13 min readCSS, UI, Tools, FrameworksQuick summary ↬ Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that they’ll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. Let’s talk about it. Every now and then, someone will ask for my recommendations on UI…
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What the Insect Crisis Means for Food, Farming–and Humanity
There’s a fear that malnutrition will increase because a lot of the foods that insects pollinate are the nutritious stuff that is very good for us. There’s a fear that diseases caused by a lack of nutrition will increase; there’s one estimate that there’ll be a million deaths or more each year globally because of…
BonsaiDb performance update: A deep-dive on file synchronization
Written by Jonathan Johnson. Published 2022-05-22. Last updated 2022-05-23. What is BonsaiDb? BonsaiDb is a new database aiming to be the most developer-friendly Rust database. BonsaiDb has a unique feature set geared at solving many common data problems. We have a page dedicated to answering the question: What is BonsaiDb?. tl;dr: BonsaiDb is slower than…
Range Joins in DuckDB
2022-05-27Richard Wesley TL;DR: DuckDB has fully parallelised range joins that can efficiently join millions of range predicates. Range intersection joins are an important operation in areas such as temporal analytics, and occur when two inequality conditions are present in a join predicate. Database implementations often rely on slow O(N^2) algorithms that compare every pair of…
Berghain Trainer
1. An overview of data protection General The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our Website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy found below. Data…
Print an Arduino-Powered Color Mechanical Television
Many people are hungry for solutions to these issues—witness the widespread adoption over the past decade of wireless charging, mostly for portable consumer electronics but also for vehicles. While a wireless charger saves you from having to connect and disconnect cables repeatedly, the distance over which energy can be delivered this way is quite short.…
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State of Crypto Report
by Daren Matsuoka, Eddy Lazzarin, Chris Dixon and Robert Hackett May 17, 2022 A lot has changed in the state of crypto since we started investing in the area nearly a decade ago. This report is the first of what will be an annual overview of trends in the crypto industry, shared through the a16z…
Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (2010)
$begingroup$ From A Mathematician’s Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1940: “I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s Game. … I do not know an…
What You Need to Know About Metas Updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
Starting today, Meta is rolling out notifications letting people know that we’ve updated our Privacy Policy, formerly known as the Data Policy. Inspired by feedback from people who use our technologies and privacy experts, we rewrote our Privacy Policy to make it easier to understand and to reflect the latest products we offer. While the…
Lawmakers vote to legalize recreational marijuana in RI
After years of discussion, Rhode Island lawmakers on Tuesday voted to legalize the sale of marijuana for recreational use. If the governor signs the legislation, as expected Wednesday afternoon, Rhode Island would become the 19th state to legalize adult use of marijuana since Colorado became the first in 2012. Some three dozen states have medical marijuana…
Demonstrating significant energy savings using neuromorphic hardware
One of Intel’s Nahuku boards, each of which contains eight to 32 Intel Loihi neuromorphic chips. Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation For the first time TU Graz’s Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Intel Labs demonstrated experimentally that a large neural network can process sequences such as sentences while consuming four to sixteen times less energy…
CBO predicts inflation has topped, will cool to 2% by 2024 with higher GDP
U.S. economic growth will exceed 3% in 2022, while roaring inflation has topped and will cool each month to around 2% by some point in 2024, according to a government forecast published Wednesday. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that real gross domestic product, or GDP, will grow 3.1% in 2022, driven by consumer spending…
SecureDrop 2.4.0 – Released May 24 2022
May 24, 2022 We’re pleased to announce that SecureDrop 2.4.0 has been released. Changes that journalists and administrators should be aware of are summarized in this blog post. A complete list of changes can be found on GitHub. Tor Browser security issueTails has published an advisory for a serious security issue in Tor Browser affecting…
Notion workspace to manage Instagram growth
A Notion-based workspace. The Audience Building Secret Sauce You Have Been Waiting For.Audience OS makes it nearly impossible to fail at growing your Instagram followers. Specifically, it helps creators and entrepreneurs grow from 0 to 1000s followers without wasting 150+ hours on learning Instagram growth hacks. Get it for $149 $99/Lifetime No risk. Full refund…
We have bigger targets than beating Oracle, say open source DB pioneers
MySQL pioneer Peter Zaitsev, an early employee of MySQL AB under the original open source database author Michael “Monty” Widenius, once found it easy to identify the enemy. “In the early days of MySQL AB, we were there to get Oracle’s ass. Our CEO Mårten Mickos was always telling us how we were going to…
Stop wanting to be “enterprise-ready” on day 1 – Contenda’s founder Lilly Chen
Fretting over scaling issues too soon, often means laboriously imagining and lugging product freight from the future. It’s believing that the faint, distorted, mostly unreachable calls of possible features and overnight adoption fears matter more than the asks of the present roadmap. In the following exchange, Contenda’s founder, Lilly Chen (@lilly), advises fellow enterprise SaaS…
Things I’ve learned as a startup tech founder
Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on UnsplashI’ve been a full-time founder for almost a year but have been into startup culture for most of my professional career as a software engineer (~4 years). At myqoob.com we have built an MVP in 5 months with a small team of developers and designers, made a lot of…
Do Bulletproof Backpacks Work?
Do Bulletproof Backpacks Work? Understanding the Bulletproof Backpack Time for Honesty At Premier Body Armor, we want to help protect you and your loved ones in a practical way! Adding specialized body armor solutions to your everyday routine is the best way. How do Bulletproof Backpacks Work? Bulletproof inserts and backpacks are made of layers…
Samsung allegedly assembling a “dream team” to take down Apple’s M1 in 2025
It’s probably fair to say that Samsung hasn’t had the best time with its Exynos offerings when compared against rivals like Qualcomm or Apple. To shake its fortunes Up, the company also paired Up with AMD for its Exynos 2200 GPU, and results were a mixed bag. Both the AMD RDNA 2 Xclipse 920 graphics…