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How I configure my Git identities
This may be overkill, but it works on my machine
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QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Note: This is the pronunciation of QwQ: /kwju:/ , similar to the word “quill”. What does it mean to think, to question, to understand? These are the deep waters that QwQ (Qwen with Questions) wades into. Like an eternal student of wisdom, it approaches every problem - be it…
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Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS
Hello friends, this is the first of two, possibly three (if and when I have time to finish the Windows research) writeups. We will start with targeting GNU/Lin…
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Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar
Designing a modern pulse compression radar that uses digital signal processing.
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Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
This is the first of two posts about a renderer I have been developing, focusing on what I've built and how it works. The second post discusses why I've built it and my plans for the future. I've been developing a custom real-time renderer which uses very small voxels to produce a distinctive visual style that…
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Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"
This article is about a bit of surprising behavior I recently discovered using Python's regex module (re) while developing SBOM tooling for CPython. Folks who've worked with regular expressions be...
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Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.
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Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format
This post briefly summarizes part of a talk I gave in 2018. All information in this post has been accessible on YouTube since then. There is no new information or news in this post. On Mastodon recently, jsveningsson@mastodon.social asked me: Having an annoying argument on Threads about Apple generated passwords…
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The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
Zarar Siddiqi: engineering leader and consultant in Toronto. Building products with care, and helping teams do the same with AI in the loop.
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Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator
Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator brings global enterprises choice for generative AI, building on the performance and scalability of its Gaudi 2 predecessor.
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How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.
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I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
Where an undergraduate at UT Austin writes about almost everything.
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
I love bug squash interviews.
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What does the cerebellum do?
Hint: It's Not Just Balance
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Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'
In a new study, Yale researchers uncover how the brain, during sleep, replays and bundles many of the experiences that occur in our waking hours.
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Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution
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Why Haskell?
Haskell is a great programming language with many features that make it easier to write robust software, and yet it is rarely taken up by software engineering teams. This essay aims to explain my views as to why Haskell is a great choice for programmers.
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The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
The FCC is set to vote on April 25 to restore its authority over the companies we pay to get online, and reinstate federal net neutrality protections that were jettisoned by the Trump administration in 2017. Net neutrality protections are supposed to ensure that we, not the internet service providers
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What it was like working for Gitlab
I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years.
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Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source
Made for Rive and dedicated to our runtimes.
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Round Rects Are Everywhere
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.
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Why choose async/await over threads?
A common refrain is that threads can do everything that async/await can, but simpler. So why would anyone choose async/await?
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Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I'm not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I could do something I'm much better at; hacking the system!
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New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip, taking its power-efficient performance and portability to a new level.