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Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,290 posts.
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Be prolific
Produce lots of stuff and share it.
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PHP 8: Before and After
The impact of PHP 8 on my code
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My Life Countdown (2007)
When I was about 29 years old I got a spiritual “assignment” on an Easter morning in the old city of Jerusalem. According to this assignment my job was to live as if I had only 6 months left to … Continue reading →
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Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)
Learn the shape of the logs of probability distributions, and you’ll be able to guess how they behave.
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Whose Computer Is It?
Patrick Wardle highlighted a tweet by Maxwell (" Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps. Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders you have running "), sparking an extensive HN discussion on Apple's ham-fisted tactics (not unlike…
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A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication
What does matrix multiplication mean? Here's a few common intuitions: This is useful when first learning about vectors: vectors go in, new ones come out.…
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AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections
One of my services was running into timeouts, because connections were being reset by clients. I had assumed that it couldn't be the Network Load Balancers (NLB
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Google Antitrust Notes
I just read the US antitrust “Complaint” against Google. This is obviously just the first chapter of a very long story, but here are early observations.
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Notes on My Colon Cancer
My bout with colon cancer at age 34 in 2020
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Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job
tl;dr Developers over-optimise for the egonomics of typing and not enough for the egronomics of thinking.
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Attempts to make Python fast
Posted on Hacker News there was an Implementation Plan for making CPython (the official Python implementation) faster. The author claims a 5x speedup is possible for the low cost of $2 million USD.
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United States vs. Google
The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, and if it fails it gives a template for Congressional action.
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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
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Localisation is too hard for Gmail
/ləʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The ability to adjust a user-interface to the user's local language or dialect Because I live in the UK, I speak en_GB (English, Great Britain) rather than en_US (English, Simplified United States). Mostly, all dialects of English are mutually intelligible. Sure, the Brits love the letter U and…
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Cloudflare Analytics review
Cloudflare Analytics is a brand new player on the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative market. Here’s my Cloudflare Analytics review.
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I enforced the AGPL on my code
Published: 20-10-2020 | Last update: 28-02-2022 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)
I’ve come to the conclusion that, for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit. In short, they can be used to nicely augment working with SQL in a program, but they should not replace it.
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Julia GPU
Lambdaclass's blog about distributed systems, machine learning, compilers, operating systems, security and cryptography.
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My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
I’ve become increasingly disgruntled at the state of hiring, and now I’m mad enough to write this blog post.
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AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has a massive asset
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My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
My journey to create a YouTube of memories from my family’s old home videos.
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Fast UTF-8 validation
One of the most common "data type" in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array of characters. It is often a "good enough" approximation, but reality is more complex. The characters must be encoded into bits in some way. Most ……
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Just Write the Parser
Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.
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The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance
Why TOAST is the best thing since sliced bread
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Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust
I've been using zig for ~4 months worth of side projects, including a toy text editor and an interpreter for a relational language . I've written ~10kloc.
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Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
Why models always get better when they are bigger and deeper, even when the amount of data they consume stays the same or gets smaller.