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We don't need a DAC on the ESP32-S3
There's no DAC on the ESP32-S3 - but that's not a problem - we'll just use PDM!
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Framing Frames: Bypassing wi-fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues
Domien Schepers and Aanjhan Ranganathan, Northeastern University; Mathy Vanhoef, imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven
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Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple's Lisa.
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Postgres as a Search Engine
Build a retrieval system with semantic, full-text, and fuzzy search in Postgres to be used as a backbone in RAG pipelines.
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Lessons learned from profiling an algorithm in Rust
Recently, I've been working on a new approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm called RaBitQ . The author has already provided a C++ implementation that runs quite fast. I tried to rewrite it in Rust (yet another RiiR). But I found that my implementation is much slower than the original one. Here is how I improve…
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Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked
What follows is the story of how I fixed not one, but two, different flawed Altera USB Blaster clone devices that never worked correctly after I bought them.
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Factor 0.100 Now Available
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
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Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm
Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way with extreme precision.But it’s not easy being a satellite: space is a dangerous place. In recent months, hyper-velocity space dust and the strongest solar storm in 20 years…
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Running Open-Source AI Models Locally with Ruby
Run AI models locally in Ruby! 💻 Use Ollama to download & run open-source models like Mistral. Integrate them into your Ruby apps using HTTP requests. Great for data security & privacy.
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ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022)
I’ve been tinkering with arduino-like platforms recently (more on the midi synth soon) and got the idea to make a small message board to leave notes to my girlfriend. This is how I ended up with a simulator, an integration with a demoscene tracker, custom tools to make palette cycling effects, having to learn CAD to…
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The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
On those who are unable or unwilling to buy a house in 2024 and what to do about it.
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30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok
And why did youth mental health problems accelerate after 2010?
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Cool URIs can be ugly (2023)
Around last year this blog, a simple static site, was running on GitHub pages, together with Cloudflare in front of it due to (perceived) unreliability with GitHub’s SSL provisioning for custom domains. In order to simplify my stack, I tried running it on Cloudflare Pages .
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Porting to GCC 14: C language issues
The GCC 14 release series differs from previous GCC releases in a number of ways . Some of these are a result of bug fixing, and some old behaviors have been intentionally changed to support new standards, or relaxed in standards-conforming ways to facilitate compilation or run-time performance.
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How to think about software quality (2022)
Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.
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Floats Are Weird
Compute this limit more accurately with one weird trick!
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Billion file filesystem
For a lark I made an ext4 file system with a billion empty files. https://gitlab.com/larswirzenius/create-empty-files has the program I wrote for this. I've done this before , but this time I made it a little simpler for me to do it again: everything in one Rust program rather than clunky scripts.
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The Guide to Stock Options Conversations
Why every manager should talk to their employees about stock options
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Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today
I'm very interested in the history of Dungeons & Dragons , but I'm not a historian – especially when compared to someone like Jon Peterson. ...
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Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's
This is the 3rd post in the My journey with Home Assistant focus series. I’m the happy owner of a couple of Philips Hue connected lights for a some years. Some of them are colored, some of them regular. In addition, I bought a sensor to go along with the light I installed in my toilets: it turns on automatically when…
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Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds
On June 26, 1826, John James Audubon sat aboard the cotton schooner Delos off of Florida’s Gulf coast, en route from New Orleans to Liverpool, where he was hoping to find a publisher for his extensive portfolio of paintings of American birds.[1] On this particular day, the winds were still, leaving Audubon’s boat to…
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The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)
Or, how to ensure you learn absolutely nothing.
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The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020)
Yes I know I'm technically on vacation but if I go too long without writing I die from a witch's curse and I don't want to work on longform projects For...
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"
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The plan-execute pattern
A ubiquitous pattern you won’t find in your textbook.
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Every Dunder Method in Python
An explanation of all of Python's 100+ dunder methods and 50+ dunder attributes, including a summary of each one.
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Micrograd.jl
A series on automatic differentiation in Julia. Part 1 provides an overview and defines explicit chain rules.
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New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project
Today, we are announcing an exciting development for the Swift programming language: its migration to a dedicated GitHub organization at GitHub.com/swiftlang.