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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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SimCities and SimCrises (2017)
International City Gaming Conference 2017 keynote.
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SiFive P550 Core: High-Performance RISC-V Processor
New SiFive Performance Family of application processors offers best in class performance, area, and efficiency for a wide variety of markets
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Onboarding to Elixir
I've worked with a number of clients on Elixir projects and I've onboarded myself, I've been onboarded and I've onboarded others. And compared to my experiences with PHP/Python/Javascript and my limited experience with C#/.Net I have experienced quite a difference.
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What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
Here in Austria, you need to be either vaccinated against, tested negative for, or have recovered from COVID-19 to go to the pub (or pretty much everywhere) right now. If you don't want to carry around your paperwork proving one of those, you can alternatively show your Green Pass QR code to be let in.
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Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling
Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling I’ve covered Patent Trolling in some detail in the movie The Patent Scam. Today I’ll briefly go over a variation on […]
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URLs: It's Complicated
Let's play silly games with URLs...
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Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
The death of hardware store optimization.
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FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline
Text classification is a very frequent use case for machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP). It’s used for things like spam detection in emails, sentiment analysis for social media posts, or intent detection in chat bots. In this series I am going to compare several libraries that can be used to…
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Apple is building the metaverse substrate
I thought it might be fun to take a semi-serious look at technology from the Apples WWDC21 keynote, and how it might help building the metaverse. I may have spent way too much time watching sessions at 1.5x, and it may have broken my brain a little.
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A reference counting bug which leads to local privilege escalation in io_uring
Hello, I’m Shiga( @Ga_ryo_ ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc.
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Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
One of the main reasons some people tend to avoid updating their PCs is that “it makes it slower”. Especially with Windows 10’s Software as a Service approach, where it gets the s…
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What it's like to be cancelled
An honest look at what it looks like to be cancelled, one year after it happened. A hopeful yet realistic message for everyone.
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The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulation surgery
What deep brain stimulation surgery feels like.
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We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons
Stupid reasons to not allow remote work. Dumb reasons to reject remote work.
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AuthZ: Scalable permissions system
How we built an authorization system based on Google Zanzibar
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Git undo: We can do better
Update for future readers: Are you looking for a way to undo something with Git? The git undo command won’t help with your current issue (it needs to be inst...
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A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
In the 1980s and 1990s a common piece of advice for people working in the professional managerial class was to ‘dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.’ Throughout these decades, folks dressed aspirationally—a culture of power suits and padded shoulders.
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Going Beyond Ada 2022
AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
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New Kind of Paper
Paper & pencil are the best tools for thinking. Let's enhance them!
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Policies that make the poor less poor
We should have policies to make the poor less poor. Unfortunately, policies explicitly aimed at trying to make the poor less poor typica...
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Finding the Bottom Turtle
Some reflections on trusting trust, and how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
USC’s Emily Nix wants to excite her economics students this fall. With less than $60 in materials, she cooked up this online teaching hack.
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SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity
Posted Kim Lewandowski, Google Open Source Security Team & Mark Lodato, Binary Authorization for Borg Team Supply chain integrity attacks—u...
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What every programmer should know about SSDs
A blog by and for database architects.
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Path Tracing Quake in Blender
This week twenty-five years ago, Quake broke new ground in game engine realism. It was one of the first commercial games to have fully texture mapped 3D scenes rendered in real-time, with pre-computed lightmaps adding an extra layer of atmosphere.
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Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy
I'm super enthusiastic about Julia after running this comparison of Julia vs Numpy vs Fortran, for performance and code simplicity.