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AWS Cost Saving Recommendations
Today Vantage announces the launch of automated cost savings recommendations for all users with connected AWS accounts. Vantage will now automatically profile AWS account...
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Beating TimSort at Merging
Learn how to beat TimSort at merging sorted lists in Python by creating a C extension. Discover the performance advantages of merging lists compare...
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Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds
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Building a vision of life without work (2015)
The number one question that people ask once you tell them you’re considering early retirement is: What will you do with your time?
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Firefox 90
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Delta Variant
Cases are growing exponentially across the world. Again. If you don’t know where this is going, a historical refresher might help. India has suffered about two million COVID deaths, the majority of them during its latest surge caused by Delta.Victims of COVID-19 are cremated in funeral pyres in New Delhi.
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Mike Levin on using bioelectricity to study how cells form (2019)
By Lindsay Brownell At first glance, the lab of Wyss Associate Faculty member Mike Levin looks like any standard biology lab: graduate students in white lab coats pipette liquids into tubes at benches surrounded by centrifuges, freezers, racks of graduated cylinders hanging over sinks, and shelves of petri dishes…
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MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business
Scientific Word: Now Free for All Versions We are excited to announce that all versions of Scientific Word , from 4.1 through 6.1, are now available for free!
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Is π the Same in Every Universe?
Mathematician: That depends on what you mean by “universe.” Here’s a framing: A circle of radius R centered at a point P is the set of all points in the plane with distance R fro…
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OpenSearch 1.0
Today is a really good day for the OpenSearch project. Since its start, the goal has been to quickly produce a version of OpenSearch that’s ready to use in production...
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Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”
...and to the psychologist who put it on the map.
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Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything
This article is about how to use the 'tail' command. Here is an overview of how you can use the 'head' and 'tail' commands to output different parts of a file:
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Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
Chrome’s bookmark manager and Google docs have questionably bad UI and design. They both lack such basic organizational features, such as tags, one has to wonder if they are purposefully bad at helping you stay organized.
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Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation
Yet another sad story of how big companies kill small ones because of poor processes.
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Why Build Toys
I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way...
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Updating the Go Memory Model
The current Go language memory model was written in 2009, with minor updates since. It is clear that there are at least a few details that we should add to the current memory model, among them an explicit endorsement of race detectors and a clear statement of how the APIs in sync/atomic synchronize programs.
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Must-read psychology books
Regardless of where you are in the pathway of understanding how the human psyche works, this list of must-read psychology books will upgrade your personal library.
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The art of asking nicely
There are upsides to working with a neural net that trained on a huge collection of internet images and text. One is that, instead of ominous grey geometric blobs [https://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways] when it doesn't understand your
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Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 90 will support Fetch Metadata Request Headers which allows web applications to protect themselves and their users against various cross-origin threats like ...
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What Are Diffusion Models?
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Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs
Cattle not pets The majority of AWS EC2 I need to operate these days are members of Kubernetes clusters. For remote access to them I’m more commonly authenticating to the Kube API to spawn a privileged ephemeral debugger pod rather than accessing the host directly. I have little need for host access even for the…
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Haskell for Beginners
This is the first article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners
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I wrote a 231-byte Brainfuck compiler by abusing everything
We wrote a Brainfuck compiler back in April . That one developed a simple architecture to support multiple backends. Today, I want to write a new Brainfuck compiler. One that can only run on a single system, OpenBSD /amd64. And one that is as small as I can possibly make it. I broke into the sub-256 bytes club with my…
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Do nothing (2020)
The unreasonable effectiveness of doing nothing.
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How to Review Code as a Junior Developer
Emma Catlin | Software Engineer
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Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (2019)
External Links Yuki Subs Guides has a master list of guides of all you need to know about anime encoding. Also, go visit my MPC-HC + MadVR, mpv, and SVP 4 setup guide! Table of Contents x265 Settin…
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