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My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,220 posts.
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Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy
In the search for happiness, we often confuse how something looks with how it’s likely to make us feel. This is especially true when it comes to our homes. If we want to maximize happiness, we need to prioritize experiences over appearances.
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You're doing it wrong: B-heap 10x faster than binary heap (2010)
Would you believe me, if I claimed that an algorithm which has been on the books as "optimal" for 46 years, which have been analyzed in excruciating detail by geniuses like Knuth and taught in all CS courses in the world, can be optimized to run ten times faster ?
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DLL Hijacking Just Won’t Die
The folks that build the NSIS Installer have released updates to mitigate a serious security bug related to DLL loading. (v2.5 and v3.0b3 include the fixes). To make a long and complicate…
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Robot Learns to See in 30 Minutes (2022)
TL;DR: Learning to walk from pixels in the real world by using proprioception as supervision.
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Can Snowden be targeted using the Adobe breach?
Note: As a professional courtesy to those at Adobe who are doing their absolute best to mitigate this breach, I have partially redacted all ...
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RSA-896
A post about RSA-896.
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Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
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Title Junk
Writing and designing bookmark-friendly web page titles.
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Interesting Programming Languages
an opinionated collection of programming languages.
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Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS
Guide to implementing a C standard library for bare metal hardware using Newlib, enabling powerful functions like printf and malloc without relying on an operating system. This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to configure and integrate Newlib on RISC-V architecture, showing you how to redirect standard I/O through…
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Towards a Rust Foundation
In my #rust2020 blog post , I mentioned rather off-handedly that I think the time has come for us to talk about forming a Rust foundation. I wanted to come back to this topic and talk in more detail about what I think a Rust foundation might look like. And, since I don’t claim to have the final answer to that question…
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo
Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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How to get yourself to do things (2015)
I have a special sympathy for sufferers of a particular human problem, and I get more emails about it than just about any other topic. There are normal people, who
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Mac Themes Garden
A website for old Macintosh themes and some background.
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Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing instead of schooling. These are books that will close the gap for people that fall into the category of ...
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Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (2001)
An abridged version of this article appeared in Whole Earth 106, Winter 2001, pages 74-77.
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Organizational debt is like technical debt, but worse
Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can be…
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AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
It’s a bit of a sensationalistic title, but hear me out. And sorry for the boring-ish example in this article. This is designed to only excite people who really get it. :)
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PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
Updated 2024-09-17 to reflect updated PgBouncer support for protocol-level prepared statements 🐘 To start, I want to say that I’m appreciative that PgBouncer exists and the work its open source maintainers put into it. I also love working with PostgreSQL, and I’m thankful for the incredible amount of work and…
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Taking Go modules for a spin
Update: Since this post was written, Go 1.11beta2 has been released. I’ve updated the setup section to reflect this. Russ Cox kindly wrote to me to explain the reasoning behind storing the Go module cache in $GOPATH . I’ve included his response inline.
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What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router
I think it is incredibly cool that we can change a Linux system into a networking device. But have you ever wondered:
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Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring
Just days after we celebrated my wife’s 40th birthday, she came down with COVID, meaning she’s been isolating and I’ve been spending almost all my time dealing with our kids. But …
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Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5
Jeff came up against a 1V limit in his video " Overclocking Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.14 GHz on Pi Day " after firmware was released to remove the 3Ghz limit.
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Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010)
This article is intended to help C & C++ programmers understand the essentials of what the linker does. I've explained this to a number of colleagues over the years, so I decided it was time to write it down so that it's more widely available (and so that I don't have to explain it again). [Updated March 2009 to…
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Fixing a 3 year old bug in Nvidia GeForce Experience
Background: Joystick Preventing Display Sleep A few months ago, I thought I ought to try Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The facsimile of o...