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How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works
The 8086 microprocessor was a groundbreaking processor introduced by Intel in 1978. It led to the x86 architecture that still dominates de...
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Why We’re Suing NSO
Some of the most courageous journalists in the world write for El Faro, a Salvadoran news organization whose fearless, independent reporting about corruption, violence, and human rights abuses in Central America has earned it the gratitude of readers all over the world—and the enmity of criminal gangs and…
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AI solves Advent of Code 2022
I will try to solve all of the advent of code with as little human input as possible
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$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt
Our Amazon journey started in January 2018 when HyperVolt released the first massage gun on the market. We were so careful with this…
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The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months
Market Data section of the Financial Times US Edition print edition from May 5, 2021. If you’ve flipped through printed broadsheet newspapers, you’ve probably seen pages full of tiny te…
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Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0
This week I published the first alpha release of Datasette 1.0, with a significant new feature: Datasette core now includes a JSON API for creating and dropping tables and inserting, …
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The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)
Anybody who doesn’t fall off their chair laughing is exactly who they want to talk to – Cormac Herley, Microsoft computer scientist.
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Drag and Drop from Terminal
I have built up a pretty good workflow in the terminal. The main thing that I was missing until now was an easy way to drag and drop the files that I am looking at in a terminal to other apps.
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Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?
In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?
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Snap updates happen without user consent
Recent versions of Ubuntu turned on a particularly annoying feature: intrusive system notifications that warn of the pending update of a Snap managed application. Here’s an example:
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Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans.
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Booz Allen ticketmastered America’s public lands
An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors.
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Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI
Integrating with other languages and distributing binaries has always raised the WebAssembly's barrier to entry for the average developer, and at Wasmer...
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Roman Egypt was a strange province
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Welcome back! We are back from our November hiatus and thus back to regular weekly posts! This week we’re going to answer the runner-up question in the last ACOUP Senate poll (polls in which …
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Interface Ideas for Chat Apps
New interaction ideas for chat UI in mobile devices.
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How to move fast and not break things as a remote company
The Facebook-era “move fast and break things” startup motto no longer applies in today’s hyper-competitive environment. This is especially true for SaaS startups like Jam, where customers trust and rely on their products to complete their work. If you’ve met anyone on the Jam team, you
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How to JIT – An Introduction
When I wrote the introductory article for libjit , I aimed it at programmers who know what JITs are, at least to some extent. I did mention what a JIT is, but only very briefly. The purpose of this article is to provide a better introductory overview of JITing, with code samples that don't rely on any libraries.
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HAProxy 2.7
HAProxy 2.7 adds features such as Traffic Shaping, Stick Tables Sharding, Scalability Improvements, and Layer 7 HTTP Retry Updates.
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The Death of Quanta Magazine
Yesterday Quanta Magazine published an article written by Natalie Wolchover, Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer . I’m shocked and disappointed. I thought Quanta Magazine was the most respectable source of science news, they have published several quality, in-depth articles in difficult topics. But…
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If PHP Were British (2011)
PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?
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Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte
After using Vue 2 as our front-end framework for almost two years, it was announced that this support would no longer be maintained, so we decided to migrate to a new framework. But which one to choose: Vue 3 or Svelte? Please note that our goals after the migration were
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The distinction between free speech as a legal right and cultural value
In the neverending debate surrounding Twitter under Elon Musk, the distinction between free speech as a legal right and cultural value can get confused.
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Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for Stable Diffusion in macOS 13.1 and iOS 16.2, along with code to get started…
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Mastering Stratego
Game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than chess and Go, and craftier than poker, has now been mastered. Published in Science, we present DeepNash, an AI agent that learned the game from scratch to a human expert level by…
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Using CRDTs for multiplayer text editing
From the Zed Blog: A detailed exploration of Zed's eventually-consistent text representation.
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PostScript: A Digital Printing Press
CHM publicly releases the source code for the breakthrough printing technology, PostScript.
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Understanding Convolutions in Probability
In this post we take a look a how the mathematical idea of a convolution is used in probability. In probability a convolution is a way to add two random variables. Using a slightly ridiculous, mad-science, example we walk through multiple way to compute a convolution and ultimate arrive at the formu