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“500 microseconds is half a millisecond. That’s how fast my laptop searches through a whole book, 200,000 words, cover to cover. This is why computers are so powerful!”

“A toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick.”

“The Framework Desktop with 64GB RAM and 2TB storage costs $1,876—less than half the price of an equivalent Mac Studio ($3,299) while delivering significantly faster performance for development workflows using Docker.”

“You don’t have to bother with any networking configuration. You don’t have to distribute keys. You just install the client, and login.”

“The walls were covered with mold. Blue-green spores were everywhere. The floorboards were warped; some had come loose.”

“We didn’t know what we were selling! We didn’t advertise it or offer it up to museums, the phone has exploded.”

“A business card that runs a fluid-implicit-particle (FLIP) simulation.”

“For this new attack to work, all that is needed is a single button-press capture from the keyfob, without any jamming.”

“Eleven women, nine dogs, not much drama, and no guys.”

“Communication technology is a very important technology that Sony has cultivated for a long time.”

“The five-person team will operate independently, maintaining its YouTube channel with 1.5 million subscribers and Patreon support generating approximately $200,000 annually.”

“The kernel driver connects a much larger UMD to the actual GPU…a key aspect of GPU drivers is allocating GPU memory.”

“We’ve cut that down memory usage by over 10x, sometimes dramatically more, making Automerge feasible to use in a much wider range of scenarios.”

“By 2015, Sherpa climbers were making first ascents sans clients and promoting their feats on social media.”

“Maybe people think that when you walk down the street breathing the air; you drink your water, you eat your food…the chemical safety of these things. But it really isn’t the case.”

“I dip into my RSS feeds several times a day. It is my main immediate source of information.”

“The data are of exceptionally high quality.”

“The app uses declarative filtering, meaning it doesn’t require a continuous background process.”

“The pipe operator has one of the highest ‘bangs for the buck’ of any feature in recent memory.”

“If we can guarantee that serializing an object will not trigger any side effects, we can use a much faster, specialized implementation.”

“This agreement is significant in that it allows us to participate from the early stages of this project and contribute to the creation of the world’s largest integrated energy and artificial intelligence campus.”

“There is no illegal content. Just music from keygens.”

“Our goal is to build a free and open source editor that can handle all of 2D graphics.”

“Modern Node.js embraces web standards, reduces external dependencies, and provides a more intuitive developer experience.”

“We were all shocked, absolutely. I don’t remember ever seeing anything like that.”

“In California, a 15% increase in solar power at noon was associated with a reduction of 147.18 metric tons of CO2 in the first hour.”

“Google is changing its mind about killing off all goo.gl short links…only going to disable goo.gl links that haven’t seen any activity since late 2024.”

“Production costs have grown tenfold over the past decade while sales have not increased proportionally.”

“The announcement enables users to deploy their complete network infrastructure independently, eliminating reliance on cloud services.”

“No way am I going to murder this snail.”

“We’re going to kick butt, have fun, not cheat—and change computing forever.”

“They’re tracking my VPN IP across their entire network…it’s definitely one entity running a single platform with 1,200+ different domain names as front-ends.”

“The magnitude and complexity of the cybersecurity incident exceeded the city’s response capacity.”

“Someone exploited a flaw in Google’s system by submitting URLs with different capitalization patterns.”

“NISAR will generate more data on a daily basis — 80 terabytes per day — than any other observation satellites that NASA or ISRO have operated.”

“38.4 million lines of code across over 78,000 files.”

“By some estimates, there are currently as many as 1.5 million embryos frozen in the US.”

“Mauritius lost between 2 and 56 percent of its living coral between 2001 and 2016.”

“64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures to avoid the ‘year 2038 problem’ when the existing 32-bit signed int rolls over.”

“You’re never going to suspend, expel or charge your way out of targeted mass violence. Did those charges make that school safer? No.”

“If you’re frustrated or discouraged, then your collaborator might share some light and pull you out.”

“This is a huge opportunity for us to break into the supply chain.”

“The command pgrep is executing without a full path, which means the script will search all directories in the $PATH variable for the existence of pgrep.”

“Clear Linux has led Linux x86_64 performance not only on Intel desktop/mobile/server hardware but on AMD systems too.”

“We’ve been adding mountains of JS to ‘feel’ fast, while making everything slower.”

“The same compute logic runs on all targets, written entirely in regular Rust. No shader or kernel languages are used.”

“Firefox 120 was the breaking point since Firefox 119 and prior ended up running into issues with Selenium / Gecko web driver for automating the benchmarks.”

“When I adjusted my benchmark to primarily generate small numbers, the speedup vanished entirely.”

“If someone discovers an ingenious algorithm for rapidly solving the hardest NP problems, the bedrock will crumble, and the whole tower will collapse.”

“Groundwater pumping accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live.”