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A deep dive into why beliefs about legendary guitar sound are mostly psychological illusions — from the myth of analog superiority to the equipment acquisition syndrome, and why songs make the sound legendary, not the other way around.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's visionary work went far beyond speculation — he mathematically derived the fundamentals of space travel decades before anyone built a rocket. From multi-stage rockets to cryogenic sleep and space elevators, his calculations laid the groundwork for modern astronautics.
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A satirical punk-style poem about a young developer who proudly relies on AI coding tools like Cursor while clashing with senior colleagues who dismiss his approach — a humorous take on the generational divide in software development.
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The second installment of a series about an IT professional's attempt to downshift into blue-collar work, recounting interviews at a retail company and a factory in Belarus — complete with bureaucratic absurdities and a surprising job offer as a factory mechanic.
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A teardown and analysis of a cheap car charger from AliExpress that claims 120W PD 3.1 support but actually delivers only 41W — and worse, can instantly destroy connected devices by feeding 12V to a 5V port due to a critical design shortcut.
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An in-depth exploration of one-bit music synthesis on the ZX Spectrum, from basic square wave generation through two-channel polyphony, covering clock cycle calculations, hardware timing quirks, and a complete functional music engine in Z80 assembly.
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A deep dive into Python 3.14's new subinterpreters feature — how they achieve true parallelism with per-interpreter GILs, the massive C-level refactoring required for isolation, and benchmark comparisons against threading, multiprocessing, and free-threading.
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Yandex's YDB database now supports three types of vector search — exact, approximate without index, and approximate with a scalable vector index — enabling RAG pipelines with billions of vectors across distributed clusters.
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A hands-on guide to writing a userspace Linux driver in Rust for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock's RGB LEDs, covering USB fundamentals, reverse-engineering device protocols, and handling interrupts — all in about fifty lines of code.
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A retrospective spanning two decades of indie game development, tracing the Endless War Flash game series from a three-week side project on Newgrounds to a Hall of Fame nomination, and the lessons learned about gameplay, feedback, burnout, and engine transitions.
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An IT professional documents his attempt to leave the tech industry for a blue-collar factory job in Belarus, encountering broken job platforms, absurd HR practices, and a janitor position that pays 30% more than a system programmer role.
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A detailed technical examination of the catastrophic failure at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on August 17, 2009, which killed 76 people and destroyed the turbine hall — while the dam itself remained intact.