Chris’ Corner: Clever CSS Ideas & Explanations
If you think frosted glass effect in CSS, you probably think of the backdrop-filter property. Just backdrop-filter: blur(10px); will do the trick. I still think the look is kind of cool and fresh, but I should check myself a little here as the effect was popularized in the iOS 7
Read moreSEC sues Richard Heart and his projects Hex, PulseChain and Pulse X for fraud, securities violations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it is suing Richard Schueler, known online as Richard Heart and his three crypto projects, Hex, PulseChain and PulseX, for conducting unregistered offerings of “crypto asset securities.” The unregistered offerings raised more than $1 billion in crypto from investors, the agency stated.
Read moreSEC sues crypto influencer for allegedly buying sports cars and a rare black diamond with investor funds
Image: Richard Heart via YouTube Crypto influencer Richard Heart is facing a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission over claims he used “at least” $12 million in proceeds from his crypto products to buy luxury products. That includes the purchase of sports cars, luxury watches, and a 555-carat black
Read moreVariance of binned data
Suppose you have data that for some reason has been summarized into bins of width h. You don’t have the original data, only the number of counts in each bin. You can’t exactly find the sample mean or sample variance of the data because you don’t actually have the data.
Read moreKevin Systrom talks AI and his post-Instagram social app at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
When Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger co-founded Instagram in 2010, they basically invented photo-based social networking in the modern mobile era. Fast-forward to 2012 and a $1 billion acquisition by Facebook — and then again to 2018 when Systrom stepped down to research his next company. That’s one heck of
Read moreSpaceX tested ‘mega steel pancake’ water deluge system for Starship
SpaceX conducted a full-pressure test of a new water deluge system for its Starship launch vehicle on Friday, as the company looks to resolve one of the biggest problems that cropped up during the orbital flight test in April. It’s a major step toward making the launch infrastructure ready to
Read moreVC Office Hours: Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant starts a new chapter
Kimberly Bryant has had quite a few ups and down during her journey as an entrepreneur, especially over the past year. Known for founding Black Girls Code, a nonprofit organization that helps young Black girls enter STEM fields, Bryant faced a slew of problems in 2021, when tensions started boiling
Read moreElon Musk’s lawyers accuse non-profit of colluding with Twitter rivals
A non-profit that monitors online hate speech and disinformation, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) says that Elon Musk’s lawyers sent CEO Irman Ahmed a threatening legal letter over a CCDH article which said that Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts’ hateful tweets. In a
Read moreNew Relic agrees to go private in $6.5B all-cash deal
New Relic, the San Francisco-based observability software company, has reached an agreement with private equity firms TPG and Francisco Partners to go private in a $6.5 billion all-cash deal. As reported by CNBC, TPG and Francisco Partners were able to salvage a deal that initially fell through months ago after
Read moreState Management Using Protocol-Oriented Programming + Generics
Photo by Lukas Tennie on UnsplashIn this article, I would like to show one of the most convenient ways to manage the state of an object using a protocol-oriented approach and generics.This approach is widely used in marketplaces, the banking environment, the service sector, and so on, and assumes that for
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