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Why I Enjoy PostgreSQL – Infrastructure Engineer's Perspective
Why I enjoy PostgreSQL - Infrastructure Engineer's Perspective
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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Who Watches Watchmen? – Integrating Elixir Applications with Systemd
A lot of application use systems like Kubernetes for their deployment. In my humble opinion it is often overkill as system, that offers most of the stuff such thing provide, is already present in your OS. In this article I will try to present how to utilise the most popular system supervisor from Elixir applications.
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A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-dimensional cube
Make a square, split each side into two halves, producing four cells. Put a circle into each cell such that it fills it completely. There is a small gap right in the middle of the square. Put a circle there again such that it touches the other four circles. The central circle is obviously inside the square, right?…
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Work Somewhere Dysfunctional
The rewards are great if you can survive…
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Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell
Hello, I'm Sylvia. I like to hack on things.
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An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation
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Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)
I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.
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Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
My experience trying to learn Zig via Advent of Code.
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The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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Native American restaurants
Although there has been growing interest in exploring native foodways in the past twenty or so years, it seems there’s been little research into the history of Native American restaurants, that is,…
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Building a neural network in pure Lisp using only atoms and lists
A neural network written in pure Lisp without built-in numbers using only atoms and lists in SectorLISP, a 512-byte Lisp interpreter written by the authors of the SectorLISP project.
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How and why the Relational Model works for databases
This is a note on, the Turing Award laureate, Ted Codd’s revolutionary paper — A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. In this post, I will review the paper and add my comments with a perspective from modern distributed databases.
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Getting Started with Lockpicking
The basics: where to learn, what lock picks and practice locks to buy, where to get them, and resources, including how to find local regulations.
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DOS on Dope (2010)
DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts .
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The Color of Infinite Temperature
This is the color of something infinitely hot. Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible range. This…
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The Capital Sponge
January 16, 2022 Latest Article: The Importance of Price Signals This newsletter issue takes a look at the self-reinforcing cycle that stuffed excess global capital into the US stock market over the past 40 years (and especially the past decade) like a sponge soaking up water, along with an examination of catalysts…
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29-year-old Conway conjecture settled
Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo, a pair of researchers at the University of Turku in Finland, have found a finite configuration in Conway’s Game of Life such that, if it occurs within a universe a…
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Why Galesburg has no money
It's not the normal stories we tell ourselves, but a new analysis
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Rewatch: Stargate SG-1 (2019)
Stargate SG-1 is the best and most balanced series to have ever aired on television. Ok, so some of you who have followed me for a very long time are thinking, “He’s making the same mis…
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Are warp drives science now?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Google helps Scientology billionaire Bob Duggan hide a dark family secret (2015)
Recently, we told you that California pharmaceuticals entrepreneur Bob Duggan — a man currently worth $2.3 billion — had, through an agent, complained to Google about a story we wrote about him.
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Street Fighter II, Sound System Internals
This article is part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
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Who Uses To-Do Lists?
Successful people who use to-do lists and the boring takeaway.
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Rome: Decline and Fall Pt 1: Words
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2022121 points49 commentscited by 15History & Retro Computing details
This week we’re going to start tackling a complex and much debated question: ‘how bad was the fall of Rome (in the West)?’ This was the topic that won the vote among the patrons o…
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Protocols that have not changed in the last 30 years
Are you tired of heavy web pages, browser pop-ups, flashing banners, N-factor authentication, user tracking and analytics? Well, there are…