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When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?
I spent most of my free time after work over the last month working on a project and today I'm giving up.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,930 posts.
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A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
This post is written by a human being (me).
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Possibly a Serious Possibility
How 'lurking weasel' phrases skewed Cold War intelligence
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Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
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The Origin of Emacs in 1976
On the Origin of Emacs in 1976 (Emacs blog articles)
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Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed
As of today, Windows trusts 322 root certificates issued by 122 different organizations from 47 countries. This number is quite high, and has been steadily growing over the last few years. And it turns out many of those certificates are not needed at all by the vast majority of Windows users, can be distrusted with no…
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Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
100x More Efficient than Arm?
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IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds
Update (7/13/2017): Since this post was published, IPv6 supported has been extended and now supports 15 Regions and Multiple AWS Services. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. In accord with a…
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‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang
Australian Strategic Policy Institute2020255 points106 commentscited by 11Society, Policy & Culture details
‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang. What’s the problem? The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority1 citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs…
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macOS Icon History
Documenting the evolution of macOS system icons over the past several decades.
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What the heck happened with .org?
If you are following the tech news, you might have seen the announcement that ICANN withheld consent for the change of control of the Public Interest Regis
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Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing
Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a set of techniques that dramatically speed up search-for-neighbors or near-duplication detection on data. These techniques can be used, for example, to filter out duplicates of scraped web pages at an impressive speed, or to perform near-constant-time lookups of nearby points from…
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The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls
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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Emerging architectures for LLM applications
A reference architecture for the LLM app stack. It shows the most common systems, tools, and design patterns used by AI startups and tech companies.
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The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue
Programming blog of Eugene
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Build versus Buy
A few years ago I was working on a contract negotiation with Splunk, and we kept running into what felt like a pretty unreasonable pricing structure. They wanted some number of millions of dollars for a three year license, which felt like a high price to pay for roughly thirty-two ascii characters in a particular…
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URLs are UI
What a great title. 'URLs are UI.' Pithy, clear, crisp. Very true. I've been ...
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PostgreSQL Features You May Not Have Tried but Should
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.