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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)
This article is based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Code doesn’t have to be a mess
High-level strategies to keep software simple as it evolves over time.
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Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (2015)
Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…
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Arguing from compassion (2021)
For example, that universal basic income (UBI) could ameliorate the loss of jobs due to automation, a straw man would be, “So you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money?” Recently, the term has become a cudgel in the culture wars.
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Considering Sourcehut
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?
McDonalds in Australia do a decent cup of coffee. It’s not great but it’s consistently decent so I often start my day with a cup. Due to my travels around Australia in a decked out van I have seen how many McDonalds operate and just how many of
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The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck
We’re all susceptible to what our bodies tell us. When there’s a strange pain or sickness, our bodies are hinting at us that there should be something
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Take more screenshots
If you do any sort of creative digital work, screenshots and screen recordings are a great way to remember it.
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In Praise of Stacked PRs
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
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Arizona Mom Fights Abusive Prosecution by Department of Child Safety
Phoenix; July 20, 2022: On Friday, an Arizona mother filed suit against the Arizona Department of Child Safety to defend her right to due process and
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Non-Obvious Docker Uses
Many developers use Docker the old-fashioned way -- a docker build and a docker run. Some non-obvious ways to use Docker.
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Crystal 1.5
We are delivering a new release with several bugfixes and improvements. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning several bugfixes and smaller enhancements. For more details, visit the changelog. Breaking changes are marked with ⚠️.
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Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS crash course series
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS crash course series: ramp up on core DevOps tools through quick, hands-on courses where you learn by doing.
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Facial hair tracking for high fidelity performance capture
Facial hair is a largely overlooked topic in facial performance capture. Most production pipelines in the entertainment industry do not have a way to automatically capture facial hair or track the skin underneath it. Thus, actors are asked to shave clean before face capture, which is very often undesirable. In this…
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Hispaniola's great divergence
Why are Haiti and the DR so different?
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How to drive away your best engineers
Tenures are at an all-time low in the software industry.
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“Burning Ship” fractal
The images described here are generated by analysing the following series for each point (c x ,c y ) on the plane.
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Does the Past Still Exist?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Apple Silicon is an inconvenient truth
Link to: https://wormsandviruses.com/2022/07/a-burger-without-heinz/
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Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a review and meta-analysis
Non-sugar sweeteners have been developed as an alternative to sugars and are widely used both as an ingredient in pre-packaged foods and beverages and added to food and beverages directly by the consumer.
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The CSS Behind Figma
A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app.
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The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time
Date: 2022-07-23 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00014-tar.md
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Embed is in C23
It happened. Nearly 5 years of paper writing, being snuck Committee Meeting notes on the DL until I could access them myself and absolve my co-conspirators of their sins, 5 different implementations/patches later, I can