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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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Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser which tracks user behaviour on websites.
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A statement on online course content and accessibility
UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Cathy Koshland issued a statement today in response to federal findings on the accessibility of online course content and lectures.
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Fire the workaholics (2008)
Jason Calacanis wants you to save money for your startup, so he has come up with 17 tips on how. The intention is good. Working lean is great and means you probably won’t need outside money. And there’s some good stuff, like don’t buy Microsoft Office and skip the phone system. Bu…
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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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Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
Go 1.22 adds math/rand/v2 and charts a course for the evolution of the Go standard library.
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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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Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientDB, Neo4j and ArangoDB
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
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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?”
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A Day in the Life of Americans
I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.
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Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
Welcome! This is a series of blog posts that shows you how to build a text editor in Rust.