WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday proposed giving airlines the power to bar emotional support animals from cabins and limit the definition of a service animal to a trained dog. The proposed new rules are aimed at prevent…
Yes, I know that this is a borderline absurd web stack for the ubiquitous TODO application but I had a lot of trouble getting this all to work. I started using these things for a more ambitious project and I’d love to spare you the trouble. So here’s some bas…
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Click on a cell below to toggle bit values. Use this to build intuition for the IEEE floating-point format. See Wikipedia for details on the single-precision and double-precision floating-point formats. 32-bit (float) 64-bit (double)
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History Fortran is foundational to languages we use today. Fortran never left us… it runs our mainframes today. Ashes to ashes. Dust into dust. Fortran to JavaScript, back to Fortran
GitHub is leveraging machine learning (ML) to help more people contribute to open source. We’ve launched the good first issues feature, powered by deep learning, to help new contributors find easy issues they can tackle in projects that fit their interests. …
On Friday, activists will take to the streets in Los Angeles to attempt to prevent a consequential giveaway of an obscure piece of technological architecture. A newly formed private equity firm named Ethos Capital is bidding to take over the registry that han…
Over the New Year, Microsoft exposed nearly 250 million Customer Service and Support (CSS) records on the web. The records contained logs of conversations between Microsoft support agents and customers from all over the world, spanning a 14-year period from 2…
I2C is perhaps the most commonly used bus to connect ICs together. As such, firmware engineers encounter it on most projects. In this post, we explain how I2C works, explore common bugs and investigate how to debug these issues. Like Interrupt? Subscribe t…
Prelude In late 2004, I was the Program Manager for Microsoft’s clipart website, delivering a million pieces of clipart to Microsoft Office customers every day. It was great fun. But there was a problem– our “Clip of the Day” feature, meant to spotlight a ne…
If I were really trying to convince you of this, I’d devote a post to the business case, diving into the data and trying to figure out the cost of bugs. The short version of that unwritten post is that response times are well studied and it’s known that a 100…