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Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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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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Want to found a startup? Work at one first
Research shows start-ups with experienced founders are more likely to succeed, and build more valuable companies too. But if you want to found a company, how do you get that experience? My experience says the fast-track is joining an existing start-up and riding that wave, taking the opportunities that come with…
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Are We Really Engineers? (2021)
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of…
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Analysis of Apple Watch running data
Analysis of Apple running measurements and statistics
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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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How the weak can win – A primer on protracted war
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2022316 points285 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
Thanks to our volunteer narrator, this post is now available in audio format. This week, in an effort to fill in some of the theoretical basis for thinking about how weaker powers think about fight…
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How to build software like an SRE
I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does it get its configuration? What kinds of instances does it run…
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Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest
It's never been easier to self-host your email. It's never been harder to self host your email.
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How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
We should look for ways to make reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop.
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Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off
The ultimate Trip To The Seaside Where Everything Went Wrong.
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Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
It is a good time to be in tech right now: soaring salaries, daily LinkedIn recruiter spam, people bootcamping their way into career switches to tech, remote work allowing you to work for a major tech company making triple digit salaries from the beach. It really feels like every single company is trying to recruit…
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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access
If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me , an online identity verification service that…
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How I clean my glasses
I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 4 years old: ever since, I’ve put them on as soon as I wake up and take them off just before I flop into bed. In all that time, I’ve never broken a pair of glasses, but I still get a new pair every 2 years: sometimes the frame starts to fall apart, but more often the quality of…
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Zig, the Small Language
Zig programming language is new, but it's getting a well deserved attention. Can it be a good fit for small-and-simple programming tasks?
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“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (2014)
Login attempts fail because computer users can't remember their email or didn't input the right password. Most websites on the Internet won't tell you which one is actually incorrect.
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The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
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Trying new programming languages helped me grow as a software engineer
Use new programming languages knowledge to level up your Software Engineer career!
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'Be' is nice, end of story
pick a name from the dictionary, it can work
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We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity
You can’t have a 4-slot GPU. You just can’t. We have finally left sanity behind, with nvidia’s 4000 series cards yielding a “clown car” of absurd GPU designs, as GamersNexus put it. These cards are so huge they need “GPU Support Sticks”, which are an actual real thing now. The fact that we insist on relegating the GPU…
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The layoffs at Klarna
The FinTech company valued at $45B laid off 10% of its staff. How did it happen, and what can other companies learn from its execution?
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How Pitfall builds its world (2021)
Games for the Atari 2600 were quite constrained. When Warren Robinett first pitched the idea that would become Adventure , a game where you would explore a world with many rooms and pick up items to help you along the way, he was denied because it wasn't thought feasible. And it made sense to do so. This was the late…
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TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018)
Simplex Sigillum Veri
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Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store
You can get OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems for Kindle direct from me at Tilted Windmill Press or at Gumroad . You can get a Kindle-friendly ebook from any number of other retailers, but while they’re all supposed to be DRM-free I can’t advise on prying the file out of another vendor’s ecosystem. The one place you cannot…
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On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations
Firefox can now do offline and privacy-preserving translation of eight languages with more on the way. Powered by open-source and machine-learning.
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