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A first lesson in meta-rationality
A first lesson in meta-rationality, or stage 5 cognition, using Bongard problems as a laboratory.
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Differences with other Lisps
This information is provided for programmers familiar with Common Lisp or Scheme.
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Good data scientist, bad data scientist
What separates a good Data Scientist from a bad one?
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Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all
Today, we’re thrilled to be partnering with Let’s Encrypt, the world’s largest certificate authority.
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Turning an iPad Pro into a classic Macintosh
I’ve started work on the next in my 1-bit Woodblocks series: “Tekagami” (Ito Shinsui’s “Hand Mirror”). So it’s a good time to talk about how I turned an iPad...
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
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Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP
Build a redis server in Elixir
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Paxos automatically determined safe and secure
In an important step toward ensuring the protocols that dictate how our networked services operate are safe, secure and running as expected, University of Michigan researchers have automated a technique called formal verification. Their system proves, without any human effort, that one of the mos
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HAProxy 2.4
HAProxy 2.4 adds features such as support for HTTP/2 WebSockets, authorization and routing of MQTT and FIX protocol messages, DNS resolution over TCP, and more.
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Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
This week’s paper won the distinguished presentation award at HotOS 2021, and discusses the potential for future innovation in the tool that many use every day - the shell! A previous submission of this paper on Hacker News elicited a number of strong reactions. One reaction was the assertion that there are in fact…
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If AT&T Had Managed the Phone Business Like Google
Imagine a Silicon Valley strategy implemented with the United States phone system 100 years ago. It's not a pretty picture.
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Rust programs written entirely in Rust
A blog by sunfishcode
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The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulation surgery
What deep brain stimulation surgery feels like.
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Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository
The Debian Janitor is an automated system that commits fixes for (minor) issues in Debian packages that can be fixed by software. It gradually started proposing merges in early December. The first set of changes sent out ran lintian-brush on sid packages maintained in Git. This post is part of a series about the…
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Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0
Explore the changes and reasons behind OpenZFS 2.0. This article clarifies the transition from feature flags and its impact on FreeBSD 13.
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Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
Introduction Win32 APIs provide powerful functionality that let you get the most out of Windows in your applications. While these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ developers, other languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindi
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Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem
I've built an app called Fork Freshness . In the process of building that app, I've learned some interesting things about how open source projects evolve over time.
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Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design
TCC is meant to protect user data from unauthorized access, but design flaws mean users and malware can bypass TCC, even by accident.
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Anti-patterns when building container images
This is a list of recurring anti-patterns that I see when I help folks with their container build pipelines, and suggestions to avoid them or refactor them into something better.
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Fast CSV Processing with SIMD
I recently learned of csvquote , a tool that encodes troublesome CSV characters such that unix tools can correctly process them. It reverses the encoding at the end of the pipeline, recovering the original input. The original implementation handles CSV quotes using the straightforward, naive method. However, there’s a…
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The SaaS Metrics That Matter
Plus now you can easily generate them using our secret sauce SaaSGrid.
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TCP Fast Open? Not so fast
As TCP becomes more important to DNS, overhead is becoming an issue.
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The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think
The multi-skin toned handshake emoji reveals that it is more than a routine gesture
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In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
This article is supported by my Patreon. If you like what you see, please consider contributing. I feel like hard counters get a bad rap in RTS games. There are a lot of arguments out there both fo…
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The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
OK, since no one is posting, you get to endure another Monopoly post! After our recent attempt to play the shortest actual game of Monopoly on record, we started to wonder about what the shortest T…
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Idioms for the D Programming Language
Effective D Programming Language.
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Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy
Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that helps teams wait less and ship more, without losing out on feedback.