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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
While waiting for the PS5 and Project Scarlett, which will support ray tracing, I pondered the lighting in games. I found a piece where the author explains what light is, how it affects design, alters gameplay, aesthetics, and experience, complete with examples and screenshots. During gameplay, you don’t notice it right away. Introduction Lighting is needed not only for […]
One of the racks for internal virtualization. We put effort into color coding the cables: orange indicates odd power input, while green signifies even. We often talk about the big stuff—chillers, diesel generators, switchgears. Today, we will discuss the 'smaller things'—the outlets in the racks, also known as Power Distribution Units (PDUs). In our data centers, there are over 4,000 racks filled with IT equipment, so […]
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 […]
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.
Google has announced enhancements to Chrome's site isolation mode, which ensures that pages from different websites are processed in separate isolated processes. The site-level isolation mode helps protect users from attacks that may occur via third-party blocks used on the site, such as iframe embeds, or to prevent data leakage through the embedding of legitimate blocks (for example, with requests […])
Last week, Microsoft officially stated that the next version of its desktop OS will be called the Windows 10 November 2019 Update. Now, details have emerged about the release timeline. It is noted that the new version will be released in November, specifically on the 12th. The rollout of the update will occur in phases. The patch will be offered to everyone using Windows 10 May 2019 Update or […]
The dream of every person is to stay young for as long as possible. We do not want to age and fall ill, fearing everything — cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart attacks, strokes… It’s time to figure out where cancer comes from, whether there is a connection between heart failure and Alzheimer's disease, infertility and hearing loss. Why do antioxidant supplements sometimes do more harm than good? And most importantly: can we […]
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