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An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary optimizations. A strong case can be made that the initial design benefits massively from …read more Continue reading Optimizing Software with Zero-Copy and Other Techniques
Whenever you buy used computers there is a risk that they come with unpleasant surprises that are not of the insect variant. From Apple hardware that is iCloud-locked with the …read more Continue reading Project Fail: Cracking a Laptop BIOS Password Using AI
A common task in a laboratory setting is that of sampling, where a bit of e.g. liquid has to be sampled from a series of containers. Doing this by hand …read more Continue reading Building a Carousel Autosampler
Since the RP2040 microcontroller is available as a stand-alone component, it’s easy enough for third parties to churn out their own variations — or outright clones of — the Raspberry …read more Continue reading Looking at a Real Fake Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board
Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an understanding of the underlying hardware. This is especially the case in scenarios like those involving embarrassingly parallel processing, which at first glance …read more Continue reading Making Code a Hundred Times Slower With False Sharing
Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density, but increasing said density is tricky, as beyond a certain point the …read more Continue reading Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past the Greenwald Density Limit
Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water, electricity or the feet of humans. This is where the …read more Continue reading When Electricity Doesn’t Take the Shortest Path
With more and more kitchen utilities gaining touch screens and capable microcontrollers it’d be inconceivable that they do not get put to other uses as well. To this end [Aaron …read more Continue reading Hacking the Krups Cook4Me Smart Cooking Pot for Doom
The exciting part about repairing consumer electronics is that you are never quite sure what you are going to find. In a recent video by [Mick] of Buy it Fix …read more Continue reading Fixing a KS Jive DAB Radio with a Dash of Fake ICs
Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor variations. There lately seems …read more Continue reading The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming