19981
Elite Biases Make Policy Biases
A 2014 paper predicted U.S.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,236 posts.
19982
Revisiting Java in 2021 – Part II
A look at how Java 17 stacks up against Kotlin and Scala for development teams in 2021, and an overview of popular JVM technologies.
19983
The Elements of Git
This is not a tutorial. If you're looking for a quick, easy, "how to use git" kind of post, look elsewhere.The goal of this post is to give you just enough understanding of the git internals that you can build up a correct intuition of what various git commands actually do under the hood.
19984
Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?
Very weird, isn't it?
19985
The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with those neutrinos?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
19986
Rust on the MOS 6502: Beyond Fibonacci
On August 15th, the following answer showed up on the Retrocomputing Stack Exchange site :
19987
Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
On dismantling data's ship of Theseus.
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How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)
Last year, I submitted a PR to the Clojure web request routing library, Compojure . Even though I was doing Clojure full time at work, there was still a lot for me to learn and always will be.
19990
The pitfalls of using SSH-agent, or how to use an agent safely
Unfortunately for you, we promised a follow up to talk about the security implications of using such an agent. So, here we are.
19991
Reality Check for Cloudflare Wasm Workers and Rust
With native Rust support announced for Cloudflare Workers, one may be eager to jump in head first. I know I wanted to. However, I tested out a few use cases and found it too limiting. Either the desired APIs weren’t available, code size was too large, or the program couldn’t run within resource constraints. I remain…
19992
Alexa leaks private wishlists
This morning, my wife noticed that Alexa was insistently flashing its little blue lights. "Alexa... Notifications?" "You have one notification. An item on your wishlist has dropped in price. The … is now only £…" And that's how my wife found out what I planned to get her for her birthday! What happened to cause this?…
19993
Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)
git purr, git meowge, and git puss! My doodling on basic git commands, and difference between merge and rebase with cats!
19994
Acoup: The Trench Stalemate
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2021126 points31 commentscited by 5History & Retro Computing details
This week (and next) I want to build a bit off of our discussion of Victoria II and talk a bit about World War I and in particular the trench stalemate on the Western Front. That trench stalemate i…
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19996
What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
No, you will not write as much code as you think.
19997
Building apps in minutes, not months
In order to build the many experiments for my research on the future of personal computing, and the subsequent demos for these Lab Notes, I needed a way to build much faster than was presently possible...
19998
Ditch your version manager
Try Nix and don't look back.
19999
I Failed to Transform the Enterprise
how management power plays win out over measurable profit increases, risk mitigations and years of track record
20000
Pieces of Shit
I listened to this song last night.
20001
You don't need to burn off your fingertips (and other biometric myths)
111 years ago almost to the day, a murder was committed which ultimately led to the first criminal trial to use fingerprints as evidence [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-case-where-fingerprints-were-used-evidence-180970883/] . We've all since watched enough crime shows to understand that fingerprints are
20002
Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing
Uku Täht is a co-founder of a simple web analytics tool Plausible. It’s bootstrapped, open-source, and currently making $360,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
20003
The Linux Distributions of 1992
The modern Linux distros owe their existence to those early releases, back in 1992.
20004
Instagram Ruined Photography for Me
The story of why I stopped taking photos
20005
Version control without Git
If you have any question or suggestions about this tutorial, please file them as issues here .
20006
Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
Improvements to the Chafa terminal graphics package: Kitty and iTerm2 protocols, newly supported terminals, new Unicode symbols, and more.
20007
Useful Spy Books
Reading a good book is a great joy. And recommending a good book is almost as enjoyable. I’ve long been fascinated by books on espionage, and this contributed in no small part to me eventually joining the Dutch intelligence world, and later, rejoining it in some fashion. If you have favorite books that should be on…
20008
Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
I will die on this hill.
20009
Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets
Transcript of interview
20010
PostgreSQL 15: default permissions for everyone is now restricted to db owner
PostgreSQL always allowed, by default, any user to connect to any database, and create new tables (and views, and so on) in “public" schema. The one that is created by default.