U.S. rent has increased 175% faster than household income over past 20 years
The funny thing is, all the rich people living in these cities would never be able to survive without all the poor people commuting into the city to support them. The more expensive the city gets, the longer those commutes get. Read more
How to implement a hash table in C
Yes, but how you resize is important too: if you have a threshold size (like 3/4 full) at which you block and re-distribute all elements into a new array, you will incur a significant pause when this happens, e.g. https://ift.tt/2OXn1qP Read more
China, With $400 Billion Iran Deal, Could Deepen Influence in Mideast
The countries signed a sweeping pact on Saturday that calls for heavy Chinese investments in Iran over 25 years in exchange for oil — a step that could ease Iran’s international isolation. Read more
Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years to stop fraudsters pulling the woo
Documents analysed as part of the study. Credit: Dave Lee Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because it helped prevent fraud, new analysis suggests. Read more
Miguel de Icaza
1.5 years ago, I ported VSCode’s TextBuffer implementation to Swift, so I could have a scalable text editor for my console toolkit. Last night, I merged the change, here in all of its glory – new text editor in TermKit, using TextBufferKit, inside SwiftTermApp: Read more
Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
BATTERIES HAVE come a long way in 30 years. In the early 1990s the storage capacity needed to power a house for a day would have cost about $75,000. The cells themselves would have weighed 113kg (250lbs) and taken up as much space as a beer keg. Read more
HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday’s Facebook breach
No interest in seeing other people’s info, but I want to know if I’m affected. There were links to a ufile folder with all the zips on here yesterday. Read more
消息人士：台积电已同意为瑞萨电子代工芯片 交付时间有望早于要求
原标题：消息人士：台积电已同意为瑞萨电子代工芯片 交付时间有望早于要求 Read more
5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
In a break from the usual GPS/Galileo, DNA and C++ posts, here is a bit on 5G and national security. It turns out that through PowerDNS and its parent company Open-Xchange, we know a lot about how large scale European communication service providers work – most of whom are our customers in some way. Read […]
ARMv9 What is the Big Deal
If you are a cellphone user, then you know ARM chips: they power your phone, and now they are powering the next generation Macs. They are also making major inroads into the server space. We are at a cusp of a major shift in industry, the likes of which has not been seen in decades. […]