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How Might We Learn?
On an immersive future of learning
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I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated
Incomplete data structures challenge our notion of mutability
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The Later Years of Douglas Adams
If God exists, he must have a sense of humor, for why else would he have strewn so many practical jokes around his creation? Among them is the uncanny phenomenon of the talented writer who absolutely hates to write.
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The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors
The story of how I gained two world-firsts, somehow.
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Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late
This aesthetic screenshot of an old windows app has been in my inspiration space for ~5 years. Until recently, I assumed that it was just a nostalgia bait concept.
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Money bubble
I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly. Nonetheless I’m mostly going to write about AI, because it intersects the technosphere, where I’ve lived for decades.
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Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)
Was the Internet Created for Nuclear War?
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Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
There's a class of comment you often see when someone makes a popular thread on Mastodon/Twitter/Threads/etc., that you also see on videos that's basically "Why make a Twitter thread? This would be better as a blog post" or "Why make a video? This would be better as a blog post". But, these comments are often stronger…
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Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
Semi-custom silicon is a bigger problem than Nvidia.
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Postgres as queue
The team I've been working in for the last year or so have had great success using Postgres-as-queue. We've managed to avoid the following:
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Reads Causing Writes in Postgres
It is good practice to regularly inspect the statements running in the hot path of your Postgres instance. One way to do this is to examine the pg_stat_statements view , which shows various statistics about the SQL statements executed by the Postgres server.
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No NAT November: My month without IPv4
Near the beginning of November, nixCraft posted this challenge on Mastodon, daring people to take the No NAT November challenge and disable IPv4 for the month, relying only on IPv6:
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Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?
I've often found myself uneasy when LLMs (Large Language Models) are asked to quote the Bible. While they can provide insightful discussions about faith, their tendency to hallucinate responses raises concerns when dealing with scripture, which we regard as the inspired Word of God. To explore these concerns, I
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Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023)
The handling of widowed headings across pages in Apple Books is of particular concern. Since 1997, CSS has had properties to handle this, and yet browsers including Safari and Firefox still don’t support them – why not?
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Sensible SQLite Defaults
SQLite is cool now. DHH uses it, Laravel defaults to it. Here is a list of _sensible defaults_ when using sqlite.
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Diffusion Is Spectral Autoregression
A deep dive into spectral analysis of diffusion models of images, revealing how they implicitly perform a form of autoregression in the frequency domain.
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CRDTs Turned Inside Out
🔰If CRDTs are new to you, here are some introductory links. - An interactive intro to CRDTs [https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/] - An introduction to state-based CRDTs [https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/the-state-of-a-state-based-crdts/] - CRDTs for non-academics…
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Cargo Airships Are Happening
I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries
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Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle
Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up. tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it…
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They make USB-C cables with displays now
How to turn something as ordinary as an USB-C cable into something that a lot of nerds will want to buy.
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Debian Git Monorepo
Lars Wirzenius Consulting Ltd has created a Git repository with the source code of Debian 12 (bookworm), the main component. It's one repository for all the source code, as one commit. It's a monorepo .
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Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx
A personal code notes blog
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Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation
As you may, or may not know, I wrote paraLLEl-RDP back in 2020. It aimed at implementing the N64 RDP in Vulkan compute. Lightning fast, and extremely accurate, plus the added support of up-scaling on top. I’m quite happy how it turned out. Of course, the extreme accuracy was due to Angrylion being used as reference…
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Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally that got caught by chance
Why the threat actor rushed deployment.
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Code reviews do find bugs
There’s some 2015 research out of Microsoft titled Code Reviews Do Not Find Bugs 1 1 Code Reviews Do Not Find Bugs; How the Current Code Review Best Practice Slows Us Down ; Czerwonka, Greiler, Tilford; IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering; 2015. which seems strangely named because reviewers do find…
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Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice
The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “ .top ” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its license to sell domains. The warning comes amid the release of new findings that…
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Dana-Farberications at Harvard University
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David
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I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper
How I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper