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Experts have it easy (2024)
Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results.
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The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus
If you look for information about the Macintosh Plus and its ROM, you’ll usually find that the ROM has a capacity of 128 KB and that it exists in three revisions . But that’s incorrect: there’s a fourth ROM, 256 KB in size, which includes fonts for kanji (Japanese characters). And I found (and preserved) this ROM. I’m…
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Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator
In this post, I’ll explain how I compiled an OCaml program to run on a TI-84+ CE calculator. 🐪
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Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it’s not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair…
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How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?
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If nothing is curated, how do we find things
Bjork is currently promoting a new concert film being released called Cornucopia. She's been releasing new photoshoots and interviews almost every day for th...
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Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64
It has baked lighting with normal mapping and real-time specular shading, ahem, well sort of. More on that later. The beautiful song was made by noby with guitar performed by Moloko ( https://soundcloud.com/sou_andrade ).
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O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge.
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Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static type checker that analyzes Python code to ensure type …
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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
The Explicit Resource Management proposal empowers developers to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources.
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My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)
TeX and related systems are often associated with their default fonts, Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern (CM) typefaces. While these fonts are excellent, they have become so ubiquitous in the scientific community that many LaTeX users have sought alternative fonts for their documents. As a result, a plethora of font…
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Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI
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Getting AI to write good SQL
Learn about text-to-SQL techniques like context building and table retrieval, LLM-as-a-judge, and LLM prompting and post-processing.
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ClojureScript 1.12.42
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
Following the posting of the preprint paper “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” on arXiv in November 2024, concerns were raised about the integrity of the research. MIT conducted an internal, confidential review and concluded that the paper should be withdrawn from public discourse.
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Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors
Blog about programming stuff.
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Ground control to Major Trial
When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.
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After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.
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Leeks and Leaks
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want. dot-onion leaks The onion TLD is a Tor specific domain that does not mean much to the world outside of Tor. If you try … Continue reading Leeks and leaks →
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The first year of free-threaded Python
A recap of the first year of work on enabling support for the free-threaded build of CPython in community packages.
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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
Silent changes in payment methods on big creator funding platforms raise some unpleasant questions.
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Remarks on AI from NZ
Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.
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Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...
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A leap year check in three instructions
How to test for leap years (until year 102499) in the proleptic Gregorian calendar with just three 32-bit instructions, with detailed explanation of the bit-level tricks.
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