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Missing the Point of WebAssembly
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GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power
GE Vernova announces 2.4 GW order for Pattern Energy’s SunZia wind project
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Using Git Offline
Some companies use an isolated network or even the complete lack of a network as a security measure to protect from unauthorized access. Working on these systems can be a struggle but it is still possible, and perhaps even more important, to use a proper version control tool like Git.
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Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
Over the last few months, Baker and I have been digging in deep on Heat Pumps . I'm putting my explorations here on pause but wanted to write up everything we've learned over the last few months.
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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
Reviewing the JIT in Python 3.13
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Where Have All the Websites Gone?
It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.
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Bit-Banging Bluetooth Low Energy
Dmitry.GR: Creating BTLE-compliant advertisement packets, so that iOS and android devices can see and parse them.
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Carta to exit secondary trading business
No. Not anymore. Because we have the data, if we are trading secondaries, people will always worry that we are using the data, even if we…
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Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)
I have often been asked to distill the vast corpus of user interface design into a few key principles. While I was reluctant to do this, it turned out to be a good exercise to write “Golden Rules,” that are applicable in most interactive systems. These principles, derived from experience and refined over three…
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Trade-offs between Different CRDTs
🔰If CRDTs are new to you, here are some introductory links. - An interactive intro to CRDTs - An introduction to state-based CRDTs - CRDTs for non-academics - CRDT: The Hard Parts - Readings in CRDTs - crdt.tech What are the trade-offs between different kinds of CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated
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Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024
We estimate the magnitude of speed improvement for optimization solvers and computer hardware in the 35 years from 1989 to 2024.
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Mario Maker 2 API
Mario Maker 2 API, created Thursday, February 10, 2022
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OpenAI and journalism
We support journalism, partner with news organizations, and believe The New York Times lawsuit is without merit.
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An overview of distributed Postgres architectures
Marco just joined Crunchy Data and he reflects on his career in distributed systems in this post. He provides an overview of several options for approaching distributed Postgres workloads and the pros and cons of each approach.
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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
Apple Vision Pro will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online.
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Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?
Long-time readers of this blog will know that I have mixed feelings about caches. One on hand, caching is critical to the performance of systems at every layer, from CPUs to storage to whole distributed architectures. On the other hand, caching being this critical means that designers need to carefully consider what…
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A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks
Inspired by Becky Chamber's Monk & Robot Series
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Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines
Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)'s annual revenue dwarfs total fines. The cost for privacy is insignificant to them.
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How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble te…
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Visualizing Ext4
What does ext4 look like?
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How We Handle Cap Table Information
On Friday we had an internal policy violation that affected three companies. I’ve been in touch with the founders and I’m appalled we made…
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MK1 Flywheel Unlocks the Full Potential of AMD Instinct for LLM Inference
AMD acquires MK1, welcoming their world-class team and marking another key milestone in our strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency.
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What does the cerebellum do?
Hint: It's Not Just Balance
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The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
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When random numbers are too random: Low discrepancy sequences (2017)
Random numbers can be useful in graphics and game development, but they have a pesky and sometimes undesirable habit of clumping together. This is a problem in path tracing and monte carlo integrat…
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Attacks on machine learning models
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