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Ethics in Geo
Doing good and not bad
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,290 posts.
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Reverse Engineering the Comtech AHA363 PCIe Gzip Accelerator Board
All this work was done in November last year. I haven’t worked on it since, but others have shown interest in picking this up, so it’s about time this gets thrown out in the open.
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Maersk, Me and NotPetya
Maersk is the world’s largest integrated shipping and container logistics company.
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Video Games Are the Future of Education
The best educational experiences I had as a teenager were all video games.
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Tensorflow on edge, or – Building a “smart” security camera with a Raspberry Pi
The amount of time my outdoor cameras are being set off by light, wind, cars, or anything other than a human is insane. Overly cautious security cameras might be a feature, but an annoying one at that...
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Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure” released
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Being Alone
A reflection on loneliness, solitude, and the relationship we form with ourselves.
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Twenty Proofs of Euler's Formula: V-E+F=2
Many theorems in mathematics are important enough that they have been proved repeatedly in surprisingly many different ways. Examples of this include the existence of infinitely many prime numbers , the evaluation of \(\zeta(2)\), the fundamental theorem of algebra (polynomials have roots), quadratic reciprocity (a…
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Wireless Is a Trap
Over and over again, I’ve seen people fix some wireless-related problem and go “wow, I had no idea how much better this could be!" • Wireless protocols often silently operate in an extremely degraded state that makes them substantially worse than wired equivalents.
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Why Figma Wins
Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its existential impact on a company’s trajectory…
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The Art of the Possible
Ever since the story broke , I’ve had one overriding thought about the Hey.com App Store rejection controversy. It’s a point I’ve already tried to make on a recent episode of ATP and on Twitter . Before WWDC arrives with its own wave of Apple-related news, I’d like to take one more run at it. Here goes.
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Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use
I estimated that I had used my mac for approximately 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, for 7 years straight, for a total for whopping 16800 hours. I have written the first versions of most of the software components of my startup using this computer. And all this time, this machine worked without a…
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Do the Real Thing
Success in most things boils down to a simple, but easily ignored distinction: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives instead.
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MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign
President Stanley asked me this afternoon for my resignation. I do not agree with his decision, as serious issues of academic freedom and fr...
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“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread”
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html
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Solar storm risk and EMP attacks
A Q&A style dialogue to separate fact from fiction.
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Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You
Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. But people who don’t take advantage of these added safeguards may find it far more difficult to regain access when their account gets…
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Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS
CSS grid goes hexagonal.
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Researchers and Founders
I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these...
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Linear Regression
From zero to linear regression
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Neil Armstrong's reply to a Moon landing skeptic
In a letter recently published in a new book, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong, a teacher wrote a letter to the first human to set foot on the Moon a
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Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014
I’ve been reading the news this week about Hey, Apple, and in app purchases. Many people have offered their takes on the situation, and I can’t help but feel déjà vu.
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