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Solid-state drives continue to dominate the market, but despite this, traditional HDDs are still doing well. It is too early to put the 'classic' into the museum, as storing large volumes of data is still most convenient on HDDs. First of all, there is the price question — just compare the cost of SSDs and HDDs with a capacity of one terabyte and above. For the price of a single 2 TB SSD, you could […]
A recent news article titled 'America's Major Mobile Operators to Discontinue SMS Messaging Format' is unlikely to leave any of us indifferent, as we all own mobile devices that support these very SMS messages. It is clear that the discussion revolves around the implementation of a new (essentially, well-forgotten) RCS platform; nobody intends to completely eliminate the good old SMS […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Push notifications are an integral part of modern smartphones. They allow people to be promptly informed about incoming emails, news, etc. However, it appears there is currently a specific issue regarding the delay of notifications from Gmail on devices running Android. One Reddit user noted that Gmail notifications on […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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. […]
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
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 […]