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The story of titanium
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,210 posts.
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Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
git branches: intuition & reality
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I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing
Update: 28 Nov 2023 Zen Internet and I have amicably parted ways over this matter. Their technical response has been added to this post.
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Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2020)
Daniel Kulesz's personal website
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Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Stacks
(New to this series? Consider starting from part 1) At the end of the last post, DbgRs could finally set breakpoints. That was the last really critical feature needed for controlling execution of a program. Now that it can stop on an arbitrary function or code location, the next step is to find more information about…
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning…
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Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down
I've decided to take the blog down. It's come to my attention some of my former colleagues don't enjoy it as much as I thought they would. N...
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test, [, and [[ (2020)
A little essay on the amusement or horror that may bring to learn that both test and [ are binaries on your typical Unix system, and that [[ is subject to completely different rules.
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Welding and the automation frontier
The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization, is the effect it will have on employment.
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My experience trying to write human-sounding articles using Claude AI
You can use AI tools like Claude to help you write full-length content. By going paragraph-by-paragraph, you can direct the AI while seemingly maintaining your own voice and ideas. However, despite my attempts to use AI with writing, I’ve found that it’s harder to pull off than I thought. I can get close, but due to…
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Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
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GitHub Renamed Me (2014)
Github Renamed Me - We will change your SSH keys and you will like it
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What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?
Little seems to have changed in CPU cores in M3 chips, if you read reviews. Dig a bit deeper and there are major changes, as explained here.
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How does Cave/Glade Generator Work
Watabou’s Cave Generator is one in a series of RPG-ready map generators that Watabou has created over the years. All his work oozes style, but the cave generator was always the one I found mo…
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YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB
2023-12-27—Ars Technica: YOYOZO wins GOTY accolade! almost unbelievable to be listed alongside such games as: Chants of Sennaar, Cocoon, Dave the Diver, Hu...
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Is it legal to mix cash in a jar? How is Bitcoin mixing any different?
Chris Blec asks the following question: Source: Twitter Chris's premise is that it is "not illegal" for him to get together with a bunch of ...
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I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
Did you hear the news? Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git . While the decision is far from being mine, and I was barely involved in the small incremental changes that ultimately led to this decision, I feel I have to take at least some responsibility. And if you are one of those who would rather use…
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Aerobic exercise is good for the brain; easy wins for behaviour change
mood, memory, education; five easy wins for behaviour change
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Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains
A railway running through the forests of west Germany is seeing a very unusual sight at the moment - as a Piccadilly line tube train is running through the area.
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How blogging is different from tweeting
Over the last few years I’ve gradually given up on Twitter. This has been a long term process because of how deeply my professional and intellectual life was embedded into the service. Not on…
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.NET Blazor
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
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My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up
Elon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship”
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OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend
Approximately four GPTs and seven years ago, OpenAI’s founders brought forth on this corporate landscape a new entity, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men might live…
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River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres
Introducing River, a Postgres-based job queue designed for resilience and correctness through strong transactional guarantees.
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Microsoft is eating the world
If OpenAI was a public company, it's stock would have been down about 38% today in a shocking turn of events.
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Knuth Airgaps and Knuth Buffers
Knuth knows how to maintain information hygeine.
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OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
The end of a dramatic weekend in tech is that OpenAI has split and Microsoft is partnered with one and has hired the other; this is the ultimate failure case of what should have been a for-profit c…