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Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
A Date in JavaScript always represents a point in time (i.e. milliseconds since epoch). This is more apparent when printing out the full date string:
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Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival
New analysis finds tests for new doctors can measure what matters — the life and health of patients
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Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour
(Previous post in the series was on Jai and can be found here)
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AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating
For the past few years, cheats have evolved rapidly. First came memory reading aimbots, then colorbots, and now AI aim assist. Cheats have escaped the host PC. How does it affect the players and anti-cheats?
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The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping
Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.
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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide
A new Oceana analysis reveals the global scale of China’s visible fishing fleet
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Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT
I replaced my ChatGPT personalization settings with this prompt a few weeks ago and promptly forgot about it: Be extraordinarily skeptical of your own…
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How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose
Although counter-intuitive, it can be beneficial to build silos and decrease collaboration between teams. Balance the need for collaboration, coordination, and communication with these tips.
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What Happened to Abit Motherboards
Capacitor plague and bad accounting practices were a lethal one-two punch
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The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
From ChatGPT Plugins to Agent Skills, a look at how we've been trying (and failing) to extend LLMs for the last three years.
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What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods
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The Accountability Problem
This is a transcript of my keynote presentation at the Agile Cambridge conference in England on October 2nd, 2025. The topic was “The Accountability Problem.” How do we define software department accountability so our business partners don’t do it for us?
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Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
Being "the enshittification guy" means that people expect you to weigh in on every service or platform that has been deliberately worsened to turn a buck. It's an impossible task (and a boring one besides). There's too much of this shit, and it's all so mid – a real "banality of enshittification" situation.
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Reproducing the AWS Outage Race Condition with a Model Checker
Welcome to Waqas' blog
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Of Course It's a Coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard
LLM Observability breaks in wild today as new libraries like OpenInference don't adhere to OpenTelemetry standards leading to silos and suboptimal performance for users who want to tie LLM observability with rest of their observability stack
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A quiet change to RSA
Over the course of years, RSA implementations gradually replaced Euler's totient function with Carmichael's totient function.
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North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by…
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50 years of proof assistants
Crackpots ranging from billionaire Peter Thiel to random YouTube influencers claim that science has been stagnating for the past 50 years. They admit that computing is an exception: they don’t pretend that my personal 32GB laptop is not an advance over the 16MB mainframe that served the whole Caltech community when I…
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First 2D, non-silicon computer developed
In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations. The advancement, published in Nature, represents a major leap toward the realization of…
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Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet
Posted on: Mon 14 July 2025 by Qi Zhu (Cloudera), Jigao Luo (Systems Group at TU Darmstadt), and Andrew Lamb (InfluxData)
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Why is C the symbol for the speed of light? (2004)
"As for c , that is the speed of light in vacuum, and if you ask why c , the answer is that it is the initial letter of celeritas , the Latin word meaning speed." Isaac Asimov in "C for Celeritas (1959)" [1]
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Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or di…
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The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants aren’t just changing how we write software - they’re…
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The Icelandic Voting System (2024)
It’s election season here in Iceland! The election is on Saturday, 30th of November, so next Saturday from when this is written. Every time elections are upcoming, somebody inevitably asks me how the voting system here works, probably expecting a simple answer. So, here’s a stab at it. Iceland uses a biproportional…
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iPhone DevOps (2023)
I wrote earlier about my dream of developing “single-handedly” on an iPhone. Then, I wrote some more about it . The dream still lives strongly! I am now coding single-handedly in any language on my iPhone SE model 2022. But although i still like pythonista I am now using a combination of three great apps that allow me…
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Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables
Moving electricity around the world has huge financial and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, current power transmission systems are both lossy and expensive to build. This post explores an alternative design for cables to make undersea power transmission substantially cheaper.