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Booting a macOS Apple Silicon Kernel in QEMU
I booted the arm64e kernel of macOS 11.0.1 beta 1 kernel in QEMU up to launchd. It’s completely useless, but may be interesting if you’re wondering how an Apple Silicon Mac will boot.
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What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives
Have you ever wondered what your hard drive SMART errors actually mean? Find out what we look at to determine if a drive is about to fail.
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So you want to write a fast Python?
Thinking about writing your own Python implementation? Congrats, there are plenty out there 1 , but perhaps you have something new to bring to the table. Writing a fast Python is a pretty hard task, and there’s a lot of stuff you need to keep in mind, but if you’re interested in forging ahead, keep reading!
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Math for seven-year-olds
As a guest today in my daughter’s second-grade classroom, full of math-enthusiastic seven-and-eight-year-old girls, I led a mathematical investigation of graph coloring, chromatic numbers, ma…
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Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft
We're building a note app that needs to do OCR as well as possible. We hoped there would be a good modern 2019 comparison of the image OCR services, but as of July 2019, there wasn't, so we wrote one.
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Earth-Moon Fire Pole
My son (5y) asked me today: If there were a kind of a fireman's pole from the Moon down to the Earth, how long would it take to slide all the way from the Moon to the Earth?
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Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler
PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
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Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Join us to explore the ups and downs over twenty years spent running a small bootstrapped UK SaaS business.
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Return to Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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How I manage 40 people remotely
I’m Ryan Carson, and I’ve been a Founder CEO for 20 years, building, scaling and selling three companies.
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Choc: Bret Victor's 'Learnable Programming' implemented in Javascript
Thinking procedurally is one of the hardest concepts to grasp for the beginning programmer.
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Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team
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When you want to quit because it's just not worth it
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property
font-size is the worst. It’s a CSS property probably everyone who writes CSS has used at some point. It’s pretty ubiquitous. And it’s super …
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Heartbleed Update v3
Stay ahead with the latest cloud computing, content delivery, and cybersecurity trends, expert analyses, and tech insights from the official Akamai blog.
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about selfies
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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On the Juniper backdoor
You might have heard that a few days ago, Juniper Systems announced the discovery of “unauthorized code” in the ScreenOS software that underlies the NetScreen line of devices. As a resu…
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Understanding Smallpond and 3FS
A concise breakdown of what smallpond and 3FS are, how to use them, and if they're suitable for your data processing needs.
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Yarn 1.0: Workspaces, auto-merging lockfiles, selective versions resolutions
Today, we are excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Yarn JavaScript package manager, a major step for the project. In the 11 months since its initial release, Yarn has generated a large follow…