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The Google Assistant is going global
Over the past year and a half, the Google Assistant has grown from being available on just one device in one language to across many types of devices, including speakers…
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The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
Helium-filled hard drives attempt to cut down on friction, leading to better performance. We’ve crunched the numbers: how do they actually perform?
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The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic
The familiar quadratic formula can give the wrong answer in a program due to numerical precision issues. This post shows what can go wrong and how to fix it. Especially important in low-precision arithmetic.
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AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don’t Learn the Hard Way
How T2 burstable instances and CPU credits really work, with a worked example of a busy t2.micro running out of credits and grinding to a halt.
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Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc in 2017
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2017. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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OpenWrt in a WiFi card reader (2017)
The Zsun Wifi card reader is cheap tiny USB to MicroSD card reader with an integrated wifi chip running Linux, In a nutshell, it is a WiFi access point with more flash (16MB) and RAM (64 MB) than most OpenWrt supported routers. Polish hardware hacker q3k from Warsaw Hackerspace, is a recent and…
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Racket-On-Chez Status
posted by Matthew Flatt with thanks to collaborators Kent Dybvig, Andy Keep, Gustavo Massaccesi, Sarah Spall, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, and Jon Zeppieri It's been almost a year since we decided to try running Racket on Chez Scheme, and it has been almost six ...
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Work with Git Forges inside Emacs
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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A Long Peek into Reinforcement Learning
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Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better (2017)
Sixteen years later, ES6/ES2015 introduced Unicode mode (the u flag) , sticky mode (the y flag) , and the RegExp.prototype.flags getter .
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The Whole of WordPress Compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie
Why? Because it's awesome. Sometimes a project comes along that is impossibly ...
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O2 outage due to expired Ericsson certificate
Following network disturbances in a number of Ericsson’s (NASDAQ:ERIC) customer networks, Ericsson has taken immediate action to minimize impact and support the
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Proof That iOS Still Hasn’t Gotten Undo Right
Imagine going back in time to tell a MacPaint user in 1985 that they’d have to learn how to use Undo in an Apple-award-winning paint app in 2018. That’s where we are.
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The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017)
This paper identifies the most important innovations in software, removing hardware advances and products that didn't embody significant new software innovations. Its results may surprise you.
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A look at VDO, the new Linux compression layer
Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5's VDO for storage optimization - save space, boost performance
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A Crash Course on ML Modules (2015)
I was having lunch with a couple of Haskell programmers the other day and the subject of the ML family came up. I’ve been writing a lot of ML lately and mentioned that I thought *ML was well worth learning for the average Haskeller. When pressed why the best answer I could come up with was “Well.. clean language, Oh!…
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WPA3 Wifi Security Protocol Announced
New Wi-Fi® security features available in 2018Las Vegas, NV – January 8, 2018 – Wi-Fi Alliance® introduces enhancements and new features for Wi-Fi Protected Access®, the essential family of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ security technologies for more than a decade. Wi-Fi Alliance is launching configuration, authentication, and…
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On Overcoming Pain
Breaking my knee this year was a difficult experience, but I did learn a lot from it . I now know more than I ever wanted to know about the anatomy of my knee and how the muscles work together to create the miracle of bipedal locomotion, and more importantly, I now know more about pain.
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A more privacy-friendly blog
Over the years, I have implemented some changes to this blog to make it more privacy-friendly.