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Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
No reckoning allowed save the marvelous arithmetics of distance (from Smelling the Wind by Audre Lorde) Suppose a child comes up to you and says “I know 1 is odd and 2 is even, but I think 4 is mor…
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OpenTTD 13.4 Released
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a .4 release, but quite a few people have reported a crash when a news item appears while a drop-down menu is open.
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ProfileGPT: An Example of AI Agents Collaboration Architecture
A dive into the architecture and design of ProfileGPT, an app that allows users to analyze their user's profile and personality as seen by ChatGPT to raise awareness about data usage.
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The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland
CHM releases to the public for the first time a full oral history with Ivan Sutherland, pioneer of computer graphics, virtual reality, asynchronous systems, and more.
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Speeding up the Super Game Boy
The Super Game Boy allows you to play Game Boy games on your Super Nintendo. This is an impressive feat, when you consider that the two consoles share basica...
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Surviving without a superuser in Postgres 16
As I've written about before , a PostgreSQL superuser always has the ability to take over the operating system account in which PostgreSQL i...
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Here be four bits of dragons: the Mattel D&D Computer Game and the TMS1100
When my parents sold the house and moved to the great white north, they dropped off a few boxes of my stuff that was still in the garage. ...
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Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients
The thoughts and projects of an engineer who likes to convert solder, firmware, and wire into all sorts of different forms of entertainment.
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The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
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One Year into the War in Ukraine
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023105 points177 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
Today marks the end of the first year of Putin’s War in Ukraine. I will not call it an anniversary, because I don’t think anyone is celebrating. Nevertheless I think this makes a useful…
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How (not) to apply for a software job
Advice for how to (and how not to) apply for a software engineering job, particularly for the written parts of the interview process. As a bonus, some tips for your resume/CV.
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SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple
Simula is raising institutional capital for the mass production of our headsets. We're also soliciting angel investors who might be interested in alpha testing our Review Unit headsets (helping us form a bridge to our institutional round). More details on this below.
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Meta preps new social app
Meta's hosting secret meetings with select creators to share details
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Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave
The ad hoc group “Shortwave Modernization Coalition” petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow data communications on multiple bands within the HF 2 – 25 MHz range with up to 20 KW, including in bands immediately adjacent to spectrum allocated to the Amateur Radio Service.
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Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a closed-source low-level API that interfaces software with NVIDIA GPUs.
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The Cuts at WVU
Updated April 2024 : I posted this text in August to help publicize what was happening at WVU. It was linked from many public letters and discussion forums. I later removed the text because I was on the job market and didn't want this to be the first thing that comes up when you google my name. I have now secured a…
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For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow
The C++ library has long been organized around stream classes, at least when it comes to reading and parsing strings. But streams can be surprisingly slow. For example, if you want to parse numbers, then this C++ routine is close to being the worst possible choice for performance: std::stringstream in(mystring)…
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APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)
APL was invented by Ken Iverson in the early 1960s as a notation for array oriented calculations. It was precise and useful enough, so it…
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Rust in 2023: Growing Up
When I started working on Rust in 2011, my daughter was about three months old. She’s now in sixth grade, and she’s started growing rapidly. Sometimes we wake up to find that her clothes don’t quite fit anymore: the sleeves might be a little too short, or the legs come up to her ankles. Rust is experiencing something…
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Google's 25th Birthday
For Google’s 25th birthday, we’re celebrating alongside our users with a special Doodle and some surprises in Search.
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Oops, You Wrote a Database
Those who fail to study databases are doomed to write them
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LeoLM: German-Language LLM Research
We proudly introduce LeoLM ( L inguistically E nhanced O pen L anguage M odel), the first comprehensive suite of German-language Foundation Language Models t…
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Does Go Have Subtyping?
I’ve been noodling on a static type system for my current hobby language. To try to keep the language as simple as possible, I’m trying to see if I can live without subtyping. Since most of my programming experience is in object-oriented languages, I’ve been learning more about languages that lack—or at least claim to…
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The world needs computational social science
The world needs computational social science, and it is not only, or even primarily, about the AI revolution. The reasons follow below and I also cover what a computational social scientist should …
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The State of Serverless GPUs
Comprehensive guide to understand the Serverless GPU Inference landscape.
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A peek into Japan's convenience stores
Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without exception, spotless, well-stocked,
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The design thinking movement is absurd (2018)
Have you ever heard of Design Thinking?