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A four-year-old crashed the Apollo command module simulator by starting the prelaunch program, P01, in the middle of a simulated flight. NASA turned…
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Накопление истории в Zeebe: причины замедления и влияние на память
Привет, Хабр! На связи команда разработки кредитных продуктов для физлиц Т-Банка. Продолжаем серию статей о нашем опыте работы с Zeebe — workflow-дв…
Explaining the Python-JVM Boundary in Spark, and What Arrow Changed
Arrow's real contribution to PySpark isn't speed at any one API but a shared memory format at every boundary between the JVM and Python; each releas…
Coase's Coffee
An inventory system goes wrong before the coffee rush. Who gets the call? I made this argument about agents ( you can't sue an agent ), and it appli…
RL 3: Bellman Equations and Markov Decision Processes (1950s–1960s)
Where we left off Two quick reminders. Thorndike (1898) watched cats escape a puzzle box and gave us the Law of Effect : do something, get a good re…
Chapter 1 - The Funkiest of All Machines
The Dark Ages. That's the label that stuck. A thousand years of mud and superstition between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, a long waiting ro…
Dijkstra, Knuth, Kernighan: 10 Quotes That Predicted the AI Coding Debate
In 1972, Edsger Dijkstra stood up to accept a Turing Award and gave a lecture called "The Humble Programmer." He had never seen an LLM. He had never…
VAX, TCP/IP, and Thirty Years of the Same Trust Problem
A Japanese version of this is on Note . I build RoamSwitch , a network security app for Mac and Linux, on my own. Maybe it's this line of work, but…
Java Scripts
JavaScript and Its History JavaScript is a programming language mainly used to make websites interactive and dynamic. HTML is used to create the str…
The Developer Who Put an OS on the Amiga — Tim King (1947–2026)
A Cambridge Student Writes an Operating System In the late 1970s, a Cambridge computer science student named Tim King needed an operating system for…
Why PHP Uses snake_case Functions but camelCase Methods
Built-in functions are usually snake_case. Modern framework code is usually camelCase. That is PHP: a language where naming conventions can feel odd…
Markov Chain, จากสมการร้อยปี สู่จุดกำเนิด Google และ AI ที่เปลี่ยนโลก
Markov Chain, จากสมการร้อยปี สู่จุดกำเนิด Google และ AI ที่เปลี่ยนโลก โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | 12 สิงหาคม 2026 บทความนี้เขียนโดย AI (deepseek-v4-pro) ผ่า…
"iota ใน Go — อักษรกรีกตัวจิ๋วที่กลายเป็นเครื่องมือทรงพลัง"
📅 เขียนเมื่อ: กรกฎาคม 2026 ⚠️ ตรวจสอบข้อมูลจาก Go Specification, APL documentation, และบันทึกของผู้พัฒนา ถ้าคุณเขียน Go มาระยะหนึ่ง คุณคงเคยเห็น iot…
"Plan 9 — ระบบปฏิบัติการที่โลกลืม แต่เปลี่ยนวิธีคิดเรื่อง OS ไปตลอดกาล"
📅 เขียนเมื่อ: กรกฎาคม 2026 ⚠️ อ้างอิงจากเอกสารต้นฉบับของ Bell Labs และบันทึกของผู้พัฒนา ถ้าผมถามว่า "ระบบปฏิบัติการที่เจ๋งที่สุดในโลกคืออะไร" — คุณค…
The Eternal Legacy (2006-2008): The Modern Surveillance Aftermath
The diagnostic readout on the high-speed packet analyzer flickered with a relentless, rhythmic pulse—a digital heartbeat masking a systemic instabil…
The Great Erasure (2004-2006): Decommissioning and Evidence Destruction
The green phosphor of a high-security terminal flickered with a rhythmic, clinical pulse, casting sharp shadows across the workstation of Senior Sys…
The Shadow Collapse (2002-2004): Dismantling the Network
The air in the primary server vault at Fort Meade did not smell like the future. It smelled of ionized dust, high-voltage hardware, and the dry, met…
The First Bitcoin Price Ran to Four Decimal Places. His Fan Ran Louder.
Written by Milo Vance, mythology deflator at Bitcoin Institute. Every asset class gets an origin myth with some grandeur to it. Gold has "treasured…
The Millennium Fracture (2000-2002): Digital Fragmentation and Chaos
The silence in the Tier 1 Network Operation Centers of the early year 2000 was not the silence of peace. It was a heavy, pressurized equilibrium—the…
The Dot-Com Deception (1998-2000): Infrastructure of the Hidden Market
The air in the burgeoning server farms of Northern Virginia and the high-frequency trading hubs of New Jersey in 1998 did not smell of the future. I…
The Web Emergence (1996-1998): Obscured Streams in the Browser Age
The cooling fans of the emerging Tier 1 provider data centers in 1996 operated at a frequency that defined an era—a constant, mid-range mechanical d…
The Encryption Conflict (1994-1996): The Battle for Data Sovereignty
In the mid-1990s, the world was standing on the precipice of a digital revolution. The internet was transitioning from a niche academic tool into a…
Lode Runner, Ultima, and a Samsung Tape Drive
Before I studied computer science, there was a contest in Busan, a cassette that loaded games, and code I typed in from a magazine. A look back — lo…
Don't Fear the Road
An essay faith4future There's a fear going around among faithful people, and I don't think it's silly. It goes something like this: this AI thing is…
Surprise Over Age of Fundamental Algorithms: Modern AI Excluded from Standard University Courses
Introduction: The Timeless Nature of Algorithms When you crack open a standard Data Structures and Algorithms textbook, it’s easy to assume the cont…
The Death of Note-Taking and the Rise of the Digital Scribe
In our previous series, we built the Sovereign Vault to verify truth in existing records. But as we move deeper into the age of AI, we face a massiv…
Bluetooth is named after a Viking king - and the story is a lesson in interoperability
Pick up almost any connected product — a fitness band, a smart lock, a set of wireless earbuds, an industrial sensor reporting to a phone — and some…
3 Famous "Bugs" That Actually Built the Tech World We Live In Today
So I was deep in a debugging session last week — one of those 3 AM, "why is this even happening" kind of nights — and I started going down a rabbit…
The Pope and the Dynamo
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word document about artificial intelligence. The English text runs ninety pages, named it Magnifica Humani…
From the Renaissance to the Quantum Dawn: AI, Computation, and the Next Paradigm Shift
Five hundred years ago, Florentine craftsmen began using linear perspective to represent three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional canvas. That m…