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A report on exercise and sleep (2021)
News outlets broadly got the message right, but not sure about some of the numbers.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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The perils of the “real” client IP
This post ended up being incredibly long comprehensive. I’m afraid that many people won’t read enough to get everything that’s important, so here are the key points:
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Self-host your static assets (2019)
Why is it so much better to self-host your static assets?
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Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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Building a web app with no framework
Is it as hard as you think?
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under python , tech , coding , damn-cool-algorithms
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A 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger
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Go’s major versioning sucks – From a fanboy
I'm normally a fan of the rigidity within the Go toolchain
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The “agencies of one” storm is coming
Since a long time ago, companies hire agencies for help in design, accounting, social media management… you name it. While this was happening for a long time and is now considered the norm, t…
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My journey for dual displays with my M1 Pro Mac (2021)
After numerous failed attempts at dual 4K monitors for my M1 Pro Mac, I finally found a winning combination. Read all about the journey here.
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The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name
Not only is it poorly drafted with better alternatives available, but “Unlicensed” means the precise opposite of “unlicensed”.
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How the weak can win – A primer on protracted war
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2022316 points285 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
Thanks to our volunteer narrator, this post is now available in audio format. This week, in an effort to fill in some of the theoretical basis for thinking about how weaker powers think about fight…
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My New Old Macintosh SE/30 Computer
Acquiring and tricking out a 1989 Apple Macintosh SE/30, the greatest Mac of all time
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The war on gifted education
Why the landslide loss for San Francisco's school board is a victory for American meritocracy
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How I See Numbers
Please see the associated Hacker News comments for some interesting discussion related to this article.
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Moving money internationally
SWIFT operates a messaging protocol which ties banks together with correspondent banks. This collaboration enables most international wires.
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The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
Java was originally touted as "the killer" desktop language, but the early 2000's saw steady march towards obscurity.
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MLOps is a mess but that's to be expected
I discuss the messy state of MLOps today and how we are still in the early phases of a broader transformation to bring machine learning value to enterprises globally.
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Parsing bitstreams with Nom
How to use Nom to parse binary protocols at the level of individual bits
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Single binary executable packages
In support of software packages that come in the form of a single binary executable (statically linked or portable), that one can just copy anywhere in `${PATH}` and execute, without needing `sudo`, or downloading half the distribution's packages as dependencies.
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SPAs Were a Mistake
For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site or app lives in a single HTML file. After the initial load, everything about the app is handled with JavaScript. This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps…
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P. J. O'Rourke, 1947-2022
Brilliant writer, beautiful soul
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Hugo is awesome, its documentation is not
This site is built using the Hugo static site generator. Hugo is awesome. Its documentation is not. That is my personal opinion :) This post explains why I find the existing documentation so frustrating and how it could be improved.