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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
A framework to make your pitch 10x more compelling in a few minutes
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
Hey, that took only a month, which means that it’s time, once again, to display some Emacs charts. And since this is the tenth post in this series, I thought I’d natter on even more tha…
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Canada's awful new proposals on “harmful” content
Canada's government is poised to pass a "harmful content" regulation. It's a worst-in-class mutation of a dangerous idea that's swept the globe, in which governments demand that hamfisted tech giants remove broad categories of speech – too swiftly for meaningful analysis.
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Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
I plan on writing about why I am interested in the Lisp family of languages. It will probably come out in stages.
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Progress Beats Perfect
This is a favorite saying of mine. I use it to motivate myself when I feel disheartened about how much I have to learn and improve. If I do ...
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The uncanny absence of nihilism
Nihilism, like botulism, is not an ideology or conceptual system. It is a stance: an emotionally-charged way of being.
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Black Hat USA 2021 Review
中文 First of all, thank Orange Tsai for giving me the opportunity to participate in Black Hat USA 2021 in Las Vegas. This article would not exist without this ticket. I am going to share my thoughts and some technical topics on the two days of Black Hat USA 2021 in this article. The hotel and the conference venue are…
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Second IC
In 2018 I made the first lithographically fabricated integrated circuits in my garage fab. I was a senior in high school when I made the Z1 amplifier, and now I’m a senior in college so there are some long overdue improvements to the amateur silicon process. The Z1 had 6 transistors and was a great test chip to…
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How Actors Work Internally in Swift
Lets explore how actors work under the hood, using Swift's own source code as a guide to finding out how they work inside the compiler.
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‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study
Yale researchers looked at 12.7 million tweets from over seven thousand Twitter users to test whether users expressed more outrage over time, and if so, why.
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The case against crisis-mongering
We face problems. As have all societies ever.
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AlgorithmWatch shuts down Instagram monitoring after threats from Facebook
Digital platforms play an ever-increasing role in structuring and influencing public debate. Civil society watchdogs, researchers and journalists need to be able to hold them to account. But Facebook is increasingly fighting those who try. It shut down New York University’s Ad Observatory last week, and went after…
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Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
In this post, CrowdStrike's Engineering team walks through one possible way of adapting a library to handle OOM events without aborting the process.
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Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017)
Or subtitle: Maybe distributed programming is no longer a programming problem? (For the obvious impaired: This is meant to be more thought provoking than an actual truth) Over the last decade we ha…
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Machu Picchu older than expected, study reveals
The first science-based estimation of the site’s founding and occupation, the Yale-led study has implications for our wider understanding of Inca history.
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C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013)
Index A tiny ABI An ABI to appease the linker Catching what you throw Magic around __cxa_begin_catch and __cxa_end_catch Gcc...
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Git password authentication is shutting down
As previously announced, starting on August 13, 2021, at 09:00 PST, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com. Instead, token-based authentication (for example, personal…
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Internet of Snitches
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Overthinking
I used to be a pathological overthinker. Everything had to be carefully planned, from the words I would say to the baker to order a baguette to all the insignificant details of any of the projects I worked on. Is it better to tweet at 18:00 or 18:05? Rust or
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Intro to Deep Learning
I just sat down this morning and organized all deep learning related videos I recorded in 2021. I am sure this will be a useful reference for my future…