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I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
Office Snacks ranked from banana to jerky to grapes. See which boost productivity, which wreck your desk—and why snacks reveal more than you think.
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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
Disclaimer: I am a book publisher & I love technology.
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Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to a new Stanford Medicine study.
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Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Haskelling My Python
Reimplementing Haskell lazy infinite lists using Python generators
3936
Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good
I was expecting this to be pretty bad - but it actually came out quite nicely!
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IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
IBM Slapped the Buzzwords 'AI Interpretability' on Generalized Continued Fractions and their Series Transformations and was awarded a Patent
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Tides are weirder than you think
Our world relies on the sea more than ever: 80% of goods traded worldwide move by ship. Today’s mariners take it for granted that they can get an accurate chart of the tides for any location on Ear…
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Learnings from building AI agents
How cubic reduced noisy AI code review comments with reasoning logs, fewer tools, specialized agents, and evaluation before changes reached production.
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Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure
On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data system containing an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a bitemporal database…
3941
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation with Environment Affordance
3942
The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience
Today’s public incident writeup comes courtesy of Brendan Humphries, the CTO of Canva. Like so many other incidents that came before, this is another tale of saturation, where the failure mod…
3943
Pixel Art Tips for Programmers
Programmers are known to not have a strong suit for art related disciplines, pixel art is no exception.
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A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers
This article details two bugs discovered in the NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules and demonstrates how they can be exploited. The bugs can be triggered by an attacker controlling a local unprivileged process. Their security implications were confirmed via a proof of concept that achieves kernel read and write…
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Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket
My journey implementing a new dithering algorithm in the Racket programming language.
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Clojure: Realtime collaborative web apps without ClojureScript
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
3947
Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs
The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs when it comes to read…
3948
Hacker News – The Good Parts
The other day, my twelve-year-old daughter asked me what platform I spend most of my time on when I'm on my phone or computer. She intuitively noticed that ...
3949
I was wrong about robots.txt
Recently, I wrote an article about my journey in learning about robots.txt and its implications on the data rights in regards to what I write in my blog. I was confident that I wanted to ban all the crawlers from my website. Turned out there was an unintended consequence that I did not account for. My LinkedIn posts…
3950
The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist
How an American Evangelical arts and crafts empire managed to loot antiquities en masse from a long-lost Mesopotamian city-state. (Pt. 1 of 2)
3951
Lessons from the PG&E outage
At Waymo, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver. We know trust is built through consistent behavior over time—earned through every mile we drive and every interaction we have with the community. This past Saturday, as a widespread PG&E outage cut power to nearly one-third of San Francisco, our service…
3952
Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
Infrastructure as code, but actually
3953
What the hell is a target triple?
Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compiling it for a machine that isn’t the one hosting the compilation. Although historically compilers would only compile for the host machine, this is considered an anachronism: all serious native compilers are now cross-compilers.
3954
Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable
A modest mathematical framing of language
3955
A New ASN.1 API for Python
We’re working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography, built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography’s X.509 APIs.
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Who does your assistant serve?
ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Slow software for a burning world
This page has moved to https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow-software-for-a-burning-world/ .
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The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux
Lately I’ve been trying to find (and understand) the limits of time syncing between Linux systems. How accurate can you get? What does it take to get that? And what things can easily add measurable amounts of time error? After most of a month (!), I’m starting to understand things. This is kind of a follow-on to a…