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For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport. I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics. Table of ContentsBackgroundRecreating the MRZPython code to…
A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here.
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
The Ultimate Productivity Paradox
Automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding
A conceptual model for thinking about time in programming that encapsulates the complexity that many programmers cite online
Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in…
How to use uv and the Python inline script metadata proposal PEP 723 to run scripts seamlessly.
Learn how XBOW achieved #1 performance in autonomous penetration testing by validating real exploits and outperforming human pentesters in speed and accuracy.
Why you should write more toy programs
To create reliable agents, AI companies had to go beyond predicting the next token.
Highlights the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's fragility and review the Byte Latent Transformer arch.
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation.
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.
After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
Making sure I don’t forget what I read.
I noticed about a 10x speed up across a number of projects, we'll avoid using a venv and run things as a non-root user too.
Solving LinkedIn Queens in the LogicT monad
A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to...
Emojis are great. They're particularly useful to put in the output of scripts and get some eye catching output. At least provided they aren't overused, just like colour.
Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.
This is just a personal experience, there are no absolute truths. Like in any other blog post, a lot of the things you'll read here could be just a skill issue, or legitimate issues. It's up to you to decide.
New study finds rumination can cause those with depression to get ‘stuck’ on thoughts, limiting their ability to mentally juggle options available to them when making decisions.
i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode
You may know that, because your computer has different caches (L1, L2, L3...), and memory operations operate on cache lines of about 64 bytes each, you should write programs that exhibit locality to get maximum performance.
