truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

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The monotonic clock used on Windows by time.Now will have a resolution of 100 nanoseconds starting in Go 1.28 🥳. Previously, its resolution was on the order of milliseconds . This will improves the precision of elapsed-time measurements, such as those made with time.Since. go.dev/cl/847925 #golang

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Preview: New SIMD #compression mode in #golang minlz that uses pivco entropy coding on top of LZ matching. Compression like ZStandard with 2-5x faster decompression. Currently implemented with AVX2, AVX512 and NEON (untested). Independent blocks, giving seekable streams. Silensia, single threaded:

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No more leap seconds, ever! There isn’t one in December and they will be abolished in May. The last one will forever be the 2016(?!) one. Didn’t realize having experienced leap seconds in prod dates me. I’m not going to miss time going backwards, I’ll be honest. www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026...

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Grand Theft Auto VI launches next month. I can't believe that's finally a real sentence. Here's the launch trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1B...

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