19501
A look at power on the new M1 Max
The ramblings and experiments of a software engineer and tech enthusiast based in Dublin.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,234 posts.
19502
The Melancholy of Subculture Society (2019)
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
19503
Don’t do interviews, do discussions
(5 Min Read) This change guarantees better signals from the interviewing candidates.
19504
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
Computer users organize their files into folders because that is the primary tool offered by operating systems. But applying this standard hierarchical model to my own files, I began to notice shortcomings of this paradigm over the years. At the same time, I used some other information systems not based on…
19505
19506
19507
Common Lisp code optimisation
Common Lisp is one of the few languages which is both dynamic and also gives you a full native compiler and the ability to declare types ...
19508
19509
Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
19510
Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices
So I made a mildly controversial tweet. Lots of people enjoyed it, but the LinkedIn-adjacent section of data science Twitter is not happy about it. I want to provide as much context for it as I can…
19511
How does a game engine work? an overview (2016)
Want to develop your own game engine? Here is a nice overview of what you need to implement in order to develop a game engine.
19512
19513
Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e
Texts on this and that.
19514
Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
At Superwall we’re building an SDK to help App Developers increase their revenue by showing the right offer to the right person at the right time. Follow me on twitter for little tips and articles like this one.
19515
19516
American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
A review of "Amtrak, America's Railroad"
19517
Don’t be spooky
It’s possibly the best advice for managers I've given so …
19518
We need more boutique search engines
For most queries, Google search is pretty underwhelming these days. Google is great at answering questions with an objective answer, like “# of billionaires in the world” or “What is the population of Iceland”. It’s pretty bad at answering questions that require judgment and context like “What do NFT collectors think…
19519
19520
19521
When Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky (2000)
The English rock band Radiohead uses a sample from my very first computer piece, mild und leise , (this is an mp3 file) on one of the tracks on their CD, Kid A . (Yes, they very graciously asked permission, and I gave it. ) In fact, I really like what they did with the sample; it is quite imaginative and inventive…
19522
In C, how do you know if the dynamic allocation succeeded?
In the C programming language, we allocate memory dynamically (on the heap) using the malloc function. You pass malloc a size parameter corresponding to the number of bytes you need. The function returns either a pointer to the allocated memory or the NULL pointer if the memory could not be allocated. Or so you may ……
19523
The promise and paradox of decentralization
Plus! Valuation Arbitrage; Labor Liquidity; Pricing Power; Diff Jobs
19524
How credit cards make money
Credit cards make money through net interest, interchange, fees, and marketing contributions.
19525
Things I would like to 3D print
Last year I started collecting ideas of things I would like to 3D print one day, on Twitter. Twitter is fundamentally ephemeral, so I'll collect it here instead. I got up to 14 items on Twitter, and now I'm up to 25.
19526
19527
Does having prime neighbors make you more composite?
Babylonian accountants and land surveyors did their arithmetic in base 60, presumably because sexagesimal numbers help with wrangling fractions. When you organize things in groups of 60, you can divide them into halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, fifteenths, twentieths, thirtieths, and…
19528
Helion
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense...
19529
Faking Twitter unfurling to phish you
Do you trust links? Well, you shouldn’t. Do you trust this link: Twitter says this link should take you to Uniswap, nobody would be none-the-wiser because we…
19530
Peeking through logs
I was reading an interesting and educational blog post , about the writer's home infrastructure status. I was curious about it, because it mentioned syslog-ng, a project I used to be heavily involved with, and a project that's still dear to my heart, even though I'm neither involved, nor am I using it any longer. It…