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Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8
Minus zero behaves like zero, right?
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Do-It-Yourself OpenJDK Garbage Collector
Aleksey Shipilёv, JVM/Performance Geek, Shout out at Twitter: @shipilev Questions, comments, suggestions: aleksey@shipilev.net
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What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?
Maybe you have been reading recently about the release of OpenBSD 6.5 and wonder, 'What are the differences between Linux and OpenBSD?' I've also been there at some point in the past and these are my conclusions. They also apply, to some extent,
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Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure
I spend a good deal of time these days on various telnet BBS that are (naturally) focused on vintage computing. As such, much of the discussion being had in the message bases is in the form of help / advice … Continue reading →
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Understanding the BeagleBone’s built in microcontrollers (2016)
The BeagleBone Black is an inexpensive, credit-card sized computer that has two built-in microcontrollers called PRUs. While the PRUs provi...
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FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
TLDR: Here is the code to explore.
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A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript
The globalThis proposal introduces a unified mechanism to access the global this in any JavaScript environment. It sounds like a simple thing to polyfill, but it turns out it’s pretty hard to get right. I didn’t even think it was possible until Toon blew my mind with an unexpected, creative solution.
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O(N^2) in CreateProcess
So many possible introductions to this one: Windows 7: Sheesh, I sure am slow at creating processes Windows 10: Hold my beer… Or how about: A) How long does CreateProcess take on Windows? B) How lo…
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Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits
Updated 2023-04-16 Or how to serve half a billion placeholder images a month on a budget. Lorem Picsum is one of the most popular placeholder sites on the internet. It started as a small side project written in NodeJS five years ago to cover my own needs and has since gone through several iterations as it has grown…
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Keybase iOS Has a Backdoor?
Keybase’s iOS client has received a backdoor. It seems that Stellar, the extremely well-funded and well-marketed cryptocurrency, has struck a deal with Keybase…
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The Guide to Writing Online
Think better. Grow your audience. Accelerate your career.
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The Essence of Datalog (2018)
Mistral Contrastin's thought bubble, blog, and personal revelations.
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Good Code Design from Linux
Learn how Linux/FFmpeg C partial codebase is organized to be extensible and act as if it were meant to have “polymorphism”. Specifically, we’re going to briefly explore how Linux …
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Quantum Computing for the Curious
Presented in an experimental mnemonic medium that makes it almost effortless to remember what you read
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A Guide to Rust Graphics Libraries as of 2019
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genre?
I replayed Warcraft III recently and was looking for other games I could play in the same genre. Turns out that outside of StarCraft 2, there are no recent games that are anywhere near as good. Wha…
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P = NP Proofs: Advice to claimers
Advice to claimers The Claimers The Claimers are a gang on the hit AMC television series The Walking Dead. They are the main antagonists in the second half of the zombie-apocalypse show’s Sea…
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A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)
A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F#
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The Value of Grey Thinking (2016)
Grey thinking works. Reality is all grey area. All of it. There are very few black and white answers and no solutions without second-order consequences.
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Why does F = ma?
By Michael Nielsen, November 23, 2019
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I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates
Personal like or dislike of EV aside for a moment, we can all agree on what the name of EV certs implies. Organisations get their company details in the certificate and CAs have to do some extended validation of that data compared to a normal certificate. Turns out, that doesn'
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The Over-Engaged Knowledge Worker
I recently listened to a discussion of knowledge work in the browser. Along the way people imagined idealized workflows and the tools that could enable them. This result felt familiar from concept videos since forever (such as this old Mozilla concept video ):
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Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.
On November 18, 2019, Apple’s new map expanded to parts of the Midwest and much of the Western U.S.:
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Machine Learning: Full-Text Search in JavaScript – Relevance Scoring (2015)
Full-text search is a powerful machine learning algorithm, especially relevant for web developers. This article teaches you the basics, from scratch.