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Chili Oil Notes
I’ve been getting a little obsessed with chili oil. A little…lost in the sauce so to speak. Here’s some notes and general thoughts on chili oil.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Tech Independence
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people
HyperTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts – all wonderful tools in their day, but none has brought coding to the crowd.
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Changing the Rules of Rust
In Rust, there are certain API decisions about what is and isn’t sound that impact all Rust code. That is, a decision was made to allow or not allow types which have certain safety requirements, and now all users are committed to that decision. They can’t just use a different API with different rules: all APIs must…
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Unity's Trap
Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint , Heat Signature , and Tactical Breach Wizards . Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
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Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )
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Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model
I found some details about Apple’s new predictive text model, coming soon in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma.
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Java 21 makes me like Java again
Algebraic data types in Java.
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Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023
A tale how running your own x509 root CA – for internal services – changed in the last 20 years.
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Don't be afraid to be wrong
Being afraid of being wrong can hold you back - know how to deal with it.
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Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health
Do you want to join the uprising? Click here to see a list of all groups around the world In a world where we spend the majority of our lives surrounded by buildings, the impact of architecture on our well-being often goes unnoticed. But what if I told you that the buildings you encounter every...
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The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
Welcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where we let members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota, and an event as unique as The International. The International is an unbelievably huge…
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GPT-4 is not getting worse
GPT-4 may have declined in some areas, but it hasn’t systematically done so. My tests were shit, and never proved much of anything.
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Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem
It is now ??????????.??? ( ????-??-??T??:??:??.???Z ) in Unix time , according to your local system clock.
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases
A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) has shown in the lab setting that
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Everyday uses for PVC water pipe
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Building an economy simulator from scratch
by Thomas SIMON
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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
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Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective
Practical guide to improving LLM finetuning with better instruction datasets, covering data curation, prompt-output pairs, synthetic data, and experiment ideas.
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Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates
Tim Perry recently claimed in an article that “Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root”. This sparked significant discussion on Hacker News. Thankfully my tests show that it is still possible to adjust the system certificate store in Android 14.
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How does Linux start a process
Stack smashing: How Linux creates the stack and runs a program. Then mess with it.