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"AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine
AI, science, education, & ethics
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How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
What is QUIC protocol and how does it work ?
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Optimizers need a rethink
Thoughts on how compiler and database optimizers should evolve in the future, focusing on predictability and guarantees instead of smarts and heroics
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WordPress Alternatives
Alternative WordPress options that you can drop onto a server and get running with
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OpenBSD Workstation Hardening
In this blog post, you will learn different methods to harden your OpenBSD system, and in which situation they are useful
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Building the Bell System
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top.
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Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page
Windows paths have been WTF-16 -encoded for decades, but module names in the import tables of Portable Executable are octets. If a name contains values beyond ASCII — technically out of spec — then the dynamic linker must somehow decode those octets into Unicode in order to construct a lookup path. There are multiple…
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Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML tags
tl;dr; if you want to pass HTML data to GPT-4o, just strip out all the HTML and pass raw text, it’s cheaper and there is little to no performance degradation. Source code and demo available.
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OpenSSL bug exposed up to 255 bytes of client heap and existed since 2011
Silently sends up to 255 bytes of the client's heap to the server . The server must support NPN , and the heap data is encrypted in transit.
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Lessons Learned from Scaling to Multi-Terabyte Datasets
This post is meant to guide you through some of the lessons I’ve learned while working with multi-terabyte datasets. The lessons shared are focused on what someone may face as the size of the…
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Bit-Banging Bluetooth Low Energy
Dmitry.GR: Creating BTLE-compliant advertisement packets, so that iOS and android devices can see and parse them.
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Faster convergence for diffusion models
Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
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How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds
We get a closer-to-final look by applying custom palettes to the backgrounds.
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Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
(updated, March 2025) How I Started Caring About Heat Exchanger Masks Back in the 90s I started riding my bike to work after a hiatus of a few years. My coworkers would regularly ask me if I was go…
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Writes large correct programs (2008)
A good programmer is someone who can write large programs that have a high probability of being correct.
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Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning
Examining the Devaluation of Software Engineer Titles and Its Impact on Tech Industry Integrity
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A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics
A look at a Mojo benchmark for bioinformatics, and Mojo in general.
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Trainwreck Design
trainwreck design 2024-08-14 the year is 2024, and i want to know my disk space usage. i recall a simple command i've used probably tens of thousands of times. df -h the year is 2024. instead of sensible output, i get... this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on dev 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev run 7.8G 1.5M 7.8G 1%…
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The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs
Last Updated: January 23, 2026There’s no question that AI will impact jobs. But which jobs are more likely…
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Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
Discover insightful advice for young people, emphasizing choices, confidence, and personal growth through lived experiences.
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Desktop icons are surprisingly hard
I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code…
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Duty to Document (2023)
If you learn something the hard way, it's you duty to share your lessons with others.
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Day Rates (2023)
One year ago, I switched from charging project fees to day rates. It’s been transformative on lots of fronts. > Everything below comes with the following preface/caveat: > 1. There’s no univers…
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Evolution of the ELF object file format
Updated in 2025-09. The ELF object file format is adopted by many UNIX-like operating systems. While I've previously delved into the control structures of ELF and its predecessors, tracing the historical evolution of ELF and its relationship with the System V ABI can be interesting in itself. The format consists of…
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Building Bubbletea Programs
In the words of its authors Bubble Tea is a “powerful little TUI framework” for Go. It may be little but I found it had a steep learning curve before I could get truly comfortable with its power. I spent many a late night wrangling with broken layouts and unresponsive keys before learning the hard way where I had gone…
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How the SNES Graphics System Works
Last week's article discussed how the Super Nintendo's Video system feeds the TV's CRT. Today I'll summarize what I understand of the hardware generating these graphics.