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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
I try not to write anything even vaguely political on this blog because we have a variety of views on a variety of subjects and no one is ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)
One of the first things any Rust programmer learns is that you can’t pass an object and a reference to that object around at the same time. It’s impossible to do, even indirectly. This limitation has been the subject of countless questions on Stack Overflow and posts on Reddit and the Rust forums and anywhere else…
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Things that aren't doing the thing
Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
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Mag Wealth (2024)
Mag World: an intuitive sense of scale, using orders of magnitude
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Weighting an average to minimize variance
How would you allocate money to a set of independent assets with to minimize volatility if some assets are more volatile than others?
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Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
A short review and troubleshooting guide.
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My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
a slow progression
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Messing with scraper bots
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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TCP, the workhorse of the internet
What is TCP? This post is an exploration of TCP, the workhorse of the internet. This deep dive includes detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough. A simple TCP explanation.
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Designing a Language (2017)
Of course you want to design (and implement!) your own programming language! It’s fun. It’s creative. It’s empowering.
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I can't recommend Grafana anymore
The Grafana Stack can be an incredible powerful monitoring solution, but through my experience I found out how maintenance intensive it is and how uncertain the…
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I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector
written by - Akshat Joshi Sometime back, I set myself a crazy constraint: Load only one thing at boot - A Pong game that fits in one floppy disk sector — 512 bytes. Why would I build this? I have played with Operating Systems and their workings by customizing them and tweaking their
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Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1
The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should be, is a box that runs Linux and can compete with at least an Apple M1 Mac mini, or a mid-range Mini PC. But what we got... is something…
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Being poor vs. being broke
The more I speak about being poor, the more I realize how fundamentally other folks misunderstand what it means to be poor versus being broke.
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Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable
A modest mathematical framing of language
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AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
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V8 Garbage Collector
wingolog: article: the last couple years in v8's garbage collector
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RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries
Stop deploying broken SQL queries. RegreSQL provides regression testing for PostgreSQL queries with performance baselines and automated warnings.
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Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models"
Gaussian splats, SIMA 2, JEPA and Genie 3 — and why “world model” now means three very different things at once.
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How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
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Needy Programs
We used to use software; now software started to use us
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IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
IBM Slapped the Buzzwords 'AI Interpretability' on Generalized Continued Fractions and their Series Transformations and was awarded a Patent
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The Eggstraordinary Fortress
It began, as many thought exercises do, with a discussion in the kitchen. My wife and I were debating whether a cooked egg was still safe to eat after spending the night on the kitchen counter. I am certainly not the type to throw away food lightly at the lightest hint of an issue. Confidently, I told her the egg…
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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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The Monks in the Casino
A brief theory of young men, "the loneliness crisis," and life in the 21st century
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How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one
Also: World League Basketball
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How To Build A Smartwatch: Software
PebbleOS, mobile app, SDK improvements and more!
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Heartbeats in Distributed Systems
In distributed systems, one of the fundamental challenges is knowing whether a node or service is alive and functioning properly. Unlike monolithic applications, where everything runs in a single process, distributed systems span multiple machines, networks, and data centers. This becomes even glaring when the nodes…