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At the beginning of 2020, many set their goals for the upcoming year or even decade. This also applies to Markus Persson, known as Notch, one of the creators of the increasingly popular Minecraft and the founder of the development studio Mojang. In a recent tweet, Notch asked his loyal community of 4 million followers what they would […]
Arch Linux developers have announced that they have changed the package compression scheme. The algorithm previously used was xz (.pkg.tar.xz). Now, zstd (.pkg.tar.zst) is employed. This has resulted in a 1300% increase in extraction speed at the cost of a slight increase in the size of the packages themselves (approximately 0.8%). This will speed up the installation and updating process of packages in the system. Currently, there is talk of transitioning to […]
Game developer Malte Skarupke published a comparison of the performance of mutex-based and spinlock-based locks using various task schedulers. The tests showed abnormally high latencies when using spinlock with the default Linux task scheduler. The author of the tests concluded that the Linux task scheduler has issues that negatively affect the performance of games developed for the Google Stadia service, […]
Before diving into Disco Elysium, let’s go back 100 years. In the 1910s and 20s, Lev Kuleshov demonstrated the effect of cinematic montage – depending on the juxtaposition of two frames placed next to each other, new meaning emerges. Kuleshov filmed a close-up of an actor's face, followed by three more shots: a bowl of soup, a girl in a coffin, and a girl on a sofa. Depending on […]
The New Year holidays are a great opportunity to sit down, take stock of the year, and 2020 is also a moment to reflect on the past 5/10 years, and write an article titled "What I Would Advise My Younger Self 5-10 Years Ago, and What I Advise Today." KDPV (メモリーズ) Under the cut: dullness, scattered sclerosis, unproven statements, and more. Additionally: The Graveyard of IT Professions. This moan […]
No one expected that on December 31, Eduard Shishkin (developer and maintainer of ReiserFS 4) would announce a new version of one of the fastest file systems for Linux — RaiserFS 5. The fifth version introduces a new method for combining block devices into logical volumes. I believe this represents a qualitatively new level in the development of file systems (and operating systems) — local volumes […]
The release of the free library OpenCV 4.2 (Open Source Computer Vision Library) has taken place, providing tools for processing and analyzing image content. OpenCV offers over 2500 algorithms, both classical and reflecting the latest achievements in the field of computer vision and machine learning systems. The library's code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. Bindings are provided for various languages […]
Bruce Perens announced his departure from the Open Source Initiative (OSI), which is responsible for verifying licenses against Open Source criteria. Bruce is a co-founder of OSI, one of the authors of the Open Source definition, the creator of the BusyBox package, and the second leader of the Debian project (replacing Ian Murdock in 1996). The reason for his departure is said to be the desire to avoid […]
Microsoft aims to maintain a consistent style and design for its applications across all platforms. This time, the software giant presented a new logo for the beta version of the Edge browser on Android. Visually, it mirrors the logo of the desktop version based on the Chromium engine, which was introduced back in November of last year. At that time, the developers promised that they would gradually add the new visual appearance across all platforms. […]
A portable release of version 6.6 of the window manager cwm, developed as part of the OpenBSD project, has been released. This window manager is based on the code from evilwm but utilizes modern interfaces of the X11 protocol and, traditionally for OpenBSD, is developed with a strong focus on security. In this portable release, in addition to OpenBSD, support is provided for FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS (versions 10.9 and above), as well as OS […]
Arch Linux developers announced the transition of the package packaging scheme from the xz algorithm (.pkg.tar.xz) to zstd (.pkg.tar.zst). The repackaging of the packages into the zstd format resulted in a total package size increase of 0.8%, but improved unpacking speed by 1300%. As a result, the switch to zstd will lead to a significant increase in package installation speed. Currently, the repository uses the algorithm […]
The article consists of two parts: A brief overview of some architectures of networks for object detection in images and image segmentation with the most understandable resources linked for my reference. I tried to choose video explanations, preferably in Russian. The second part attempts to understand the direction of development of neural network architectures. And technologies based on them. Figure 1 – Understanding […]