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FreeBSD is an amazing operating system
This is a small article about some of my adventures with FreeBSD and why I believe it is an amazing operating system.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics
Vitamin D is a big deal. Recent studies have shown that patients with low Vitamin D levels are more likely to die from Covid-19 than their Vitamin D-rich counterparts,(1) and deficiency in the…
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OTP 23
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Let's build a full-text search engine
Full-Text Search is one of those tools people use every day without realizing it. If you ever googled "golang coverage report" or tried to find "indoor wireless camera" on an e-commerce website, you used some kind of full-text search.
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LibraryThing Is Now Free to All
Starting today, LibraryThing is free to all! We’re dropping all membership fees and limits.
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So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering
1. Statistics / numerical analysis / data science is a lot harder than you, the reader of this blog, might think.
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Funding for Covid-19 Projects
I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help. I think we will soon have enough testing capacity, so now I’d like...
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Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction
I learned the hard way how important a carefully designed sign-up process is. I saw a large percentage of interested people fail to sign up because of easily preventable flaws in the flow.
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Static Analysis in GCC 10
Discover the new -fanalyzer option coming to GCC 10 that provides a static analysis pass to identify problems at compile-time, rather than at runtime.
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How Distortion Works in Music
Ben’s software blog. Mostly Scala, with a few other things.
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Our list of free software for remote work
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Fire your bad customers
Know when it's time to break up with your customers.
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Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of
If you’re using Zoom while working from home, you should be aware of Zoom's privacy policies, including its “attention tracking” tool.
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The SaaS website content you need to close sales
The SaaS website best practices you need to close more sales, based on online behavior of 1,000s of SaaS buyers.
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SSH Agent Explained
The SSH agent acts behind the scenes to keep you safe. Here's how it works.
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Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
A few new features to help you feel close to friends and family even when you’re apart.
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Krita 4.4.0
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
50% of strong liberals support firing Trump donors, 36% of strong conservatives support firing Biden donors; 32% are worried about missing out on job opportunities because of their political opinions.
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The Global Dollar Short Squeeze
Published February 2020 There is currently a short squeeze affecting most of the global economy, slowing its growth. This has been the case well before the impacts from the trade war and the coronavirus. A short squeeze occurs when something that is heavily shorted goes on to rise sharply in price for one reason or […]
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I Want to Fix Goodreads
I use goodreads a lot because I like to read books and want to find more books to read. This morning I was reading a thread on hackernews on Sarah Manavis’s ...
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YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
YOLOv5 license and commercial-use guide: AGPL-3.0 terms, specs, resources, and alternatives. Compare YOLOv5 against other vision models free.
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New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
We analyze a new Mac ransomware that appears to encrypt user files with a bit of a time delay. The ransomware encrypts files with little strategy.