Terminal – The New Windows Terminal

Terminal – The New Windows Terminal

Please take a few minutes to review the overview below before diving into the code:

Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. Since assuming ownership of the Windows command-line in 2014, the team has added several new features to the Console, including window transparency, line-based selection, support for ANSI / Virtual Terminal sequences, 24-bit color, a Pseudoconsole (“ConPTY”), and more. This overhaul work resulted in the creation of several key components that would be useful for any terminal implementation on Windows, including a new DirectWrite-based text layout and rendering engine, a text buffer capable of storing both UTF-16 and UTF-8, and a VT parser/emitter.

Source: github.com

Pilosa: An open source, distributed index

Pilosa: An open source, distributed index

A Pilosa field might correspond to a single field in a relational table, where each row in a standard Pilosa field represents a single possible value of the relational field. Because Pilosa supports extremely high cardinality in both rows and columns, many types of joins are accomplished with basic Pilosa queries across multiple fields. For example, for a field with a time quantum of , the following queries will result in the data described in the diagram below:

Mutex fields are similar to fields, with the distinction of requiring the row value for each column to be mutually exclusive.

Source: www.pilosa.com

Why Is Infrastructure So Expensive to Build in New York?

Why Is Infrastructure So Expensive to Build in New York?

If you live in London, you won’t have to imagine it for long: London is nearly finished with work on Crossrail, a megaproject that will funnel commuter trains from London’s eastern and western suburbs into a new, 14-mile underground line that will serve seven stations across London’s urban core. L.A. spends as much as New York to dig tunnels, but “cut and cover” station construction has kept the cost of its four-mile, three-station Purple Line extension down to $2.8 billion. L.A. spends as much as New York to dig tunnels, but “cut and cover” station construction has kept the cost of its four-mile, three-station Purple Line extension down to $2.8 billion.

Source: nymag.com

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) – Now Generally Available

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) – Now Generally Available

Some of the available tools are:

At re:Invent 2018, we introduced in open preview Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Your MSK resources are made available to your own VPC, subnet, and security group through elastic network interfaces (ENIs) which will appear in your account, as described in the following architectural diagram:

Customers can create a cluster in minutes, use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control cluster actions, authorize clients using TLS private certificate authorities fully managed by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), encrypt data in-transit using TLS, and encrypt data at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) encryption keys. You can migrate your existing Kafka cluster to MSK using tools like MirrorMaker (that comes with open source Kafka) to replicate data from your clusters into a MSK cluster.

Source: aws.amazon.com

As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building Material?

As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building Material?

That’s because mass timber – large structural panels, posts, and beams glued under pressure or nailed together in layers, with the wood’s grain stacked perpendicular for extra strength – is not only prized as an innovative building material, superior to concrete and steel in many ways, it is also hoped it will come into its own as a significant part of a climate change solution. Among architects, manufacturers, and environmentalists, many want nothing less than to turn the coming decades of global commercial construction from a giant source of carbon emissions into a giant carbon sink by replacing concrete and steel construction with mass timber. But there are big questions being asked about just how sustainable the new building material is –especially about how forests that produce mass timber are managed, and how much CO2 would be emitted in the logging, manufacture, and transport of the wood products used in the construction.

Source: e360.yale.edu

Hawaii warns tourists of parasitic worm that can burrow into human brains

Hawaii warns tourists of parasitic worm that can burrow into human brains

Hawaii’s health department has released fresh warnings about a parasitic worm that can infest human brains after officials confirmed that three more visitors to the state picked up the infection. The parasitic worm in these cases is the rat lungworm, aka Angiostrongylus cantonensis. In Hawaii, officials confirm cases by trying to pick up and amplify fragments of worm DNA from sick patients’ cerebrospinal fluid or other tissue (a polymerase chain reaction test).

Source: arstechnica.com

Japan Discovered Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply World for Centuries

Japan Discovered Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply World for Centuries

Earlier this year, researchers found a deposit of rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan that could supply the world for centuries, according to a study. Japan started seeking its own rare-earth mineral deposits after China withheld shipments of the substances amid a dispute over islands that both countries claim as their own, Reuters reported in 2014. The only thing holding Japan back from using its newly found deposit to dominate the global market for rare-earth minerals is the challenge involved in extracting them.

Source: www.sciencealert.com

Automaton Conceptions from History

Automaton Conceptions from History

Such water clock designs are mentioned in various ancient sources, including Babylonian (17th century BC) Egyptian (15th century BC), Persian (4th century BC), and Indian (3rd century BC). This is how the mechanism had been described by experts who had conducted the “Ancient Greek Technology” exhibition at the Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Center (in Cyprus) –

Description of the operation: Inside the maid,there are two airtight containers (with wine and water, respectively). At the same time the other tube is aligned with the air pipe of the water container and it begins to flow thus diluting the wine.

Source: www.realmofhistory.com

Betrayed by an app she had never heard of

Betrayed by an app she had never heard of

She called her source and after they hung up, TrueCaller offered the source the option to tag Chloe’s number, since the number was not in their database. Now every time Chloe makes a phone call using that phone number, her name appears to TrueCaller users, like the cab driver, as “Chloe The Inquirer Journalist.” But beyond the different standards applied to people within and outside of the European Union – a phenomenon that Privacy International has called out in other companies – the larger issue remains that people who are tagged are not protected since these privacy policies only explicitly protect TrueCaller users; little to no information is provided as to how they apply to non-users tagged by the app’s users.

Source: www.privacyinternational.org

Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

DCJY: Robin, congratulations on the success of this remarkable preservation project, and thank you for speaking with us here at The Dreamcast Junkyard. Could you tell us about the donation from Bruno Bonnell? Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions on the preservation project, Robin.

Source: www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk