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Apple’s latest line of Macs includes their in-house “M1” system-on-chip, featuring a custom GPU. This poses a problem for those of us in the Asahi Linux project who wish to run Linux on our devices, as this custom Apple GPU has neither public documentation nor open source drivers. Some speculate it might descend from…
My stack will outlive yours
I started Gumroad in 2011. In 2015, we reached a peak of 23 full-time employees. In 2016, after failing to raise more money, I ended up back where I began: a one-person company.
A post describing a simple example how you can create your own manual error recovery solution based on what is used in RAID-6, in Python.
This post is for all of the miscellaneous features that arent large enough to get their own individual posts. If you havent read all of them, here are the links to the previous posts on recompilation , inspection , class … Read the rest
When a program is mostly just accessing memory randomly, a standard cost model is to count the number of distinct random accesses. The general idea is that memory access is much slower than most other computational tasks. Furthermore, the cost model can be extended to count "nearby" memory accesses as free. That is…
From Voltages to "Cadence, Output, and Resistance" TL;DR - I’ve decoded (most of) the protocol that the Peloton bike uses to communicate with its head unit tablet and built a device,...
I have been working at Facebook as a software engineer for a while now. During this time, I have got different inquiries from friends and…
In the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, John Connor uses a laptop to crack the PIN of a stolen debit card.
It is interesting that many people working with data have no clue about window functions in SQL. During a long period of time instead of using window functions, I preferred coding in Python and panda…
Welcome to the golden age of the product studio
I made a goal for myself in January 2020 to stop using Google products by the end of the year. That might sound like way too generous a timeline, but…
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How should you structure a larger engineering organization, one with dozens (or hundreds) of engineers? There are many tradeoffs to consider, and no single right answer. But, there are some structures that work better than others.
Doing social-good businesses better
Or, how to deploy 25+ CVEs to prod in one command!
I've come across the book System Design Interview: an Insider's Guide by accident (paperback book [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CMF2CQF], and online course [https://bytebytego.com/]). I was looking for good book resources after several people have been asking me how they can get better at building
The pandemic and vaccine rollout have highlighted where the West has lost its way; we need new defaults about information, change, and speed.
R, the free and open source program for statistical computing, poses a substantial threat to the reproducibility of published research. This post explains the problem and introduces a solution. The…
What connections are, how they affect our systems, and how and why pooling works.
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If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale and see if it can handle it! It sounds…
Two years ago, I did something that I’d never done in my career before- I left a job (at Nuro) only a few months after starting it. In this post, I want to explain what happened and what I learned from the experience.
