I've previously discussed how the PlayStation 2 doesn't have any good entry-point software exploits for launching homebrew. You need to either purchase a memory card with an exploit pre-installed (or a memory card to USB adapter), a HDD expansion bay (not available to slim consoles), open up the console to block the…
Gavin Sherry and I have presented several versions of a tutorial introduction on how to modify the PostgreSQL source code. The original version was given at the PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit in June of 2006. Gavin has since given a revised version of the talk (at LCA 2007), as have I (at PgCon 2007).
Assume that Apple is going to win versus Epic: what is a reasonable approach to the App Store that will gain more developer support?
Stanford psychiatrist Amy Alexander and colleagues report that women, children and society receive numerous benefits from 12 weeks of paid maternity leave.
A few years ago, Johannes Haushofer published a CV of failures. In it, he lists all the grants he wasn't awarded, positions he didn't get, papers rejected. I think that people need to be more open about failure. None of us are perfect - despite what our social media presence says - and all of us suffer rejection. But…
Google allows Google Workspace administrators to monitor and audit users emails. An Administrator may use Google Vault, Content Compliance rules, Audit API or Email delegation to view and audit users emails. It is recommend for Google Workspace Administrators to consider their local laws before performing email…
The American Dream exists, but what is the reality?
Amazon's creeping monopoly on the audiobook industry through Audible pushes bookshops and libraries out of audiobook distribution.
An appropriately annoying strategy for dealing with wiki rot at a company.
TL;DR: Azure and Digital Ocean don't charge for the compute resources used for the control plane, making AKS and DO the cheapest for running many, smaller clusters. For running fewer, larger clusters GKE is the most affordable option. Also, running on spot/preemptible/low-priority nodes or long-term committed nodes…
Ouster's next step: 128-channel lidar sensors with long range and an ultra-wide field of view, built on its digital lidar architecture.
In Windows 10 version 2004, we are introducing the concept of Hosted Apps to the Windows App Model. Hosted apps are registered as independent apps on Windows, but require a host process in order to run. An example would be a script file which requires its host (eg: Powershell or Python) to be installed. By
How inappropriate data access patterns massively slow down programs and how the same problems arise with RESTful APIs.
We are making two changes to our standard deal in conjunction with a recent fundraise. Starting with the Winter 2021 batch, our deal will be $125,000 for 7% equity on a post-money safe, and we will reduce the amount of our pro rata [https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/] right to 4% of subsequent rounds. In the…
The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.
Bluetooth Audio on Linux is a bit of a mess. There's a fair bit you can do to significantly improve the quality though.
Static websites are still a hot topic. They are fast, and they're incredibly secure because there isn't a CMS to hack. Once you build a static website, however, the question becomes: Where do I host?In other words: what is the fastest static webs...
26 April 2018 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 10 June 2021You may call them guidelines, heuristics, or rules of thumb. No matter, the purpose is the same: to provide a reasonable approximation of the truth. These rules of thumb can help guide your understanding of the systems you work on, focus you toward the ……
Late last year I released posuto, a package presenting Japanese postal code data in an easy-to-use format. It's based on data released by Japan Post, which is infamous for being widely used but hard to parse.
This article gives a simple introduction with examples to recursive queries in PostgreSQL. It also includes a comparison to Oracle recursive queries.
Back with a post after 6 years of silence. If you had to parse a microsecond-resolution epoch timestamp as quickly as possible, how would you do it? We’ll take a look at using compiler intrinsics to do it in log(n) time.
Discover the 25-Hour Digital Myst Clock, merging D'ni and conventional timekeeping for Myst fans, with a display of proper D'ni digits.
I have frequently wanted to use the external link symbol ( ) in text that I’m writing, without having to resort to including an image. Normally the solution there would be to find the graphical symbol in Unicode and figure out how to type it.
On Michael Jordan being a jerk to make the Bulls great…
Learn Go (Golang) by writing real code in this interactive course. Practice structs, interfaces, errors, concurrency, and idiomatic backend patterns.
Testing the new iPhone 12 Pro in (and over) Glacier National Park.
