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Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin
Back in 2020, Hal Hickel answered a Quora question with great detail about how we created Grand Moff Tarkin for "Rogue One" (2016), and in t...
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Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?
Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking? Does running burn less calories per distance traveled than wa...
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Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool
Like the blip of an intro on the front page says, my degree was originally in music. My running joke as a web dev is that neither has meaningfully required me to count past 32. And while my main concentration was vocals, I've since realized I should probably stop strictly calling this a nontechnical field, because my…
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Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils
Over the last 18 months, I've taken the time to create 108 short YouTube videos that summarize all of the commands that are found in the Coreutils Package . These videos focus mostly on Coreutils v8.3, but also included are a few commands from v9.0 as well. For each of the blog posts, I've adapted and modified the…
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Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
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Intel's Immiseration
The long, seemingly inevitable decline of an icon
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Hacking a Virtual Power Plant
I recently had solar panels and a battery storage system from GivEnergy installed at my house. A major selling point for me was that they have a local network API which can be used to monitor and…
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Do quests, not goals
South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to...
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How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis
When do music stars achieve fame, and how long does fame typically last?
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Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web
It's better to do it yourself.
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I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
Dmitry.GR: Everything you ever dreamed the RP2040 would be is here - fall in love with the RP2350
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The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)
Cutting out the news has been one of the best lifestyle decisions I've made in recent years, second only to cutting out social media (though the two are not mutually exclusive). Reducing my intake of what is essentially junk information has significantly reduced anxiety and worry in my day to day life, and has freed…
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The Third Atomic Bomb
After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US Army Air Force had plans to drop a third bomb on August 19, 1945—with more to come if necessary. Fat Man bomb casing at the USAF Museum
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Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out
When you launch an app, macOS connects to Apple's OCSP service to check whether the app's Developer ID code signing certificate has been revoked by Apple. In November 2020, Apple's OCSP service experienced a mass outage , preventing Mac users worldwide from launching apps. In response and remedy to this outage, Apple…
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Imagining a personal data pipeline
I've been thinking a lot about personal data lately: where it's stored, how to extract it, and what to do with it. Here's where I landed.
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Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy: A game save and RCE exploit for the Tony Hawk game series that can be used to hack Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox 360 consoles.
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Zen5's AVX512 Teardown and More
This article was supposed to be published all at once on July 30'th. But because of the staggered launch delay into August 8 and 15, some sections of this article were redacted until August 14th.
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How Uber tests payments in production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
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Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux
My experience with moving from Mac to Linux for professional UX and UI design work and how to make the switch yourself.
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MNT Pocket Reform first impressions and hardware
Initial experiences with the MNT Pocket Reform, primarily the hardware (and tinkering!)
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How French Drains Work
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February of 2017, one of the largest spillways in the world, the one at Oroville Dam in northern California, was severely damaged during releases from heavy rain. You might remember this. I made a video about it, and then ano
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How to let go: Jake's life ends as his daughter's begins
“How to let go: one life ends while another begins. I’m seven months pregnant with our daughter as Jake’s life comes to a close. How do I walk into an uncertain future without him…
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Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
Back in Dec 2022, when inflation was running high, I built a website for tracking price changes in the three largest supermarkets of my home country, Greece.
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Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap
Exploring different ways to make sense of OpenStreetMap data.
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VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003)
Peter Jennings early history of VisiCalc
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Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down
We build complex mathematical formulas bottom-up using pure lambda calculus. Includes instructions of how to translate Taylor series and other approximations to lambda terms.
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