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Why I’m betting on Nostr
Nostr - the simple, decentralized messaging protocol with the potential to replace centralized apps like Twitter and WhatsApp - is going mainstream. And fast.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
2072
A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet
Building an underwater sensor node with SPE and PoDL
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Some flying robot behavior improvements
Hello, today we are going to talk about some flying robot behavior improvements. Some of the problems we fixed were reported countless times, so I hope that some people will appreciate it :).
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Patterns with Rust Types
Patterns to use types for better safety and design
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AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties advocacy group, recently published a good article entitled “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.” 1 It argues that providers within the internet “stack” should refrain from censoring traffic according to their own values. That…
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Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell
It is time to celebrate EC2-Classic, which defined early cloud computing, and which is finally retiring.
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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Becoming a contractor
How many roads must a programmer walk down before you call them a contractor? It’s been about three years since I went down this (bumpy) path, and I finally have the feeling that my contracting business is “bootstrapped”1. Here’s an account of my journey so far, hoping you find it inspiring! 0. Contents Articles about…
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Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style
Back in August 2020 , Google began testing a seemingly Apple Maps-inspired map style that added darker and deeper landcover colors throughout the world:
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Writing a bare-metal RISC-V application in D
This post will show you how to use D to write a bare-metal “Hello world” program that targets the RISC-V QEMU simulator. In a future blog post ( now available ) we’ll build on this to target actual hardware: the VisionFive 2 SBC. See blog-code for the final code from this post. For a more complex example, see…
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Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components
Server Components run on the server instead of the client, giving you control over your bundle size and data fetching. Here’s everything we learned about them.
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Wii Architecture – A Practical Analysis
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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Types versus sets (and what about categories?) (2022)
A recent Twitter thread brought home to me that there is widespread confusion about what types actually are, even among the most prominent researchers. In particular: are types the same thing as sets ? At the risk of repeating some of my prior posts, perhaps it’s time for a little history about type theory, set theory…
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Elixir/Erlang Secure Coding and Deployment Hardening Guidelines
Documentation, specifications and code from the Security Working Group of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
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The low, low cost of committing cybercrime
The low, low cost of (committing) cybercrime, Author: Jan Kopriva
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Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL
Tutorial and comparison with RAG methods
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Teaching with AI
We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.
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Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way
A comment on a Hacker News thread inspired me to contemplate why Mastodon is everything we loved about social media before…
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New antifungal therapy for fungal meningitis
A team of University of Minnesota Medical School researchers successfully tested a new antifungal therapy to treat fungal meningitis. The trial results were published today in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Docker Is Four Things
Docker is not just a way of running programs on Linux without a virtual machine. Docker is 4 things.
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Absurd Success
So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been…
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Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability
Chess puzzles, but you are what you eat.
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Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)
Airplane window seats are great! Not only are they more comfy and easier to take a nap in, but they also have the most quaint form of in-flight entertainment: The outside world!
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Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
a16z announces its Open Source AI Grant program, which will support a small group of open source developers through grant funding.
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When should you use the IN instead of the OR operator in Postgres?
Query performance often varies depending on how you write queries. For PostgreSQL, what provides better performance? The IN or OR operator?