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In Praise of Memorization
As I've gotten older I've started to understand that memorization is important, much more than we give it credit for.
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How side effects work in FP
Chad Nauseam Home
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Librem 5: First Impressions
The Librem 5 does not run Android or iOS, it runs a proper Linux operating system ( PureOS , derived from Debian). There are hardware kill switches for the baseband modem, the camera and microphone, and WiFi and bluetooth. The phone's main selling point is that it doesn't spy on you.
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Literate programming is much more than just commenting code
Most programmers haven’t heard of literate programming , and the few that have tend to think it means writing a lot of comments around your code. However, simply explaining code with prose, does not constitute literate programming. Consider the following quote from it’s inventor:
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LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
Martin Kotuliak, Simon Erni, Patrick Leu, Marc Röschlin, and Srdjan Čapkun, ETH Zurich
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Headlines compared: Polish newspapers from 1939 and news websites from 2022
These two quotes, repeated on various occasions, celebrations and remembrance days are supposed to remind us to learn from the past and avoid the mistakes our ancestors made.
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Wasmer and Trademarks
Wasmer attempted to register the WebAssembly trademark. ## We shouldn't have done that. We're sorry. We won't do it again. _Update: post edited on Feb...
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Results of 500 MicroSD Benchmarks on SBCs
I've tested over 20 microSD cards on every Raspberry Pi model to help you find the fastest one for your Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer
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Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM
Disclaimer: I have had access to some confidential information about some of the matter discussed in this page. However, everything written here is derived form publicly available sources, and references to these sources are also provided.
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The Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip
Apple's first product was the Apple-1 computer, introduced in 1976. This early microcomputer used an unusual type of storage for its disp...
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How to Pay Professional Maintainers
To successfully fund Open Source projects, companies should: pay the maintainers; pay them real money; pay for maintenance; and keep paying them.
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OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider
31 GEO satellites and Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO constellation of +600 satellites deliver resilient, secure connectivity across land, sea and air.
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Automating cookie consent and GDPR violation detection
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires websites to inform users about personal data collection and request consent for cookies. Yet the majority of websites do not give users any choices, and others attempt to deceive them into accepting all cookies. We document the severity of this…
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The Great Steepening
Record supply to the market along with rising inflation expectations suggest that the yield curve will steepen materially.
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Aggregating away the signal in your data
By aggregating our data in an effort to simplify it, we lose the signal and the context we need to make sense of what we’re seeing.
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My Notes on the Lean Startup
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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Hooks Considered Harmful
React hooks changed radically how we build frontend applications allowing engineers to separate stateful logic from rendering. However, under a seemingly simple API there are some aspects of React hooks that are the source of bugs and performance issues. In this article, we will do a deep dive into the javascript…
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On Tolkien and Orwell
On first looking at J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) and George Orwell (1903-1950) they appear to have little in common, as men or writers, other than being peculiarly English authors with evergreen book sales. The year 1937 was a seminal one for both men and useful for highlighting their different lifestyles, politics and…
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Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip
A while ago, Hackaday highlighted a new chip, the HC32L110. This chip was one of the many ARM-based microcontrollers that sprung up in China, but this one was remarkable because its diminuitive size: it came in an 16-pin WCSP package of a miniscule 1.6x1.4mm. Aside from that, it seems to be a chip that is somewhat…
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Please put units in names
Using strong types, or putting units in names, is a small effort that can make a tremendous difference for code readability.
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Vanced Discontinuation
Since many users are having trouble understanding the reason for the discontinuation of vanced, we wanted to brief you on all the expected theories with their answers. Vanced NFT/LTT theory: 1. Vanced NFT:- Some users believe that Google had sent cease & desist letter because the Vanced Team had posted NFT to earn…
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Windows needs a change in priorities
A developer's critique of Windows 11 product priorities, weighing UX consistency and developer trust against ad placement and shell rewrites.
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Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?
Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?
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Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal
So you've got your hands on a late 1980s Minitel 1B (or something slightly later) and then you realize that the entire Minitel network shut ...
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A better way to divide the pie
In his new book, Prof. Barry Nalebuff proposes a fairer, more principled way to negotiate: splitting the additional value created by reaching an agreement. In this excerpt, he explains the concept through a visit to one of New Haven’s iconic pizza spots.
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