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WebAssembly and C++
C/C++-specific WebAssembly notes.
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Why are maps so hard to make?
Announcing Felt's public launch and $15M Series A. Maps are fun now! Margins is back!
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Overview of the 555-XXXX phone number
Phone numbers containing "555" are not just used for the movies, and yes, some numbers are indeed real.
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BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot
We’re announcing that Meta AI has built and released BlenderBot 3, the first 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot complete with model weights, code, datasets, and model cards. We’ve deployed it in a live interactive conversational AI demo.
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Why is there no semantic ontology of sentiment in academic citations?
About a million years ago, I was discussing the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) ontology with its early proponents. It allowed you to define a machine-readable semantic relationship like "Alice is married to Bill" and "Bill is Carol's child" and "Carol works for David". That sort of thing. At the time, all the FOAF…
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Japanese Words in Neuromancer
This is a reblog/translation of a post by Héctor García… During the 80s in the United States, Japan was started to be seen as the inevitable first economic power of the world. It went from be…
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The Reliability Trap: The crash of Emirates flight 521 (2020)
On the 3rd of August 2016, an Emirates Boeing 777 landing in Dubai attempted a last second go-around after touching down too far along the…
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Things Delta told the SEC about its SkyMiles program
Delta filed its SEC 10-K and buried in the 272 pages are several interesting tidbits about the SkyMiles program.
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Open call – your field recordings of obsolete sounds wanted
Recordings of disappearing, obscure and obsolete sounds wanted for new global collaborative sound project Obsolete Sounds.
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Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530
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The state of Flow-based Programming
Where Flow-based Programming stands after 50 years since its introduction. What problems it solves today. And what problems it can solve tomorrow for broader Software Engineering industry
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Tidbyt hardware display device: a review
A tabletop LED display for quiet data
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2022
Q3 2022 Drive Stats: Read the latest insights and check out the data.
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DockYard R&D: FireFly Optimizes Your Elixir Compilation
Firefly is an alternative compiler to BEAM, introducing new levels of efficiency and speed for compiling Elixir applications.
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Web 3 Doesn't Exist
Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread authors.
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Linker, can you spare a meg? (2021)
Tailscale on iOS runs as a special kind of app, a Network Extension. This lets us run in the background, so we can secure traffic from all of your applications, without them having to change anything. But with this power comes a memory straightjacket. Normal iOS apps can use 5GB or so of memory before iOS kills them…
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Loopr: A Loop/Reduction Macro for Clojure
I write a lot of reductions: loops that combine every element from a collection in some way. For example, summing a vector of integers:
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Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life (2021)
Does your child love to draw? Ever wished that characters in their drawings could “come to life” and move around the page? Using AI, we’ve developed automatic animation that can bring children’s one-of-a-kind characters to life!
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Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS
My feelings about OpenBSD and NixOS, trying to figure out where each is the best
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What I wish I knew about onboarding
Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust.
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Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal
So you've got your hands on a late 1980s Minitel 1B (or something slightly later) and then you realize that the entire Minitel network shut ...
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Using LEOs and GEOs
Once you head away from the areas that are serviced by modern terrestrial cable infrastructure, the available digital communications options are somewhat limited. Some remote areas are served using High Frequency radio systems, using radio signals that bounce off the ionosphere to provide a long distance, but limited…
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Interop 2022
Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most important interoperability pain points on the web platform.
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Thin Platforms
The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms