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Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
Adam Drake is an advisor to scale-up tech companies. He writes about ML/AI/data, leadership, and building tech teams.
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Pandas 1.0
These are the changes in pandas 1.0.0. See Release notes for a full changelog including other versions of pandas.
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Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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New brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence
New brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence, allowing teenagers to develop more complex adult social skills, but potentially putting them at increased risk of mental illness, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Starlink Is a Big Deal
Today, I watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket leave Cape Canaveral and deliver 60 small Starlink satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on the Starlink L3 mission.…
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RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation
We started the RStudio project because we were excited and inspired by R. The creators of R provided a flexible and powerful foundation for statistical computing; then made it free and open so that it could be improved collaboratively and its benefits could be shared by the widest possible audience.
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Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
Now that wireguard will be part of the upcoming Linux 5.6 Kernel it’s time to see how to best integrate it with my Raspberry Pi based LTE-Router/Access Point Setup. What is my scenario? Raspberry Pi 3 with a LTE hat, using a public IP address. This will be the VPN server (called edgewalker in this post) An Android…
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Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools, or shrinking them
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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Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger
Alpine Linux is often recommended as a smaller, faster Docker base image. But if you’re using Python, it will slow down your build and make your image larger.
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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
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iOS 13's Music App Sucks
iOS 13’s Music App gets worse as iOS gets better.
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Archive of old military maps published
Over 3,000 military maps, views and prints collected by King George III have been digitised and published online free to visit by the Royal Collection
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MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
The new standard is almost here. Will it change how producers and performers make music?
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Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
Uncover fast-growing tech companies, track venture funds, and access verified founder contacts on one modern platform.
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The Failure of the iPad
Two days ago, ZDNet published this article: Meet the iPad, your work computer: These 10 apps make real productivity possible . These kinds of articles, where writers explain how they use their iPads productively, musicians talk about how the iPad is truly a professional tool, or painters show how they use the iPad for…
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Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming
Probability problems come up a lot in systems programming, and I’m using that term loosely to mean everything from operating systems programming and networking, to building large online services, to creating virtual worlds like in games. Here’s a bunch of rough-and-ready probability rules of thumb that are deeply…
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Godot 3.2
Godot contributors are thrilled and delighted to release our newest major update, Godot 3.2! It's the result of over 10 months of work by close to 450 contributors who authored more than 6000 commits! Godot 3.2 is a major improvement over our previous 3.1 installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of…
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Nuclear power is the only green solution (2004)
We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources, writes James Lovelock – civilisation is in imminent danger. Published in The Independent , 24 May 2004.
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SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years
5 SEO lessons learned by writing 1 blog post every day for 2 years
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Off-Facebook Activity Is a Welcome but Incomplete Move
Today Facebook announced the roll-out of its Off-Facebook Activity tool (initially introduced as “Clear History” nearly two years ago). The tools shows you a list of apps, websites, and businesses that Facebook knows you have visited through its business tools (including Facebook Login, Facebook’s...
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Proposals for Go 1.15
For Go 1.15, we propose three minor language cleanup changes.
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De-Anonymization via Clickjacking in 2019
This blog post is about my journey to understand the current practice of de-anonymization via the clickjacking technique whereby a malicious website is able to uncover the identity of a visitor, including his full name and possibly other personal information. I don’t present any new information here that isn’t already…
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Apple reported its first quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, January 28, 2020.
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Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics
Of all the technologies against infectious disease, which mattered most? A data-driven approach
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Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
Posted by Daniel Adiwardana, Senior Research Engineer, and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Modern conversatio...
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How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?
Link to: https://benpackard.github.io/blog/2020-01-28-sign-in-with-apple/
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Thunderbird’s New Home
As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. This move has been in the works for a while as Thunderbird has grown in donations, staff, and aspirations. This will not impact Thunderbird’s day-to-day activities or…