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A neat XOR trick
Looking over the solutions mega-thread , it seems like not many people discovered this trick; when I posted about it , people found it to be noteworthy.
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Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
I've decided to stop using dark mode across all of my devices, because research suggests that going to the dark side ain't all that.
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Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap
This technical guide details how you can create your own orthorectified (aka satellite view/bird mode) imagery, point clouds and 3D models of streets with nothing but a 360 degree camera mounted on bicycle helmet, and the open source photogrammetry software OpenDroneMap.
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Getting a Psion 5 palmtop from 1997 online via PPP (and a Raspberry Pi)
Creating the PiRS232 and playing with the Pi over serial has been leading towards an idea - I wanted to create a small, battery powered device, a sidecar that I could carry with my Psion and use as portable Linux terminal. I also managed to turn it into an Internet...
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VR robots are building railways in Japan
Could VR-powered humanoid robots be the future of heavy construction? Over the years we’ve seen a number of major corporations try their hands at marrying VR technology and robotics, from VR convenience store employees and a remote-controlled bomb squad bot to a rather unsettling headset that uses a robotic arm to…
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What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?
The old economic world may be leaving us, but its pathologies stubbornly remain.
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I found a bug in SQLite
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I introduced a high-performance write-path into rqlite and, to my great surprise, it exposed a bug in SQLite. The SQLite team quickly addressed the issue but let's take a look at the…
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Getting Started with Tmux
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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Vector Animations with Python (2014)
I am a big fan of Dave Whyte’s vector animations, like this one: It was generated using a special animation language called Processing (here is Dave …
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Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal
Pay more attention to people who are just a little bit ahead of you
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The GPT Architecture, on a Napkin
There are so many brilliant posts on GPT-3, demonstrating what it can do , pondering its consequences , vizualizing how it works . With all these out there, it still took a crawl through several papers and blogs before I was confident that I had grasped the architecture.
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New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors
Go 1.20, which is expected to be released in February 2023, comes with a small change that can possibly improve error handling in applications which heavily use …
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I started taking English classes at the age of 46
Finding a tutor despite already being fluent.
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Building a walking routine
The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from growth and decision-making to business, finance, startups, and technology. In addition, subscribers receive The Friday…
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Fuzzing ping(8) and finding a 24 year old bug
FreeBSD had a security fluctuation in their implementation of ping(8) the other day. As someone who has done a lot of work on ping(8) in OpenBSD this tickled my interests.
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Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
A use case for ChatGPT
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Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
What features would be in that spec? Partial page updates? Animated transitions? Layered interactions?
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Just use Postgres for everything
Replace Redis, MongoDB, Kafka & more with PostgreSQL. Reduce complexity, boost development speed. Complete guide with real examples.
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C23 Implications for C Libraries
The upcomming standard C23 has a lot of additions to the C library clause. Most of them are small, some of them are big but optional.
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World Cup Daily, Day 25
They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one.
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Scrum has failed the developers
But there’s a way out of the misery
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Uxn is a virtual machine with 32 instructions
By Devine Lu Linvega
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Delimiter-first code
A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better preserves visual structure and solves some issues in code formatting.
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Chrome, 10 Years Later
Reflecting on my work on Chrome.
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Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
This post is by Phil Price, not Andrew. I’ve had a run of luck ever since I left my staff scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to become a freelance consultant doing statistical modeling and forecasting, mostly related to electricity consumption and prices: just as I finished a contract, another one…
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ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman
I thought it would be interesting to see whether ChatGPT could solve some basic ciphers (Caesar, Vignere, etc.). I decided to start at the bottom, with perhaps the easiest possible cipher: rot13. I asked it to decode the rot-13 encoding of “Why did the chicken cross the road”: So the first thing to note here is that…