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Follow up to “I booted Linux 293k times”
Well that blew up. It was supposed to be just a silly off-the-cuff comment about how some bugs are very tedious to bisect. To answer a few questions people had, here’s what actually happened.…
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A complete guide to getting what you want (2018)
Note to reader: This is a long post – 2200 words – so bookmark it if you need to, but I think you’ll find it a worthwhile read if you apply this strategy even a single time. *...
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Apple Vision Pro – Potential hardware issues
Introduction This part will primarily cover the hardware and related human physical and visual issues with the Apple Vision Pro (AVP). In Part 3, I intend to discuss my issues with the applications…
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Scientists create contained ball of turbulence in a tank
Scientists create contained ball of turbulence in a tank that could help answer longstanding questions
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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout
If you are reading this then you most likely know about the recent news from reddit. As a result of these events, Lemmy has grown immensely in the last two weeks. The number of monthly active users has increased over 25 times, from 1.000 to 27.000 at time of writing. Suddenly Lemmy has become one of the largest…
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The Risks of Staying Put
Friends! Pals! Treasured work associates! Last month Mandy Brown wrote about how she struggled to quit her job and this bit hit me like a sledgehammer: “I...
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It's companies' fault we don't want to return to the office
It wasn't appealing to begin with
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Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture
Explore modern project architecture, theming, responsive layouts, and component design. Learn to improve code organization, dig into layout techniques, and review real-world, context-aware components that use cutting-edge CSS techniques.
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The Rot Economy
At the center of everything I’ve written for the last few months (if not the last few years), sits a cancerous problem with the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business. Public and private investors, along with the markets themselves, have become entirely decoupled from the concept of what “good” business…
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The Staggering Frontiers of CSS
Friends! Pals! CSS deviants! One thing I’ve always loved about CSS, besides its obvious and immediate effect on a webpage—wow this table is now red!—is that...
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How to raise a Roman army: The dilectus
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023139 points37 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This week we’re going to take a look at the process by which the Romans raised legions in the Middle Republic (c. 290-100 BC, think the age of Pyrrhus, Hannibal and the various well-known Sci…
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IKEA-Oriented Development
To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.
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I don't need your query language
Seriously, I don't. I'd prefer SQL.
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Review of Hetzner ARM64 servers and experience of WebP cloud services on them
TL；DR： Hetzner ARM64 performs very well, with the 4-core CAX21 (ARM64, 4 cores, 8GB RAM) machine only being 8% slower in WebP conversion speed compared to the 3-core CPX21 (AMD64, 3 cores, 4GB RAM), while the price difference between the two is 14% (8.40 USD/mo vs 9.76 USD/mo). Additionally, the CAX21 offers twice the…
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Iterating on Testing in Rust
With the release of rust 1.70, there was some surprise and frustration that unstable test features now require nightly , like all other unstable features in Rust. One of the features most affected is --format json which has been in limbo for 5 years . This drew attention to a feeling I've had: the testing story in…
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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)
Productivity is one of my pet topics, because it's always dogged me a bit, especially early in my career. I'd pull long days and nights and then realize I only actually worked (as in, typing in code, debugging stuff, and thinking about problems and their solutions) maybe 20% of the time. Upon talking to coworkers…
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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
Learn how Nix Flakes improve the composability and reproducibility of builds in Nix and Devbox.
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Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month in 1974, describing the lessons he learned leading IBM’s OS/360 project during the 1960s. As technology goes, it’s ancient. Consider the workflow for a “debugging run”:
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Requiem for a bank loan
A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse on the banking crisis.
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Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse
StreamingHttpResponse now supports async iterators when Django is served via ASGI.
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Reddit is undeleting years worth of comments and posts
Attached: 1 image Well fuck #reddit - they have just undeleted posts I made years ago that I'd removed when I did a purge a couple of years back. So Reddit didn't actually delete the data - also these videos are no longer on YT so the thumb is cached They are so fucked #gdpr…
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Full Time
I’m working on Marginalia Search full time. I left the office for the last time today, and it’s the strangest feeling. I’ve quit jobs, taken time off work, been laid off, but this is different from any of those things. This is deliberate. There’s a note of relief. I’ve essentially been working two pretty demanding…
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Two years of teaching high school CS
(This post is also now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) Leaving Teaching I’m posting this on my last day teaching high school computer science. In the pas...
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Annoying A/B testing mistakes
Running experiments is equal parts powerful and terrifying. Powerful because you can validate changes that will transform your product for the better…
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DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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Control, escape, and meta tricks
Open a Unix or Linux terminal emulator. If you have Terminal.app on macOS, ensure that the "Use Option as Meta Key" option is enabled in its "Preferences" section. Now type foo bar baz followed by meta + b (i.e. alt + b or option + b on modern keyboards). In a typical desktop environment with a typical and modern…
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Put an io_uring on it – Exploiting the Linux Kernel (2022)
Put an io_uring on it - Exploiting the Linux Kernel - chompie at the bits