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Observations on tragedy in a digital age
Viewed in the proper light, influencer is a career path of tragic dimensions.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,934 posts.
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Efficient simulation through linear algebra
I spent a lot of time working on a project in which physically plausible simulation of soft materials with pressure chambers was a key part, and in doing so, we managed to improve a part of our simulation by a significant amount. I was very happy with how this small part of the whole system turned out, and I've been…
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It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made hazardous chemicals that are spread globally in the atmosphere and as a result they can be found in the rainwater and snow in even the most remote locations on Earth. During the last 20 years, guideline values for PFAS in drinking water, surface waters and soils…
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Split Brain Psychology
The strange interactions of Selfhood and Multiplicity
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On being tired
What happens when your mental battery gets drained & how I've personally experienced this in recent times.
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Japanese vegetable cutting techniques (2021)
Want to improve your knife skills? Take a look at this list of Japanese vegetable cutting techniques. Start from the basics, and work your way up to master.
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Cast iron leet
hard lessons from weak skillets
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On a road to Prizren with a Free Software Phone
Since people are sometimes slightly surprised that you can go onto a multi week trip with a smartphone running free sofware so only I wanted to share some impressions from my recent trip to Prizren/Kosovo to attend Debconf 22 using a Librem 5 . It's a mix of things that happend and bits that got improved to hopefully…
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I hacked my car
Note: As of 2022/10/25 the information in this series is slightly outdated. See Part 5 for more up to date information. The Car Last summer I bought a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq SEL. It is a nice fuel-efficient hybrid with a decent amount of features like wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, wireless phone charging, heated…
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The Intel 80376 – A legacy-free i386 with a twist (2010)
25 years after the introduction of the 32 bit Intel i386 CPU, all Intel compatibles still start up (and wake up!) in 16 bit stone-age mode, and they have to be switched into 32/64 bit mode to be usable.
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Improving Postgres text search speed
CharityAPI.org improved our Postgres response time so that searches initiated via our API were 760% faster without adding an additional tool like Elastic Search. This is how we did it.
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NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank Kent Gladstone, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), for a critical reading of both manuscripts. Many critical comments and corrections from Brad Howard have made the Mini-Tutorial a better adventure for anyone who follows his path.
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Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04
With some recent interest in undocumented opcodes and microcode on modern Intel chips, I decided to do a proper writeup on what I found out while researching and playing around with the venerable 80286 ("Beige Unlock"?).
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Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout
Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout As a staff engineer, I’m expected to write and review code, give interviews, design and review one-pagers, groom tasks, participate in meetings (standups, planning …
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Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2022216 points39 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the third part of a three part (I, II, III) look at some of the practical concerns of managing pre-industrial logistics. In our last post, we outlined what ‘foraging’ actually e…
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Excel is pretty dang cool
It's like discovering a treasure chest under my kitchen sink
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Kubernetes StatefulSets are Broken
Kubernetes was not originally intended for stateful applications. Kubernetes StatefulSets are Kubernetes' answer to storage-centric workloads.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
Few tools walk the right line between declarative and imperative like make.
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Asdf Performance
I’ve been a maintainer of asdf for about 6 years now. Most of my work these last several years has been fixing bugs, writing automated tests …
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PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero
Sonatype identified a 'secretslib' PyPI package that covertly installs cryptominers on Linux systems.
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A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
MIT engineers have developed a method to increase wind farms’ energy output. Whereas individual turbines are typically controlled separately, the new approach models the wind flow of the entire collection of turbines and optimizes the control of individual units.
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Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
On Wednesday 10 August, the FIOD arrested a 29-year-old man in Amsterdam. He is suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering through the mixing of cryptocurrencies through the decentralised Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash. Multiple arrests are not ruled out…
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Copyright infringement in AI art
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is…
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Locking down your GitHub-hosted Domains
The other day someone claimed a hostname on a domain I own and it took me a while to track down how. Turns out it was via GitHub pages.
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Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
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My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google
The Current Status Quo
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Is this the end of social networking?
Scott Rosenberg , in a piece with the title “Sunset of the social network” , writes at Axios: