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Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
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French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
This article was written on the basis of information related to the so-called "8 December" case (see the footnotes for a global overview of the case, we focus on the "numerical part" of it in this article<fn>For a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in thi
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Coroutines make robot code easy
Our FIRST Robotics team struggled with autonomous code for years. Coroutines were the missing piece.
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EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel
The Microsoft Excel add-in is here!
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Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune
Oh my… 2023 has been such a trek so far… If you have missed my previous article about my thoughts about editors and development platforms, I think it’s probably the moment to have a look at it.
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Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?
I received 3 DMCA takedown emails today, covering 7350 URLs on my hardbin.com IPFS gateway. The URLs were allegedly serving infringing copies of books. The strange part is that of those 7350 URLs, during the time for which I have nginx logs, none of them have ever been accessed , and of the ones that I checked, none…
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[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake”
This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team o…
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Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)
If you don’t give money its purpose, it will end up defining yours.
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Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
Apple today announced the availability of new software tools that enable developers to create groundbreaking app experiences for Apple Vision Pro.
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Go 1.21 Release Candidate
Go 1.21 RC brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.
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Maps distort how we see the world
30 Maps to Rethink the World
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The History of Coffee (2015)
Who discovered coffee trees? Who invented coffee as we enjoy it now? Learn coffee history and its journey across the globe from the 9th century to today.
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Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction
Large language models are valuable research assistants, especially when they refuse to follow instructions.
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Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
Learn about our new interface, and how we're making Figma better for developers
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Handles are the better pointers (2018)
28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter
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How RLHF Works
Why RLHF may still win out and why we haven't seen it yet in open-source.
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Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail at Privacy, Security (2022)
Despite dealing with issues like depression, suicide, domestic violence, and PTSD, these apps share data freely and raise many security concerns
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Cookie Clicker saved my PhD
Or, how I cookie-clicked my way to a doctorate in interaction design. It’s been 5 years since I finished my Ph.D. on user interfaces for machine learning. To celebrate/commiserate, I’m sharing an u…
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A case for toe socks
I love toe socks and I think you should too
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The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend
AI folklore tells a story about a neural network trained to detect tanks which instead learned to detect time of day; investigating, this probably never happened.
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The Almost Romance Languages
If you like languages, you’ve probably heard the terms Romance and the Romance family. Although it started life as a name for the language of medieval France, Romance has come to be the umbre…
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Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces
A blog about free software and programming
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A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)
Regular expressions are extremely powerful. This is something I read at least once or twice every day while reading articles and blogs on the Web.
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JetBrains Noria
This is a multipart series on building Fleet, a next-generation IDE by JetBrains. Part I – Architecture OverviewPart II – Breaking Down the EditorPart III – State ManagementPart IV – Distributed Tr
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ASU: The New American University (2021)
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out, President Crow was many steps ahead of me…