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This year can confidently be called the year of gaming graphics cards. In 2019, NVIDIA practically released its entire lineup - at the time of writing this article, the GeForce GTX 1650 with 4 GB of memory had already been introduced. Soon, AMD will unveil a series of gaming graphics adapters of the Navi generation, but this company has already introduced a record-breaking device - the Radeon VII, equipped with 16 GB […]
Developers from Google have presented a new project that created a technology capable of translating spoken sentences from one language to another. The main difference of the new translator called Translatotron from its analogs is that it operates exclusively with audio, without using intermediate text. This approach has significantly sped up the translator's performance. Another notable […]
Introduction I delivered this presentation in English at GopherCon Russia 2019 in Moscow and in Russian at a meetup in Nizhny Novgorod. It discusses the bitmap index — less common than the B-tree but equally interesting. I'm sharing the recording of my conference presentation in English and the written transcript in Russian. We will explore […]
The trend of dark themes in various programs, including browsers, continues to gain momentum. It was previously reported that the Edge browser introduced such a theme, but it had to be manually enabled with flags. Now there’s no need for that. In the latest build of Microsoft Edge Canary 76.0.160.0, they added a function similar to Chrome 74. We're talking about […]
The author of the article we're publishing today states that her goal is to tell about developing a web scraper in Python using Selenium, which searches for airline ticket prices. The scraper uses flexible dates (+- 3 days around the specified dates) when searching for tickets. It saves the search results in an Excel file and sends an email with a summary to the person who initiated the search […]
In the comments on my article "Docker: Harmful Advice," there were many requests to explain what is so terrible about the Dockerfile described in it. A brief recap of the previous episode: two developers under a tight deadline create a Dockerfile. During the process, Ops Igor Ivanovich walks in. The resulting Dockerfile is so bad that AI is on the verge of a heart attack. Now let's figure out what's wrong with this […]
Welcome to Lesson 12. Today, we will discuss another very important topic, namely working with logs and reports. Sometimes this functionality turns out to be decisive when choosing a security tool. Security professionals really appreciate a convenient reporting system and functional search across various events. It's hard to blame them for this. Essentially, logs […]
My name is Sergey, I am from ITSumma, and I want to tell you how we approach backup in Kubernetes. Recently, I have been involved in consultative work on implementing various DevOps solutions for different teams, and in particular, I am closely working on projects using K8s. At the Uptime Day 4 conference, which was dedicated to backup in complex […]
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) greatly simplifies the process of deploying and configuring operating systems, server roles, and applications when you have hundreds of servers. However, when using DSC on-premises, i.e. not in MS Azure, a couple of nuances arise. These are particularly noticeable if the organization is large (with over 300 workstations and servers) and has not yet embraced the world of […]
— So, how are things? — I reply, "Fine." How could it be fine? It was fine until you showed up. You always choose the most inconvenient moment. That’s why I, you bastard, hate you. — How's the article? — you asked sarcastically. — Fine. — Honestly, I don’t want to go into details. — Are you sure it’s fine? — Absolutely. […]
Something new is emerging within the well-trodden paths. The trampled and crushed cultural soil, from which it seems all the air has been driven out, is ready to perform what it does best—motheringly putting everything in its place. Starting as intellectual games of individuals, propelled by historical necessity, and receiving financial blessing from the global Machine, something that was once on its knees gains strength […]
Intel has announced an expansion of the Clear Linux distribution's application area, previously positioned as a specialized solution for container isolation. The new Clear Linux Developer Edition allows the distribution to be used on developers' systems as a user environment. The default desktop is GNOME, but KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXQt, Awesome, and i3 are also available as options. The Clear Linux distribution provides strict […]