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The State of AV1 Playback Support
Apple keeps adding AV1 codec support! iPad Pro joins iPhone 15 Pro and Macbooks with dedicated AV1 hardware decoders! Learn everything you need to know about AV1 playback support.
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The slow march of progress in programming language tooling
Discover how programming language tooling has evolved over time and why newer languages like Go and Rust have gained popularity due to their compre...
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What is a programmable programming language? (2019)
When I was still researching this fabled obscure language called Lisp one thing people kept saying about it is that “Lisp is a programmable programming language”, but I could never figure out what they meant by that. It sounds like a smug buzzword or like a gimmick from an academic toy language. Lisp programmers have…
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ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword
The first Times crossword Having seen several mind-blowing articles about ChatGPT’s ability (most notably this one), I wondered how ChatGPT would fare solving a cryptic crossword. I decided to try with an easy one: a Quick Cryptic from The Times. I had a search through the Times for the Times archives to try and find…
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How to stop a robot vacuum from getting stuck on the laundry rack
Is your robotic vacuum cleaner getting stuck on the laundry drying rack? Just raise the rack slightly off the floor and it becomes a natural robot barrier.
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Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2017)
by James Wallace Harris, Friday, January 6, 2017 I first read The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder just after it came out in 1981, before it won the Pulitzer and National Book awards in 1982. …
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HTML comments work in JavaScript too
Some weird legacy behavior in JavaScript
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Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […]
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The Pragmatic Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Pragmatic Programmer - Rogério Chaves
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How I Built LoginWithHN
How I built LoginWithHN, an OAuth2+OpenID Connect provider for HackerNews.
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Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
A comprehensive guide to MikroTik internals, including IPC, hand-rolled cryptography, and a novel post-authentication jailbreak
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Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busier
Way back in the covid-filled summer of 2020, I wrote a survey article about the ridiculously-rapidly-growing Busy Beaver function. My survey then expanded to nearly twice its original length, with …
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Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Jakub Janovsky , Naalsio , Aloha , Dan , Kemal , and Alexander Black This list only in...
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Interop 2022: browsers working together to improve the web for developers
Learn more about how all browser vendors, and other stakeholders, have come together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues identified by web developers. Interop 2022 will improve the experience of developing for the web in 15 key areas.
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Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality and stability
Work continues on the Wayland driver for Wine, with a focus on improving both functonality and stability, and on providing a more upstreamable patchset.
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A persistent denial of service vulnerability affecting iOS
This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. This is not a service; avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.
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Stop Being the Hero
Why best products and leaders are not heroes; they solve 3 layers of every problem
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An unexpected ass kicking (2012)
One afternoon in Portland, I walked into World Cup & Tea to do some work. Instead, I had an encounter with the guy who invented the computer: Russell Kirsch
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New process allows 3-D printing of microscale metallic parts
Engineers infuse a hydrogel structure with a metal solution and then use heat and chemical reactions to leave only the metal behind.
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UIs are not pure functions of the model (2018)
When I first saw React.js , I had a quick glance and thought that it was cool, they finally figured out how to do a Cocoa-like MVC UI framew...
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On Web3 Infrastructure
In recent months, there has been a resurgence in the usage of the term “web3”: a nebulous term that (like it or hate it) has suddenly become a banner for much of the innovation happening in the space of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. The term has been around for a while (since 2014 when Gavin Wood…
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Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s from User-Generated Content Services
As part of an omnibus bill, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a troubling bill restricting how under-18 users engage with user-generated content (UGC) services. [At the bottom of this post, I’ve included the text as passed by the Minnesota...
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Unbundling Airbnb
There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.
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Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th
New research suggests environmental changes caused the first mass extinction event in history, which occurred millions of years earlier than scientists previously realized.
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Eye-tracking is a missing input device for VR experiences
So you want to shoot lasers from your eyes, hmm?
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How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)
How to Identify and Misidentify a Brown Recluse Spider by Rick Vetter Staff Research Associate, UC Riverside Dept. of Entomology
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Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)
Simply changing the order of some uint variables we managed to drop our memory usage significantly