The release of the Qbs 1.14 build tool has been announced. This is the first release after the Qt Company discontinued development of the project, prepared by a community interested in continuing Qbs development. Qt is required for building Qbs, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the build of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of QML for defining project build scripts, which allows […]
Recently, I conducted an interview with a JavaScript developer who was applying for a senior position. A colleague, also present at the interview, asked the candidate to write a function that would perform an HTTP request and retry a few times in case of failure. He was writing the code directly on the board, so it would have been enough to depict something approximate. If he had just shown that […]
At the end of the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," there is an intriguing riddle. Harry and Hermione enter a room, after which the entrances are blocked by magical fire, and they can only leave by solving the following riddle: Before you lies danger, and behind you is safety, Two will help you, whom you find among us; One of the seven forward […]
The relationships between partners, filled with care, gestures of attention, and empathy, are called love by poets, while biologists refer to them as intersexual relationships aimed at survival and reproduction. Some species prefer quantity—mating with as many partners as possible to increase their offspring, thus enhancing the survival chances of the species. Others form monogamous pairs that can […]
Friends! The Otus.ru service is a tool for employment. We use educational methods to select the best specialists for business tasks. We have compiled and categorized job vacancies from major players in the IT business, creating courses based on the identified requirements. We have agreements with these companies that the best of our students will interview for relevant positions. We hope to connect […]
With this GSM relay, you can switch any load rated at 220V and a maximum power of 2 kW from anywhere on Earth where there is a cellular network. This device is controlled by an Arduino Nano through the SIM800L GSM module. The functional diagram with a list of components is provided below. It can operate both on built-in batteries and from the 220 […]
Blockchain oracles solve the problem of delivering information from the external world to the blockchain. However, it is important for us to know which ones we can trust. In our article about the launch of the Waves Oracles catalog, we discussed the significance of oracles for the blockchain. Decentralized applications do not have access to data outside of the blockchain. Therefore, small programs—oracles—are created to access the necessary […]
The first version of the MateBook D was introduced in 2017, for which we dedicated a separate article. Back then, Alexander Babulin aptly referred to it as a classic desktop laptop. And one cannot argue with this colleague: in front of you is a sleek yet attractive 15-inch model. In this article, we will closely examine the 2019 version, which has just […]
Electronic Arts has published the system requirements for the racing game Need for Speed Heat on Origins. To run the game, you will need an Intel Core i5-3570 processor or similar, 8 GB of RAM, and a GTX 760 level graphics card. Minimum system requirements: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570/FX-6350 or similar; RAM: 8 GB; Graphics card: GeForce GTX 760/Radeon R9 280x or similar; Hard disk: 50 […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.18 is now available. Since the release of version 4.17, 38 bug reports have been closed and 305 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Added many new VBScript features (for example, error handlers, Hour, Day, Month functions, etc.); Cleaned up and enhanced the functionality of quartz.dll; Exception handling has been added in ntdll and […]
A lightweight Live distribution of AntiX 19 has been prepared, built on the Debian package base and targeted for installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 10 (Buster), but comes without the system manager systemd and with eudev instead of udev. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager, but fluxbox, jwm, and […] are also available for selection.
This text is not the result of scientific research but rather one of many opinions regarding our near-term technological development. It also serves as an invitation for discussion. Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, believes that deep learning plays a crucial role in the advancement of AI. However, he also thinks that excessive enthusiasm for this method can lead to its discreditation. In his book Rebooting […]