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When Machine Learning Tells the Wrong Story

jackcook.com

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An alternative idea for a typed language living alongside/inside JavaScript

axisofeval.blogspot.com

What if instead of trying to type existing JS code, like TypeScript, we made objects of...
What if instead of trying to type existing JS code, like TypeScript, we made objects of a new typed language completely separate from JS objects?The TypeScript idea is to be able to type any old JavaScript that's out there. On the one hand this is admirable, but OTOH it leads to a very complicated type system.Here's...

javascript plt
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A mental model for Linux file, hard and soft links | Jayesh Bhoot

bhoot.dev

I always felt bothered about my superficial understanding of inode, hard and soft links in Linux....
I always felt bothered about my superficial understanding of inode, hard and soft links in Linux. Here I attempt to structure my learnings into a simplified mental model. Corrections are welcome. At the storage level, a file is, of course, a data block. There is more to it than just that, but I won't delve deep into...

linux
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Regular Restarts Are Good, Actually

blwt.io

Anecdotally, one of the more maligned features of the Heroku platform are the 24-hour limits on...
Anecdotally, one of the more maligned features of the Heroku platform are the 24-hour limits on compute units, known as “dynos”. This is actually a good thing, but very misunderstood.Regular restarts of compute units bring one obvious benefit - resolving memory leaks. Broadly, this is what the documentation means by...

programming
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memory regions · golang/go · Discussion #70257

github.com

go
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PSA: SQLite does not do checksums - blag

avi.im

databases
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Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git | Antonin Delpeuch

delpeuch.eu

A central feature of Git is the ability to merge the contents of diverging revisions. It...
A central feature of Git is the ability to merge the contents of diverging revisions. It underpins not just the git merge command, but also rebase, cherry-pick and revert for instance. Without it, no collaboration would be possible. And it generally works great. One limitation is that it’s line-based. If the two sid...

vcs
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Building Bridges to C++

circle-lang.org

Contents Companies ship software that contains security vulnerabilites to millions of customers. For C++ products, 70%...
Contents Companies ship software that contains security vulnerabilites to millions of customers. For C++ products, 70% of those vulnerabilities would be stopped by a memory-safe language. There’s growing pressure to move off memory-unsafe languages and onto safe languages like Rust, Swift, Java and C#. The US Govern...

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Rootless Root

catb.org

practices unix
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Debian (@debian@framapiaf.org)

framapiaf.org

linux
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SNES & PlayStation Cubic ADPCM Interpolation | jsgroth's blog

jsgroth.dev

It’s been a minute, and I haven’t done a whole lot of emulation work recently, but...
It’s been a minute, and I haven’t done a whole lot of emulation work recently, but this is a topic I’ve wanted to do a short post about for a while: a really simple audio enhancement for SNES and PlayStation emulation that works surprisingly well with some games. It’s more noticeable for SNES, but there are some Pla...

retrocomputing
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GitHub - elikaski/ECC_Attacks: Known attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

github.com

cryptography security
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Algol-68 seemed like a good idea – until it wasn’t

wordpress.com

historical plt
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Tone of Life

matthewbilyeu.com

art
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GitHub - kgs19/cmdx: A Golang library designed to simplify the execution of shell commands and handle their output.

github.com

go
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Announcing Planet Nix

nixos.org

We’re doing another Nix conference in North America this year, and we’re calling it Planet Nix!....
We’re doing another Nix conference in North America this year, and we’re calling it Planet Nix!. We’re co-located with SCaLE in Pasadena, CA. The conference will take place over March 6-7th, and the CFP deadline is approaching (December 9th). I know we have some Nix-appreciators in here and we’d love to have you! I’m one of the organizers (mostly on the program side), so...

event nix
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The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction - The Old New Thing

microsoft.com

assembly debugging windows
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Analytics-Optimized Concurrent Transactions

duckdb.org

This is the second post on DuckDB's ACID support. If you have not read the first...
This is the second post on DuckDB's ACID support. If you have not read the first post, Changing Data with Confidence and ACID, it may be a good idea to start there. In our previous post, we have discussed why changes to data are much saner if the formal “ACID” transaction properties hold. A data system should not al...

databases
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A New Era of macOS Sandbox Escapes: Diving into an Overlooked Attack Surface and Uncovering 10+ New Vulnerabilities

jhftss.github.io

security
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How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix

substack.com

NOTE: Check out the other posts from the Concurrency War Stories series here.Hello friends. Today, I’m...
NOTE: Check out the other posts from the Concurrency War Stories series here.Hello friends. Today, I’m discussing one of my favorite production incidents from my time at Netflix.Here’s an overview:A concurrency bug was killing our CPUsIt was Friday afternoonRolling back was cumbersomeWe couldn’t achieve a true fix u...

debugging devops practices
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How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) — alice.bsky.sh

bsky.sh

distributed web
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Announcing Chicory 1.0.0-M1: First Milestone Release | Chicory

chicory.dev

It's been a while since our pure-Java WebAssembly runtime released version 0.0.12, so you might say...
It's been a while since our pure-Java WebAssembly runtime released version 0.0.12, so you might say a new release was almost overdue. In the previous months we concentrated on correctness and spec-compliance of our WebAssembly runtime; now it is time to harden the codebase and make it a solid platform to build upon....

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QNX becomes free for non-commercial use, releases Raspberry Pi 4 image – OSnews

osnews.com

I went with this link instead of the official one from Blackberry since that one felt...
I went with this link instead of the official one from Blackberry since that one felt more like a commercial blurb. Comments

osdev
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What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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