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I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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Getting started with nmap
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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The $8 Linux Computer
Yes, you read that right... for $8 you can run linux on a RISC-V computer. And not just a stripped down kernel without an MMU. No, t...
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The strange case of BeOS, SRS and the silent Power Mac 6500
Tonight's story time: the Power Macintosh that wouldn't make any sound in BeOS R5, how I figured out the problem, and how I hacked the sound...
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Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0
This post is going yet another part in the DIY camera projects which have been doing since quite some time. In this post I will showi...
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I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond
... in which we check if your password has been compromised in many inconvenient ways, in a tale of destruction, obsession, and self-discovery.
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Writing good performance self reviews
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time!
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Trump's Trading Card Grift Is Worse Than You Think
Shell companies, rubbing elbows with international criminals, and worse in his scam of scams
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Nuclear power is too slow
One common and plausible argument against nuclear power is that it is too slow.
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A Linux Evening
I love to have Linux as my main OS. For someone who spends most of his time programming, writing HTML, writing LaTeX, and browsing the net, it is nearly a perfect tool. Packages are one "apt install" away. Mounting my website is one sshfs away and with private key authentication I don't even have to type my password…
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The more metrics you track, the less you know
The more metrics you track, the less you know.
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Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
Production systems for ecommerce, finance, operations, and applied AI - built and operated for two decades.
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Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set
Bill Tavis designed this lovely vintage-style map of the familiar fractal shape, the Mandelbrot set. He is selling a poster version of the map, starting at the
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Doors of McMurdo
Doors, in a variety of shapes and styles.
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Native Reflection in Rust
Today, I’m releasing deflect , an implementation of reflection for Rust. Deflect can be used to recover the concrete types of trait objects, inspect the internal state of async generators, pretty-print arbitrary data, and much more.
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XFCE 4.18
After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.18 !
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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IDN is crazy
IDN, International Domain Names, is the concept that lets us register and use international characters in domain names, and by international we of course mean characters outside of the ASCII range. Recently I have fought some battles against IDN and IDN decoding so I felt this urge to write a lot of words about it ……
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Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli P…
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How does GPT obtain its ability? Tracing emergent abilities of language models
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Six charged in mass takedown of DDoS-for-hire sites
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S. men with…
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What I do when I feel like giving up (2015)
I am struggling today, and maybe you are too. Don't give up yet, though. Read this article to learn what I remind myself of when I want to give up...
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3D Printed Film Video Camera
An expensive and unreliable way to record low quality videos!
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Converting a WW2-Era Landing Gear and Flaps Indicator into a USB Peripheral
The landing gear and flaps indicator, control board stack, and C# .NET Windows Forms app running on the Surface in the background. Everything set for smooth and level flight!
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No, Google did not hike the price of a .dev domain from $12 to $850
But domain pricing is very confusing. Let's demystify it.
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Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?
attached is signature proof
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How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
We should look for ways to make reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop.
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Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
Today in the US, most houses and apartments are built using light framed wood construction. This system consists of load bearing walls made from 2x4s or 2x6s, which support a wood-framed floor or roof - usually either trusses, joists, or engineered i-joists. This system is a variant of a framing style known as balloon…