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They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken
They Might Never Tell You It's Broken
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 809 posts.
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Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving
Dynamic programming has a reputation as a technique you learn in school, then only use to pass interviews at software companies. Indeed, most developers do not regularly work on problems where dynamic programming is needed. Ultimately, dynamic programming is a technique for efficiently solving problems that can be…
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Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers
The blog of Tyler Ward (aka scorpia)2019401 points300 commentscited by 3Hardware & Electronics details
The new pi has been released and it has a USB Type-C connector for power however people are finding some chargers are not working with it (notably macbook chargers). Some have speculated that this is due to a manufacturer limitation on the power supplies however it is actually due to the incorrect detection circuitry…
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PureOS is convergent
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified
Stanford scientists devised a blood-based test that accurately identified people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a new study reports.
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China
We removed seven Pages, three Groups and five Facebook accounts as part of a small network that originated in China and focused on Hong Kong.
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My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
<p>For years I’ve noodled around with various setups for a Python development environment. A couple of years ago <a href="https://jacobian.org/2018/feb/21/python-environment-2018/">I wrote about a setup I finally liked</a>; this is an update to that post.</p> <p>Bad news: this stuff still isn’t stable, and…
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An update on Sunday’s service disruption
Yesterday, a disruption in Google’s network in parts of the United States caused slow performance and elevated error rates on several Google services, including Google Cloud Platform, YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive and others. Because the disruption reduced regional network capacity, the worldwide user impact varied…
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Simpson’s Paradox (2016)
A riveting tale of how good data can lead to bad decisions.
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How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb
How to Find Hidden Cameras in your AirBNB, Author: Johannes Ullrich
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SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year
The Serenity operating system turns 1 year old today. I'm counting from the first commit in the git repository , on October 10, 2018. Parts of the code had been around for a while before that, so this first commit was really about putting everything I was tinkering with into a shared repo.
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax
This is an announcement regarding the resolution of the syntax for the await operator in Rust. This is one of the last major unresolved questions blocking the stabilization of the async/await feature, a feature which will enable many more people to write non-blocking network services in Rust. This post contains…
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Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company
David analyzes the root causes of the Boeing 737 Max crash. Read here.
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Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
There’s a lot of fantastic research into 2D graphics rendering these days. Petr Kobalicek and Fabian Yzerman have been working on Blend2D , one of the fastest and most accurate CPU rasterizers on the market, with a novel JIT approach. Patrick Walton of Mozilla has explored not just one, but three separate approaches…
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Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth…
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Firefox moving to 4 week releases
Building and releasing a browser is complicated and involves many players. To optimize the process, and make it more reliable for all users, over the years we’ve developed a phased ...
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Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is
This blog post is one of those things that just blew up. From a tiny observation at work about odd behaviors of spinlocks I spent months trying to find good benchmarks, (still not entirely successf…
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FoundationDB Record Layer
Today, we are excited to announce the open source release of the FoundationDB Record Layer!
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How to get your first ten customers (2013)
Preface: the assumption for this essay is that you’re building a B2B app, and you have something built but you’re having trouble getting people to pay for
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Classes vs. Data Structures
Or rather, an object is a set of functions that operate on implied data elements.
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Micro Frontends
How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps.
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JMAP: A modern, open email protocol
The new JMAP email protocol provides a modern, efficient, easy-to-use API, built on many years of experience and field testing.
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On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
Posted by Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang, Research Engineers, Google Research The ability to perceive the shape and motion of hands can be a v...
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Why Julia
it's faster than other scripting languages, allowing you to have the rapid development of Python/MATLAB/R while producing code that is as fast as C/Fortran
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Thunderbird 68.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Adventures in Netflix
I’ve been watching a buttload of 40s movies over the past few months, and I was thinking about watching something really modern next. And then it occurred to me: How about if I watch all R…
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Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering
I'm currently working on a logging project that was initially implemented using AWS Elasticsearch. Having worked with large-scale mainline Elasticsearch clusters for several years, I'm absolutely stunned at how poor Amazon's implementation is and I can't fathom why they're unable to fix or at least improve it. I…