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I disagree with Turing and Kahneman regarding statistical evidence (2014)
It’s funny. I’m the statistician, but I’m more skeptical about statistics, compared to these renowned scientists.
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It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot
Hi — thank you for reading this article! We’d love to talk to you about what you’re making in our C#-focused Discord for Godot game…
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DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland
As part of my new job, I'm learning a lot more about the mysteries of the Domain Name System than any mortal should know I thought possible. The humble unix dig command allows you to query all sort of DNS information. For example, to see name server records for the BBC website, you can run: dig bbc.co.uk NS Which will…
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Why don’t we have a strategy?
The problem isn't that people can't think strategically.
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The DynamoDB Paper
This week at USENIX ATC’22, a group of my colleagues 1 from the AWS DynamoDB team are going to be presenting their paper Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service . This paper is a rare look at a real-world distributed system that runs at massive scale.
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Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
We are now offering the complete Scorched Earth experience from a single downloadable zip file. The Totally Scorched zip file contains ready-to-run copies of every official version of Scorched Earth: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 (English and Spanish), 1.5 and a .MTN file builder. The zip file also contains instructions and an HTML…
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What I wish someone would have told me about using RabbitMQ (2020)
RabbitMQ Crash Course for 2025
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A 74xx-Defined Radio (2021)
Video Appetizer TLDR I built a shortwave radio receiver from scratch using only cheap and easily available components, i.e. standard transistors, op-amps and 74xx logic chips. No typical radio part…
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When rustc explodes
One could say I have a bit of an obsession with build times. I believe having a “tight feedback loop” is extremely valuable: when I work on a large codebase, I want to be able to make small increme...
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Helion Needs You
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. ...
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How I clean my glasses
I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 4 years old: ever since, I’ve put them on as soon as I wake up and take them off just before I flop into bed. In all that time, I’ve never broken a pair of glasses, but I still get a new pair every 2 years: sometimes the frame starts to fall apart, but more often the quality of…
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Six programming languages I’d like to see
A few weird ideas for programming languages I came up with that it'd be "really" "cool" if someone made (wink)
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A doctor who treated Bach and Handel with disastrous results
Dr. John Taylor treated Bach and Handel with disastrous results, perhaps causing the death of both composers. Did it impact the course of Western music?
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How “let it fail” leads to simpler code
The biggest lesson I learned from the "Let it fail" philosophy, is to distinguish expected errors and unexpected errors. So we can safely ignore the unexpected, and only handle the expected errors in our business logic.
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RISC-V Linux on ESP32
I've been playing with the idea of running linux on ESP32 since the first days I've met its more robust module, the WROVER-B, on paper it se...
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Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
A textbook currency crisis, triggered by a bunch of policy mistakes.
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My business card runs Linux
Dmitry.GR: My business card runs Linux (and Ultrix), yours can too. Details, kits, etc...
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My experience writing and selling a short story
An anecdotal account of my experience writing and selling "India World" to Tor.com
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Ev Williams to step down from Medium
Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO…
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Giving a shit as a service
A mental model for service businesses.
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You wouldn't download a back end
How in the world do you pirate an API?
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Guest WiFi using a QR code
On my home network I have guest WiFi configured and when guests come round they need to know the password. Happily there's a way to make thi...
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A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term
Every infuriating thing on the web was once a successful experiment. Some smart person saw Normal site: 1% sign up for our newsletterThrow a huge modal offering 10% off first order: +100% sign ups …
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Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
A design pattern to reduce centralized control and change incentives in social networks.
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Roguelike Tutorial in Rust (2019)
This tutorial is free and open source, and all code uses the MIT license - so you are free to do with it as you like. My hope is that you will enjoy the tutorial, and make great games!
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