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Let me repeat that back to you
Two-phase commit for humans
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Was BASIC that horrible or better?
Everything was fine until BASIC entered the picture. Edsger Dijkstra in a hallucination of 2023’s AI Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo Da Vinci It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally…
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How Pinterest scaled
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply
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How Many People? Ancient Demography
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023121 points5 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach t…
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Having a game I'm into makes every day enjoyable
About a month ago, I became hooked on mahjong, the ultimate game. It’s a bit late in my life to start, but that’s how it is. In the past, I might have thought, “Playing games like this would be ruinous, leading to personal downfall.” But now, as I’ve grown older, I’ve stopped worrying about these
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How big is YouTube?
How big is YouTube? It's not easy to find out, but we did two years of research and figured out how...
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Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database
A recent UK Channel 4 TV programme talked about the recent decline in quality of food: YouTube Channel 4
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Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care
The database zeitgeist has decided that ANSI SQL '92 isn't enough. We need something better.
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The Hyperloop was always a scam
It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere
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Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash
Blue Scuti made history, breaking NES Tetris in a way that was previously only theoretical. Here is a glimpse into the what, who, and how.
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How to make LLMs go fast
Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects
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Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient
TL;DR: I think that a focus on memory safe languages (MSLs) versus non memory-safe languages is a bit of a red herring. The actual distinction is slightly…
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SSH over HTTPS
Tl;DR: to pass SSH through HTTPS you need to tweak client and server sides as the following:
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What We Need Instead of "Web Components"
Stop trying to make customElement happen. Do this instead.
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What I wish someone had told me
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are...
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Do you really need foreign keys?
Foreign keys are a bit like that well-intentioned friend who insists on double-checking everything you do. They’re often recommended as a must-have for enforcing referential integrity checks in your database.
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Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
苹果公司自诩为用户隐私的捍卫者，然而这并非事实。 在近十年的时间里，苹果允许应用程序具备跟踪用户位置的能力，而不提供关闭此功能或引起用户对此的关注的选项。 而且这是「只有苹果可以做到的」（Only Apple Can Do）！
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eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection
This is the first post of a many planned to shed light on the various networking techniques eBPF makes available to a Linux network developer.
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US homelessness up 12% from 2022, hits highest level since 2007
A data-driven examination of the 12% increase in US homelessness, the structural causes behind the numbers, and what the data tells us about housing policy failures.
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Stratechery Year in Review
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2023.
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Looking into the Stadia Controller Bluetooth Mode Website
With the end of Google's Stadia platform on January 18, 2023, Google published a website allowing people to "Switch the Stadia Controller ...
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Software audio routers
Wherein Application Audio Is Routed Between Isolated Programs by Virtual Cables, and Streamer-Focused Solutions Are Observed to Have Eased Tedious Setup, While macOS and Windows Tools Such as BlackHole and VB Audio Are Catalogued.
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Code Is Not Technical Debt
Someone is wrong on the Internet; he said that all code is technical debt, and I refute that.
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OpenAI Begins Tackling ChatGPT Data Leak Vulnerability
OpenAI seems to have implemented some mitigation steps for a well-known data exfiltration vulnerability in ChatGPT. Attackers can use image markdown rendering …
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The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it ...
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Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
Hi, I’m Varun. I have a server in my room. Actually, I have two of them. And I write a ton of my own code for them. And I love it. This is a story documenting my homelab’s quiet beginnings, its spiralling evolution, and its uncertain future.