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Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International
Signaling a new chapter for Silicon Valley, two veteran R&D leaders are combining minds to advance and accelerate world-changing science and technology.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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The Effects of Noise on Health (2022)
As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
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Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2
F38 just released and seeing a bunch of people complain that TF2 dies on AMD or other platforms when lavapipe is installed. Who's at fault? ...
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Open Questions
Some anomalies/questions which are not necessarily important, but do puzzle me or where I find existing explanations to be unsatisfying.
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Haiku's (Kernel) Condition Variables API: Design and Implementation
A few months after my contract with Haiku, Inc. began, I rewrote the implementation of the Haiku kernel’s condition variables (as opposed to our userspace condition variables, which are from POSIX.) As this new implementation has run in Haiku …
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Ox
“Why is it called oxtail if it’s from a cow?” I’m glad you oxed. It’s not just a load of bull. Ox is a word that, for many of us, is both familiar and strange. I grew up in ranch cou…
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Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
Christiaan Brand, Group Product Manager We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator , across both iOS and Android, which a...
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A WiFi color eInk picture frame
A while ago, our little one was born. As unfortunately her (great-)grandparents are located somewhat spread out over the globe, real-life visits can't happen too often. Obviously, video calling is a thing nowadays, so we keep in contact. Still, I wanted everyone to also be able to see her when we weren't online…
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The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
Please let's stop predicting the future of A.I.
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Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee issued a statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption.
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I built a special PCIe card to test GPUs on the Pi
I partnered up with Mirek (of Mirkotronics / @Mirko_DIY on Twitter) to build the Pi4GPU (or 'PiG' for short): This journey started almost three years ago: almost immediately after the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 was launched, I started testing graphics cards on it. First I tried some low-spec cards like the Zotac…
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QEMU 8.0
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 238 authors.
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UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
In an open letter, seven secure messaging apps—including Signal and WhatsApp—point out that the UK’s Online Safety Bill could destroy end-to-end encryption: As currently drafted, the Bill could break end-to-end encryption,opening the door to routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal messages of…
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Highway to Ruin: The crash of Southern Airways flight 242 (2022)
When a Southern Airways DC-9 loses both engines during a storm, an attempt to land it on a rural highway goes horribly wrong.
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Deleting System32\curl.exe
Let me tell you a story about how Windows users are deleting files from their installation and as a consequence end up in tears. Background The real and actual curl tool has been shipped as part of Windows 10 and Windows 11 for many years already. It is called curl.exe and is located in the … Continue reading deleting…
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Keep the monolith, but split the workloads
Everybody loves a monolith, but you can hit issues as you scale. Learn how splitting workloads can improve your monolithic architecture's performance and scalability, and understand the trade-offs between monolithic systems and microservices.
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The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed
Devices based on the i.MX8 or i.MX8M (such as the Librem phone or MNT Reform) have received popular coverage recently. The number of firmware blobs involved in the bringup of these devices is often a point of discussion. At times, people have considered whether some of these blobs could be replaced with libre…
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I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are technologies which can track this behavior and trigger a “mouse-out” alert. While this UX element (from companies such as Crazy Egg and Rooster) has great potential, I’ve found it far too…
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What’s the point of tech conferences?
It’s con season in the tech world. Yesterday evening I flew from Pluralsight’s Link/ unconference in New Orleans to Pycon US in Salt Lake City. New Orleanians are just as likely as not …
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Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
Personal website of Phil Booth
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Double Descent in Human Learning
The uncanny resemblance between double descent and a 50 year old theory from psychology
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Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?
The Earth Species Project is using large language models to develop tools to decipher animal communication.
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Capturing the Flag with GPT-4
This weekend I went to BSides SF 2023 and had a blast. I went to some really interesting talks (including an excellent one about adversarial machine learning), but mostly I spent my time solving CTF hacking challenges. And this time, I did it with the help of GPT-4, the
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RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I
David Patterson and team at UC Berkeley give RISC its name and make the first RISC microprocessor design.
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West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island (2021)
Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details . I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail . It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via ferry. Unfortunately in 2020 the hike…
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Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation
The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC)—a scalable, low-latency garbage collector providing sub-millisecond max pause times—continues to evolve. This session will review the design goals behind ZGC and provide a look into the impact of the upcoming support for multiple generations. It will also present general guidance on…
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager
the trough of zero dopamine • managing the wrong amount • procrastinating on hard questions • indefinitely deferring maintenance • angsting instead of asking
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That won't scale: Present cost vs. future value
Thanks for reading Code Solo!
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LSD: Not Even Once
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. […] – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple