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You can't reach the brain through the ears
Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,824 posts.
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Intravenous Caffeine
If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it.
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The Last Egg
Five more months until freshies...
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Another cluster of potentially malicious Chrome extensions
I discovered a cluster of at least 109 extensions in Chrome Web Store. A few are committing affiliate fraud or spying, most are simply hoarding overly wide privileges before abusing them.
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The History of VisiCalc (1999-2018)
VisiCalc -- Links to the information from its creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, on this web site
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Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
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Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard
How to run your own VPN in the cloud for less than a penny per hour ( $0.007 / hr )
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Cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C
Following up from the last post, there is a lot more we need to cover. This was intended to be the post where we talk exclusively about benchmarks and numbers. But, I have unfortunately been perfectly taunted and status-locked,
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“csinc”, the AArch64 instruction you didn’t know you wanted
After a long time of not publishing anything and being passive about doing any writing in this blog, I am coming back for … however many articles I can. Today I want to talk about an underrat…
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I hate almost all software (2011)
It's unnecessary and complicated at almost every layer. At best I can congratulate someone for quickly and simply solving a problem on top of the shit that they are given. The only software that I like is one that I can easily understand and solves my problems. The amount of complexity I'm willing to tolerate is…
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Programming culture in the late aughts (2022)
How it felt to be computing in the late aughts vs. now.
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Beware the Man of Many Studies
Low-quality literatures mean meta-analyses are frequently worse than single studies
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AI will save the world?
By Marc Andreessen
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When First Principles Thinking Fails (2020)
Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.
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Phishing Darknet Users for Bitcoins
Writeup of a tool for creating bitcoin stealing phishing clones of onion services on large scale
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Apple Vision
Apple Vision is incredibly compelling, first as a product, and second as far as potential use cases. What it says about society, though, is a bit more pessimistic.
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Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)
Digg was having a rough year. Our CEO left the day before I joined. Senior engineers ghosted out the door, dampening productivity and pulling their remaining friends. We had only one remaining shot at revival, launching our two-years in the making rewrite: Digg v4. It did not go as planned.
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Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields
Neural Radiance Field training can be accelerated through the use of grid-based representations in NeRF's learned mapping from spatial coordinates to colors and volumetric density. However, these grid-based approaches lack an explicit understanding of scale and therefore often introduce aliasing, usually in the form…
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Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami
There’s no way for me to know where your awareness starts with all this, so let’s just start at the beginning. Computer Shopper was a hell of a magazine. I wrote a whole essay about it,…
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Building a programming language in twenty-four hours
I know I promised to put out an article every week on a Sunday. I haven't been too good at sticking to that schedule. It's now Sunday morning at around 8:50...
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Linux on the Xbox 360
Hello and welcome back to The Cool Blog. I've been meaning to write more but I had these things called finals and then I had to move home for the summer and then I got addicted to Satisfactory again and yeah. Anyway I'm back and time for me to share a project of mine that I've been working on since like March.
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Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
Can you please take a few minutes today, go to Google, and search for your website using the site search filter? (EX: site:mysite.com) Do you have about the right number of pages showing up, or just a few pages, or worse yet – none? The reason I am asking you to do this is that […]
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Helplessness is not learned (2022)
Română On the sixth day of our science advent, we would like to talk about a debunked concept in neuroscience. The purpose of this prompt and of science debunking, in general, is not to make fun of how scientists in the past got things so wrong and how we’re so much smarter now. The point […]
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Why did Usenet fail?
This is annecdata - not a serious academic study. Adjust your expectations accordingly. When I first got online, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy - so CompuServe was my gateway to the Internet. I loved their well organised chat room. A couple of clicks and I could be discussing Babylon 5 with people in…
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Why Lisp Syntax Works
On uniform vs. specific syntax.
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Never trust a programmer who says they know C++
I’ve been in an interviewing mindset for awhile and I’ve come to realize something important about C++ in particular. C++ is a “two peak” language. That is to say C++ is the only language I know of where two very different sets of programmers consider themselves well versed in the language. Let me show you in fake…
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I wrote my own smart home software
I’ve wanted to automate my home for a long time… having a background in industrial automation and software development, it felt like I was in a great position to be an early adopter.