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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,204 posts.
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Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip
The home of Code & Visuals
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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing
I read a post online recently about how some software engineer was asked to complete a technically complex, jargon-filled coding challenge over the...
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Notes by djb on using Fil-C
I'm impressed with the level of compatibility of the new memory-safe C/C++ compiler Fil-C (filcc, fil++). Many libraries and applications that I've tried work under Fil-C without changes, and the exceptions haven't been hard to get working.
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My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
It seemed like a great idea at first.
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Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
Facebook unfriended me. Why? So far as I can tell, it’s because I’ve been using Facebook to advocate for decentralization of social media. And apparently th ...
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After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.
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Chess.com vs. Lichess
A comprehensive comparison of the two most popular chess websites.
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Roku filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9B of cash, $487M is stuck at SVB
“$ROKU filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9 billion of cash, $487mn is stuck at $SIVB (mostly UNINSURED)” is published by Vikash Ruhil.
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Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
A subtle change has been made to the comments links, so they no longer pop up. Does this in any way help with the problem about comments not appearing on permalinked posts, readers? Update: seemingly not Update: Oh yeah!
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Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network
Today, at around 2:30 PM EST, Scripts went down. For most MIT students, this means a few class websites are inaccessible, a few friends' b...
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Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for
I’m on an adventure to create beautiful, meaningful products that improve the world for my daughters and their friends.
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I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it
I was walking home from school by myself when I saw it. A robot, just standing in the middle of the street.
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Clear is better than clever
This article is based on my GopherCon Singapore 2019 presentation. In the presentation I referenced material from my post on declaring variables and my GolangUK 2017 presentation on SOLID design . For brevity those parts of the talk have been elided from this article. If you prefer, you can watch the recording of the…
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How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives
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Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier
I searched the web for a deal on a decent air purifier and the Xiaomi 4 Pro seemed to meet all my requirements. The filter size, scheduler and air volume ticked all the boxes. I set it up and thought nothing of it until last week my room was lit with the ‘ 0% remaining ’ replace filter warning. I had set my unit up to…
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Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
Over time, a system collects state on its root partition. This state lives in assorted directories like /etc and /var , and represents every under-documented or out-of-order step in bringing up the services.
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PHP 7 Virtual Machine
This article aims to provide an overview of the Zend Virtual Machine, as it is found in PHP 7. This is not a comprehensive description, but I try to cover most of the important parts, as well as some of the finer details.
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Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
Self hosting a software stack to replace Google Maps on an unused gaming PC.
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Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
cybersecurity, tech, and personal annoyance log
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A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon
The 8086 microprocessor was a groundbreaking processor introduced by Intel in 1978. It led to the x86 architecture that still dominates de...