost worthless when you can stream every album ever recorded for the price of one CD? And... is software next?
The last blog post I wrote explained why I chose to make FairScan open source. In particular, I said I knew there was a risk when I published FairScan's code and I was ready to accept it. I didn't expect to face that reality so soon.
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Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected.
The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of...
Recently I was benchmarking the generated code efficiency for my C compiler antcc, and I noticed something concerning in a simple Lua benchmark:
We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.14.0 of Creusot, our formal verification tool for Rust.
Team82 researched the attack surface of the Danfoss AK-SM 800A refrigeration controller platform and identified multiple vulnerabilities affecting the embedded web management interface. Team82 disclosed the vulnerabilities to Danfoss, which addressed them in a new firmware version.
Back in August I mentioned the new curl performance tests we have running. I figured it could be apt to return to this topic just to mention some of the initial outcomes.
The first 5 parts get increasingly intense and then part 6 is for fun, as a treat. But feel free to skip around. 1: "Lean? That sounds famil
One good trick when trying to look for ways to optimize software is to stay away from areas that are very likely already quite well optimized, and instead focus on areas that might have been overlooked, either because they are too obscure or don't show up during regular profiling sessions.
this is an incomplete list of some incompatibilities between c as it's written in the standard and c as it exists in the real world for people who use gcc/clang + glibc/musl.
What is going on in software? You know what I’m talking about, the stuff with Generative AI. This thing that everyone is frothing talking about. Apparently I am too.
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
So, I wanted to send out a poll for our yearly "zeitkapsl Punsch" event, where we invite people who helped zeitkapsl become what it is today. Early customers, former development team members, etc. Well...
Python used to have limited parallelism, due to its global interpreter lock (GIL). Only one thread could run Python code at a time. Python 3.14 comes in a free-threaded version (python3.14t), without the global interpreter lock. Several threads can now run Python code at the same time.
A Flask cookie on developers.google.com was signed with a secret it was also carrying inside itself. Pulling that secret out turned a forged session into code execution across seven Google domains.
In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.
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