Author: ProHoster

2020D ninja platformer Bushiden rescheduled from August 2021 to Spring/Summer XNUMX

Pixel Arc studio has announced that the futuristic action platformer Bushiden will be postponed from August 2020 to spring or summer 2021. According to the developer, there are no technical problems with the game, but the team wants to improve the overall quality of the project to the level expected by fans of the genre. “We want to make it clear that the game is already in good shape,” the developer said. — A team with nothing […]

Google Chrome may get an option to display the full URL in the address bar

One of the features of Google Chrome is that the browser does not show the full URL in the address bar, but only part of it. The web browser shows the full version only when you click on the address. This opens up wide opportunities for phishing and other abuse, since attackers can spoof the site address without the user paying attention to it. In some cases […]

Biostar A68N-2100K Mini-ITX Board Includes AMD Processor

Biostar has released the A68N-2100K motherboard, on the basis of which you can create a multimedia center for the home or a small budget desktop computer. The solution is made in Mini-ITX format (170 × 170 mm). The equipment initially includes a far from new AMD E1-6010 processor with two computing cores (1,35 GHz) and AMD Radeon R2 graphics. The amount of DDR3/DDR3L-800/1066/1333 RAM can be […]

MSI Optix MAG273 and MAG273R: 144Hz Esports Monitors

MSI introduced the Optix MAG273 and Optix MAG273R monitors, designed specifically for users who spend a lot of time playing computer games. The new products are based on an IPS matrix measuring 27 inches diagonally. The resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD format), aspect ratio is 16:9. The panels feature AMD FreeSync technology to help improve the smoothness of your gaming experience. Monitors have […]

Release of CMake 3.17.0 build system

Presented is the release of the cross-platform open build script generator CMake 3.17, which acts as an alternative to Autotools and is used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS and Blender. The CMake code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, means of extending functionality through modules, a minimal number of dependencies (there is no […]

Composite server Wayfire 0.4 available using Wayland

The Wayfire 0.4 composite server has been released, using Wayland and allowing the creation of resource-intensive user interfaces with 3D effects in the style of 3D plugins for Compiz (switching screens through a 3D cube, spatial layout of windows, morphing when working with windows, etc. .). Wayfire supports extension through plugins and provides a flexible customization system. The project code is written in C++ and [...]

Valve has released Proton 5.0-5, a package for running Windows games on Linux

Valve has published the release of the Proton 5.0-5 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes a DirectX implementation […]

How to read and fix 100,000 lines of code in a week

At the beginning it is always difficult to understand a large and old project. Architecture is one of the activities of an architect assessment. Usually you have to work with large, old projects, and the results must be delivered in a week. How to evaluate a project of 100k or more lines of code in a week while still providing results that are truly useful to the client. Most architects and technical leads […]

DBA: competently organize synchronization and imports

When complex processing of large data sets (various ETL processes: imports, conversions and synchronization with an external source), there is often a need to temporarily “remember” and immediately quickly process something large. A typical task of this kind usually sounds something like this: “Here the accounting department has downloaded the latest received payments from the client bank, we need to quickly upload them to the website and link them to the accounts.” But when [...]

Around data.table

This note will be of interest to those who use the tabular data processing library for R - data.table, and may be pleased to see the flexibility of its use in various examples. Inspired by a good example of a colleague, and hoping that you have already read his article, I propose to dig deeper into code optimization and performance based on data.table. Introduction: Where does data.table come from? […]

Valve's Artifact card game will be relaunched

Valve's Dota 2 offshoot Artifact, a trading card game, failed to capture people's attention and the company had to abandon its plans to actively support the project. However, this does not mean that the game is dead: according to Edge magazine sources, the developers are working on the successor to the original game, and the changes are so huge that within Valve it is called Artifact 2. The executive director […]