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Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power
About six-in-ten U.S. adults now say they favor more nuclear power plants to generate electricity, up from 43% in 2020.
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Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database
The proposal of the European Commission for a regulation on preventing and combatting the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children is currently discussed in Dutch parliament. I recently wrote about some concerns and the risk of a DDoS attack . It turns out it is also possible to taint the database of images of…
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Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
Copyright Lately is a copyright blog written, edited and published by Aaron Moss. That's me. I'm a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp (MSK) in Los Angeles. I specialize in copyright law, trademark, and other intellectual property, media and entertainment litigation matters.
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My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation
Vim one-liners for fast text edits: count words, format JSON, delete blank lines, sum the numbers in a file, extract IP addresses, and open files in splits.
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WiFi can read through walls
UCSB researchers’ new method enables high-quality imaging of still objects with WiFi by using the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and the corresponding Keller cones to trace edges of the objects.
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So, you want to deploy on the edge?
Application developers often deploy their apps into a single area, generally represented by a handful of AZs in a single region. No matter where their …
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Small Teams
Patrick Collison has a great list of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things. Inspired by that, I created a page of impressive things accomplished by small teams.
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Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas
TLDR: Demo is at , code is at . The Problem When building a website or app using HTML Canvas, it’s often a requirement to support a flood fill. That is, when the user chooses a colour and cli…
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GPT-4 vision prompt injection
Learn what GPT-4 Vision Prompt Injection is, and discover effective strategies to protect your models and data from vulnerabilities.
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Lerp
Lerp is the nickname for Linear Interpolation between two points. It's a fairly simple effect to implement but can really improve the look of your animations if you're moving an object from a point A to point B.
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Subtraction is functionally complete
To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete . That means you can construct any binary circuit using nothing but floating point subtraction.
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Retries – An interactive study of request retry methods
An interactive guide to retrying requests: why naive retries overload a failing service, and how exponential backoff and jitter fix it.
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On a great interview question
Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed dozens of Software Engineer candidates at Google. Almost always I asked the same interview question…
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Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.
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Statement on President Carter’s Health
ATLANTA (Feb. 18, 2023) — After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks…
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Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU
Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU - it would create an unprecedented surveillance monster that violates fundamental rights.
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9th Circuit rejects TSA claim of impunity for checkpoint staff who rape traveler
Last December, we attended and reported on oral argument before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a case in which the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) argued that TSA checkpoint staff have absolute immunity from lawsuits for assault, even sexual assault or rape, committed against travelers they are…
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SQLite 3.42.0
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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This code smells of desperation
A few weeks ago I had the questionable pleasure of diving into the math exception handler of WIN87EM.DLL, the Windows 3.1 math emulator and FPU support library. Actually WIN87EM.DLL appears to have been first shipped with Windows 3.0, and the version in Windows 3.1 is more or less identical. The version shipped with…
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The Determinate Nix Installer
A fresh new alternative to the official Nix installation scripts.
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How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
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Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government
Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in December unless Congress renews it. EFF and others have been working hard to get real reforms into the law and have opposed a renewal, and now, we’re hearing about a rushed attempt to tie renewal to funding...
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Blender 3.6 LTS Released
Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 3.6 LTS!
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Ruffle – Flash Emulator – Progress Report
Get ready for the biggest Ruffle announcement yet! And the first one on the blog!
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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
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Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk
How many Seattleites can walk to fulfill their daily needs?
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My website is one binary (2022)
my website is one binary 2022-04-06 ---------------------------- a.k.a. this one weird trick that inspires me to program creatively i have struggled for years to figure out a website framework that feels good to me. i tried all of the classics, including but limited to: - ghost - hugo - jekyll - sr.ht + tarball …
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An open letter to our community
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.