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Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
A study that was recently published in Personality and Individual Differences sheds light on the relationship between mindfulness and procrastination .
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Rethinking the Commodore 64 Memory Map (2018)
I've had my head down, programming away on C64 OS, and been making some great progress. I've tweeted a few things out, some of which are revealing of things I've either never talked about here or even seem to contradict what I've said here. So I'd like to take a breather and talk about some of these developments.
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India is now producing the world’s cheapest solar power
As the costs of generating cleaner energy continue to fall, there is growing potential to speed up the transition to a zero-carbon future.
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Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems
A lot of contemporary video game players take online communications for granted—after all, online services have been a standard feature in consoles for nearly fifteen years at this point1. However, before the ubiquity of the internet there was a time when some clever cartridges let gamers run up to the...
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Network Transparency with Wayland
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Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch
The other day, being unable to find a suitable open-source text editor for cpmish , I sat down and wrote a simple vi-like editor. It took nine hours. I have it all on video.
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Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 14: Nested Scopes (2017)
Only dead fish go with the flow. As I promised in the last article, today we’re finally going to do a deep dive into the topic of scopes. This is what we’re going to learn today: We’re going to learn about scopes, why they are useful, and …
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NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof
(First, as a public service message, if you're running Linux on a G5 you may wish to update the kernel .) I'm a big fan of NetBSD . I've ru...
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I’m Leaving IBM
Today is my last day at IBM. If you’ve been following along, IBM bought my startup Resilient Systems in Spring 2016. Since then, I have been with IBM, holding the nicely ambiguous title of “Special Advisor.” As of the end of the month, I will be back on my own. I will continue to write and speak, and do the occasional…
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Atari Centipede’s Hidden Code Trap
During the peak of Atari’s success, one of the more unlikely tasks given to some of its coin-operated programmers, was to analyse potentially pirated versions of their games. This week, I tho…
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Attempts to Censor AntiPolygraph.org
AntiPolygraph.org has received a rather unpleasant letter from James D’Loughy, a lawyer representing NITV Federal Services, LLC (NITV), which markets a scientifically baseless voice-based lie detector called the “Computer Voice Stress Analyzer,” and its president, self-described “Renaissance Man” “Dr.” Charles Humble…
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Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple
June 27, 2019Mr. Craig Federighi Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering One Apple Park Way Cupertino, CA 95014RE: Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign In with AppleDear Mr. Federighi,The OpenID Foundation applauds Apple’s efforts to allow users to login to third-party mobile and…
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Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa
Google’s private Equiano subsea cable will improve connectivity, resilience and latency for the people who live and work in Africa.
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Freeing My Phone from Google
Phones are so full of ads that you don’t even notice them anymore. Suggestions and notifications you didn’t ask for, tracking mechanisms you don’t even know are there, services over which you have no control. It’s absurd how much smartphones, a large extension of our private and social lives, are controlled and…
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Awk by Example
Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
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AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
A AMD oferece soluções de computação adaptativa e de alto desempenho de liderança para promover IA de data center, PCs com IA, dispositivos de borda inteligentes, jogos e muito mais.
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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership
Learn about ownership of legacy software code.
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Announcing Startup School 2019
Today, we’re opening up registration for Startup School 2019, our free online course for founders looking to get help turning an idea into a startup. The 10 week course will begin July 22, 2019 and is free for everyone to participate. You can register at Startup School [https://startupschool.org]. We will again be…
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Ive’s Legacy, the Post-Ive Apple
Jony Ive is leaving Apple: how it happened, Ive’s legacy, and what it means for Apple going forward.
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Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut
Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19 In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmabil…
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OS X/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper bypass
Last week, Intego researchers discovered new Mac malware, OSX/Linker, that attempts to leverage a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in macOS' Gatekeeper protection. Let's examine what we know about this latest Mac malware campaign. What is the back story? Before digging into the OSX/Linker malware, it would be helpful…
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EC2 Instance Connect
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect
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On Jony Ive Leaving Apple
I don’t worry that Apple is in trouble because Jony Ive is leaving; I worry that Apple is in trouble because he’s not being replaced.
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Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, will depart the company later this year to form an independent design company.
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Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, will depart the company later this year to form an independent design company.