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The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (2007)
Physics blog quantum computation
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The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019)
Which books on GoodReads are most difficult to finish? Estimating proportions in December 2019 gives an entirely different result than absolute counts.
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Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
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Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust
With Apple’s recent announcement that they are moving away from Intel X86 CPU’s to their own ARM CPU’s for future laptops and desktops I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the some differences that can affect systems programmers working in Rust.
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My best SEO tactic so far
Over the years, I've worked on building search traffic for two kinds of sites. The first, was working for companies that already had hundreds of thousands or millions of monthly users and were trying ...
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Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux
Planner keeps track of all your tasks, projects, and goals in one beautifully simple place.
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ORC – Nim's new memory managment
ORC - Algorithmic Advantages
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Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
Persuasion is as old as our species. Both democracy and the market economy depend on it. Politicians persuade citizens to vote for them, or to support different policy positions. Businesses persuade consumers to buy their products or services. We all persuade our friends to accept our choice of restaurant, movie, and…
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Google Acquires North
Google has acquired North, a pioneer in human computer interfaces and smart glasses.
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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Discover why personal websites are the backbone of the independent web. Learn how to build, connect, and maintain your own space on the internet.
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Pine64 November Update: KDE PinePhone CE and a Peek into the Future
Welcome to this month’s community update! We’ve got exciting news to share, but before I proceed in doing so I’d like to thank Gamiee, JF, and PizzaLovingNerd for contributing to this blog entry and Clover for the final edits and proof-reading. As the PINE64 device-family grows larger and becomes more diverse, I find…
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The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer
In my research career I’ve discovered many things, including the secret of academic success (too late to help my own career). I’m going to share the secret with you.
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Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and…
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Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands (2011) [video]
Space Shuttle thermal tiles conduct heat so poorly that after being in a 2200 °F oven for hours, you can pick them up with your bare hands only seconds after th
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Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement
“No one will remember us or anything we’ve done — unless Netflix makes one of those documentaries like the Fyre Festival one.”
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Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure
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Test for Divisibility by 13
How to manually test whether a large number is divisible by 7, 11, and 13 all at the same time.
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Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness
People regularly go for complex test harnesses; and when you’re in an ecosystem, they can be a good fit. But outside ecosystems, it’s actually quite easy to produce a fairly good test harness.
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A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015)
UPDATE 2020-08-03 : I no longer stand by the content in this post. I think the overall sentiment is marginally accurate; however, the details in the post are incorrect (as many have pointed out over the years).
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FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack
Trellix XDR, get the latest cybersecurity trends, best practices, security vulnerabilities, and more from industry leaders.
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How I read books: a guide on how to learn
Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
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My Favorite Rust Function Signature
I’ve gotten really into writing parsers lately, and Rust has turned out to be the perfect language for that. In the course of my adventures, I came up with the following:
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Is revenue model more important than culture?
HN Discussion Here: I always loved getting problems of the type “What is the limit as x approaches infinity” type in high-school/college. You’re given an equation (of the classic y=x format), and a…
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Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi
Learn how to monitor airplane traffic with a Raspberry Pi. Track real-time flight data using PiAware and an ADS-B dongle. Simple setup for aviation enthusiasts!
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.
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A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip
Starting with the release of the Pixel 3, all of Google's Pixel Android smartphones come with the Titan M security chip on board. When I realized the Pixel 3a XL I purchased also had it, I decided to try to take advantage of it in an app I work on. It turned out that using the Titan M chip through the Android Keystore…