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Against Discipline
And for play!
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Bizarre Talmudic Scenarios
On this page of Talmud we read of a very bizarre case: יבמות נד, א אָמַר רַבָּה: נָפַל מִן הַגָּג וְנִתְקַע — חַיָּיב בְּאַרְבָּעָה דְּבָרִים, וּבִיבִמְתּוֹ לֹא קָנָה. בְּנֵזֶק, בְּצַעַר, בְּשֶׁבֶת, בְּרִפּוּי. אֲבָל בּוֹשֶׁת לָא מִיחַיַּיב, דְּאָמַר מָר: אֵין חַיָּיב עַל הַבּוֹשֶׁת עַד
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Crypto firm Bitpanda lays off around 20% of its people
We unfortunately needed to announce that we’re letting part of the team go during a call earlier today. We made this incredibly difficult decision to ensure that we stay true to Bitpanda’s mission and keep building the leading investment platform in Europe and beyond.
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Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon, Apple employee accounts on LinkedIn
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in…
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Don’t mock what you don’t own
A common issue when writing tests for real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle.
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The Many Branches of the Fediverse
As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse. I made this infographic to help myself and others explain the many different use-
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DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
Today, most people develop applications on operating systems such as Linux which are more than thirty years old, even though computing has changed a lot in the meantime. Since Linux was first released in 1991, the size of application state and data has grown by several orders of magnitude, many applications have moved…
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Multiple assignment and tuple unpacking improve Python code readability (2018)
Whether I’m teaching new Pythonistas or long-time Python programmers, I frequently find that Python programmers underutilize multiple assignment....
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What ID3v2 could have been
Speculations and specifications. If you were a Winamp user back in the day, or curate an MP3 collection currently, you might recognize the humble ID3 tag. It is what the metadata in the MP3 file is made up of. First it was pretty limited in the version later dubbed ID3v1. Like any good 2.0 they added a ton more…
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Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell
Here’s a not-so-brief story about troubleshooting a problem that was at times vexing, impossible, incredibly challenging, frustrating, and all around just a terrible time with the bare-metal STM32G4 firmware for the moteus brushless motor controller. Background First, some things for context: moteus has a variety of…
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The MIPS ThinkPad, Kind Of
Pop quiz: what classic brand of laptop is this? I'll give you another hint. Bright-red TrackPoint and mouse button trim, classic keybo...
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Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
Writer for Semaphore and ButterCMS. Previously Staff Engineer at Deliveroo and in technical leadership at various public sector organisations.
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What Artists Notice
Painters at work notice details we’d ignore. From those details they develop delightful insights into reality. What do I mean? Let’s look at Van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Portrait” and find out:
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Imitate, Then Innovate
Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill. It’s counterintuitive, but the more we imitate others, the faster we can discover our unique style.
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The GPU Banana Stand
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Bertozzi, Meldal, and Sharpless
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"
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Using Ansible and Nomad for a homelab (part 1)
How I migrated my Chef homelab to Ansible+Nomad
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Use a custom domain to send emails with Gmail using Cloudflare email routing
Edit: Updated with notes about revealing your main gmail address and deliverability, after this HN discussion
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Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper
Observation: Currently, this feature is not part of Nyxt's last stable release (version 2.2.4). Thus, users can only access it while running Nyxt directly from source and using the master branch which is under development. To do that, please read the Developer Manual .
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Practical guide to solving hard problems
I sometimes find myself in a position of needing to write some code that I’m just not sure how to write. Been there have you? Here are the steps I take when I’m stumped. No huge revelations here, just hard-earned advice.
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Amazon releases 51-language dataset for language understanding
MASSIVE dataset and Massively Multilingual NLU (MMNLU-22) competition and workshop will help researchers scale natural-language-understanding technology to every language on Earth.
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Gcloud storage: Faster data transfers for Cloud Storage
gcloud CLI enables super-fast data transfers into Cloud Storage and delivers a consistent CLI experience across all Google Cloud services.
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Accurate Image Alignment and Registration Using OpenCV
The image alignment and registration pipeline takes two input images that contain the same scene from slightly different viewing angles. The picture above displays both input images side by side with the common scene (object) being the painting Las Meninas (1656) by Velázquez, currently at the Museo del Prado in…
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I had a dream
As I slept fitfully, still recovering from COVID, I had one of the more interesting dreams of my life: I was desperately trying to finish some PowerPoint slides in time to give a talk. Uncharacteri…
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When an M1 Mac mini is faster than an M1 Pro: contention and core allocation
When running some tasks confined to E cores, the original M1 chip from 2020 completes them significantly quicker than an on an M1 Pro. Here’s the detail.
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ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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State machine replication, and why you should care
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Dolphin Progress September, October, and November 2022
As we hit the holiday season, our Progress Report might be considered a bit late. A two month report became a three month report as we realized just how much work we had to catch up on. While the usual summer burst of activity didn't come, it seems instead everyone poured their time in throughout the autumn months!…