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Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,211 posts.
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The design thinking movement is absurd (2018)
Have you ever heard of Design Thinking?
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Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
[I’ve added an update after watching the announcement.]
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Data diffs: Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset (2022)
tl;dr: part 1 explains what an explanation algorithm is, and part 2 describes an open source SQL data differ.
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It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
I'm traveling back in time to explore an ancient development workflow that is somehow more modern than today's workflows.
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Exway doesn't care about USB-C conformity
Eric Park's website
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TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids
Oops, I think I just turned the legendary personal wiki system into an offline-first, installable, encrypted, synchronized Progressive Web App
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“It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (2019)
You had things running with occasional glitches and there was always an excuse “It works in my machine” as there is rarely identical…
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How to build toxic software teams
To build a toxic team, you must inject poison early and often
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Visualizing every job in the world
A visualization of every single job in the world (or at least in the EU)
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How MOS 6502 illegal opcodes work
The original NMOS version of the MOS 6502, used in computers like the Commodore 64, the Apple II and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), is well-known for its illegal opcodes: Out of 256 possible opcodes, 151 are defined by the architecture, but many of the remaining 105 undefined opcodes do…
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TeamTopologies
A model that helps people design effective teams for software development.
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Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning
Here, I provide an in-depth analysis of GPUs for deep learning/machine learning and explain what is the best GPU for your use-case and budget.
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Treemaps are awesome
An alternative to pprint for generically visualizing heterogeneous, hierarchical data
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Hyperlink maximalism (2022)
I’m a hyperlink maximalist: everything should be a hyperlink , including everything that is hyperlinked by the author, everything that isn’t hyperlinked by the author, and perhaps even the hyperlinks themselves. Words should be hyperlinked, but so should be every interesting phrase, quote, name, proper noun…
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Unicode is harder than you think
Rants, experiments and experiences collected while delving into the magical world of computers.
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Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow
How the computer killed capitalism.
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At this company, we are family
As I shared at our last family meeting, current economic conditions have forced family leadership to make many difficult decisions. I myself have reduced my golf outings to every other week, and you, undoubtedly, noticed that your mother’s car is no longer the current model year. Unfortunately, even these deep cuts…
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Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions.A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price dat...
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We're not Platonists, we've just learned the bitter lesson
Machine Alignment Monday, 7/24/23
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What we know about LLMs
~Will Thompson's personal website~
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The Internet Free Zone (1997)
The Internet Free Zone Home Page.
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From Python to Elixir Machine Learning
Moving on from Python Machine Learning might seem impossible. Let me break down why and how you can do it.
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Practical comparison of ARM compilers
My inspiration for this article was this thread in r/embedded . There are still many myths and misconception when it comes to the simple questions "Which compiler should I use?" or "Which compiler is the best?". I will try to share my practical experience with GCC, Clang and IAR on Cortex-M ( and Cortex-M only ). This…
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20 Years of Programming (2020)
I’m not sure of the exact date, but 20 years ago, around now, I started my first professional programming job. It’s weird to think about having done anything for 20 years. That’s as long as all my schooling put together.
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Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013)
Remembering the retro-futuristic voyeur bar that was way ahead of it's time.