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Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
As I watched him on stage, I thought about what made him extraordinary. It’s not his voice. He readily admits that his voice isn’t amazing.
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I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
In order to protect women, gender nonconforming folks, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community from suffering as my peers and I have, I feel ethically obligated to go public with my ex…
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Apple has just released the first Rapid Security Response for Ventura
Apple has just released the first of its new Rapid Security Responses (RSRs) for macOS 13.3.1 Ventura. This is indicated as macOS Rapid Security Response 13.3.1 (a), and is just just over 300 MB to…
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You and Your Research (1986)
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
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Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989
In the 1980s, the financial sector suffered through a period of distress that was focused on the nation's savings and loan industry.
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Storage on Vercel
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
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Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife
Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
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Chatbots are not the future
Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I've talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable. Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, my inner designer has been bursting at the seams.
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Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen
Seed generation of Trust Wallet was flawed, the total entropy was only 32 bits. We have created a file containing all possible seeds. Fortunately, the Ledger Donjon discovered the vulnerability very quickly and likely avoided one of the biggest hack in the crypto ecosystem.
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First clean water, now clean air
Fin Moorhouse's website
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Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
We are charting the path to a future free from Parkinson’s. Your support will get us there.
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Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element
The <keygen/> element is probably one of the weirdest elements ever added to HTML:
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The web’s most important decision
I got a bit caught up this month, so I had to delay a couple of things, but I’ll be […]
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The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
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Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.” – Charlie Munger, American billionaire investor.
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DIY Adapter: Using an e-bike battery to run a laptop
The goal here is to grab power from external battery packs of varying voltages and supply power to 'desktop replacement' sized laptops. This same topology can be used for Dell barrel jack systems.
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Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new water treatment that removes “forever chemicals” from drinking water safely, efficiently – and for good.
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Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Rebuilding Vox News featured section with modern CSS.
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F-Droid Security Issues
F-Droid is a popular alternative app repository for Android, especially known for its main repository dedicated to free and open-source software. F-Droid is often recommended among security and privacy enthusiasts, but how does it stack up against Play Store in practice? This write-up will attempt to emphasize major…
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My favorite C compiler flags during development
The major compilers have an enormous number of knobs . Most are highly specialized, but others are generally useful even if uncommon. For warnings, the venerable -Wall -Wextra is a good start, but circumstances improve by tweaking this warning set. This article covers high-hitting development-time options in GCC…
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Waterloo Style
A blog about software development and programming.
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Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale
By Phil Norman Code at Scale At Google, tens of thousands of software engineers contribute to a multi-billion-line mono-repository . This re...
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We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI
The current paradigm will not lead to an overnight superintelligence explosion.
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Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine compared written responses from physicians with those from ChatGPT to real-world health questions. A panel of licensed healthcare professionals preferred ChatGPT’s responses 79% of the time.
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Deno 1.33: Deno 2 is coming
Deno 1.33 is a step towards our next major release, with improved LSP support, enhanced Node.js compatibility, and more.
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Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct?
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023159 points126 commentscited by 4Career & Management details
This week we’re going to take a detour into understanding the structure of academia, in particular the different kinds of ‘professors’ and their academic ranks in the American sys…
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How to set your domain as your handle
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.