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Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
How to turn 256 bits of entropy into a beautiful, avatar-friendly circular SVG: the Hashvatar.
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Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind
How internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind
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How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating
Why Affirmations Don't WorkL And What To Use Instead2021279 points155 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
Cognitive exercises to shift your self-image and overcome procrastination through evidence-based reframing.
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Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using views
Schema migrations are tricky, especially when planned downtime is not an option. Changes need to be carefully designed to stay backwards compatible so that…
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Why I no longer contribute to Racket
Beautiful Racket
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Execute Docker Containers as QEMU MicroVMs
Execute docker containers securely in a multi-tenant environment by combining the isolation level of VMs with the docker ecosystem.
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Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
The correct answer is: 6. Or 7, if you want to be pedantic and include the newline, but let’s not.
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If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999
Shane Frederick points us to this article from 1999 , “Stereotype susceptibility: Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance,” about which he writes:
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How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware.
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I Read the Entire Cybersecurity Executive Order; Here's What You Need to Know
Cybersecurity is hard enough. Doing it across federal agencies is a mammoth task.
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A Visualization of Galactic Settlement
Oh good, Star Wars got it right. The Core will indeed be a nexus of galactic civilization.
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New Machine Learning Gems for Ruby
In August, I set out to improve the machine learning ecosystem for Ruby and wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the next 5 months, I ended up...
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Code in ARM Assembly: Registers Explained
Types of register explained, and which are available to pass arguments of different types. Call by value and call by reference distinguished.
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Unreliability at Scale
Thomas Claiburn's FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof discusses two ...
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My EC2 Wishlist
While I've made engineers inside Amazon aware of all of these at various times, I think it's time to post my wishlist here — both so that a wider audience inside Amazon can hear more about these, and so that the FreeBSD community (especially the people who are financially supporting my work ) can see what I'm aiming…
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Spatial Audio
I got the following e-mail from a producer/engineer: “I just want to try and alert you to the potential seismic scam happening with this Atmos roll out. Â Atmos catalog remixing is being done…
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We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories
AP will no longer name suspects in minor crime stories, which we sometimes cover and pick up from member news organizations as one-off briefs because they are "odd" and of interest to our customers.
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On Comments in Code
I used to think that I didn’t need comments if I wrote self-documenting code. However, I have realized that I do write comments, and that I find them really useful. To see how many comments I…
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A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (1993)
A timeline of CIA atrocities.
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Next.js 11
Next.js 11 continues our mission to create the best developer experience with a new conformance system and performance improvements.
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Emacs Love Tale by sdp
Emacs Tales - A collection of unexpected stories involving emacs
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Why bugs might feel “impossible”
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
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Well-behaved bubbles often make history
The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.
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What we learned doing Fast Grants
We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed flaws in current science funding models.
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DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of DraftKings, Inc. This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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Europe's Software Problem
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Europe’s communication needs are currently almost exclusively delivered by Chinese hardware that connects us to US-based platforms. For a variety of reasons, this is not a good idea. As stated recently by Charles Michel, President of the…
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The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air
There's something happening in the E Ink space, somewhat quietly, but ...
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Note Taking in 2021
[Update 2021-06-22] If you’re more interested in the Tiddlywiki aspect of this post you can also check this Tiddlywiki Google Groups thread. [Update 2021-06-18] This post caught some attention on this Hackernews thread. You might want to check the comments. Based on the recommendations in the thread I’ve put together…