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Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash
So there I was, happily closing out some tabs before heading to bed, when I noticed a new email from the Chrome Web Store at 12:30am: I went to Intention's…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,497 posts.
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Euler's Fizzbuzz (2020)
FizzBuzz is a common coding problem asked in technical screenings or interviews. It goes something like this:
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It’s time to stop using SMS for security
By now most infosec professionals are aware of various ways SMS text messaging can be hijacked. For example so-called “SIM Swap” attacks…
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A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest
Michael Milken, private equity, and a salt roll-up are showing we're in for shortages and price spikes.
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The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions
The OODA Loop is a four-step process for making effective decisions in high-stakes situations. It involves collecting relevant information, recognizing potential biases, deciding, and acting, then repeating the process with new information. Read on to learn how to use the OODA Loop.
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Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
Performance comparison of counting and sorting word frequencies in various languages (Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust)
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When Should I Interrupt Someone?
How many times have you sat there trying to work through a technical problem, and thought:
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gRPC Is Easy to Misconfigure
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is because RPC systems are challenging to…
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Sd: My Script Directory
does your ~/bin spark joy?
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Narco Submarine Found in Spain
**Disguised Narco Submarine Found In Europe** Police in Malaga, Spain have reported that they have discovered a narco-submarine aboard a ship. It is the fourth so-called narco submarine found in Europe in the last 15 years…Read More >….
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How I make graphics for retro systems and retro-styled games
Game consoles, especially older ones, are defined more than anything by their graphics capability. The unique graphical limitations of a system can often mak...
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Why inflation is not a threat
I have just posted this thread on inflation on Twitter. It will feature in 'Money for nothing and my Tweets for free' in due course: Current debate about inflation isn’t really about whether it’s likely: it isn’t. Instead it’s about whose vision of the future is going to win. Is it...
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Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme
At the end of the day, this is a straight-up ICO-style index fund to speculate on NFTs.
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Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants
Abolishing platform immunity won’t do what anyone wants
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Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery
The landing of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover last month amazed the world. The stunning footage of the descent shows each stage of the sequence. If you have not seen it already you can watch it here .
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Why are most climate models in Fortran?
An examination of the software that powers modern Climate simulations.
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Wayland in 2021
Running Wayland on Linux in 2021
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I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
At the time of writing this, the coronavirus has been in our country for a year, which means I have been sitting at home for a very long time. At the start of the pandemic, I had a few pet projects in Rust under my belt and I noticed that the “are we DataFrame yet” , wasn’t anywhere near my satisfaction. So I wondered…
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Understanding Coinbase
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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Templating for Lawyers
learn computer templateering in five minutes flat
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Fitting Cubic Bézier Curves
Blog of Raph Levien.
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Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality
P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.
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An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s
Object-oriented programming is out of fashion now, and it has been for a while. Rarely are new programming languages intentionally object-oriented. And there are good reasons for this: OO often requir…
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Loom EGA/VGA Comparison
The original EGA background art for Loom was made by Mark Ferrari . The character art was done by Gary Winnick and Steve Purcell . Gary Winnick designed the sprites and did most of the sprite animation, while Steve Purcell did the larger character portraits and some additional animation. Ken Macklin did the effects…