Category: Internet News

LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 + MicroPython: programming a children's constructor with an adult language

Hello, Habr! We have already talked about the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 platform. The primary tasks of this platform are practical learning, the development of STEAM skills, and fostering engineering thinking. It allows for laboratory work to study mechanics and dynamics. Laboratory stands made of LEGO bricks and utilities for registering and processing data make experiments even more interesting […]

Change of the openSUSE distribution name: voting results

Today, the results of the voting that began on October 10 and ended on November 7, 2019, were published in the mailing list (one of the officially announced channels). In response to the question "Should we change the project name?" the votes were distributed as follows: In favor — 42 Against — 225 The total number of voters was 491. It should be noted that there was no option for "Abstained" […]

The first official release of rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust

The first release of the new high-performance AV1 video encoding format encoder — rav1e 0.1, collaboratively developed by the Xiph and Mozilla communities, has taken place. The encoder is written in Rust and significantly outpaces the reference encoder libaom in terms of encoding speed and has increased attention to security. The project code is released under the BSD license. The AV1 format notably outperforms x264 and libvpx-vp9 in terms of […]

The Windows 10 Disk Cleanup utility will no longer delete important files

The Disk Cleanup utility has been a part of all versions of Windows and is a useful tool integrated into the OS. It allows users to delete temporary files, old and cached data without resorting to manual cleanup or third-party programs. However, Windows 10 introduced a more modern version called Storage Sense, which addresses this same task more flexibly. It […]

34 open source Python libraries (2019)

We reviewed and compared 10,000 open source libraries for Python and selected the 34 most useful ones. We categorized these libraries into 8 groups. The article was translated with the support of EDISON Software, which specializes in search engine optimization and SEO, as well as developing mobile applications for Android and iOS. Python Toolkit 1. Pipenv: Python Development Workflow for Humans. 2. Pyxel: […]

IT recruiting. In search of balance process/result

1. Strategic Vision The feature and value of a product company, its main mission and objective, is customer satisfaction, engagement, and brand loyalty. Naturally, this is achieved through the products created by the company. Thus, the company's global goal can be described in two parts: Product quality; Quality of feedback and change management in dealing with feedback from clients/users. It follows that […]

Everyone is excited about the efficiency

In the last issue of "The Zinc Sale," we discussed three articles on the effectiveness of various processes. About "How Bezos Disabled PowerPoint," "A company owner makes his team work 5 hours a day without distractions," and "Asynchronous communication for dualists." This article is a compilation of short excerpts from all three along with my subjective reflections under the banner of universal frustration from inefficiency. […]

Release QVGE-0.5.4

Another minor release of the QVGE visual graph editor. Primarily, it fixes issues and crashes noted earlier. Notable updates include: the ability to resize graph nodes using the mouse (in transformation mode), scrolling the field when selecting objects, a mini-help panel added, and an automatic return to the field state prior to invoking 'Zoom to Fit' (which was highly requested). Source: linux.org.ru

Release Stratis 2.0, the toolkit for managing local storage

After a year of development, the release of Stratis 2.0, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community to unify and simplify the tools for configuring and managing pools of one or more local storage devices, has been published. Stratis offers features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. The project code is written in Rust and […]

Python has overtaken Java in the number of projects on GitHub

GitHub has published a report analyzing statistics for 2019. The most interesting change is the rise of the Python language to second place in the ranking of programming languages used on GitHub. Java has moved to third place, while JavaScript remains the leader. PHP has maintained its position in fourth place. The C++ language was shifted from fifth place by C#, and […]

The Free Software Foundation has certified the Talos II motherboards.

The Free Software Foundation has introduced new devices that have received the 'Respect Your Freedom' certification, which confirms the device's compliance with privacy and user freedom requirements and grants the right to use a special logo in related product materials, emphasizing the provision of full control to the user over the device. The FSF also launched a separate website for the Respect Your Freedom initiative (ryf.fsf.org), where […]

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