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Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function
Here is a Go function, if_max(). It finds the max value of an array of integers. Simple enough:
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,824 posts.
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A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people (2022)
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
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How LSP could have been better
We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.
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DIY Espresso (2020)
The pièce de résistance. EDIT: Whoa looks like Hackaday found this post ! If anyone's interested in learning more about this, I posted this...
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In 2022, Web3 went just great
Come, reminisce with me.
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ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance
The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future.
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So Long, Twitter and Reddit
It's been over three years since my last blog post. I think that the website code started to feel like it had bitrotted, and so making new blog posts became onerous. But I've taken the time to redo this website using Zig , so it's quite easy to add blog posts now, and plus I added dark mode .
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Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
AWS EC2 Spot prices have surged since the start of 2023. In this article I investigate this trend, possible causes, and how AWS customers can improve their deployments to get the maximum discount possible.
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Generating Income from Open Source
Ink has been getting some good traction lately and it's already being used by some well-known companies for a while. Like most other open so…
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Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds
AI and the ruliad in the Wolfram Physics Project provide a new way to consider how alien minds might perceive the world. Stephen Wolfram explains how this artificial neuroscience experiment works.
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Last Post, Please Read
Good morning. This is Zandar's Dad. I am sorry to tell you that he passed away over the weekend, peacefully in his sleep. Fortunately, his c...
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Problems harder than NP-Complete
People always talk about "P vs NP" like P problems are easy and NP problems are hard. This is a useful day-to-day model but also an oversimplification....
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Plain text journaling in Vim
oppiliappan's μsings
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The Transformer Family
Many new Transformer architecture improvements have been proposed since my last post on “The Transformer Family” about three years ago. Here I did a big refactoring and enrichment of that 2020 post — restructure the hierarchy of sections and improve many sections with more recent papers. Version 2.0 is a superset of…
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The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I’m not done for the day. Even though I’m a software engineer by trade, I’m also a…
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A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
Lessons from Dolores, my failed AI girlfriend product: built on the Stanford AI Town paper with GPT and ElevenLabs voices, why it earned $50 and I gav
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The age of the grift shift
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And there are of course a […]
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"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
Last week, US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel.
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How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?
In this blog post, I delve into the comparison of memory consumption between asynchronous and multi-threaded programming across popular languages like Rust, ...
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Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix
This is a story about a security vulnerability in Google that allowed me to run arbitrary code on the computers of 50+ Google employees. Although Google initially considered my finding a serious security incident, later on, it changed its mind and stated that my finding is not, in fact, a vulnerability, but the…
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Getting to know the right people (2022)
This page has moved to https://drmaciver.com/notebook/2022/06/getting-to-know-the-right-people/ .
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The Registers of Rust
It’s been nearly two and half years since I was an active contributor to the Rust project. There are some releases that I’ve been very excited about since then, and I’m heartened by Niko’s recent blog post emphasizing stability and polish over grand new projects. But I’ve also felt a certain apprehension at a lot of…
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A Critical Problem (2017)
Apparently the management at Los Alamos doesn’t know what criticality safety is.
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Fantasy meets reality
One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with …
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Archive your old projects
In this post I describe how I wish I had archived all my old projects and my approach going forward.
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A Short 100-Question Diligence Checklist
Plus! Bank Capital; Where Venture Funding is Squeezed; Free Shipping and Marginal Costs; Chinese Apps and Data Advantages; Many Funnels; Diff Jobs
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Voder Speech Synthesizer
A web emulation of Bell Labs VODER speech synthesizer from the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.
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Post-GPT Computing
Is software done now? Processing the the ChatGPT Plugins announcement.
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AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B
AWS grew its IPv4 estate with an additional 27 million IP addresses to now owning 128 Million IPv4 addresses. At a value of $35 per IPv4 address, the total value of AWS’ IPv4 estate is ~4.5 Billion dollars. An increase of $2 billion