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The Case for Higher Rates
#2: The Folly of the Fed and a Call for Change.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
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Is Web3 Bullshit? (Transcript)
'Is web3 bullshit?'. A talk by Molly White on the Crypto stage at Web Summit in Lisbon on November 4, 2022.
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Tradition is Smarter (2018)
The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If…
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That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online
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Ryzen 7000 amdgpu boot hang
So you decided to build a brand new system using all the latest and coolest tech, so you buy a Ryzen 7000 series Zen 4 CPU, like the Ryzen 7700X that I picked, with a new mother board and DDR5 memory
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I started taking English classes at the age of 46
Finding a tutor despite already being fluent.
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Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming
An Introduction to Statistical Process Control.
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Git log is not a changelog
When you maintain a project, publishing new releases can quickly become a chore, so naturally one tries to automate it as much as possible.
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Not Mysticizing System Dynamics
A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dressed up in a bit of formalism.
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The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro
Today I will show you how I installed the latest snapshot of OpenBSDon my Pinebook Pro with plenty of detail so that you can do it, too.I will include instru...
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Escaping strings faster with AVX-512
When programming, we often have to 'escape' strings. A standard way to do it is to insert the backslash character (\) before some characters such as the double quote. For example, the string my title is "La vie" becomes my title is \"La vie\" A simple routine in C++ to escape a string might look … Continue reading…
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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
The games of Revolution Software bore the stamp of the places in which they were conceived. Work on Beneath a Steel Sky , the company’s breakthrough graphic adventure, began in Hull, a grim postindustrial town in the north of England, and those environs were reflected in the finished product’s labyrinths of polluted…
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Maintaining sufficient free space with ZFS
TLDR: ZFS free-space reporting is a lagging indicator. Background I use Proxmox VM server backed by a ZFS array of hard drives for various personal infrastructure. I also have security cameras that upload motion-triggered videos to my server (via FTP!). Problem Description I would like to use 90% of my available space…
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The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (2012)
A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.
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Zettelkasten, linking your thinking, and Nick Milo's search for ground
Linked thinking and the many "tools for thought" apps that have been released over the past few years, have changed the discourse on how we take in and proce...
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Apple Reneged on OCSP Privacy
In the current version of macOS, Monterey, on every system update on a system containing an M1 chip, such as all the new shiny/fast ARM (“Apple Silicon”) macs, the update process phones home to Apple to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a “ticket”.
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How Does NTP (Network Time Protocol) Work?
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a system for synchronizing the clocks of hosts and clients across the Internet. NTP is a protocol intended to synchronize all computers participating in the network to within a few milliseconds of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The core of the protocol is NTP’s clock discipline…
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Dynamic types have the potential to be more than "no static types"
They have potential to be more than "no static types", but that hasn't happened.
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The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name
Not only is it poorly drafted with better alternatives available, but “Unlicensed” means the precise opposite of “unlicensed”.
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From TypeScript to ReScript
Rewriting the Inhyped.com React frontend in ReScript brought a sound type system and easy JS interop, at the cost of a small community.
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You wouldn't download a back end
How in the world do you pirate an API?
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Is the smart grid all hot air?
The US has three "grids." They are the Eastern Interconnect, Western Interconnect, and ERCOT. In technical terms, they are AC wide-area synchronous grids. Let's unpack that.
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Understanding the Power of Lisp (2020)
Notable programmers describe understanding and coding in LISP as a semi-religious experience. What gives the language this power?
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I don't want to go to Chel-C
We are constantly reading of stories with one main theme where people turn to seemingly "simple" systems in order to manage complexity; except that these systems manage to produce complex problems, without having to acquire historical cruft, or suffering from any of the usual issues that produce non-essential…
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I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
Just my website. Some Elixir, some Ruby, some more exotic languages and general thoughts on tech.
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A report on exercise and sleep (2021)
News outlets broadly got the message right, but not sure about some of the numbers.