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Maybe Functions
A coding anti-pattern that spreads it's tentacles across the codebase
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,900 posts.
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Proof of the Singular Value Decomposition
The existence claim for the singular value decomposition (SVD) is quite strong: “Every matrix is diagonal, provided one uses the proper bases for the domain and range spaces” (Trefethen & Bau III, 1997) . MIT professor Gilbert Strang has a wonderful lecture on the SVD, and he includes an existence proof for the SVD…
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Exploring Bauhaus: Revolutionary design school that shaped modern world
Bauhaus was a german art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that transcended traditional boundaries, boldly embracing the fusion of form and function. The founder of the school, Walter Gropius, believed in the "fundamental unity of the arts" and he anticipated the challenges that 20th-ce
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My Guide to Software Engineering Contracting in UK
My experience and tips for being a software developer contractor, in the UK
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Using PostgreSQL for military geoanalytics tasks
My name is Taras Kloba, Chief Partner Architect at Microsoft. This blog captures my journey through data engineering, certifications, and technology insights.
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Perf Is Not Enough
Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database. | Reading time: 17 min read
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Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive
Learn chess openings and variations online by repeating the most popular chess Master moves
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Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga
A famous blockprint by Hokusai titled “Mount Fuji Seen from the Mountains of Totomi,” showing a crew of sawyers rip-sawing a timber into boards using maebiki ooga saws, one man on top a…
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Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
This week I finished the most recent book in my self-guided study of 20th century technology, namely The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner. As the title implies, it’s a chronicle of research and development wing of AT&T, a history that lasts...
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How the Devteam Conquered the iPhone
The summer of 2007 was an eventful one if you were into cell phones. It all started on June 29 when Apple announced the release of the iPhone. If you have never taken the time to watch the full keynote, I highly recommend it.
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E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)
In some Amish communities these days, e-bikes are beginning to outnumber buggies on the roads. Horse-drawn buggies, long a symbol of the Amish lifestyle, are finding less use as more people in Amish communities adopt electric-powered bicycles. In small Amish towns across America such as Sugarcreek, Ohio, Napponee…
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S3 is files, but not a filesystem
"Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful
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mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less
Quick, inexpensive, made-to-order treatments
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Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
How to extract raw source protobuf definitions from compiled binaries, regardless of the target architecture
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I'm Betting on Call-by-Push-Value
Why call-by-push-value is the best evaluation strategy, and why it's going to take over
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What Monks Know about Focus
It’s Never Been Easy to Battle Distraction. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s New Translation of John Cassian in ‘How to Focus’
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Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
Explore how Safari 17’s new anti-fingerprinting techniques affect audio fingerprinting and browser differentiation.
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Using LLMs to Generate Fuzzers
LLMs seem surprisingly good at many things. So much so that not a week goes by without someone coming up with yet another use-case for this technology, often to solve tasks quickly that traditionally took a non-trivial amount of human work to complete. Today’s example was Brendan Dolan-Gavitt’s remarkable experiment…
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A helicopter and boats to perform a rare ceremony at the Tower of London
Next week, a fairly rare ceremony will take place in and around the Tower of London, and it's even more special than usual this time.
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Apple curl security incident 12604
tldr: Apple thinks it is fine. I do not. On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker. We get a lot issues filed most days so this fact alone was hardly anything out of the ordinary. We read the reports, investigate, ask follow-up questions to see what we can learn … Continue reading the…
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1BRC merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
A deep dive into merykitty's 8-line SWAR temperature parser from the One Billion Row Challenge, using bitwise tricks and ALU magic with no loops or branches.
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Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
A comprehensive study of high-temperature superconducting magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant.
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Why Tolkien Hated Dune
A short intro to the philosophy of ethics J.R.R. Tolkien maintained a very private, but very negative opinion of Frank Herbert’s Dune. In Tolkien’s Library, entry 964, Tolkien is quoted…
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Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application
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Build Initramfs Rootless
Let's create an hello world init program that the kernel can execute to show that everything works correctly:
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Self-control signals and affords power
New research from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management and Texas A&M University finds that having self-control is often what leads to power.