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Elon Musk was inspired by the idea of ​​​​creating a machine that can dive under water

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By the end of this year, Tesla expects to increase the fleet of electric vehicles of this brand by 60–80%, and therefore investors need to get used to the company’s unprofitability. Until the end of the year, Tesla promises to decide on the location of the construction of a new enterprise that will bring the production of traction batteries and electric vehicles to Europe. In the future, at each continent will have one Tesla enterprise, at least for […]

sysvinit 2.95 init system release

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The classic init system sysvinit 2.95 has been released, which was widely used in Linux distributions in the days before systemd and upstart, and now continues to be used in distributions such as Devuan and antiX. At the same time, releases of the insserv 1.20.0 and startpar 0.63 utilities used in conjunction with sysvinit were created. The insserv utility is designed to organize the download process, taking into account dependencies between […]

Kwort 4.3.4 distribution release

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After more than a year of development, the Linux distribution Kwort 4.3.4 was released, based on the developments of the CRUX project and offering a minimalist user environment based on the Openbox window manager. The distribution differs from CRUX in the use of its own package manager kpkg, which allows you to install binary packages from the repository developed by the project. Kwort is also developing its own set of GUI applications for configuration (Kwort user manager for […]

GraphicsMagick 1.3.32 update with security fixes

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A new release of the image processing and conversion package GraphicsMagick 1.3.32 has been introduced, which addresses 52 potential vulnerabilities identified during fuzzing testing by the OSS-Fuzz project. In total, since February 2018, OSS-Fuzz has identified 343 problems, of which 331 have already been fixed in GraphicsMagick (for the remaining 12, the 90-day fix period has not yet expired). It is separately noted [...]

E3 2019 Trailer Thanking A Plague Tale: Innocence Players and Support Details

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Publisher Focus Home Interactive and developers from Asobo studio took advantage of E3 2019 to thank all fans of the stealth adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence. The creative director of the studio, David Dedeine, addressed the players in a special video and shared some news. First of all, he thanked everyone for the excellent response to the game and the many comments that made the developers happy. […]

Sysvinit 2.95

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After several weeks of beta testing, the final release of SysV init, insserv and startpar was announced. Summary of key changes: SysV pidof has removed complex formatting as it caused security issues and potential memory errors without providing much benefit. Now the user can specify the separator himself, and use other tools such as tr. Documentation has been updated, [...]

Magento 2: importing products directly into the database

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In the previous article, I described the process of importing products into Magento 2 in the usual way - through models and repositories. The conventional method is characterized by a very low data processing speed. On my laptop, it was about one product per second. In this continuation, I consider an alternative way to import a product - by writing directly to the database, bypassing the standard mechanisms of Magento 2 […]

Carding and "black boxes": how ATMs are hacked today

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Iron boxes with money standing on the streets of the city cannot but attract the attention of lovers of quick money. And if in the past purely physical methods were used to empty ATMs, now more and more skillful tricks related to computers are being used. Now the most relevant of them is the "black box" with a single-board microcomputer inside. About how he […]

Reinforcement learning or evolutionary strategies? - Both

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Hello, Habr! We don’t often decide to post here translations of texts that were two years old, without code and clearly of an academic nature - but today we’ll make an exception. We hope that the dilemma posed in the title of the article worries many of our readers, and you have already read the fundamental work on evolutionary strategies with which this post argues in the original or will read it now. Welcome to [...]

How to Organize a Hackathon as a Student 101 Part Two

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Hello again. This is a continuation of the article about organizing a student hackathon. This time I’ll tell you about the problems that appeared right during the hackathon and how we solved them, the local events that we added to the standard “code a lot and eat pizza” and some tips about what applications to use to most easily organize events of this scale. After that […]

Marvin Minsky "The Emotion Machine": Chapter 8.1-2 "Creativity"

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8.1 Creativity “Although such a machine could do many things as well and perhaps better than we can, it would certainly fail in others, and would be found to act not consciously, but only through the arrangement of its organs.” - Descartes. Reasoning about the method. 1637 We are accustomed to using machines that are stronger and faster than people. […]

"Yandex" and St. Petersburg University will open the Faculty of Computer Science

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St. Petersburg State University, together with Yandex, JetBrains and the Gazpromneft company, will open a faculty of mathematics and computer science. The faculty will have three undergraduate programs: “Mathematics”, “Modern Programming”, “Mathematics, Algorithms and Data Analysis”. The first two were already at the university, the third is a new program developed at Yandex. It will be possible to continue your studies in the master’s program “Modern Mathematics”, which is also [...]

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