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Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free
Hacking the T2S+ v2 to work on computers, tear it down for the first time online, and play with lock-in thermography as a bonus!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
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Patching an embedded synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra
For reasons I won't get into, I've been working on a tricky reverse engineering puzzle recently: how to patch the operating system of a 26-year-old synthesizer. To be specific, the Kurzweil K2500, a...
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What is ‘elite overproduction’?
Elite overproduction … describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.
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The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
The Billion-Dollar Surveillance Pipeline: From Occupation Technology to Global Control
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My Tungsten Cube (2019)
A few months ago I bought a featureless cube of tungsten. It’s 1.5 inches across and cost $130, but I argue it was one of the best purchases I’ve made recently.
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Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
A blog post by Ryan Geyer
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Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions
Albertsons uses land use restrictions in Mammoth, CA to stop competition so it can be the only store in town.
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“Computer science is not about computers”
Edsger W. Dijkstra? Alan Perlis? Jacques Arsac? George Johnson? Donald Knuth? Matthew Dennis Haines? Anonymous?
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The hater's guide to Kubernetes
Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering.
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The scariest "user support" email I've received
Hi, it's Takuya. As your app grows in popularity, you occasionally start to attract attacks aimed directly at you—the developer or site owner. Just the other day, I got one that was honestly terrifying, so I'd like to share it. The Email Subject: Cookie consent prevents platform
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Beyond Light Table
I have three big announcements to make today. The first is the official announcement of our next project. We’ve been quietly talking about it over the past few months, but today we want to tell you a bit more about it and finally reveal its name:
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Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous. Whether you were editing a photo, making a poster, or designing a website, it happened in Photoshop. Today, Adobe looks incredibly strong. They’ve had spectacular stock performance, thanks to clear-eyed management who’ve made bold…
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Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all . Just throw it away.
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Asbestosis
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Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)
the real reason zsh beats bash • how I got twice as fast in python • autocompleting all the things • maximizing user-interface bandwidth
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How to get the most out of your 1:1s
As a Director of Engineering, I have monthly 1:1s with all of my direct reports. A 1:1 (one-on-one) is a recurring meeting with no set agenda between a manager and one of their reports. The internet is full of valuable insight into how to run them from my perspective, (ex. The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster) but…
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S3 isn't getting cheaper
Clayton Christensen famously demonstrated the Innovator's Dilemma by using data from the hard drive industry in the 1980s. At every point, companies failed to make the switch from 8-inch drives, to 5-inch drives, to 3...
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I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Python built-ins worth learning
Update: You can find a newer version of this article on Python Morsels. In every Intro to Python class I teach, there’s always at least one “how...
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I just want to code (2023)
I have an angel and a devil sitting atop each shoulder. The angel says, "Just code for fun! What you make can be just for your enjoyment and that's --" the devil interjects, "not enough to get ahead, loser. If you're not coding your next startup then how're you gunna get rich? Coding for fun? Pfft, sounds like the…
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What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
There has been rather a lot of doomsaying (and perhaps astroturfing) lately about LLMs as the end of computer programming. Much of the discussion has been lacking nuance, so I’d like to add mine. I see claims from one side that “I used $LLM_SERVICE_PROVIDER to make a small throwaway tool, so all programmers will be…
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Git Undo
Tell me if you recognize this scenario: you’re in the middle of rewriting your local commits when you suddenly realize that you have gone too far and, after one too many rebases, you are left with a history that looks nothing like the way you wanted. No? Well, I certainly do. It was in one of those moments of despair…
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Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
Author, writer, and creator sharing insights on learning, writing, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and more.
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Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra
Note: This blog post was written for GCC 7. Later versions of the compiler may have added some of these warnings to -Wall or -Wextra . ...
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Some Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data Science Jobs
👉 The decision was close, but the team has decided to keep looking for someone who might have more direct neural net experience.\n👉 Honestly, I think the way you communicated your thought process and results was confusing for some people in the room.\n👉 He’s needing someone with an image analysis background for data…
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