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FreeBSD Home Audio Studio
Another guest post by @NeoMoevius from Twitter. Same as earlier with the Native Urban Terror on FreeBSD article. This time it will be about setting up Home Audio Studio on a FreeBSD 13.1 system. Th…
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Effortless Performance Improvements in C++: std:unordered_map
This is the second post in the series about effortless performance improvements in C++. Check the first post to get the full story!
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ARM vs. Intel on Amazon’s Cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark
Twitter user opdroid1234 remarked that they are getting more performance out of the ARM nodes than out of the Intel nodes on Amazon's cloud (AWS). I found previously that the Graviton 3 processors had less bandwidth than comparable Intel systems. However, I have not done much in terms of raw compute power. The Intel…
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Creating Isometric RPG Game Backgrounds
Using Stable Diffusion techniques to create 2D game environments
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Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
VT220 TrueType font
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
In this series I'll be documenting my journey learning Nix and this first installment is more of a prequel. A common complaint when learning Nix is that the documentation "is not good", and I think what people mean by that is that the documentation is spread across several sources which may or may not be easy to find…
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You cannot have exactly-once delivery (2015)
I’m often surprised that people continually have fundamental misconceptions about how distributed systems behave. I myself shared many of these misconceptions, so I try not to demean or dismiss but rather educate and enlighten, hopefully while sounding less preachy than that just did. I continue to learn only by…
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I quit infosec and I couldn't be happier
This article aims at providing you some insights about the experience I had in the “infosec world” for the past few years. I had an amazing journey and grateful for everything that happened. Don’t get me wrong with the title, even if the road was sometimes “bumpy” (aka ‘bad’ experiences), I got some good lessons…
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What is Chess? What to think and for how long
Your knight for my pawn, and you have to take it.
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Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Bitwise Division
Integer division is expensive. Much more expensive than multiplication. Much, much more expensive than addition. If you’re trying to make some integer operations really fast it’s bad news if you need to do division.
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The Scaling Hypothesis
On GPT-3: meta-learning, scaling, implications, and deep theory. The scaling hypothesis: neural nets absorb data & compute, generalizing and becoming more Bayesian as problems get harder, manifesting new abilities even at trivial-by-global-standards-scale. The deep learning revolution has begun as foretold.
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How Duolingo reignited user growth
The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and their innovative growth model
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OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot
GPT4, the start of The Great Implementation, a move from Generative to Productive AI, OpenAI's safety & growth strategies, and the future of work.
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How SMS fraud works and how to guard against it
or why Twitter disabled SMS 2FA 💬
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Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022
Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that…
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Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution
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Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture
So we've landed on Mars, now we need somewhere to sit. It's pretty expensive to ship furniture from earth, so time to start building some chairs.
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What I Learned at Stripe
In February 2022, I left my job at Splunk to take some time first to relax then to focus on finding a fantastic next job . I managed to do both during my three months of funemployment, landing a job at Stripe in the Atlas team in May. I was laid off in November 2022, along with most people who were hired during this…
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Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (2004)
“Do The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work” – that’s what. Now, what does that mean?
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World Building with GPT
I’ve been doing lots of experiments with GPT , though I’ve only written about one until now… the more serious something is the harder it is to call it finished or identify the outcomes. Here I’ll describe something a bit lighter: world building, or specifically city building, with GPT .
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“Clean” code, horrible performance
Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.
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Git branches are named sequences of commits
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The Lone Developer Problem
If a single programmer builds something, it can be hard for others to maintain later.
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Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)
You are most likely familiar with AWS Lambda and Fargate — Amazon's serverless computing engines. At its nature, serverless computing introduces quite a challenging task requiring both tight security and great performance. For exactly that matter Amazon came up with its microVM solution called Firecracker .
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Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot
In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…
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The Camera-Shy Hoodie
A DIY wearable for avoiding recognition on IR security cameras.