15 September 2020

52 links · Tuesday

Security through obscurity isn't / Matiss Treinis

There has been a couple of posts (1, 2) on Reddit discussing an article Security by Obscurity is Underrated by Utku Şen. Before going any further, you should probably read the linked article. In conclusion, however, the author makes a point that - Security by…

You're Not Solving the Problem You Think You're Solving

Join Seth Juarez as he delves into ethical concerns with AI with Josh Lovejoy, who leads Design for Microsoft Ethics & Society within Cloud + AI, and Sarah Bird, who leads Responsible AI for C

Reinforcement learning, non-Markov environments, and memory

I recently finished reading a reinforcement learning textbook (by Barto and Sutton), and throughout it I was constantly vexed by one important assumption that underlined all the algorithms: the Markov property, stating that a succeeding event depends only on t…

Who Influences Your Working Pace?

Types of people we may unknowingly use as pacers to adjust own behaviour. If you know them, you can control this effect and even change how you affect others.

It always takes more time - Stan Bright

It always takes more time …to lose weight …to gain weight …to build good habits …to get rid of bad habits …to arrive on time …to finish the project on time …to reach your goal …for your project to start making money

Searching for style

It’s interesting to watch young children use home assistants. They treat them like people, asking questions like “Alexa, how are you feeling?” and “Alexa, where are you?”. I often wonder what their motivation is. Maybe they don’t know the responses are scripte…

Turn Your Newsletter Into an Experience — Ari Lewis

What was your favorite magazine growing up? For me, it was Game Informer , a video game magazine. I was a video game nerd who spent my childhood playing Steam and Playstation. My mom would get the mail while I'd wait in anticipation that that month's Game Inf…

Getting the DOM to debug for you

The other day, as part of a week long effort to squash a few bugs our team had in our backlog, I came across something that promised to be a real pain in the ass.

Elon Musk's "Loop" - It's bad, folks

go ahead. keep screaming "Elon Musk Is A Genius " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse Cat-bus: http://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/gadgetbahn/ Pedestrian Observations: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2017/12/15/elon-musks-ideas-about-transportation-are-bori…

.NET Foundation Project Spotlight - Cake

.NET Foundation Marketing Committee member Isaac Levin spoke to Gary Ewan Park, one of the maintainers of Cake. For more detail, be sure to check out the Project Spotlight page https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/spotlight

dotnet/format

Home for the dotnet-format command. Contribute to dotnet/format development by creating an account on GitHub.

gnu.org

Educational activities, including schools of all levels from kindergarten to university, have a moral duty to teach only free software.

ARM Series #10: Template for Resource X

The ARM templates are very powerful and useful, we can agree on that. However, something it could be hard to get started. In this tutorial you will learn tips and tricks to start from scratch with exi

Luxon

A powerful, modern, and friendly wrapper for Javascript dates and times.

How HTTPS works

🙀 A cat explains how HTTPS works...in a comic! 😻

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Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer

Moment.js | Docs

Moment.js has been successfully used in millions of projects, and we are happy to have contributed to making date and time better on the web. As of September 2020, Moment gets over 12 million downloads per week! However, Moment was built for the previous era …

.NET Adds Latent Bug Discovery Feature

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– Wren

Think Smalltalk in a Lua-sized package with a dash of Erlang and wrapped up in a familiar, modern syntax.

A database for every repl

Repl.it is already the best place to build your apps. But there was a missing piece: where do you store your data? We’re introducing…