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tomasato··on Tech’s Next Revolution Might Be Open Source Semiconductors
I’m curious about the ubiquiti custom CPU, can you share a link to more info ? Thanks
tomasato··on Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware
If you block it, it leaks memory until it crashes the device
tomasato··on Crispr Gene-Editing May Offer Path to Cure for HIV, First Published Report Shows
> The first trial of CRISPR in humans took place in China in 2016, when Lu You, a physician at Sichuan University, put gene-edited cells into a lung cancer patient. Since then, other Chinese trials have moved forward, though not much is known about them.

> Last year Chinese researcher He Jiankui caused a global outcry ...

Ethics aside, it’s definitely more than one Chinese scientist working in this area.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/despite-controver...

tomasato··on Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
Excluding the lens library (as per the article) is unusual, it provides natural getter/setter and row polymorphism type functionality.

More anecdotally, I’d argue parsing libraries are common, just look at the prevalence of attoparsec and others. But most parsing libraries in the ecosystem are parser combinator libraries which don’t support as performance and nice error messages that compilers need