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Marc Olson has been part of the team shaping Elastic Block Store (EBS) for over a decade. In that time, he’s helped to drive the dramatic evolution of EBS from a simple block storage service relying o

As a professional photographer who used most models of the Canon 5D series of DSLRs, and who recently made the switch to mirrorless with the Canon R5, I thought it would be useful to review the 5D lin

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Introduction Sometimes, companies make what seems, on the surface, technically poor decisions. I consider this the case with Canon’s new R5 Mark ii (and R1) dropping support for sensor Pixel Shifting

make is a build tool that’s been around since the 1970s. It was originally designed for automating the building of C programs: installing dependencies, running tests, and compiling binaries. These day

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Aug 25, 2024 as llms get better and better at writing code, more and more people, at least on twt, have started to incorporate llms into their workflow. most people seem to agree that llms have been a

When Canon released its latest flagship camera, the EOS R1, it was fair to say that it was overshadowed by the humble R5 Mark II. Like a thief in the night, the mantle for the most exciting Canon came

The digital camera industry has endured a lot of changes over the years and is currently at the tail of a huge collapse that is tied directly to the proliferation of smartphones. A new chart that uses

In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a rec

Don’t rock the boat. That’s Lenovo’s strategy for its 12th iteration of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Instead of messing with a winning formula, the company employed small tweaks throughout the laptop, deli

SSDs Maximum SSD capacity is expected to double from its current 61.44 TB maximum by mid-2025, giving us 122 TB and even 128 TB drives, with the prospect of exabyte-capacity racks. Five suppliers have

Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term. What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be described that way? So I

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Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform infra severless Like Heroku, but you own it. Author Hamel Husain Published January 9, 2024 With Dokku, you can turn a VPS into a powerful serverless pla

AI companies are collectively planning to spend a trillion dollars on hardware and data centers, but there’s been relatively little to show for it so far. This has led to a chorus of concerns that gen

Verdict The Canon RF 200-800mm F6.3-9 IS USM Lens offers an unparalleled range of long telephoto focal lengths, reaching an exceptionally and differentiatingly long 800mm, in a relatively compact, han

In this era of exponential acceleration that AI has brought forth, the average VS Code or Jetbrains developer benefits from a toolkit stacked with modern, state-of-the-art components. From IDEs to ext

Jump to: Every so often, a new big superzoom telephoto lens pops up to grab everyone's attention. Mostly it’s third-party lens makers like Sigma and Tamron, duking it out over different stratospheric

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Canon revealed a new lens not too long ago, a much anticipated 200-800mm lens, a zoom range that seems too good to be true! As we all know, birds are generally quite small, therefore the longer the fo

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Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment, I return to a perennial subject for me: attention and its moral dimensions. Because I do come back to

Share with your friends! XThreadsRedditEmail The OWC Express 1M2 is a bus-powered portable USB4 SSD, available in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB capacities or as an empty housing for installing your NVMe SSD.

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Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is a method that uses randomness and probability to predict outcomes. To help you understand this better, let’s break down the name and the concept: Why “Monte Carlo”? Thi

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware,

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