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Why doesn't TypeScript properly type Object.keys?
A look at TypeScript’s structural type system, and we how we can effectively use it to our benefit.
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Common bugs in writing (2021)
Like almost all rules, there are cases where breaking them is a good idea and seasoned writers may well object with "but" responses for some of these. Thus, consider the rules below as mental rumble strips - you should probably slow down and think if you encounter these cases.
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How to Kill a Decentralised Network
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Go 1.21 will (probably) download newer toolchains on demand by default
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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Make your programs run faster by better using the data cache (2020)
We investigate how the data cache influences the performance of your program, talk about ways for you to write faster programs by better leveraging the data cache.
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Finally getting two's complement
A different view on two's complement math.
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Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC
I've spent most of the last decade exploring this area (mainly to design Vale 's memory safety) and I've discovered some surprising things .
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Removing official support for Red Hat enterprise Linux
For all of my open source projects, effective immediately, I am no longer going to maintain 'official' support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I will still support users of CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, and Alma Linux, as I am able to test against those targets. Support will be 'best effort', and if you mention you are…
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My ranking of every Shakespeare play
A few years ago I set out on a personal journey to study and watch a performance of each of Shakespeare’s 37 plays. I’ve reached my goal and, though it’s not a usual topic around here, I wanted to get my thoughts down while fresh. I absolutely loved some of these plays and performances, and so I’d like to highlight…
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SMS phishers harvested phone numbers, shipment data from UPS tracking tool
The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing (a.k.a. “smishing”) messages that spoofed UPS and other top brands. The missives addressed recipients by name, included details…
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Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
I've had a busy week, so I didn't have time until today to read this news about Red Hat locking down RHEL sources behind a Red Hat subscription. I repeat the title: Red Hat, are you dumb? When Red Hat decided to turn the community CentOS distribution into a leading-edge distro instead of basically "Red Hat Enterprise…
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Last week's Let's Encrypt downtime
How I detected that Let's Encrypt issued 645 non-compliant certificates
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Video Chess disassembled and commented
A fully commented disassembly of Video Chess
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Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business
Choosing the right markets and the pitfalls to avoid
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Apple Vision Pro – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movies on a Plane
Introduction Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) primarily covered the hardware. Over the next several articles, I plan to discuss the applications Apple (and others) sug…
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Coroutines make robot code easy
Our FIRST Robotics team struggled with autonomous code for years. Coroutines were the missing piece.
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Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune
Oh my… 2023 has been such a trek so far… If you have missed my previous article about my thoughts about editors and development platforms, I think it’s probably the moment to have a look at it.
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Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?
I received 3 DMCA takedown emails today, covering 7350 URLs on my hardbin.com IPFS gateway. The URLs were allegedly serving infringing copies of books. The strange part is that of those 7350 URLs, during the time for which I have nginx logs, none of them have ever been accessed , and of the ones that I checked, none…
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[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake”
This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team o…
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Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)
If you don’t give money its purpose, it will end up defining yours.
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Maps distort how we see the world
30 Maps to Rethink the World
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Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction
Large language models are valuable research assistants, especially when they refuse to follow instructions.
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Handles are the better pointers (2018)
28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter
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How RLHF Works
Why RLHF may still win out and why we haven't seen it yet in open-source.
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Cookie Clicker saved my PhD
Or, how I cookie-clicked my way to a doctorate in interaction design. It’s been 5 years since I finished my Ph.D. on user interfaces for machine learning. To celebrate/commiserate, I’m sharing an u…
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