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Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to RAM and Wakes Up Again
Researcher interested in usable security and privacy.
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What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.
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The case for frameworks
I push back on Alex Russell's "Market for Lemons" post blaming JS frameworks and their advocates for poor mobile web performance. Developers aren't stupid or deceived: React dominates because of rational economics. Frameworks save developer time, enable hiring, and compound via ecosystems. Better frameworks, not fewer…
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Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio
Friday was my 9 year anniversary of starting as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. Monday I was laid off.
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SS United States, the fastest passenger liner ever built
The fastest passenger liner ever built, the SS United States was a joint undertaking by a civilian shipping line and the US Navy. SS United States, rusting away in Philadelphia photo from WikiCommo…
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Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
But they are victims of complex societal factors that are beyond their control
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Does Google need a new CEO?
Whether it is botched and haphazard layoffs, anti-trust regulators baying for its blood, or opportunistic saber-rattling by long-time rival Microsoft and its outsourced AI unit, OpenAI — 2023 has b…
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Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants
Since 2021, Blue Origin has been making solar cells and transmission wire from regolith simulants.
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Pre-seed, seed startups with employees in office have higher revenue growth
This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher…
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Curl audit: How a joke led to significant findings
In fall 2022, Trail of Bits audited cURL, a widely-used command-line utility that transfers data between a server and supports various protocols. The project coincided with a Trail of Bits maker week, which meant that we had more manpower than we usually do, allowing us to take a nonstandard approach to the […]
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Rust vs. Haskell
Even though Rust and Haskell are quite different languages, they are also surprisingly alike. If you know Rust, you have a head start with Haskell, and vice versa.
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Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)
We hack an Android TV box into something useful
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Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps
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Data Classification: Does Python still have a need for class without dataclass?
Does Python still have a need for class without @dataclass?
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An interactive explanation of quadtrees (2014)
The space is divided into four rectangles . Each of those rectangles is divided such that it contains a maximum of four children . Each child is either a point or a smaller rectangle.
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Google’s fully homomorphic encryption compiler – a primer
Back in May of 2022 I transferred teams at Google to work on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (newsletter announcement). Since then I’ve been working on a variety of projects in the space, including being the primary maintainer on github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption, which is an open source FHE compiler for…
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GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available
Introduction In DirectX ❤ Linux - DirectX Developer Blog we wrote about DXCore & D3D12 support on WSLg and described OpenGL & OpenCL support by
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The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (2014)
Ghost Influence by Brian Swichkow2023335 points75 commentscited by 37Society, Policy & Culture details
This is the chronicle of the most epic retaliation and how I pranked my roommate with targeted Facebook Ads to the point of complete paranoia and delusion.
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Declarative Shadow DOM
We’re pleased to announce that support for the declarative shadow DOM API has been added and enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview 162.
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Modern Mono
I’ve just finished setting up a new Mac (14" MBP, M2 Pro, 32G, 4T). It dawned on me that most of my really intense interactions with this thing involve looking at “monospace” (i.e. fixed-width) text; in Emacs where I write this blog, in my IDE, and in my terminal. The ones that came with the machine by default are…
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Bing AI can't be trusted
Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype
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The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
Some bugs are merely fun. Others are simply delicious! Today’s pick is the latter. Reproducing the issue, part 1 (It may be tempting to skip that section, but reproducing an issue is an important p...
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Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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How to get a heart attack while using JEB decompiler (2022)
Finding RCE during deobfuscation in JEB decompiler running on Java 18.
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We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability
My way of thinking about long-term habit building