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Why does Swiss cheese have holes?
Swiss cheese gets holes from carbon dioxide bubbles during the cheese-making process. Learn more about what causes the holes in Swiss cheese at U.S. Dairy.
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AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
New AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards deliver enthusiast-level gaming experiences supercharged by AI.
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We Need to Die
There's this genuine repulsion I feel when people talk about a future where death by old age is no longer a thing. Something very deep within me just says "no, absolutely not", and I've been trying to figure out why.
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That boolean should probably be something else
One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should be something else.
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De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes
I've been slowly removing Google apps from my life, and one of the last ones left is Authenticator. In this post I look at migrating codes out of Authenticator to a command-line OTP tool, and the steps involved.
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Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?
Quarto Academic Website Template adapted by Dr. Gang He
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Self-hosting is being enshittified
Self-hosting got harder in 2025. Here's what changed.
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Stargate Norway
We’re launching Stargate Norway—OpenAI’s first AI data center initiative in Europe under our OpenAI for Countries program. Stargate is OpenAI’s overarching infrastructure platform and is a critical part of our long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone.
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You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React
Why we moved the ComfyDeploy dashboard from Next.js to React with TanStack Router and Rspack: build time fell from 3 minutes to 18 seconds.
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Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative
Personal blog of Omar Abid
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Using Claude Code SDK to reduce E2E test time
Best of both worlds: Building an AI gatekeeper that knows exactly which tests to run for your code changes
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MySQL at Uber
At Uber, our MySQL® fleet is the backbone of our data infrastructure, supporting a vast array of operations critical to our platform. Uber operates an extensive MySQL fleet, consisting of over 2,300 independent clusters. Building a control plane to manage this fleet at such a massive scale, while ensuring zero…
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The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes
On a QWERTY keyboard
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It's true, “we” don't care about accessibility on Linux
What do concern trolls and privileged people without visible or invisible disabilities who share or make content about accessibility on Linux being trash without contributing anything to projects have in common? They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit these victims’…
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We've lost our respect for complexity
I was talking recently to a friend about a video essayist I like, (Dan Olson of Folding Ideas) and when asked why I thought he was any good I pondered it for a moment and said “he has a lot of respect for complexity”. On reflection, I think that is one of the virtues I […]
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Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles
Fluid Storage reimagines block storage like EBS with zero-copy forks, true elasticity, and sync replication. Built for the age of agents.
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Analytic Combinatorics – A Worked Example
Chris Grossack's math blog and professional website.
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Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo…
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Indie, alone, and figuring it out
Going indie looks like freedom from the outside. But once you’re in it, you face loneliness, pressure, constant decisions, user feedback, and all the invisible work no one warns you about. This is what the journey feels like, and why it’s still worth it.
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Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019)
Visit our Los Angeles museums and library, interact with art, and access free research tools.
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Yet Another Zip Trick
At hackArcana, we deliver professional educational content authored by world-class experts in programming, binary analysis, and cybersecurity.
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Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling
A fun project that I learned a lot from.
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$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop
Whale songs were first noticed by accident, when analysts tracking Russian submarines at the height of the cold war heard cetacean interference instead. An engineer sent some recordings to Roger Payne, a biologist friend of his, who did something that proved pivotal: he played the hours-long recordings on his hi-fi at…
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Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Vetinari's Clock (2011)
In the excellent Discworld series the character Lord Vetinari has a clock in his waiting room which is designed to tick irregularly in order to make his visitor feel ill at ease. Inspired by a post featured on Hackaday I decided to build my own version of this clock with a simple and easy to make design.
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Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
A lesson in X11, networking, and design.
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Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems
Usually I write about solutions to problems I’ve worked out, but I’ve found myself increasingly becoming interesting in where solutions come from. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Boorstin’s excellent The Discoverers , which I’d strongly recommend.
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The Beam
In Lorena's latest instalment, learn about the foundations of Elixir's power and reliability with the Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM).
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