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Differences with other Lisps
This information is provided for programmers familiar with Common Lisp or Scheme.
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They don't even know the fundamentals
Ah yes, the fundamentals or endless list of things that everybody working in the field ought to know. Atomicity, something, something, Durability? To avoid any future embarrassments I made sure to dust off my Wild Hog book 1 and re-read the section on ACID. Here’s an excerpt directly from the book:
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C++ Coroutines Do Not Spark Joy
C++20 added minimal support for coroutines. I think they’re done in a way that really doesn’t fit into C++, mostly because they don’t follow the zero-overhead principle. Calling a…
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SoME1 results
Reflections on the Summer of Math Exposition
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‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted vulnerabilities into any software without being detected, new research released today warns. The vulnerability…
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The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years
In passing the PATRIOT Act, Congress enacted a “solution” to preventing another 9/11-like debacle without having any evidence that a lack of surveillance powers was what allowed Osama bin Laden’s suicide hijackers to succeed in killing nearly 3,000 Americans.
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An Update on Our Outage
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images
September 2021, the 11.7 Tesla MRI of the Iseult project, the most powerful in the world for human imaging, has just unveiled its first images.
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It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is
The DMCA was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998. It has a weird history. Its inception came from Bruce Lehmann, Microsoft's chief copyright enforcer, whom Clinton tapped to serve as his Copyright Czar. This was back in the "Information Superhighway" days, when Al Gore was holding hearings on the demilitarization…
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Live Not by Lies (1974)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's immortal 1974 essay calling for civic courage.
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How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams
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Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnot
Today, I am announcing mach/glfw: Ziggified GLFW bindings with 100% API coverage, zero-fuss installation, cross compilation, and more.
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Watermelons
This week we nerd out on watermelons (available May to October). All living beings on Earth constantly search for water—tree roots grow into cracked or leaky underground pipes to access the water they carry, camels can go a full week without drinking thanks to the unique water-storage capacity of their oval-shaped red…
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Repeat Yourself, a Lot
Learn why successful venture capital leaders and startup CEOs repeat key messages 7+ times to drive brand recall and align teams around strategic priorities.
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Bash functions are better than I thought
I've been using Bash functions quite liberally over the past couple years, but last week I discovered that they can be much better than I thought. In this post, I'll explain how I thought they worked, why I was wrong, and how that makes them better.Function syntax
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The strange path of accepting how your brain works
I recently read Turing’s Cathedral, a book about the early history of computers, and it largely focused on the life and brilliant times of John von Neumann, who was, to put it simply, a genius. It is both fascinating and disappointing to learn about a brain that works so much better than your own. Fascinating because…
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Encrypting Postgres Data at Rest in Kubernetes
An example of how you can encrypt Postgres data at rest using PGO, the open source Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data using AWS EBS gp2 volumes.
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Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)
A community edition of David MacKay's book — the original text, opened up so it can be updated.
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Unified Patent Court is more expensive and an SME killer
Brussels, 31 october 2021 — FFII says the proposed Unified Patent Court is an SME killer with its super-expensive court fees of 20.000EUR. No small company will be able to defend itself if it is accused of violating a patent, the proposed UPC court fees will deny access to justice for small companies, the cost […]
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A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure
Fear of failing is deeply rooted in shame. If we can learn to let go of shame and embrace failure, we can learn and grow in unparalleled ways.
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Which is not Posix
I learn a non-trivial number of things, because there’s Debian drama about them. The fact that the which command is not part of any standard just joined the flock.
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Containers vs. pods – taking a deeper look
Can a Kubernetes Pod be created with plain Docker commands? Learn the difference between Containers and Pods by exploring how they are implemented under the hood.
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Truths about video game stories
I shouldn't care, but I do.
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sunsetting science research platform meta.org
Meta.org will sunset March 31, 2022
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Death by Bureaucracy
I’ve been an anti-death penalty activist for 10 years. In this time, I’ve tried my best to observe and document the application of capital punishment in Singapore, and to support the families of death row inmates as they navigate the system. When people ask me about this
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macOS has become more reliable
How APFS, the boot volume group, hashes, and Secure Boot all combine to guarantee the integrity of your system, and save you trouble and work.
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Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
Warning: The below content is not appropriate for children. Please check with an adult before you read this page. To go back to the children’s page, please click here. This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded […]
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Async Ruby
Async Ruby is a powerful and highly scalable concurrency feature. It's available today, it's production-ready, and it's an awesome addition to Ruby language!