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So You Want to Write Your Own CSV code
So You Want To Write Your Own CSV code? Fields separated by commas and rows separated by newline. Easy right? You can write the code yourself in just a few lines.
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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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Training GPT-2 to Play Chess
Almost 25 years after Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, another seminal man vs. machine matchup: Neither competitor has much to be proud of here. White has a poor opening. Black screws up and loses his queen…
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Phishing attack against Lastpass
Updated 2016-02-04 : LastPass has removed the button from notifications and now requires email confirmation for all logins from new IPs . This substantially mitigates LostPass, but does not eliminate it.
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Corporate Socialism: The Government Is Bailing Out Investors and Not You
(With Mark Spitznagel)
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Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop
This is the fastest Arm desktop in the world, yes, even faster than the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. And today, I made it even faster. I upgraded everything: Faster RAM, 128 core CPU, 40 series GPU, I did it all, and we'll see how much we can obliterate the M2 Mac Pro. 128 cores—that's five times more cores, I'm also going to…
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Emergent abilities of large language models
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Rust's Golden Rule
I find myself thinking about a particular design principle of Rust today. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it named specifically before, but it gets referred to from…
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Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring
On Wednesday afternoon I received a thoughtful email from Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller regarding Ninjawords and the App Store, and I think it bodes well.
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AI solves Advent of Code 2022
I will try to solve all of the advent of code with as little human input as possible
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QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format
Audio formats typically fall into one of three categories: “lossless” , “complicated” or “bad” . After developing a simple image format last year, I tried to come up with an audio format that fits neither of these categories.
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Self-Enforcing Protocols
There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way is to find someone impartial to do it for them. This works, but it requires another person. Another way is for one person to divide the piece, and the other person to complain (to the police, a judge, or his parents) if he doesn’t think it’s…
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Cross-Site Request Forgery
Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures can be greatly simplified using request metadata provided by modern browsers.
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Talking to God
Why bother? Because you want to change the world!
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Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week
A weblog about politics, technology, and culture
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What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
An epic tale of deception, stolen artwork, and crappy logos
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A Path to Enlightenment in Programming Language Theory
Learning about Programming Language Theory can be a tough journey, particularly for programming practitioners who haven’t studied it formally. This resource is here to help. Please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for improvement.
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Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
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Running Rust on the Rumprun Unikernel
The Rust programming language has been able to run on bare-metal without the standard library for quite some while now. However, most Rust applications depend on the std crate, and therefore still need a full operating system to run.
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There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
One way to measure the magnitude of a bank's failure is by the amount of assets the bank held. At the time it failed, SVB's collapse was the second largest American bank failure of all time, and the largest since 2008.
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System design implications of declining network latency vs. disk latency
Hardware performance “obviously” affects software performance and affects how software is optimized. For example, the fact that caches are multiple orders of magnitude faster than RAM means that blocked array accesses give better performance than repeatedly striding through an array.
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Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
Published: 18-09-2014 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages (2020)
“If the Black Death caused the Renaissance, will COVID also create a golden age?”