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The Social Recession: By the Numbers
Fewer friends, relationships on the decline, delayed adulthood, trust at an all-time low, and many diseases of despair. The prognosis is not great.
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America’s Open Wound
The CIA is not your friend
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Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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System Preferences Reimagined on macOS
After decades without a redesign, System Preferences on macOS gets a bold & beautiful new look.
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Royal Caribbean to use SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet onboard their fleet
Stay up to date and informed on all Royal Caribbean Cruises news with our most recent press releases.
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Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory
And what it tells us about his creativity
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I miss the programmable web (2021)
In some ways, we've taken a few steps back from a programmable web—two things I miss: bookmarklets and user scripts. Imagine having a bookmarked shortcut to do complex things like taking screenshots or saving a PDF. O...
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Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
Choosing to be the CEO or CTO after raising a seed round.
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How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works
The 8086 microprocessor was a groundbreaking processor introduced by Intel in 1978. It led to the x86 architecture that still dominates de...
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Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling
Learn how our developers used flamegraphs to diagnose and resolve performance issues in our Tokio framework based Rust driver.
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Is my advice too mercenary?
A criticism of some of my writing is that it’s too mercenary. Some see my advice as coldly calculating, too focused on individual outcomes over collective ones, and implicitly distrustful of others. I think this is fair criticism! It’s not exactly what I’m going for, but it’s a fair reading. However, there’s more to…
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The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
Java was originally touted as "the killer" desktop language, but the early 2000's saw steady march towards obscurity.
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I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To
I looked at 34 projects listed by the top Google result for “real-world blockchain projects”. 33 of these are either dead, pivoted away from Blockchain, use Blockchain in a (sometimes dangerously) bad way, or are have no real-world utility.
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The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
If anything people have become better informed
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How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?
Looking for special servers.
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A 9-line summary of textbook physics
All their wonders in one table
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TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
Learn the details of this press release.
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Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX
Netskope (AS55256) has added 1x100G, bringing their capacity to a total of 2x100G and 1x100G. They are connected to the route servers.
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Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?
You can go a long time as a JavaScript developer without ever feeling the need for generators. Hence, it’s natural to wonder: What are they good for? Why would you ever need one? What’s the point? But generators can do some neat tricks. And they may even change the way you approach certain problems.
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Pair Programming Antipatterns
What you shouldn't do when pair programming.
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OpenSSH 9.0
OpenSSH release notes
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Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)
We compare and contrast the top code editors that you use in your browser.
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Discovering a security vulnerability in a major grocery delivery platform
We felt more like “Oh fuck, Databreach” Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. During the pandemic, grocery delivery services gained popularity. New players on the market offer delivery in under an hour. One of them is Gorillas, which not only delivers apples and granola bars in 10 minutes, but just as…
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Empirical Notes on Kissing
Before my first kiss, I scoured The Internet (Google Scholar + tracing blog posts back to their underlying studies - this was some time ago so I don’t still have the sources) for every valuable scrap of information available on the topic while trying to stray away from anything opinion-based. This is the result.
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Triangle Grids
Grids are great for tactical gameplay of turn-based games because they allow discrete movement steps. That means that you can bind positioning to other resources such as movement points, action points, food, etc. Grids divide the infinite variety of movement options into a few specific ones, which can be considered…
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Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (1998)
Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed.
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On anti-crypto toxicity
Crypto is known for its toxicity towards outsiders. Similar attitudes are emerging from some who oppose crypto.