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“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,208 posts.
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ElixirNitpicks
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark
The Danish DPA issues an injunction in the Chromebook case
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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not pro -monopoly – they're just realists who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the…
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Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres
There's no official support for system-versioned tables in Postgres yet, and the temporal extensions aren't supported on Azure/AWS/GCP. Let's implement it ourselves with 3 triggers and an index.
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The power of two random choices
In many large-scale web services, multiple layers of stateless and stateful services are seperated by load balancers. Load balancing can be done with dedicated hardware, with dedicated software load balancers, using DNS trickery or through a load-balancing mechanism in the client. In large systems, the resources and…
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Demystifying GPU compute architectures
Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs
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Dean of Engineering at University of Nevada wrote a paper that’s bad
“As we look to sleep and neuroscience for answers we can study flies specifically the Drosophila melanogaster we highlight in our research.”
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What happened with the Web Monetization API?
I was pretty hot on it for a minute. I wanted it to succeed and thought it had the bones to make it. Coil was the main startup trying to push it. They did the right thing by just making it work fir…
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The Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro is a disappointment for productivity, in part because of choices made to deliver a remarkable entertainment experience. Plus, the future of AR/VR for Apple and Meta.
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Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009)
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
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Billion file filesystem
For a lark I made an ext4 file system with a billion empty files. https://gitlab.com/larswirzenius/create-empty-files has the program I wrote for this. I've done this before , but this time I made it a little simpler for me to do it again: everything in one Rust program rather than clunky scripts.
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We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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JVM Performance Comparison for JDK 21
The current article describes a series of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) benchmarks with a primary focus on top-tier Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers, such as C2 JIT, and Graal JIT. The benchmarks are structured in three distinct (artificial) categories:
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Vision 1993
I’ve plowed through the first wave of AVP (Apple Vision Pro) reviews, and it seems pretty obvious that, at the current price and form factor, it’s not gonna be a best-seller. But I remain a strong believer in Augmented Reality (the AVP is VR not AR, for the moment). As I was diving into the reviews, a little voice in…
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Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks
[UPDATE Since this was posted in 2024 : Major US telcos like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have suffered a months-long breach (the ongoing Salt Typhoon attack). These companies, of course, pass along the unencrypted SMSes vital to countless log in flows, account re-activations, and password resets. They are now known to…
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Want to build a sequencer? 454.bio opens up their plans
Just as the AGBT hype cycle was firing up (with me contributing multiple sparks), serial entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg's latest sequencing ...
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How does Sidekiq really work?
An investigation into the internals of Sidekiq, one of the most popular Ruby background job processors.
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UUID Benchmark War
This month’s PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let’s have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have deci…
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Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
An english translation of Edsger W. Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
Musings on Hofstadter’s phenomenal book about computation, consciousness, and epistemology.
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Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
A deep dive into the internals of a small transformer model to learn how it turns self-attention calculations into accurate predictions for the next token.
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.
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Write code for the web
The story is personal, but I hope readers find something they can relate to in their own life stream.