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New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
N2D VMs are the first AMD-based instances on Google Cloud.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
Patterns and structures of current operating systems and some thoughts about how that could be improved, with lessons learnt from Self, Smalltalk and other "structured" systems.
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Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
I was reviewing some stats for Mailintel and was curious about what email service top apps use; being particularly interested in transactional email services. Is there a way I can go through my mai...
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Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three
This is the final installment of a three part series in which we dive into modern application authentication solutions - the hard way. Part One: The Hard Way Part Two: The Hard Way, Continued Part Three: The Hard Way: Return Of The Specification The Hard Way: Return Of The Specification We are continuing our quest to…
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JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
The 86th JPEG meeting was held in Sydney, Australia. Among the different activities that took place, the JPEG Committee issued a Call for Evidence on learning-based image coding solutions. In addition, a First Call for Evidence on Point Cloud Coding was issued in the framework of JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Coding…
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JWT is Awesome
Here’s my take on JWT* and why I think it’s amazing, after having migrated hundreds of applications in JP Morgan from a legacy authentication solution. *JWT = JSON Web Token 1) Pro: JWT…
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Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad
Designing, printing, and building a one-handed gaming keypad
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Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
Search through thousands of startup jobs, across any location or remote, hiring for software engineers, product managers, designers, marketing, sales, and more.
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Don't touch my clipboard
Looking for an em dash I was recently trying to find an em dash character to use in a piece of writing. Since I don’t have the shortcut memorized—for future reference, shift+option+minus on Mac—I did a quick search for it. I didn’t see one on the search results page to copy, so I clicked into the first result: “The…
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Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront
Hosting static websites is great. As they only contain static assets to be downloaded by the visitor’s browser - think HTML, CSS, Javascript, Fonts, images - no server-side code such as Java or PHP needs to be run. They’re therefore typically faster to load than dynamic websites, they have a smaller attack surface…
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DisplayPort and 4K
The Problem Video playback looks better with a higher scan rate. A lot of content that was designed for TV (EG almost all historical documentaries) is going to be 25Hz interlaced (UK and Australia)…
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Move, simply
C++ “move” semantics are simple, and unchanged since C++11. But they are still widely misunderstood, sometimes because of unclear teaching and sometimes because of a desire to view move…
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Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google’s AdSense program. In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher’s ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google’s automated anti-fraud…
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Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing
Ray Tracing Essentials is a seven-part video series hosted by the editor of Ray Tracing Gems, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines.
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Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations
All-in-one incident management software for modern teams. FireHydrant helps you plan, respond, and resolve faster with smart alerting, on-call scheduling, AI-powered workflows, and post-incident retros.
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Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record
Before I go into the specifics of my record attempt, it is important for you to have some background information. Over the past few years I have been steadily acquiring server hardware to increase my knowledge of system administration and cyber security. This is not only for personal growth: it has also helped me…
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Writing Grant Applications
For two years I was on the Canadian NSERC committee that reviewed individual grant applications. Fascinating. After reading dozens of applications you can begin to see patterns emerging. I’m …
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Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
How Neural Networks can be used in graph data
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How to Take Smart Notes
I long ago stopped reading books on note-taking. They were always too vague and boring, full of platitudes that had little to do with the world outside
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How to take smart notes with Org mode
While writing the documentation for Org-roam, it occurred to me that I have things to say that do not belong in the documentation. I wrote Org-roam because Org-mode simply didn’t have the utilities to enable the kind of note-taking workflow I wanted. I don’t want to be prescriptive about how note-taking should be…
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Three Types of Data
In my work I’ve developed a mental framework related to data modeling, which has helped greatly both when coming up with a model and when making decisions down the road about how to use that model. Here I will establish three different categories of data in software: Constants, State, and Cached Values. By “data” I…