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The Merge
Learn about The Merge, when Ethereum Mainnet moved from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in September 2022, cutting its energy use by about 99.95%.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E
From Data to Daily Life
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Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity
Being an academic, I am (sort of) being paid 1 to come up with new ideas about my research field, potential applications, and the future. When I was just starting out, one of my fears was that I would not be able to come up with sufficiently good ideas. All my professors had these great ideas—would I ever be at their…
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Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance
Finalist #15 in the Book Review Contest
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Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …
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Coping with Copilot
CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. B…
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Supabase Vault
Today we're announcing Vault, a Postgres extension for managing secrets and encryption inside your database.
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The world map that reboots your brain
Most maps grossly misrepresent the size of countries and contribute to confusion. Let's revise our tools to help us get better results.
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The silence of risk management victory
Sometimes risk mitigation works.
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Shared Libraries as Executables
Typically you either have an executable or a shared library, but can you have an executable shared library too?
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Creating Shazam in Java (2010)
A couple of days ago I encountered this article: How Shazam WorksThis got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is...
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Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
It’s been a long-standing dream of front-end developers to have a way to apply CSS to an element based on what’s happening inside that element.
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
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Visual Sum of Cubes
This article discusses a ‘visual’ derivation of the formula for 1³+2³+…+n³.
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Nvidia to Share New Details on Grace CPU, Hopper GPU, NVLink Switch, Jetson Orin
Latest chip designs reflect the breadth and depth of NVIDIA’s platform innovation in AI, edge and high performance computing.
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App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
I've had my fair share of App Store rejections in the past: - ⌘ rcmd was rejected for usage of private APIs - GammaDimmer was rejected for having a link to 🌕 Lunar (my app for controlling monitors that would never get accepted on the App Store) ...
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Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance
My fantasy for work-life integration today
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Resolving an unusual WiFi issue
Late last year, I started experiencing some unusual intermittent connection issues on my Desktop. In general, I had a stable connection with average latency; however, at (seemingly) random times throughout the week, I would start experiencing sudden 2000ms+ latency spikes every couple of seconds.
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Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
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Shazam turns 20
Shazam — one of the most beloved and popular music discovery platforms in the world — turns 20 today.
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C++ Concurrency Model on x86 for Dummies (2020)
A blog by and for database architects.
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The Merge
In about a month, an important moment will happen in the world of crypto/web3. The Ethereum blockchain will move from a proof of work consensus mechanism to a proof of stake consensus mechanism. This event is known as “The Merge” in Ethereum land. There are many reasons why this is an important moment for the […]
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More content by people, for people in Search
We’re improving Search so you’re less likely to find content made primarily for search engines, and more likely to find helpful, authentic information.
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How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)
How to Identify and Misidentify a Brown Recluse Spider by Rick Vetter Staff Research Associate, UC Riverside Dept. of Entomology
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The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies
A fun, endearing, delightful pile of lies.
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What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad
Tanishq Kancharla's personal website