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Welding and the automation frontier
The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization, is the effect it will have on employment.
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Politics and the English Language (1946)
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care
The database zeitgeist has decided that ANSI SQL '92 isn't enough. We need something better.
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Enlightenment 0.26
This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features.
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Internals of async / await in JavaScript
If you have ever used JavaScript in the past, there is a high chance you have encountered the async / await syntax. async / a
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What Do We Owe Our Teams?
Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model. Last week, though, in my product leadership workshop, we had an…
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A toy programming language in 137 lines of Python code
I thought it would be fun to go outside of my comfort zone of web development topics and write about something completely different and new, something I have never written about before. So today, I'm…
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Would we still create Nebula today?
Spoiler: Yes. (But the "why" matters. A lot.)
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I Won't Use Next.js
I've written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
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Reverse Engineering the Apple Multipeer Connectivity Framework (2022)
Some time ago I was using Logic Pro to record some of my music and I needed a way to start and stop the recording from an iPhone, so I found about Logic Remote…
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How the C64 Keyboard Works (2017)
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but just 1 year ago when I started working on C64 OS, I didn't have the first clue how the C64 Keyboard worked. I knew there was a thing called the keyboard buffer, but I had cloudy thoughts of it being inside the keyboard itself. When I had to actually write the keyboard scanning…
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Curl Command Line Variables
If you are anything like me, you appreciate solving your every day simple tasks directly from the command line. Creating crafty single shot command lines or a small shell script to solve that special task you figured out you needed and makes your day go a little smoother. A fellow command line cowboy. Video…
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Globally Distributed Elixir over Tailscale
The result of my exploration of Elixir clustering and automating global network discovery and connection over Tailscale.
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Static Hermes: Compile JavaScript to speed it up 300x (in microbenchmarks)
How to speed up a ubenchmark 300x Static Hermes: How to Speed Up a Micro-benchmark by 300x Without Cheating This is th...
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Haiku's (Kernel) Condition Variables API: Design and Implementation
A few months after my contract with Haiku, Inc. began, I rewrote the implementation of the Haiku kernel’s condition variables (as opposed to our userspace condition variables, which are from POSIX.) As this new implementation has run in Haiku …
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How Many People? Ancient Demography
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023121 points5 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach t…
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Against Alcohol (2022)
A review of ‘Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health’
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Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’
Welcome to the new world.
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We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
Why are people so concerned with hardware power consumption nowadays? Some common answers to this question are that power is critically important for phones, tablets, and laptops and that we can put more silicon on a modern chip than we can effectively use . In 2001 Patrick Gelsinger observed that if scaling continued…
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Effortless Performance Improvements in C++: std:unordered_map
This is the second post in the series about effortless performance improvements in C++. Check the first post to get the full story!
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Write Posix Shell
write posix shell 2023-03-10 /\ {.-} ;_.-'\ { _.}_ \.-' / `, \ | / \ | ,/ [0] \|_/ what is shell? most people in tech are familiar with shell scripts. but shell is a language! ... shit. actually. wait, let me rephrase- most people _use_ shell. most people _avoid_ shell. but mostly most people _hate_ shell. but should…
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The Long Shadow of Checks
A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.
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Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?
In C++20, string and vector are marked constexpr, which means they’re somewhat usable in compile-time programming. For example, we can write:
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Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea
New research that flips an existing therapy model will introduce a whole new way of treating sleep apnoea. Professor Danny Eckert, Director at the Adelaide Institute […]
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How to build toxic software teams
To build a toxic team, you must inject poison early and often
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Lit 3.0
We're launching the next major version of Lit