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Main theses or what this article is about. Since people have different interests, and people have little time, let’s briefly talk about the contents of the article. This article is an overview of a controller project with a minimal price and the ability to visually program using a WEB browser. Since this is a review article aimed at showing “what can be squeezed out of a penny controller”, deep truths and […]
The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent a letter to Tesla last year warning of possible penalties for failing to comply with NHTSA guidelines in its statements about the safety of the Model 3 electric car. The automaker was also summoned. court to provide more details about several accidents that occurred […]
First from left is Marvin Minsky, second from left is Alan Kay, then John Perry Barlow and Gloria Minsky. Question: How would you interpret Marvin Minsky's idea that “Computer Science already has a grammar. What she needs is literature.”? Alan Kay: The most interesting aspect of Ken's blog post (including the comments) is that nowhere […]
System76 has announced the Adder WS portable computer, aimed at content creators and researchers, as well as gaming enthusiasts. The mobile workstation is equipped with a 15,6-inch 4K OLED display with a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels. Graphics processing is carried out by the discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 accelerator. The maximum configuration includes an Intel Core i9-9980HK processor, which contains eight computing cores with […]
As in science, medicine, counseling and many other fields, I think there are issues of temperament as well as knowledge - there is a kind of "calling" here. And, I guess, a kind of “attitude.” A key part of engineering is the love of making things, especially making them right away and making […]
Microsoft is carefully preparing for the launch of Gears 5 and intends to make the most of this event. The Xbox team presented a new Xbox One X kit in the limited edition of Gears 5. It will go on sale on the Russian market along with the game in early September and will be available exclusively in DNS stores at a price of 39 rubles. The company notes that […]
In short, I would advise reading a lot of books that are not related to computer science. It is important to understand what place the concept of “science” occupies in “Computer Science”, and what “engineering” means in “Software Engineering”. The modern concept of “science” can be formulated as follows: it is an attempt to translate phenomena into models that can be more or less easily explained and predicted. You can read about this topic [...]
I saw a publication that PVS had learned to analyze under Linux, and decided to try it on my own projects. And this is what came out of it. Contents Pros Cons Summary Afterword Pros Responsive support I requested a trial key, and they sent it to me on the same day. Fairly clear documentation We managed to launch the analyzer without any problems. Help for console commands […]
What does it take for an IT company to be successful in 2019? Lecturers at conferences and meetups say a lot of loud words that are not always understandable to normal people. The struggle for deployment time, microservices, abandonment of the monolith, DevOps transformation and much, much more. If we discard verbal beauty and speak directly and in Russian, then it all comes down to a simple thesis: make a quality product, and […]
Censorship views the world as a semantic system in which information is the only reality, and what is not written about does not exist. — Mikhail Geller This digest is intended to increase the Community’s interest in the issue of privacy, which in the light of recent events is becoming more relevant than ever before. On the agenda: “Medium” completely switches to Yggdrasil “Medium” creates its own […]
Researchers from Check Point revealed details of a new attack technique against applications using vulnerable versions of SQLite at the DEF CON conference. The Check Point method considers database files as an opportunity to integrate scenarios for exploiting vulnerabilities in various internal SQLite subsystems that are not directly exploitable. Researchers have also prepared a technique for exploiting vulnerabilities with exploit coding in the form of […]
Canonical has released an update to the Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS distribution, which has received a number of innovations to improve performance. The build includes updates to the Linux kernel, graphics stack, and several hundred packages. Errors in the installer and bootloader have also been fixed. Updates are available for all distributions: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.3 LTS, […]
