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The project has been haunted by a mysterious bug since sometime February. It relates to the code that constructs the index, particularly the code that merges partial indices. In short the search engine constucts the reverse index through successive merging of smaller indices, which reduces the overall memory…
Don't trust. Verify. I could not resist making a fake book cover Here follows a brief description on how you can detect if the curl package would ever make an xz. xz (and its library liblzma) was presumably selected as a target because it is an often used component and by extension via systemd it … Continue reading…
I’m a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there’s a lot to cover here. But first... a review of the last 24 hours of Large Language Model news. All times …
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I've spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States. It’s called Stories Are...
Another of history's great killers is on the chopping block
my deployment platform is a shell script 2024-04-09 like many people, i fell in love with free software because i could install it. i'd come home from work and install a bunch of software. what fun! tee hee! a playground and i'm the prince! but eventually, relentlessly, it all starts to feel more like a horror show…
PowerPC Macs were produced in huge numbers, and a lot of this hardware is still viable for use today, with professional software such as Photoshop CS2 and Propellerheads Reason. They're still good workstations, with lots of productivity software, and no always-online tracking or distractions. Originally, I got mine…
I recently implemented a small program to visualize the inner workings of a scheme that compresses floating point timeseries by XORing subsequent values. The resulting visualizations are quite neat…
Yesterday’s eclipse as seen by the GOES-East weather satellite. I just grabbed the full-disk geocolor JPGs with wget and stitched them together with ffmpeg. BTW, If you’re wondering why the clouds remain in view as night falls to the East, it’s because the geocolor image is a composite of “true color” daytime and a…
I do a lot of electronics projects in my spare time, and I tend to try to make reusable parts to save myself effort in the future. Because I have to order ingredients in certain quantities, I often wind up with more than I need for my project.
Lambda Screen allows you to draw images using terms of pure lambda calculus. By using fixed-point combinators, you can even create infinitely detailed fractals.
Those of you who haven’t been in IT for far, far too long might not know that next month will be the 16th(!) anniversary of the disclosure of what was, at the time, a fairly earth-shattering revelation: that for about 18 months, the Debian OpenSSL package was generating entirely predictable private keys .
SQLite is fast, really fast. On a single ~40€ / m commodity server, it can sustain ~168,000 reads and ~8000 writes per second, concurrently. Because it's an embedded library designed for client-side applications such as embedded systems and phone & desktop applications, SQLite databases have to be co-located…
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I use a hardware latency tester to measure how much the VTE-based terminals improved from GNOME 45 to GNOME 46.
srcset, sizes, picture, source, and how they all fit.
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
Dissing Fourier, exploring the Hadamard-Walch transform, and making square-wave spectrograms.
One thing is certain in life: if you’re getting something for a steal, someone is getting screwed, and it’s probably you elsewhere. This isn’t an anti-capitalist rant, it’s just the truth. Companies don’t exist if they don’t make money. Unless there’s some innovation, rest assured that you’re overpaying somewhere else.
Buying a home is by far the largest purchase most of us will make, and paying the rent or mortgage will be our largest monthly expense.
For mathematical insight, according to the structuralist imperative, investigate mathematical structure and consider mathematical concepts only as invariant under isomorphism.
This article shares some of the lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days.
