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Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions
Massive banks are now accused of cheating customers billions of dollars in interest payments according to financial reports.
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1892
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
I love the Apple IIGS. It’s a great computer, but could it have been greater? The legend goes that Apple purposefully underclocked its CPU during development to avoid competing with the Macintosh. But is this actually true? Join me for a deep dive into the IIGS architecture, the life the 65816 CPU,
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Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)
The world is full of gatekeepers who think they have veto rights. Don’t believe them. Pitbull got it right when he said "Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice."
1894
The LMAX Architecture (2011)
LMAX is a retail financial trading system that can handle that can 6 million orders per second on a single JVM thread. The business logic runs in-memory surrounded by disruptors using event sourcing.
1895
MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots
A zinc-air microbattery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas pipelines.
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Abel, the Mozart of Mathematics
“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of productivity and his personality with Mozart’s.” — Felix Klein
1897
Automating My /Now Page
A deep dive into how I automated my now page on my personal website by creating a Go script and making use of GitHub Actions.
1898
Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
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Aristotle – How to live a good life
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good…
1900
Seven basic rules for causal inference
Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager
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CSS Grid Areas
A fresh look at the CSS grid template areas and how to take advantage of its full potential today.
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Yesterday's Pixels, Today
In August I finished work on a game called Restricted Airspace for the Wonderbundle, a bundle of new games by NYC game designers available as a reward to backers of the Wonderville Kickstarter . It is a 3rd person aerial shooter in the style of the original Star Fox set in a city modeled on Beirut in the 1890s. It was…
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When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)
A talk given at the ebookcraft conference, March 30, 2016
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We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
A long day of debugging led to a better solution: Signed URLs.
1906
Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model
Introducing Hermes 3 in partnership with Nous Research, the first fine-tune of Meta Llama 3.1 405B model. Train, fine-tune or serve Hermes 3 with Lambda
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It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
Henry George was right about land values. And today we have a homebuilder cartel rooted in control of land and financing.
1908
Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
An overview of the tools and environment Stripe engineers used to write and test code, as of 2019 or so.
1909
CockroachDB license change
What you need to know about the changes that happened to CockroachDB Enterprise this past November.
1910
Apple vs. the "Free Market"
Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages:
1911
Galois Theory
Note: These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards . They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older browsers, like Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x. Moreover, many posts use MathML, which is, currently only supported in…
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Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)
Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/03/searching-for-the-perfect-ios-markdown-writing-tool/
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Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
No magic numbers, no tricky tuning: a clean and flexible approach to designing a smooth high-quality reverb, using a variation on the classic feedback-delay network (FDN) structure.
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Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green's Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing
Efficient filtering of polygonal shapes with closed-form solutions based on Green’s theorem with piecewise-polynomial filters (e.g. box/bilinear/bicubic).
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Trainwreck Design
trainwreck design 2024-08-14 the year is 2024, and i want to know my disk space usage. i recall a simple command i've used probably tens of thousands of times. df -h the year is 2024. instead of sensible output, i get... this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on dev 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev run 7.8G 1.5M 7.8G 1%…
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International Study Detects Consciousness in Unresponsive Patients
Your trusted health & wellness resource- explore a wealth of expert articles offering invaluable insights and guidance.
1918
Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach
I decided to write this post because there's no concise way to explain the nuances of what's being described as one of the largest data breaches ever. Usually, it's easy to articulate a data breach; a service people provide their information to had someone snag it through
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How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
Possibly the one you're Googling about.
1920
Re-fixing Servo's event-loop
A follow-up on a previous story, in which we identify another problem, and perhaps confirm a theory through a theorem.