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On Smoking
Essay 17
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Opt Out of Cynicism
Welcome to part 8 of the series on “How to be a game changer”. You can find the previous posts here 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 .
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What Is Social Cooling?
Social cooling refers to the idea that if “you feel you are being watched, you change your behavior.” And the massive amounts of data being collected, especially online, is exaggerating…
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How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security
How I used Docker Compose, Ansible, and Caddy to re-over-engineer my network setup for easier maintenance, treating my Raspberry Pi like cattle, not a pet.
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Hello, HPy
Welcome to the shiny new HPy blog! HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real
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NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts
On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be…
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Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds
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Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
I set out to investigate whether Hacker News is a useful barometer for up-and-coming technologies that will hit the mainstream within the next few years.
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Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone encoding problem
This may surprise you if you know me, but I’ve been learning Common Lisp for a few weeks now.
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Internet Search Tips
A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.
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How to Stop Endless Discussions
When we find ourselves in endless debates where everyone defends their idea, we don't know how to handle the situation. We eventually find a way out, but what we need is an excellent system.
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CVE-2021-22555: Turning \x00\x00 into 10000$
This project hosts security advisories and their accompanying proof-of-concepts related to research conducted at Google which impact non-Google owned code.
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Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
Every software team says they do Agile and yet almost nobody is Agile. How did we get to this point? Where do we go from here?
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Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos
This is The Entire Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos. The curriculum is going to be organized in 40 courses in total, further organized in 4 academic years...
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Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
Preliminary laboratory studies demonstrate that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine neutralize the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529 lineage) while two doses show significantly reduced neutralization titers Data indicate that a third dose of BNT162b2 increases the neutralizing antibody titers by 25-fold…
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Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service
We are piloting an advertising program that we expect will enable us to continue providing basic users with access to our robust platform.
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Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers
Looking for a research paper but can’t find a copy in your library’s catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF from a “vanished” Open Access publisher in our web archive, an author’s pre-publication manuscript from their archived faculty webpage, or a digitized…
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A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
I’ve long thought that Zig was an interesting programming language, potentially more interesting than Rust in many respects given that Zig seems to be targetting a more modern C-like language replacement whereas Rust firmly looks like it is trying to take C++ out back like ol’ yeller. Rust is powerful, but the…
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Why cancer cells waste so much energy
MIT biologists have found a possible explanation for the Warburg effect, first seen in cancer cells in the 1920s. They found cancer cells use fermentation, an inefficient metabolic pathway, because it helps them to generate large quantities of a molecule called NAD+, which they need to synthesize DNA and other…
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Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead