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The end of the pandemic is near
All epidemics end, even the Black Death and Spanish Flu. But it won’t be abrupt, and mine may end before yours does.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Master List of Logical Fallacies (2018)
Fallacies are fake or deceptive arguments, "junk cognition," that is, arguments that seem irrefutable but prove nothing. Fallacies often seem superficially sound and they far too often retain immense persuasive power even after being clearly exposed as false. Like epidemics, fallacies sometimes "burn through" entire…
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Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata
Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata (MNCA) produce complex and robust emergent structures not commonly seen in simpler models
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Should we rebrand REST?
What's wrong with the term "REST API", and what should we use instead?
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Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection
People who have had mild illness develop antibody-producing cells that can last lifetime
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How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever
We created a free Slack message scheduler called Message Them Later and didn't market it. Yet, somehow, we have 200k users and counting. What does that tell us?
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How inevitable is the concept of numbers?
Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.
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Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
Research Team: Salman Qazi, Yoongu Kim, Nicolas Boichat, Eric Shiu & Mattias Nissler Today, we are sharing details around our discovery of ...
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ClojureScript 1.10.866 Release
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
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It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
It may not be possible for us to ever reach empirical definitions of "good code" or "clean code", which means that any one person's opinions about another person's opinions about "clean code" are necessarily highly subjective. I cannot review Robert C. Martin's 2008 book Clean Co...
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WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math
TL;DR: I built a synthesizer using C++ and WebAssembly. Check out the finished product (browser compatibility table), the source, watch the talk or keep on reading the article! The Presentation Intr
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Users post more falsehoods after others correct them: study
Attempting to politely correct misinformation on Twitter can have negative consequences, leading to even less-accurate tweets and more toxicity from the people being corrected, according to a study co-authored by MIT scholars.
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Magit 3.0
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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Potemkin Data Science (2020)
Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe…
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Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1
A new Firefox is coming your way on June 1 with a fresh look designed for today’s modern life online. We pored over the browser’s user interface pixel
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Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
The first half of this conversation is a searingly honest account of...
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Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It
An unexpected paradigm journey into sleep sort
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Replit now supports every programming language in Nix
At Replit, we want to give our users the most powerful, flexible, and easy-to-get-started coding environment. However, it has been limiting because we only support a fixed set of languages and OS packages, some of which are outdated. Ideally, users should be able to use any language and install any package with…
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Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane
A whirlwind tour through the bucket-load of fail that is Urbit.
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Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat
I've worked on many projects throughout my career as a software engineer. However, Helix - Uber's Rider app rewrite in 2016 introducing Swift and RIBs - stands as the craziest project by a margin. This is my story and some of my journal entries from the time. Prologue It's
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Writing Pythonic Rust
Over the past several weeks I have been attempting to reimplementthe API of an existing python library as a wrapper for an equivalent library inRust.
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A journey to io_uring, AIO and modern storage devices
We performed experiments to find out how different Linux system calls perform for available devices.
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Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes?
For a little over a decade, they enjoyed strong popularity among mountain bikers, but then the feelings got cold.
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What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use
Matthew Collin uses account data leaked from an Isle of Man bank to investigate the characteristics of individuals and firms that store their money in tax havens.
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I/O Rings: When One I/O Operation is Not Enough
I usually write about security features or techniques on Windows. But today’s blog is not directly related to any security topics, other than the usual added risk that any new system call introduces. However, it’s an interesting addition to the I/O world in Windows that could be useful for developers and I thought it…