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Requiem for a bank loan
A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse on the banking crisis.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,824 posts.
2042
Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse
StreamingHttpResponse now supports async iterators when Django is served via ASGI.
2043
Reddit is undeleting years worth of comments and posts
Attached: 1 image Well fuck #reddit - they have just undeleted posts I made years ago that I'd removed when I did a purge a couple of years back. So Reddit didn't actually delete the data - also these videos are no longer on YT so the thumb is cached They are so fucked #gdpr…
2044
Full Time
I’m working on Marginalia Search full time. I left the office for the last time today, and it’s the strangest feeling. I’ve quit jobs, taken time off work, been laid off, but this is different from any of those things. This is deliberate. There’s a note of relief. I’ve essentially been working two pretty demanding…
2045
Two years of teaching high school CS
(This post is also now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) Leaving Teaching I’m posting this on my last day teaching high school computer science. In the pas...
2046
Control, escape, and meta tricks
Open a Unix or Linux terminal emulator. If you have Terminal.app on macOS, ensure that the "Use Option as Meta Key" option is enabled in its "Preferences" section. Now type foo bar baz followed by meta + b (i.e. alt + b or option + b on modern keyboards). In a typical desktop environment with a typical and modern…
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Put an io_uring on it – Exploiting the Linux Kernel (2022)
Put an io_uring on it - Exploiting the Linux Kernel - chompie at the bits
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Memory safety without borrow checking, reference counting, or garbage collection
Single ownership is one of those concepts that's both easier and more powerful than we realize.
2049
Hello, Perceptron: An introduction to artificial neural networks
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjournery are able to replicate (and often exceed) human-like performance on tasks like taking exams, generating text and making art.
2050
Generating Income from Open Source
Ink has been getting some good traction lately and it's already being used by some well-known companies for a while. Like most other open so…
2051
Vision Pro
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.
2052
Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)
Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise. While effort estimation is something that everybody in industry is involved with on a regular basis, it is a niche topic in software engineering research. The problem is researcher attitude (e.g., they are unwilling to venture into the…
2053
My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do
Published: 15-06-2023 01:30 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
2054
The Stupid Programmer Manifesto
I'm not smart enough for modern web development, and that's ok
2055
Effective Rust (2021)
A collection of specific ways to improve your use of Rust
2056
11 years of hosting a SaaS
Lots of mistakes, some uptime too.
2057
On the slow productivity of John Wick
I found myself recently, as one does, watching the mini-documentary featurettes included on the DVD for the popular 2014 Keanu Reeves movie, John Wick — ... Read more
2058
Recovering secret keys from devices using video footage of their power LED
Exploiting a Video Camera's Rolling Shutter to Recover Secret Keys from Devices Using Video Footage of Their Power LED
2059
Native JSON Output from GPT-4
When integrating LLMs in your products, you often want to generate structured data, like JSONs. With the help of function calling (released June 13th 2023), this process has become much simpler! In this post I will explore the new API. Thanks for reading Simon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and…
2060
Phoenix LiveView: Async Assign Pattern
UPDATE: LiveView has added a built in, more robust way of using this pattern. Check it out here ! I've been using LiveView for about two ye...
2061
I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (2015)
Almost every year a joke RFC is made on April 1st (these have caught on so well, that it’s now common to see more than one of these every year), or April Fool’s Day, and some of them are pretty great. Here are some of my favourites:
2062
The PostgreSQL documentation and the limitations of community
In my opinion, the PostgreSQL documentation is simultaneously excellent and fairly poor, and both its excellence and its shortcomings are di...
2063
APIs for content sites must be free
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables third party applications is desirable, a simple…
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Dumb and Gets Things Done (2010)
Someone once asked Napoleon how he decided where to assign soldiers. Napoleon's reply was that it's simple: soldiers are either smart or dumb, lazy or energetic. The smart and energetic I make field commanders. They know what to do and can rally the troops to do it. The smart and lazy I make generals. They
2065
I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours
And it only took 21 hours. Linux 6.4 has a bug where it hangs on boot, but probably only 1 in 1000 boots (and rarer if using Intel hardware for some reason). It’s surprising to me that no one…
2066
Reddit is OpenAI’s moat
Interpreting Reddit's API changes in light of how it serves OpenAI.
2067
The Deliberate Practice Guide (2021)
Deliberate practice is the key to expert performance in writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, business, and more. But there’s more to it than 10,000 hours. Read to learn how to accelerate learning, overcome plateaus, turn experience into expertise, and enhance focus.
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Getting to know the right people (2022)
This page has moved to https://drmaciver.com/notebook/2022/06/getting-to-know-the-right-people/ .
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New RAM card, prototype Mac Portable, demo System 7
I guess this is a review of sorts, so here's the review part: you should buy Tech by Androda's new 7MB Macintosh Portable RAM card . On my D...