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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Bluetooth Trackball Mark II
I made a Bluetooth trackball in which all the electronics are inside the ball. The ball is the entire trackball. Here it is in action: I...
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The world is full of wasted motion
The default state of the world is that things are inefficient, that 20% of the effort put in results in 80% of the output. This is a fundamental part of how I see the world, and this post outlines how I have internalised this idea, and how to pursue the clever hacks that can make things better
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Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Fellow Amazonians:
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Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect
Bring all your engineering data in one place and build dashboards in minutes
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Bad TypeScript Habits
TypeScript and JavaScript have steadily evolved over the last years, and some of the habits we built over the last decades have become obsolete. Some might never have been meaningful. Here's a list of 10 habits that we all should break.
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Oxford vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% in 3-month gap til second dose
Analyses reveal single standard dose efficacy from day 22 to day 90 post vaccination of 76% with protection not falling in this three-month periodAfter the second dose vaccine efficacy from two standard doses is 82.4% with the 3-month interval being used in the UK. (82.4% effective, with a 95% confidence interval of…
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Behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work in architecture roles alongside experienced software/technical/solution architects. Through observing others and my own trial and error,...
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Getting better at Linux with mini-projects
The first thing I wanted to learn more about was UNIX since Linux is a UNIX-like operating system. I also never really felt that I fully understood what exactly UNIX was, besides being a family of fairly similar operating systems.
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RISC-V isn’t as interesting as you think
I had wrote this before the Unleashed was revealed, so some of the bits on economics have changed. As of writing this, I still stand by my other beliefs. One of the most hyped things in hardware design is RISC-V,… Continue reading →
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AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review
Surprising sound let down by serious comfort problems
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Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone
I'm a weirdo - I fully admit that. As part of my home working set up, I use a vertical monitor. I read and write a lot of long documents - and this form factor suits me perfectly. I've been doing this for a long time. It is a natural part of my workflow. For anything longer than an email, it's the perfect orientation…
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Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD
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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The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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Know Your Amphetamines
In the 1950s, a shady outfit called Obetrol Pharmaceuticals made a popular over-the-counter diet pill called Obetrol...
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What’s Wrong With The Honeywell Humidifier
Wirecutter is obsessed with the humidifier that untold numbers of purchasers despise
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Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors
Tips anyone can use to level up their web automation and web scraping game
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VideoLAN is 20 years old today
The VideoLAN project and the VideoLAN non-profit organization are happy to celebrate today the 20 th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the project.
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Databricks is an RDBMS
Databricks combines the best of data lakes and data warehouses.
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Reinforcement Learning at Facebook
If you ever wanted to learn about machine learning you could do worse than have Jason Gauci teach you. Jason has worked on YouTube recommendations. He was an early contributor to TensorFlow the open-source machine learning platform. His thesis work was cited by DeepMind. But what I find so fascinating with Jason is he…
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The Focus to Say No (2011)
To realize your potential you have to focus on the things that matter. You have to say no to good opportunities so you can pursue great ones.
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Red Hat ported OpenJDK to 64-bit ARM: A community history
Find out how Red Hat engineers and a community of open source enthusiasts created the standard OpenJDK implementation for AArch64.
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An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space in PostgreSQL
How to free space without dropping indexes or deleting data