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Buildroot - part 2. Creating a configuration for your board; application of external tree, rootfs-overlay, post-build scripts

In this section, I consider some of the customization options that I needed. This is not a complete list of what buildroot offers, but they are quite working and do not require interference with the files of the buildroot itself. Using the EXTERNAL mechanism for customization In the previous article, a simple example of adding your own configuration was considered, by adding the defconfig of the board and the necessary files directly to the […]

ok.tech: Cassandra meetup

Working with Apache Cassandra NoSQL storage? May 23 Odnoklassniki invite experienced developers to their office in St. Petersburg for a meetup dedicated to working with Apache Cassandra. What matters is your experience with Cassandra and your willingness to share it. Register for the Event We at OK started using Apache Cassandra in 2010 to store photo ratings. We are currently […]

Getting ready for the hackathon: how to get the most out of yourself in 48 hours

How often do you go 48 hours without sleep? Do you wash down your pizza with a coffee cocktail with energy drinks? Are you staring at the monitor and tapping the keys with trembling fingers? This is often what hackathon participants look like. Of course, a two-day online hackathon, and even in a β€œboosting” state, is difficult. Therefore, we have prepared for you some tips that will help you […]

The authors of Oxenfree created a mobile game based on "Very strange things" with the money of Telltale Games

Telltale Games has shut down, and so has the Stranger Things project based on the Netflix series. But there was another game in the franchise - from the Night School studio, the authors of Oxenfree. The Oxenfree developer project was funded by Telltale Games along with its own game. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to ever be released, since the closure of the creators of The […]

Red Faction shooter Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition will be released on Nintendo Switch on July 2

The Martian revolution from the shooter Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition will cover the Nintendo Switch this summer - THQ Nordic will release the game on the console on July 2. The project is a remaster of the third-person shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla, which debuted in 2009. The updated version has been available on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 since last July. The Nintendo version […]

Video: Workshop will appear in Overwatch - an advanced script editor

Blizzard continues to develop its team-based competitive shooter Overwatch. She recently presented a video in which game director Jeff Kaplan talked about the upcoming major update. It will bring a workshop for the match browser - a script editor that allows players to create unique game modes and even prototypes of their own Overwatch heroes. β€œI’ll briefly tell you how this idea came about: we […]

Overview: Six Ways to Use Residential Proxies for Corporate Needs

Masking an IP address may be required for various tasks - from accessing blocked content to bypassing anti-bot systems of search engines and other online resources. I found an interesting post about how this technology can be used to solve corporate problems, and prepared an adapted translation of it. There are several options for the implementation of proxies: Residential proxies - resident IP addresses are called, which Internet service providers issue […]

In May, the first unmanned vehicle "Yandex" will appear on the streets of Moscow

According to Russian media reports, the first vehicle with an autonomous driving system to appear on public roads in Moscow will be a car created by Yandex engineers. This was announced by Yandex.Taxi CEO Tigran Khudaverdyan, adding that the unmanned vehicle will begin testing in May of this year. Representatives of NTI "Avtonet" explained that the car created at Yandex will be the first […]

Gaming laptop Razer Blade 15 received a screen with a refresh rate of 240 Hz

Razer has unveiled a new gaming-grade laptop, the Blade 15, which will be offered in a standard Base Model version and a more powerful Advanced Model version. Both models carry a ninth-generation Intel Core processor. We are talking about the Core i7-9750H chip, which contains six computing cores with multi-threading support. Clock speeds range from 2,6 GHz to […]

NVIDIA Unveils Mobile GeForce GTX 16 Series: Turing for Affordable Gaming Laptops

In addition to the desktop GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, NVIDIA today also introduced the GeForce GTX 16 series mobile graphics accelerators. Currently, NVIDIA offers two discrete graphics cards for laptops on lower-end Turing GPUs without hardware ray tracing acceleration. The oldest of the new products is the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti video card, which differs from the desktop version only in […]

Big Data Analytics - Realities and Prospects in Russia and the World

Today only people who have no external connections with the outside world have not heard of big data. On HabrΓ©, the topic of Big Data analytics and related topics is popular. But for non-specialists who would like to devote themselves to the study of Big Data, it is not always clear what prospects this area has, where Big Data analytics can be used and what […]

10 Useful R Features You Might Not Know About

R is full of a variety of functions. Below I will give ten of the most interesting of them, which many might not know about. The article appeared after I discovered that my stories about some of the features of R that I use in my work were enthusiastically received by fellow programmers. If you already know everything about this, then I apologize for [...]