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Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck
Volvo Trucks has delivered an electric truck for heavy transport to a haulier in Gothenburg, Sweden. The truck can handle a total weight of 74 tonnes.
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Titled Tuesday Cheating
Fantastic Cheaters and Where to Find Them
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An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you
Couple of weeks ago, we were discussing random things at work, and we landed on the topic of discipline. One of my colleagues was praising me for having a very disciplined life. It felt as if he was talking about someone else.
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Turbo Rascal Syntax Error
TRSE (or its full original name “Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN”) is a complete suite (IDE, compiler, programming language, resource editor) intended for developing games/demos for 8 / 16-bit line of computers, with a focus on the MOS 6502, the Motorola 68000, the (GB)Z80, the M6809 and the X86…
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AI and Trust
I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the way. At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone else who…
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Testing Intel’s Arc A770 GPU for Deep Learning
This post covers my experience training image classification models with Intel’s PyTorch extension on the Arc A770 GPU.
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If you succeed you will fail
If you succeed, you will fail. Something said at a client engagement I was at some time ago. I figure enough time has passed that it is worth sharing this story. One of the early engagements was to …
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Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity
From pure Python to AVX-512 assembly, optimizing cosine similarity reveals a 2,500x speedup through SIMD, FP16, and VNNI instructions on modern Intel CPUs.
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Why F# evangelism isn't working (2015)
If you skim this blog entry too quickly or just read the title, you might think I am someone who does not like F#. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over the last several months, I have become a big F# fan. It has become my preferred language for personal projects.
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It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
It may not be possible for us to ever reach empirical definitions of "good code" or "clean code", which means that any one person's opinions about another person's opinions about "clean code" are necessarily highly subjective. I cannot review Robert C. Martin's 2008 book Clean Co...
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PHP in 2023
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
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The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
This is a fundamental principle of free and open source software. The World Wide Web abides by this principle, although we don’t often think of it that way. The Web is just an agreed-on set of programmatic interfaces: if you send me this, I’ll send you that. Your computer can construct the “this” by whatever means it…
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Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs
This post assumes some basic C skills. Linux puts you in full control. This is not always seen from everyone’s perspective, but a power user loves to be in control. I’m going to show yo…
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“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,00
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How to Stop Ruminating
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
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The Effects of Noise on Health (2022)
As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
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How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation
Discover strategies for negotiating a higher salary, potentially increasing your earnings by 1.5 times with the right approach.
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Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks
LLMs can now make use of the right tools to resolve complex queries and tasks
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Near-lossless image formats using ultra-fast LZ codecs
I think simple ultra-high speed lossy (or near-lossless) image codecs, built from the new generation of fast LZ codecs, are going to become ...
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Common bugs in writing (2021)
Like almost all rules, there are cases where breaking them is a good idea and seasoned writers may well object with "but" responses for some of these. Thus, consider the rules below as mental rumble strips - you should probably slow down and think if you encounter these cases.
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Tech debt metaphor maximalism
I really like the "tech debt" metaphor. A lot of people don't, but I think that's because they either don't extend the metaphor far enough,...
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HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks
The “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has mitigated a barrage of these attacks in recent months, including an attack three times larger than any previous attack we’ve observed
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Building a Web Game in C
Christmas is coming up. When I used to work at a bank the entire month of December and a bit of January we were placed under “Change Freeze”. We weren’t allowed to deploy updates to our applications during this period. The thinking was: A lot of people are away over Christmas Application changes can lead to crashes…
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eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation
This blog shares the results of our performance tests creating OpenTelemetry traces with eBPF-based automatic instrumentation vs traditional instrumentation
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A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking
Neel Nanda reverse engineers neural networks that have "grokked" modular addition, showing that they operate using Discrete Fourier Transforms and tr…
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SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can
libSQL “server mode” (sqld) enables access to SQLite-based databases using Postgres and HTTP network protocols.