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Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down
We build complex mathematical formulas bottom-up using pure lambda calculus. Includes instructions of how to translate Taylor series and other approximations to lambda terms.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,433 posts.
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What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
The end of 10+ years of 0% interest rates is set to change the tech industry. What do higher rates mean for software engineering jobs, developers, and careers; and how can you prepare for this shift?
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GRC SpinRite
I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school. These days I almost never do, or on the occasion that I have storage trouble, it's a drive that has completely stopped responding at all and there's little to do besides replacing it. One time…
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Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
No matter what the sport, no matter what the letter of the rulebook says, it’s never a good idea to piss off the refs.
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The LaserDisc
The first mass market optical media
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Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights
Southwest Airlines famously doesn’t show up when searching online travel agency websites. Historically if you’ve wanted to buy a ticket on Southwest, you’ve had to go directly to Southwest to make the purchase. But desperation and new government regulations appear to be changing all of that.
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"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)
A door is a "file" descriptor used to describe a procedure in a process and optionally some additional state associated with the procedure. Doors were initially designed as Spring object descriptors used to encapsulate the state and capabilities of C++ objects. A process which obtains a door is free to pass it, along…
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There Are No More Dogs in Antarctica
The first journey we made with the gold picture frame sledge was to a small glacier not far from the base known as 'Sunnyside Glacier'. Me and Fergal Buckley took photographs of several toys with...
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Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight
Eyes Wide Shut is the last work of legendary movie director Stanley Kubrick, and like many of his films it contains layers of meaning not easily deciphered or understood on first viewing. Released in 1999 to mixed responses, Eyes Wide Shut has since garnered considerable interest and has come to be
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Monetagium – monetary extortion in feudal Europe
An English penny minted by William the Conqueror, who brought monetagium to England. Source: History in Coins The way that a modern mafia pr...
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Guys what is wrong with ACATS
Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the background. No cats were harmed.
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Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends
VIO77 > Bocoran Maxwin Game Online & Pola Gacor Terlengkap2024128 points73 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
VIO77 menyajikan rincian info bocoran game online terlengkap, panduan pola gacor, dan update RTP live terakurat untuk mempermudah jalan Anda meraih maxwin hari ini.
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There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative
Goodreads is still providing the worst experience when it comes to book tracking. Oku and Literal tried to create the modern Goodreads alternative users were hoping for. But are they still active?
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PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok
This is part 2 of a series on PC floppy copy protection methods. You can read Part 1, covering Formaster Copy-Lock here . Softguard System...
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Building an email-to-calendar LLM
Talk is cheap, show me the code Introduction A common problem my friends and I have is receiving actionable emails whose priorities are medium level. They do require action of some sort ($ \geq lowest\ priority$), but the action is due in the near future ($\leq highest\ priority$). I tend to skim over these emails…
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2024's public domain is a banger
They stole something from you. For decades, they stole it. That thing they stole? Your entire culture. For all of human history, works created in living memory entered the public domain every year. 40 years ago, that stopped.
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New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualiz…
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Those correction notices, in full
In light of our recent discussion of the unwillingness of authors of published papers to acknowledge their mistakes, I thought I’d post the four correction notices that I’ve felt the need to issue.
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GCC Specs: An Introduction
If you've ever used the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) then you've worked with the gcc binary. For those who don't know, gcc is a driver, not a compiler. It runs the compiler/assembler/linker as required and coordinates the input and output between them. Use of the driver is so ubiquitous that everyone calls it the…
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Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
This year has felt distinctly different. I've been working in, on, and with machine learning and AI for over a decade, yet I can't recall a time when these fields were as popular and rapidly evolving as they have been this year. To conclude an eventful 2023 in machine learning and AI research, I'm excited to share 10…
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Compiling Pattern Matching
This post intends to provide a brief overview of the algorithm described in Luc Maranget’s “ Compiling Pattern Matching to Good Decision Trees ”.
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Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews
Most people want to work for your company for money, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Life isn’t just about how long we live; it’s about how well we live it. We often hear about increasing our lifespan, but is a longer life worth it if we can’t move and become dependent on others? What’s equally, or even more important, is enhancing our healthspan—the period during which we enjoy a good quality of…
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Notes from an Interviewer
These days I find myself interviewing quite a few candidates. Some are good, some aren’t. So it goes. However, there is another group who I feel could be good but just aren’t showing it…
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Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us
a blog about exploring reverse engineering, hypervisor development and software programming.
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Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)
Mortgages are popularly thought of as loans, but to understand the industry, it's better to model them as complex manufactured products.
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Japanese words and names sound African (2022)
A blog by Professor Farooq Kperogi about Nigeria, America, politics, education, culture, identity, media, language, English grammar, and much more.
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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2024127 points106 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly k…