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Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (2019)
There’s an inspection called “Code contains easter egg” that comes with Android Studio. This one:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero
BYOPM is a self hosted portable Password Manager implementation based on BitWarden and Raspberry PI Zero.
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Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell
This article covers a gentle introduction to the shell nushell
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Fuzzy Metaballs: Approximate differentiable rendering with algebraic surfaces
Shape From Silhouette Reconstruction from a short cell phone video, showing reconstructed masks.
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Advice that worked for me
A big fan of advice posts and productivity guides, here's my contribution to the genre.
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Housing in Tokyo is cheaper and more spacious than people think
It's myth-busting time! The world's richest and largest city is cheaper and roomier than you think.
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Visualizing Diffs: The Myers difference algorithm (2020)
In 1986, Eugene Myers published An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations , which unified the problems of finding the longest common subsequence of two sequences (the LCS of "driftwood" and "artwork" is "two") and finding the shortest edit script for transforming one sequence into another. Myers showed that…
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I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
I take a severely underpowered computer and make it do something useful.
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SMS Multifactor Authentication in Antarctica
Issues pertaining to SMS (for multifactor auth) in Antarctica.
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The McMurdo Wastewater Treatment Plant
Sweet, sweet humidity.
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Meta Myths
Meta deserves a bit of a discount off of its recent highs, but a number of myths about its business have caused the market to over-react.
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I’m taking some time away from Comma
I’m taking some time away from comma. In some ways, I feel like it’s all planned out, it only remains to see if it works or not. I rewatched my first Lex Fridman and realized I hadn’t said much new on the self driving front for the past couple years. My two part blog post from 2019 remains a true description of the…
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Mailbag: Sausage Men
I haven't done a mailbag for a long time, but this is a common enough question that I thought I'd explain my thinking here. ...
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Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading.
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RIPE meetings: IP addresses as spoils of war
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Wii U Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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Why is symmetry so important in particle physics?
Faizan Muhmmad is a Software Engineer at Google
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If one GUI's not enough for your SPARC workstation, try four
Who needs a jack-o-lantern when you've got a bright orange gas plasma display? This is a 1990 Solbourne Computer S3000 all-in-one workst...
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Reversible and irreversible decisions (2018)
When decisions are reversible, speed them up. The biggest risk is dragging your feet. When decisions are irreversible, slow them down. The biggest risk is making the wrong decision.
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Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
FROM BEING A WASTE TO THE BATHER AND COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING IT BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLICK
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Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens
So, there you are, the proud parents of a beautiful new baby, and you can hardly contain your excitement as you unwrap that new 35mm camera kit you bought to document your child’s early years. Although you’ve had a point-and-shoot camera for a while, you wanted to step up to a “real” camera for the kind of quality…
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An Apple II Tale
I’ve been an active IRC users for nearly 25 years now, and for many of those years I was a denizen of the #a2c.chat channel on the irc.a2central.com IRC server. (IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, a channel-based internet text … Continue reading →
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Things your manager might not know (2021)
Things your manager might not know
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Childhood toys: 40 years on 2-XL works just fine
Sitting and literally gathering dust on a shelf has been my childhood 2-XL toy . A few years ago I turned it on and it seemed to work but th...
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Lil: A Scripting Language
Lil is part of the technology that powers Decker , a multimedia creative tool inspired by HyperCard . Decker uses Lil for adding custom behavior to decks and the widgets within. Lil is designed to be learned in layers, but it is a richly multi-paradigm language which incorporates ideas from imperative, functional…
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Michael Crichton’s and John Grisham’s ambition types
By his last year at Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton, 26-years old at the time, knew he didn’t want to pursue a medical career, so ... Read more