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The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead
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Willingness to look stupid
People frequently 1 think that I'm very stupid. I don't find this surprising, since I don't mind if other people think I'm stupid, which means that I don't adjust my behavior to avoid seeming stupid, which results in people thinking that I'm stupid. Although there are some downsides to people thinking that I'm stupid…
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Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis
An introductory technical analysis of the Yamaha DX7, detailing some of the known information about the synthesiser’s engineering.
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Getting the best out of OpenSCAD
A write-up of how I use OpenSCAD to produce designs for manufacturing, and how I post-process the output to get the best results.
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Playstation 3 Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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There is no 'printf'
In C, 'main' returns an int. What happens when you don't explicitly return a value, though? C99 provides a return value of 0, but C89... well, that's undefined, my favorite kind of behavior.
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A talk with Walter Bright about Empire
Our discussion on the creation of the great-granddaddy of all computer wargames
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About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview
And what it taught me.
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s/bash/zsh/g
There is simply no way you can do calculations with fractions in bash without relying on bc , dc , or some hacks. Compared to simply being able to use a + b it’s ugly, slow, and difficult.
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Optimizations Enabled by -ffast-Math
This blog post describes the optimizations enabled by -ffast-math when compiling C or C++ code with GCC 11 for x86_64 Linux (other languages/operating systems/CPU architectures may enable slightly different optimizations).
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Overly analytical guide to escorting
The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting
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Version Control for Structure Editing
That’s the headline for my latest project (with Tomas Petricek), presented at HATRA. [paper] [recorded talk] With this work I am finally confronting the demon cursing my work: version control. If w…
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You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
The setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches. As a result, all direct...
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How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder
Nowadays in the internet it is pretty well known that you should validate your product before you even start building it. However, if the product already exists, then the market is already validated for you. Therefore you can consider yourself in a low risk position.
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Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money
Deleting an S3 bucket is harder than you think, and may even cost you money.
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A Meta-Scientific Perspective on Thinking: Fast and Slow (2020)
2011 was an important year in the history of psychology, especially social psychology. First, it became apparent that one social psychologist had faked results for dozens of publications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederik_Stapel). Second, a highly respected journal published an article with the incredible claim…
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Big Ball of Mud (1999)
While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture: the BIG BALL OF MUD
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The SaaS Metrics That Matter
Plus now you can easily generate them using our secret sauce SaaSGrid.
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Was Google Earth Stolen?
[October, 2021]
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YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
[ The following article, along with comments from Smartsound and Shockwave-Sound, was written by Tony Fleming and published with his permission. ]
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Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
Since Python 3.5 was released in 2015 including PEP 484 and the typing module type hints have grown from a nice-to-have to an expectation for popular packages. To fulfill this expectation our team...
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