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Perl 6 Optimism
Andrew Shitov made my day with his It’s time for optimism blog post, in which he talks about some random things related to Perl 6 and its future. Well, not entirely random: the impetus for th…
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Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
I continue to enjoy seeing what can be done with WSL (Windows Subsystem for ...
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Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
An interview covering our experience running PostgreSQL on on-premises Kubernetes: challenges, open source and commercial tools, and alternatives for stateful apps.
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Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Turning Down a Blockchain Job Offer
I have recently received a job offer to work on a blockchain implementation. While the offer was very generous, I had to turn it down. In this post I want to collect the thoughts that went into my decision process leading to this conclusion.
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What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?
I was recently eating lunch with someone who asked a question that I became somewhat obsessed with: what happens when you grep a file and append the contents...
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Faster R-CNN: Down the rabbit hole of modern object detection
In this post, I'll explain the architecture of Faster R-CNN, starting with a high level overview, and then go over the details for each of the components. You'll be introduced to base networks, anchors as well as the region proposal network.
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219 days of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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How to Study: A Brief Guide
which has numerous links to other helpful Web sites (indicated in some printed versions by underlined phrases).
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Why is Rust difficult?
Rust is considered difficult to learn by many people. Indeed, when I learned it, I considered it to be the hardest programming language up to that time I’ve met. And that says something, since I have a habit of learning whatever language I find interesting. Looking back, I’m not sure I was correct, C++ is probably…
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The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
Dave Kerr, partner and Head of Engineering at QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey & Company. Writing on software engineering and agentic AI.
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Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from
Recently I saw some rather surprising conversations on Reddit’s /r/cscareerquestions which is generally a great place to talk through different CS Career issues people are having and try to h…
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More Things I Wish I’d Known About Bash
My previous post took off far more than I expected, so I thought I’d write another piece on less well-known bash features.
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Mobile Device Management invades privacy
With BYOD, companies are more than ever keen on protecting their data. MDM tools, like Google Apps, do more than that; they invade your privacy.
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A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
This summary is an attempt to shed some light on modern quantitative trading since there is limited information available for people who are not already in the industry. Hopefully this is useful for students and candidates coming from outside the industry who are looking to understand what it’s like working for a…
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Why is only half of Mars magnetized?
An article in the September 26 issue of Science neatly explains why only the southern half of Mars is strongly magnetized.
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Brushing up on operating systems and C programming
If you were like me in college, you first learned about the C programming language in an introductory computer science course. Then, perhaps you took a really hard course in operating systems. Then, y
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Network Latencies and Speed of Light
In this short post I’m going to attempt to convince you that current network (Internet) latencies are here to stay, because they are already within a fairly small factor of what is possible u…
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PostgreSQL 10: Partitions of partitions
PostgreSQL version 10 brings a much anticipated feature: (Native) Table Partitioning .
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Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising
In a small safety trial based on preclinical work by a Stanford researcher, participants receiving blood plasma infusions from young donors showed some evidence of improvement.
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JS things I didn’t know existed
I was reading through the MDN docs the other day and found these JS features and APIs I never knew existed. So here is a short list of those things, useful or not - learning JS seemingly never ends. Label Statements [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/