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/usr/bin/env -S uv run
This is a really neat pattern. Start your Python script like this: #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "flask==3.*", # …
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The First Hedge Fund
How A. W. Jones improvised his way to an investment style and structure that has persisted till today.
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Researchers trace a form of lupus back to a single mutation
Researchers were able to trace a form of the autoimmune disease lupus back to a single mutation
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I thought I found a bug
So I was working on improving a DOS emulator, when I found that something seemingly trivial wasn’t working right when COMMAND.COM was asked to do the following:
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Implementing Neural Networks on a "10-cent" RISC-V MCU
I have been meaning for a while to establish a setup to implement neural network based algorithms on smaller microcontrollers. After reviewing existing solutions, I felt there is no solution that I…
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An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91
A few months ago I introduced you to one of the more notable Apple pre-production units in my collection, a late prototype Macintosh Porta...
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Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)
Collection of side projects, conference talks and blog posts experimenting with frontend technologies and human-computer interaction
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Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
TL;DR; - they prevent companies from denying services to people that use technology to block tracking and ads. ...
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Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
A wintertime climate change solution
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Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
Our co-founder Akshay talks to Skiff co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg about their startup's vision and journey to Notion.
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A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30 years later, updated for today’s computing horrors. The really short version: the…
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Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code
You can come to McDonalds and order a salad, but you won't. Same with notebooks, you can write NASA-production-grade software in a notebook, but most likely you won't. Notebooks make you lazy, and encourage bad practices.
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FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
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Technical Details on Today's Outage
Learn more about the technical details around the Falcon update for Windows hosts.
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Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intel Corporation today reported second-quarter 2024 financial results.
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The online sports gambling experiment
Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers
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Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber
Uber connects the physical and digital worlds to help make movement happen at the tap of a button. Billions of trips, deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, and merchants are made at Uber every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides…
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on navigating complex systems
Few can measure the impact of a blog post they wrote, in the millions of dollars a year, but Patrick McKenzie has the receipts
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Nobody Cares About Security
Nobody cares about security. There. I said it. I said the thing everyone feels, some people think, but very few have the temerity to say out loud. But before you call me...
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How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup
Blog about Software Engineering
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The economics of a Postgres free tier
Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.
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Personal Mail Server on OpenBSD (2019)
I will use this place to relate my geeky adventures in the world of gnu/linux, bsd, the internets, and other important things like windows managers and pretty colors. Basically, it's a place to expose and share with the world things I do on my computer.
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Firewalling your code
When writing code, you can call any function as long as it’s public, and similarly, you can access any object’s public properties or methods. Usually, access to code is all or none – a piece of code can be either public or private. Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to implement more fine-grained access controls…
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Why Tolkien Hated Dune
A short intro to the philosophy of ethics J.R.R. Tolkien maintained a very private, but very negative opinion of Frank Herbert’s Dune. In Tolkien’s Library, entry 964, Tolkien is quoted…
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SwiftUI for Mac 2024
Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist
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I'm going to keep opting out
Marketing, solicitations, advertising, political contact, direct mailers, email campaigns, cookies, ads — it's all opt out. It puts the burden on you to opt out of each communication each message, each outreach from a loyalty program. It can feel like weeding a garden, but that garden is your attention. The weeds keep…