Facebook complains, Apple responds: iOS 14’s big privacy change gets postponed
apple – Ars Technica
The company says the change is still coming, but it hasn't said when.
3 September 2020
Tech News
by Aldo ArmientoA word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)
Hacker News
I'm a programmer. I'm so sick of writing documentation for things that should be explainable in a word. When you write a function in a programming language, you get to name its parameters. Most things I can name easy enough, such as "Name" or "URL" or…
3 September 2020Norbert Preining: Multiple GPUs for graphics and deep learning
Planet Debian
For long time I have been using a good old nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 for my display and deep learning needs. I reported a few times how to get Tensorflow running on Debian/Sid, see here and here. Later on I switched to AMD GPU in the hope that an open source…
2 September 2020Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits
Hacker News
At Buffer, we’ve been using Kubernetes since 2016. We’ve been managing our k8s (kubernetes) cluster with kops, it has about 60 nodes (on AWS), and runs about 1500 containers. Our transition to a micro-service architecture has been full of trial and…
2 September 2020Show HN: asroute - view unique networks traversed by traceroute
Hacker News
asroute is a CLI tool for parsing traceroute output to summarize AS's traversed. Ever wondered how your packets get from home to Bhutan? I sometimes like to see it, not at the hop level, but the companies and their networks that carry my data. Or how much…
2 September 2020Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators
Hacker News
Something my colleagues know well is how little I trust online tools like jwt.io, online JSON validators or online tooling in general, but it also bleeds into comments I make online and in my blog posts, too, and I thought I'd share a little bit of a…
2 September 2020In Defense of a Switch
Hacker News
Recently I came across a blog post whose author claims, from the perspective of good coding practices, polymorphism is strictly superior to branching. In the post they make general statements about how branching statements lead to unreadable,…
2 September 2020Show HN: DNS-based alternative to the web for structured data
Hacker News
The Namespace Utility Modules (NUM) protocol can be used to store structured data for any domain name or email address. NUM records can be stored in the DNS of the independent NUM zone (e.g. _num.example.com) or in the hosted NUM zone (a DNS-based store of…
2 September 2020Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft
InfoQ - Architecture & Design
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other…
2 September 2020The problem with C
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In the early 70s, C was created at Bell Labs as a byproduct of the development of UNIX. It quickly became one of the most popular programming languages. But it was not expressive enough for Bjarne Stroustrup. And so, in 1983, as a byproduct of his Ph. D.…
2 September 2020