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Network Transparency with Wayland
M. Stoeckl's website
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 6,985 posts.
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How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]?
Most commodity processors support single-precision IEEE 754 floating-point numbers. Though they are ubiquitous, they are often misunderstood. One of my readers left a comment suggesting that picking an integer in [0,232) at random and dividing it by 232, was equivalent to picking a number at random in [0,1). I am not…
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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Raster CRT Typography According to DEC
A closer look at the glyphs drawn by the DEC terminals VT100 and VT220.
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Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W
Today I want to show you a watch modification that I've been working on. I'm calling it the Data Runner, and it's another F91W mod, this time going the extra mile to make something functional and nice looking.
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Tips for immersive video calls
I spent way too long figuring out the how to make video calls feel natural. Here’s the best advice I came up with.
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John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings
Programmers tend to worry too much and too soon about performance. Many college-level Computer Science classes focus on fancy algorithms to improve performance, but in real life performance rarely matters. Most real-world programs run plenty fast enough on today's machines without any particular attention to…
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Julia as a CLI Calculator
I have been using the Julia REPL as my day-to-day calculator on the command line for more than a year now. I am surprised that I haven’t seen more posts talking about how powerful and extensible the language is for simple numerical calculations and scripting In fact, the Julia REPL is much more than a simple…
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Text only news websites (2022)
There's no BBC News text-only site, even though everyone comes here looking for one – more info
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Adobe, Apple, and Flash
If Adobe needs Apple to grant them further access to the hardware to make the *Mac* version of Flash Player better, what are the odds that they’d get that sort of low-level hardware access on the iPhone OS? (Hint: zero.)
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Using JDK 9 Memory Order Modes
This guide is mainly intended for expert programmers familiar with Java concurrency, but unfamiliar with the memory order modes available in JDK 9 provided by VarHandles. Mostly, it focuses on how to think about modes when developing parallel software. Feel free to first read the Summary .
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Wounded QR Codes
How do QR codes work? How much is it possible to distort one and still have it readable?
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The Stack Monoid
(Updated 2020-09-06 with pointers to related work and a bit more explanation)
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Llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …
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The Worst API Ever Made?
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
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A walk through the Magit interface
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper
Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper’s core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapaper.
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The swimming of a dead fish (2018)
When I was a child, my father would take me trout fishing, and I spent hours marveling from the riverbank at the trouts’ ability to, seemingly effortlessly, h
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Interpretable Machine Learning
Machine learning is part of our products, processes, and research. But computers usually don’t explain their predictions , which can cause many problems, ranging from trust issues to undetected bugs. This book is about making machine learning models and their decisions interpretable.
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AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has a massive asset
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Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64
A space efficient UTF-8 binary-to-text encoding
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From Stacks to Trees: A new aliasing model for Rust
Since last fall, Neven has been doing an internship to develop a new aliasing model for Rust: Tree Borrows. Hang on a second, I hear you say – doesn’t Rust already have an aliasing model? I...
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Online text to diagram tools (2020)
List of text to diagram tools
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The Deep Insights of Alan Kay
If you haven’t heard of Alan Kay you’ll likley have heard one of his many famous quotes, the most popular, likely his 1971 gem: The best …
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Hotspot performance engineering fails
Developers often believe that software performance follows a Pareto distribution: 80% of the running time is spent in 20% of the code. Using this model, you can write most of your code without any care for performance and focus on the narrow pieces of code that are performance sensitive. Engineers like Casey Muratori…
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How The Kernel Manages Your Memory
After examining the virtual address layout of a process, we turn to the kernel and its mechanisms for managing user memory. Here is gonzo again: Linux processes are implemented in the kernel as insta