My Impossible List - Harsha MV
The Impossible List is not a bucket list but an evolving list of things you want to achieve as you strike off the old ones.
Unlocking My Air Data Through API Analysis
I learned that owning your data is powerful, and it's even more powerful when you are able to slice-and-dice it for better insights.
Building websites and workflows
There are a lot of futuristic technologies about these days, I realised today that what I like is building websites and workflows
Four Difficulty Levels of Life
There are several different difficulty levels on which you can live your life. They are ascendingly difficult, though the difficulty is really mostly in switch
Paranoid password printing with a Raspberry Pi
2020-12-29
When computers start cooking
A friend of mine and I created an AI that writes recipes. We trained a hugging-face transformer on our own scraped dataset of german recipes. And after some fiddling it create sensible output. And now I thought it would be fun translating the german recipes in…
My 2021 OSS Plans (Marten, Jasper, Storyteller, and more)
I don’t know about you, but my 2020 didn’t quite go the way I planned, Among other things, my grand OSS plans really didn’t go the way I hoped. Besides the obvious issues caused b…
Failure Is Not An Option
I ride my bike a lot. During most of 2020 much of that time has been solo riding. I got an Audible subscription and have been listening to books during my hours of solitude. Recently I listened to Failure is not an option by Gene Kranz. Overall an interesting …
Facebook’s Unknowable Megascale
A mere “website” — say, Wikipedia — that reaches an audience of billions is like the surface of an ocean: enormously expansive, but visible. Facebook is like the *volume* of an ocean: not merely massive, but unknowable.
Do You Love Me?
Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year: Happy New Year from all of us at Boston Dynamics. www.BostonDyna...
Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge? Productionizing rendering algorithms
Intro This post will cover challenges and aspects of production to consider when creating new rendering / graphics techniques and algorithms – especially in the context of applied research fo…
CIA vs. Wikileaks
In this talk, I aim to report and show a collection of observations, physical, visual and other evidence of the last years incidents that...
Thruhikes
Asking for app reviews really works! It just takes 1 line of code!
Before you release your app, do this 1 thing to drive great reviews to your application. I show you how to request reviews successfully in this post.
iPhone workers: forced labor or detention centers, says report - 9to5Mac
A fresh claim of iPhone workers being used as forced labor in China has appeared today, following an investigation by the Tech ...
FSharp Quotations Evaluator to 2.1.0 by eaba · Pull Request #4696 · akkadotnet/akka.net
When FSharp.Quotations.Evaluator is Bumped to 2.1.0 can spawn actor from expression fails
Google Maps' Moat is Evaporating
The views expressed in this newsletter are solely my own, and do not represent the views of my employer. Well, they aren’t solely my own, because I’ve stolen most of them from people smarter than me. But, you get what I’m saying.The race is on, and it’s all ag…
Google's Got A Secret - Knuckleheads' Club
Search engines depend on a process called web crawling. Crawling the web is where you program a bunch of computers to go across the Internet and save copies of everything that they find there. These copies are then processed so that search engines can use thos…
Spectre.Console - Prompt
Sometimes you want to get some input from the user, and for this you can use the Prompt<TResult>.
Real-time 3D Games with .NET and Unity
Are you curious how to take your .NET skills to 25+ platforms like VR, AR, Xbox, and Switch to make amazing games and apps? Join this session to learn more a...
Spectre.Console - Bar Chart
Use BarChart to render bar charts to the console.
Spectre.Console - Introduction
Spectre.Console.Cli is a modern library for parsing command line arguments. While it's extremely opinionated in what it does, it tries to follow established industry conventions, and draws its inspiration from applications you use everyday.
NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to Numpy
Brush up your NumPy or learn it from scratch
What are these duplicate services whose names differ just by random characters at the end? | The Old New Thing
If you open Task Manager and go to the Services tab, you may find that there are some services which appear to be exact duplicates of each other, except that there are random characters appended to them. Name PID Description Status ⚙CaptureService_8453a …
aarch64_amx.py
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm
In this video we will take an in depth look at the fast inverse square root and see where the mysterious number 0x5f3759df comes from. This algorithm became ...
RedditStockSentiment-Copy1 (1).py
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Game Boy Advance Architecture | A Practical Analysis
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
igbit/micro-displays
Micro Displays for Raspberry Pi . Contribute to igbit/micro-displays development by creating an account on GitHub.
Year in Review: 2020
A review of what little I got up to in 2020 and my plans for 2021.
Reilly Tucker Siemens
node.example.com is an IP address.
Various goodies from Dotnetos!
Goodies for developers like posters, datasheets and others.
Buttplug Hits v1 Milestone - Nonpolynomial
After 3.5 years of development, Buttplug, the open source intimate haptics controls library created and maintained by Nonpolynomial, has finally arrived at its v1 release. Fitting that it’s also the first real blog post on the new Nonpolynomial Blog! For the p…
Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
Fujifilm has announced that it has set a new world record by creating a magnetic storage tape that can store a staggering 580 terabytes of data. The
User Lockout Functionality with Angular and ASP.NET Core Identity
Let's improve the security of our application by implementing the User Lockout functionality with Angular and ASP.NET Core Identity.
What I Learned About Raising A Seed Round, From Cutting My First Check
Over the last 10 years, there has been a ton of information out there about what it takes to raise a seed round, or money in general. I’m no...
The Guy I Almost Was
An online graphic novel about a young man's coming of age in the California cyberculture of the early 1990s.
Experimenting On My Hearing Loss
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Accurate Estimations
We’re constantly asked to give estimates: How long will it take?How much will it cost?What time should we leave?How much do you want? Estimations are information about the unknown. We constan…
I revised my code from 10 years ago
https://github.com/tslmy/t.t.t
Lifetime Dividend Earmark
<p>The Lifetime Dividend Earmark (<span class="caps">LDK</span>) is a tool for structuring equity-free long-term profit sharing as part of compensation packages for privately-held companies that do not intend to have liquidity events (though it does not preclu…
Why the iPhone Timer App displays a Fake Time
While building a timer app I came across a peculiarity with displaying time and found out that the iPhone timer addresses it by showing you a fake time.
Writing without hedging
Hedging is not a recommended writing practice but I noticed I do it anyway. I introspected my writing to discover why I do that.
Hardware Acquisition Hacks
Here's a collection of some hardware acquisition hacks I've been using over the last few years. By no means are these original ideas–they're quite well-known within their own niches. But all the same,...