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Practical Shell Patterns I Use
Over the decades I’ve been using the shell, there are thousands of reusable patterns I’ve picked up from looking over others’ shoulders and googling.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)
Literate programming advocates this: Order your code for others to read, not for the compiler. Beautifully typeset your code so one can curl up in bed to read it like a novel. Keep documentation in sync with code. What's not to like about this vision? I have two beefs with it: the ends are insufficiently ambitious by…
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Re: Moxie on Web3
On decentralization, servers and cryptography
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On Web3 Infrastructure
In recent months, there has been a resurgence in the usage of the term “web3”: a nebulous term that (like it or hate it) has suddenly become a banner for much of the innovation happening in the space of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. The term has been around for a while (since 2014 when Gavin Wood…
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Explaining to my parents what I do
My parents don't understand what I do as a quant, so I wrote this to help explain to them. This post goes into the basics of power pricing and the electricity market.
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Tips for a Healthier Postgres Database
Craig's year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.
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Do climate models predict extreme weather?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Proposed bill in New Hampshire would enshrine free software into law
Libreboot – New Hampshire (USA) may soon enshrine Software Freedom into law. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!
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Some people want to run their own servers
Open Source Freelancer
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Hashing is not encryption
Encryption, encoding, and hashing are three related but distinct concepts. It’s important for you to understand all three.
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IRC technology news from the second half of 2021
Technical summaries of developments in IRC software and protocol specifications during the second half of 2021.
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Bevy game engine 0.6
Thanks to 170 contributors, 623 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.6 release on crates.io! For those who don't…
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500M Avira antivirus users introduced to cryptomining
Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money mining virtual currency . But Norton 360 isn’t alone in this dubious endeavor: Avira antivirus — which has built a base of 500 million users worldwide largely by making the…
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T-Shaped People and Academia
Being on the lookout for recruiting new students for my new research group , I wanted to distil some of my observations into textual form. This post deals with my impression that academia is doing a disservice to ‘T-shaped persons,’ i.e. persons combining deep expertise in one or more fields with an ability to…
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Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make (2020)
Background In 2015 I worked as a consultant at a large company in Lund. My position was with the build team and one of our responsibilities...
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Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned
Doing the right thing makes other right things happen
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In Response to My first impressions of Web3
This a response to Moxie Marlinspike’s “My First Impression of Web3” Both gave me a feeling for how the space works. To be clear, there is nothing particularly “distributed” about the apps themselves: they’re just normal react websites. The “distributedness” refers to where the state and the logic/
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Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)
Simply changing the order of some uint variables we managed to drop our memory usage significantly
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How to make quitting your addiction easier
There is one thing most people miss when they try to overcome their addiction. And they make it much more difficult for themselves.
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UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
MySQL UUIDs are still very popular despite a majority of posts warning against their usage. Learn what UUIDs are and why they are very bad for MySQL performance.
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School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents
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Where is every IP Address?
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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My Experience as a SWE Intern at Goldman Sachs
Disclaimer: I did have to sign a NDA, so I can't go too in depth on certain things. But I'll do my best to capture the essence of it and my…
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Web 3 Doesn't Exist
Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread authors.
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Give me /events, not webhooks
Learn about the challenges of webhooks for service-to-service notifications. And why an `/events` endpoint is often preferable.