Author: Yuri Gagarin

Windows Terminal Preview v0.10

Introducing Windows Terminal v0.10! As always, you can download it from the Microsoft Store or from the releases page on GitHub. Below, we’ll take a closer look at the details of the update! Mouse Input The Terminal now supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) applications, as well as in Windows applications that use virtual terminal (VT) input. This […]

Release of the Wi-Fi daemon IWD 1.6

The release of Wi-Fi daemon IWD 1.6 (iNet Wireless Daemon) is available, developed by Intel as an alternative to wpa_supplicant for connecting Linux systems to wireless networks. IWD can be used either standalone or as a backend for network configurators such as Network Manager and ConnMan. The project is suitable for use on embedded devices and optimized for minimal power consumption […]

The Android-x86 9.0-r2 update, builds of Android 9 for the x86 platform.

The developers of the Android-x86 project, which is independent community-driven development of the Android platform port for the x86 architecture, have released the second stable version based on Android 9. This release includes fixes and enhancements that improve the performance of Android on x86 architecture. Universal Live versions of Android-x86 9 for x86 32-bit (706 MB) and x86_64 (922 […] are available for download.

Release of the Bodhi Linux 5.1 distribution, featuring the Moksha desktop environment

The Bodhi Linux 5.1 distribution has been released, featuring the Moksha desktop environment. Moksha is developed as a fork of the Enlightenment 17 (E17) codebase, created to continue the development of Enlightenment as a lightweight desktop due to disagreements over the development policy, the expansion of the Enlightenment 19 (E19) environment, and the deterioration of the codebase's stability. Three installation images are available for download: the regular (820 MB), the lightweight […]

Structuring Risks and Solutions When Using Big Data for Obtaining Official Statistics

Translator's Preface The material intrigued me primarily because of the table below: Given that statisticians (and Russians, genetically speaking) generally do not favor anything that deviates from linear relationships, these guys managed to push for the use of an activation function in a parabolic form to determine the risk level of using Big Data in official statistics. Well done. Naturally, statisticians added their own […]

"ExtendedPromQL" — decoding the report by Roman Khavronenko

I invite you to read the transcript of Roman Khavronenko's report "ExtendedPromQL". A brief introduction about myself: My name is Roman. I work at CloudFlare, live in London, and I also maintain VictoriaMetrics. I am the author of the ClickHouse plugin for Grafana and ClickHouse-proxy – a small proxy for ClickHouse. We will start with the first part, titled "Translation Challenges," in which I will […]

FAST VP in Unity SAN: How it works.

Today we will discuss an interesting technology implemented in Unity/Unity XT storage systems – FAST VP. If you are hearing about Unity for the first time, you can find the system specifications at the link at the end of the article. I have worked on FAST VP for over a year within the Dell EMC project team. Today, I would like to delve deeper into this technology and reveal some details about it […]

A section with free movies will appear in Google Play.

The Google Play Store digital content store is divided into several sections, one of which is Play Movies & TV (films and TV shows). While many video services offer subscriptions to customers, the Play Store allows for the purchase of individual movies or shows for later viewing. Now, however, online sources indicate that soon […]

The Apache Foundation is celebrating its 21st anniversary.

The non-profit organization Apache Software Foundation is celebrating its 21st anniversary. Initially, the organization was created to provide legal and financial support to developers of the Apache HTTP Server, but it later transformed into a neutral and independent platform for the development of a wide range of open projects that use the Apache license, common development rules, principles of meritocracy, and a unified culture of communication. At the same time, the 25 […]

LLVM 10.0

LLVM is a platform for developing compilers and toolchains under the Apache 2.0 license with exceptions. Some changes in clang: By default, compilation does not run in a new process as before. Support for C++20 concepts has been added. Pointer arithmetic in C and C++ is only allowed within arrays, in accordance with the standards. Corresponding checks have been added in the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer. Improved […]

Search results output and performance issues

One of the typical scenarios in all the familiar applications is searching for data based on certain criteria and displaying it in a readable format. There may also be additional features for sorting, grouping, and pagination. The task is, in theory, trivial, but many developers make a series of mistakes during implementation that negatively impact performance. Let's take a look at various […]

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