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The case against self-closing tags in HTML
The history, facts, and opinions.
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The end of the subscription era is coming
You’re overpaying for your porn (and journalism)
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Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is a currently-undetermined type of ...
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Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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This is valid Python syntax
Sometimes it's even useful too
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Help I accidently enabled HSTS on localhost
I ran into an issue after accidently enabling HSTS for a website on localhost. This was not an issue for the original website that was runni...
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iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure
The legacy of Intel's over-ambitious 32-bit 'micromainframe' failure.
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What does a research grant pay for?
People don't usually share what a research grant pays for, so here are the budgets from mine.
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C++ Modules: Packaging Story
Experimenting with C++ Modules from the package management and build system perspective
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There is no software maintenance
Every time I hear about software maintenance as a distinct activity, I cringe. That’s because it is based on the outdated notion that first software is developed, then it is maintained. But t…
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NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly
This blog has been moved to https://neeto.com/blog/neetocal-a-calendly-alternative-is-a-commodity-and-is-priced-accordingly .
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Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. He told me the story when he heard about my new book, which he partially recounts his 2012 book, Ghost in the Wires. The setup is that he just discovered that there’s warrant for his arrest by the California Youth Authority, and he’s trying to…
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The Decade of Deep Learning
As the 2010’s draw to a close, it’s worth taking a look back at the monumental progress that has been made in Deep Learning in this decade.[1] Driven by the development of ever-more powerful comput
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A closer look at the Tabula Peutingeriana
This map story is about one specific map, the only one remaining from the Roman …
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Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough
A micro-architected material made from tiny knots proves tougher and more durable than unknotted counterparts.
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Inception: A simple XOR can cause a Microarchitectural Stack Overflow
Over the past one and a half years, we have studied two phenomena that enable an unprivileged attacker to leak arbitrary information on all modern AMD CPUs:
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Oil-Canning
Flat sheetmetal is the hardest to fabricate - and keep flat! There is a reason old cars were rounded. When I was a student at GMI, one of o...
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GitHub Actions and vanity metrics
The measure of a modern software engineer in our attention economy is easily calculable thanks to companies like Microsoft acting both as bastion and companion in demonstrating one's prowess.
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Compiling ML models to C for fun
We make micrograd fly with a little compiler magic. In this post, we’ll write a ML compiler from scratch.
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Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 166 contributors, 522 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.11 release on crates…
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Diffusion with Offset Noise: Finetuning SD to generate very dark or light images
Historical research record. Fine-tuning against a modified noise, enables Stable Diffusion to generate very dark or light images easily.
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Zimbra 0-day used to steal email data from government organizations
TAG’s discovery of a 0-day exploit used to steal email data from international government organizations.
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Resilience and Waste in Software Teams
Resilience is coping with unexpected events and environmental change. To have resilience, you need slack. Slack in software development lets people do the little tasks that keep the work moving smo…
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Who reads your email?
A look at diversity of MX records across all gTLDs and the Top 1M domains, indicating where SMTP is concentrated and what organizations might have broad access to the world's emails.
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How I developed a faster Ruby interpreter (2022)
Learn about 8 optimization techniques for a faster interpreter in Ruby which I developed using a dynamically specialized internal representation (IR).