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Resilience requires helping each other out
A common failure mode in complex systems is that some part of the system hits a limit and falls over. In the software world, we call this phenomenon resource exhaustion, and a classic example of th…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences
Learning Elixir when you already know Ruby? Here are the three most important things you need to understand
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Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose
Zach Simone's homepage. iOS developer from Sydney.
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Huge pages are a good idea
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) . Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has used a 4 kiB page size since the 386 was…
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Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness
In this article, I describe my journey creating a barely functional rust backend enabling compilation for the .NET runtime (Usually used to run C# and F#).
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Persimmon-8B
We’re open-sourcing Persimmon-8B, the most powerful fully permissively-licensed language model with <10 billion parameters.
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Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed displa
Dmitry.GR: Driving a poorly-designed display and touch board using no CPU at all
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Selfie Contests
Patents are supposed to be an incentive to invent. Too often, they end up being a way to try to claim “ownership” of what should be basic building blocks of human activity, culture, and knowledge. This is especially true of software patents, an area EFF has been speaking out about for more than 20...
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The thinking path
Novel news; a review for the NYT.
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Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think
How many transistors are in Intel's 8086 processor? This seems like a straightforward question, but it doesn't have a straightforward answ...
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The Grind a Day: thousands of Apple II floppy disks archived
4am doesn’t suffer fools, or repetition. Or mysteries. Focused out of nowhere on tinkering with an Apple II a number of years back, they re-learned the whole of how the unique floppy disk sys…
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The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases
Comparison of replication options of time-series databases.
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Never trust a programmer who says they know C++
I’ve been in an interviewing mindset for awhile and I’ve come to realize something important about C++ in particular. C++ is a “two peak” language. That is to say C++ is the only language I know of where two very different sets of programmers consider themselves well versed in the language. Let me show you in fake…
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Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers
These technologies have developed a lot since 2008. Should we be any more optimistic about their potential to power Britain?
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Globalization is dead and no one is listening
This is the end of the beginning.
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We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates
If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...
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The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)
The story of the infamous disappearance of an Airbus A330 over the Atlantic, and the fundamentally human mistakes which led to the tragedy.
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I measured the pollution from my gas stove
Here's what I learned putting air quality monitors all over my house.
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I don't want to host services but I do
I don't want to self-host and think most individuals shouldn't host services for others. Yet I do it anyway, and even teach people how to.
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Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
Bun is a JavaScript runtime that just released version 1.0! Now you have three choices for running JavaScript outside of the browser: Node, Deno, and Bun. One of Bun's selling points is speed! It makes some interesting decisions to achieve this.
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I cancelled my Replit subscription
I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi lan...
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Caltech to launch space solar power technology demo into orbit
The launch represents the first in-situ test of the technology to harvest solar energy in space and transmit it to Earth.
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Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
Rates of new-onset type 2 diabetes climbed 62%—and type 1 diabetes increased 17%—among US youth after the COVID-19 pandemic began, especially in Black and Hispanic children, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open .
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Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Official Warning: Zero3K
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Resetting the timer in my toothbrush
It’s still good to use, I swear
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Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)
The filling of underground heat caverns in Mustikkamaa with water has been completed this week, and the use of the heat caverns for heating homes in Helsinki is a step closer.