Guido van Rossum, the inventor of Python, works together with Eric Snow and Mark Shannon at Microsoft to make CPython faster. His overview slides are available on GitHub since last week. What is CPyth
(Image credit: Canon) Canon 's new mirrorless stars, the Canon EOS R7 and EOS R10, will probably be the biggest camera launches of the year. Not because they're the best ones it's ever made, but becau
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If you suffer from back pain , you’ve probably heard that strengthening your core can bring you some relief. But is this always true? And if so, how do you do it? Physical therapist Patti Mariano Kopa
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Python generators are mighty, but they lack a couple of useful features. One of them is peeking the next item without consuming the generator. Even better, what if we could peek any number of items? A
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FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE ABOUT EMAIL RSS DONATE May 2, 2020 A history of NVidia Stream Multiprocessor I spent last week-end getting accustomed to CUDA and SIMT programming. It was a prolific time end
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If you’ve ever wondered whether a life without work would be blissful, well, Lorie Kloda can confirm that it pretty much is. Kloda really likes her job as a university librarian in Montreal, but she s
Introduction I wrote and maintain zig-sqlite , a Zig package that wraps the SQLite C API. Its goals are to use Zig’s features to augment SQLite’s capabilities and provide a idiomatic Zig API. Why buil
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In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies . That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client , David said that we were goi
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Listen to an audio version of this story For more audio from The Walrus, subscribe to AMI-audio podcasts on iTunes. A lthough my memory of the details is vague, I think the following happened when I w
With each major Python release, all the attention goes to the new language features: the walrus operator, dictionary merging, pattern matching. There is also a lot of writing about asyncio and typing
I've been using zig for ~4 months worth of side projects, including a toy text editor and an interpreter for a relational language . I've written ~10kloc. That's not nearly enough time to form a coher
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Melee Island. Image Credit: Lucasfilm Games Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman are returning to Monkey Island with (the appropriately named) Return to Monkey Island . The two worked together to make the or
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