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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

By Jason An GDB loses significant functionality when debugging binaries that lack debugging symbols (also known as “stripped binaries”). Function and variable names become meaningless addresses; setting breakpoints requires tracking down relevant function addresses from an external source; and printing out structured values involves staring at a memory dump trying to manually discern field boundaries.

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Generating user intent from a sequence of user interface (UI) actions is a core challenge in comprehensive UI understanding. Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have led to substantial progress in this area, but their demands for extensive model parameters, computing power, and high latency makes them impractical for scenarios requiring lightweight, on-device solutions with low latency or heightened privacy.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this 'jumboization' surgery is becoming very common. Let's take a look at how it's done.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine sifting through rows of data in a spreadsheet packed with numbers that look impressive at first glance. But when you try to analyze them, the digits feel like a maze, hard to interpret and even harder to draw conclusions from.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

There's currently a significant amount of confusion around the full extent of the GPIO hardware issue in the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, with [Ian] over at [Dangerous Prototypes] of Bus Pirat.

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Last Updated on September 8, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. A girl looking at a screen containing mixed variables. Source: Image generated by Dall-E Imagine you’re working on a brand-new data project, the kind that makes your hands twitch with excitement.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Powershell can be a great tool for web scraping, which data-driven businesses should take advantage of.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM's latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike any other server CPU. It only has eight cores, but runs them at a very high 5.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep, only to be jerked awake by the sound of a bomb going off inside your head? If you have, then you have most likely experienced exploding head syndrome, a mysterious and poorly understood sleep disorder.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We spent 7 months building a Kubernetes based platform to replace Heroku for our SaaS product at mynewsdesk.com. The results were a 90% reduction in costs and a 30% improvement in performance. We also significantly improved developer experience with reduced deploy times and faster / more accessible tooling.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces defeated the Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This post is kind of part 3, coming off last week's thrilling episode. I am a simple sole, I want to reduce the cognitive load in my web projects. The general idea is to go back to the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Searching your software for bugs is easy if you know what to look for. But what search strategies can you deploy to uncover bugs that you don't even know you should be looking for?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Even ‘untouched’ natural landscapes bear witness to millennia of human influence, a lyrical book argues — with implications for how we seek to rewild them. Even ‘untouched’ natural landscapes bear witness to millennia of human influence, a lyrical book argues — with implications for how we seek to rewild them.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

There was little doubt Nikon's Z9 was successful, but the company's CEO has revealed just how well it sold.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Traverse project structure and write file contents to a single output file. Latest version: 2.0.0, last published: 2 days ago. Start using vomitorium in your project by running `npm i vomitorium`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using vomitorium.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The article explains the Bell inequality using Monte Carlo simulations in Python, and shows how non-local action-at-a-distance can be used to break it with entangled qubits.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras is a researcher with a background in biology and citizen science and an open science activist. He works as a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute. In 2011, he founded openSNP. He was awarded a PhD in Bioinformatics in 2018. In 2017 he joined the Open Humans Foundation as the Director of Research.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Dedicated LLM server powered by 8x RTX 3090 Graphic Cards, boasting a total of 192GB of VRAM.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Millions are rejecting the culture-war hotspots of the major social media sites in favour of apps dedicated to activities they enjoy, while bonding with their fellow users

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

How does Linux move from an awake machine to a hibernating one? How does it then manage to restore all state? These questions led me to read way too much C in trying to figure out how this particular hardware/software boundary is navigated.

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As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Technical details about a recent 4096bytes Atari-STE intro, by Arnaud Carré

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In a study published today in Joule, researchers at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center report that giving batteries their first charge at unusually high currents increased their average lifespan by 50% while decreasing the initial charging time from 10 hours to just 20 minutes.

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