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Build Initramfs Rootless
Let's create an hello world init program that the kernel can execute to show that everything works correctly:
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
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The Internet Gopher from Minnesota
Structured Text on the Internet before the World Wide Web
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Django SQLite Production Config
Optimize your Django SQLite configuration for production.
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AI-Implanted False Memories
We present three interconnected studies examining how artificial intelligence technologies can induce and amplify false memories in human subjects. Our re…
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A step beyond Rust's pattern matching
Projects and articles by Chris Gioran
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Universal domain types
A guide to domain-specific types that make sense.
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FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
A magazine on a floppy from 1986.
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Implementing SM-2 in Rust
An implemenation of the SuperMemo-2 algorithm.
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Code Conversion Language (2019)
Update : I forgot that I did a brief analysis on this many years ago, using ROT13 as example.
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Keycloak open redirect: wildcard redirect URIs can be exploited to steal tokens
CVE-2023-6927 Keycloak vulnerability allows bypassing redirect URI validation which can be used as a vector for stealing authorization codes, access tokens and be used to redirect victims to arbitrary hosts.
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Looking into the Nintendo Alarmo
While everyone was waiting on news for the successor of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo released the Alarmo. A small plastic alarm clock that ...
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Building a Galaksija
Note: this is the first part of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called the Galaksija. This part is mostly focused on the technical aspects of building this…
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Versioned finite-state machines with Postgres (2019)
Inspired by Felix Geisendorfer blog post I implemented a database FSM (Finite-State Machine) with Postgresql. I brought some improvements to Felix’s implementation but before reading the following I recommend you to read carefully the original post.
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ML in Go with a Python Sidecar
Machine learning models are rapidly becoming more capable; how can we make use of these powerful new tools in our Go applications?
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Fifty Years of Diff
The first manual was duplicated for a very small coterie. In order to channel queries directly to the horses’ mouths, authorship was attributed to individuals. Later, as authorship diffused, on the principle of”You touched it last; it’s yours,” authorship was attributed only in the segregated chapter of unofficial…
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The Wolfram Prompt Repository (2023)
Curated collection of prompts for use with LLMs. Accessible interactively in Chat Notebooks and programmatically in functions like LLMFunction. Initial categories in the Prompt Repository cover personas, functions, modifiers.
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Building Databases over a Weekend
In this post we take you on a walkthrough on how you can use DataFusion to build your own developer experience for databases.
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A DSL for peephole transformation rules of integer operations in the PyPy JIT
As is probably apparent from the sequence of blog posts about the topic in the last year, I have been thinking about and working on integer optimizations in the JIT compiler a lot. This work was mainl
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Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the I...
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Punk is dead and so are we
footnotes
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Pixel Watch 3
Pixel Watch 3, the latest version of our flagship smartwatch, offers a stunning design combined with even better performance.
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Garbage Collectors Are Scary
Garbage collectors are expected to be invisible: if programmers (or even users) notice them, something is wrong. Usually, such problems are are performance problems, but there could be correctness issues as well. This makes implementing them a bit scary.
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Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
If you find this piece worthwhile, consider the Go Fund Me that’s funding ongoing cancer care. A story from Dan Luu, from back when he “TA’ed EE 202, a second year class on signals and systems at P…
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Push notifications – What to push, what not to push, and how often
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
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Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing
From 2020-2024, rent prices spiked by a third. How much of that is due to collusion by corporate landlords and a software coordinator? And where is the Fed?
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Apple Silicon MacBook batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third party
I bought a new M1 MacBook Pro in April 2022. A little over two years later, I'm seeing a service recommended message, and the maximum capacity of the battery is now down to 78%. Admittedly, my MacBook Pro experiences heavy usage: basically all day, every day. The batteries in my previous 2014 Intel MacBook Pro, which…
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A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy
MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has
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CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good
I would simply use delimiter characters to delimit data.
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QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know
The 10 most frequent letters in English are ETAOINSRHL . This layout gets most of those letters onto the home row while making use of existing muscle memory. According to Carpalx , QWERTY-Flip scores about as well as the famous Dvorak layout, but while Dvorak is very hard to learn, with QWERTY-Flip you'll be up and…
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We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready
Element is launching the world’s first communications platform based on the upcoming Matrix 2.0 release. The result is blazing performance which outperforms the mainstream alternatives...