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Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate
Started on 9th May, 2019 it took almost five months to finish. It again puts the tutorial in a place I am happy with for now, and it will likely stay there for quite some time. Given the priorities and circumstances in my life, I don’t expect to keep working on it for time to come.
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Ultralearning
A four-year degree used to be a guarantee for a great career. Now it’s barely a foot in the door.
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ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval
An update on the proposed acquisition of Public Interest Registry (PIR) by Ethos Capital and where ICANN was in the process in December 2019.
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JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks Report
The current article describes a series of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Garbage Collectors (GC) micro-benchmarks and their results, using a different set of patterns. For the current issue, I included all Garbage Collectors from AdoptOpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM version 13 (build 13+33) :
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I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV
In my time, I've done a number of side projects — some serious, some decidedly less so. My latest side project is quite definitely in the latter category: trying to win a game show on national television.
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A new cycle-stepped 6502 CPU emulator
TL;DR: The how and why of the new 6502 emulator in the chips project.
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Information Theory with TensorFlow
Redirecting to https://www.mukeshmithrakumar.com/blog/deep-learning-with-tf2-probability-and-information-theory/ .
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The Cathedral and the Bizarre
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. Douglas Rushkoff
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Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases
Linux uses dm-crypt in order to provide transparent disk or partition encryption. What are the options in case you need to recover passphrase from such encryption? There are already ready-made tools, but we have also produced and published our own in order to support newer LUKS format/ciphers/hashing.
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Coping with Flexbox
If only someone paid me everytime I visited CSSTrick's flexbox guide…or at least all those times when I fiddled around {justify,align}-{content,items} trying to make _something_ happen on screen. I wanted to form a better mental model of all the basic functionality that flexbox provides for all those…
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The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019
Our Journey to Microservices, Kubernetes and beyond.
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Linux Toolbox
Your Linux Toolbox: a box set of my free zines
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Why we fall for cons
There may be times and places where it’s a good idea to talk back to a military officer — but Germany in 1906 wasn’t one of them. So the young corporal didn’t. The corporal — let’s call him Muller …
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Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again
The “social contract” is a one-way street. You pay your taxes or go to jail. In return, the government may or may not provide some of those services you
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Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
I’m approaching my ten year anniversary on Stack Overflow. Over the past decade, how I use the site and my understanding of it has evolved quite a bit, so I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned along the way.
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49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
A new survey has revealed some alarming news about the way users are choosing their passwords in their homes and workplace.
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Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018)
A comparison of ideas behind Dynamo and Cassandra
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Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
Hundreds of articles for game developers and enthusiasts.
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Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.
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“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
Did you ever imagine that an “Ice Cream” could shake the entire General Motors? In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received a very funny complaint from one of its customers. It was so weird & bizarre that it took the entire General Motors by storm. However, on reading the entire Case, this definitely