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Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
A lot of tech discussion these days is focused around scaling infrastructures to handle huge traffic. But it's important not to forget how far simple optimizations can go.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,208 posts.
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The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19
The common theme uniting most of my efforts is the desire to be free. One of the reasons I'm so interested in startups is that they give peo...
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Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.
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Asynchrony is not concurrency
Yes I know about that one talk from Rob Pike.
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Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
Anyone who posts silly lists like "15 AI tools you can't miss" is truly the one who is lost
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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.
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WiFi 6 gets 1.34 Gbps on the Raspberry Pi CM4
January 1, 2021 Update: My 1.34 Gbps benchmark was flawed. See this GitHub issue and this updated blog post to learn more: WiFi 6 is not faster than Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi. After buying three wireless cards, a new WiFi router, optimizing my process for cross-compiling the Linux kernel for the Raspberry Pi…
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The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)
A Pretty Map of the European Power Grid
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Classes vs. Data Structures
Or rather, an object is a set of functions that operate on implied data elements.
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Surviving Burnout (2015)
the curious life of Ms. Audrey M. Eschright2023311 points162 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
The first thing I know about burnout is this: burnout happens when we become locked in a cycle of caring about the results of our actions but having no meaningful control over those outcomes. I first learned this while reading about social workers, but the problem is abdundant in tech. I’ve seen it play out in every…
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I Love the Computer
An exploration of how I became a massive geek.
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All AI models might be the same
what can language model embeddings tell us about whales speech, and decoding ancient texts? (on The Platonic Representation Hypothesis and the idea of *universality* in AI models)
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Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries
Update, 4/27: Twitter has now officially announced that they are killing off SMS in most countries. The Verge covers the story as well. View alternate
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Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport
Located smack bang in the middle of South Australia’s capital city, Adelaide Airport has an interesting runway approach lighting system – located in suburban streets and residential backyards! Some background Adelaide Airport is located approximately 6 kilometres from the Adelaide CBD. With the suburbs of Brooklyn…
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State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
This is a description of the Common Lisp ecosystem, as of January, 2021, from the perspective of a user and contributor.The purpose of this article is both to give an overview of the ecosystem, and to help drive consolidation in each domain.Each application domain has recommendations for consolidating that part of the…
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