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The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button: About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, […]
An article titled Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming came out today and it's getting a lot of attention. I have a feeling that it's viewed in a wrong context, so I'd like to comment on the issue raised there.
A friend of mine pinged me online, said “Hey, remember that thing we were talking about doing a couple years ago? I still have one of the domain names, gonna let it go unless you want it.”
Long and rough notes on Effective Altruism (EA). Written to help me get to the bottom of several questions: what do I like and think is important about EA? Why do I find the mindset so foreign? Why am I not an EA? And to start me thinking about: what do alternatives to EA look like? The notes are not aimed at…
However, no experiment with actual coin-tosses has been done to investigate whether the predicted effect is empirically observed. Diaconis et al noted, correctly, that to estimate the probability with a S.E. of 0.1% would require 250,000 tosses, but this seems unnecessarily precise. Let's work with numbers of tosses…
Yes, some people do it, and yes, for some people, it works fine. But..... If you're standing up a new server and it has an IPv6 IP address, ...
A large C++ codebase meets a new linker: The good, the bad and the performance improvements <a class="more-link" href="https://www.productive-cpp.com/using-the-mold-linker-for-fun-and-3x-8x-link-time-speedups/">... Read More</a>
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UPDATE: On June 3, 2022, Atlassian updated its security advisory with new information regarding a fix for Confluence Server and Data Center to address CVE-2022-26134. Users are encouraged to update immediately to […]
We’ve made a bold decision not to anchor pay to employees' physical location, no matter where they are in the world. We're calling this “One Job, One Pay” (OJOP).
When you use Rust, it is sometimes outright preposterous how much knowledge of language, and how much of programming ingenuity and curiosity you need in order to accomplish the most trivial things. When you feel particularly desperate, you go to rust/issues and search for a solution for your problem. Suddenly, you…
It's not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game. Here's how it will play out.
The DeWitt clause lets database vendors forbid publishing benchmarks. What the clause is, which vendors still use it, and what you can legally publish.
Evidence that discoveries are getting smaller on average
In January of 2019, Mozilla joined the University of Edinburgh, Charles University, University of Sheffield and University of Tartu as part of a project fu
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A tutorial how to use a monorepo architecture in frontend JavaScript and TypeScript with tools like npm/yarn/pnpm workspaces, Turborepo/NX/Lerna, Git Submodules, ...
A deep dive into hidden data encoded in the BMP files saved by the Klein Tools TI250 thermal imager.
Our recipe for feeding includes giant paella pans, combi ovens, and a lot of love!
an interactive comic on the art & science of memory
I designed and 3D Printed a Canon EF Mount for my Game Boy Camera.
It’s important to ask questions when you get an offer that includes any kind of equity. In addition to helping you learn the facts about the equity offer, the process of discussing these details can help you get a sense of the company’s transparency and responsiveness. Here are a few questions you should consider…
Thinking in bets is a decision-making framework developed by poker player Annie Duke. Here's how it can make you a better decision-maker:
When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren’t going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a credit card number and I told them I had to find my wallet and…
Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix --- but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we'll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.
