13 September 2022

57 links · Tuesday

Online Identity is Complicated | Eldridge's Blog

I am seeing increasing calls for real life identity to be a fundamental part of online presence, especially in places like Twitter where disinformation thrives. This is a problem. Supposedly ensuring posts are connected to a real life identity will help preven…

Hiring: Why More is Often Less | RKG

I was in a board meeting where the management team was planning to hire more people. They were flush with cash, so they asked the board if they had a point of view on how aggressive they should be.

Increase › Build your bank.

We put powerful financial infrastructure in the hands of builders. Payroll, lending, investment, and payment platforms use our primitives to launch and scale.You can programmatically spin up bank accounts, move client funds by ACH or wire transfer, and issue c…

ZeroBanana – Senior Engineers are Living in the Future

Imagine for a moment that, by some quirk of the universe, you are sharing your workspace with a time traveller. Specifically, yourself from 1 year in the future. How will you react to your new co-worker?1 [1 If you find this exercise difficult, try instead ima…

A note from Jack | Patreon Blog

Today I announced a layoff at Patreon of 80 people, or about 17% of our teammates. Here is the note that I sent to the Patreon team about it earlier this morning: Hi team – I have some difficult news. Today we will lay off 80 Patreon teammates from our Go-to-M…

Blazor in Action

is a practical guide to building stunning UIs and client-side applications using C# and .NET. You’ll use Blazor to create a fun web application for plotting hiking routes.

Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch™ | Factorio

For the past one and a half years I've been working on a secret Factorio project. Today we are finally revealing it. As announced during Nintendo Direct, Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch! It's already in the final stages and the global release date is se…

We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business

This interview was originally published in Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, a new book published by Onomatopee. Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder o…

A pair of Rust kernel modules

The idea of being able to write kernel code in the Rust language has a certain appeal, but it is hard to judge how well that would actually work in the absence of examples to look at. Those examples, especially for modules beyond the "hello world" level of co…

VCMI 1.0.0 released

We’re happy to announce a new release! Several years have passed since VCMI 0.99 and it’s about time for a new release. Tons of changes, improvements, and fixes have been introduced during that time, so it’s hard to recall all of them. However, we’d like to hi…

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.NET on Azure Functions Roadmap Update

  As we look ahead toward .NET 7, it’s a good time to provide an update on the isolated worker model and how we are thinking about the .NET roadmap for Azure Functions. In a previous post, we introduced the isolated process model, which decouples your function…

C# Lambda Discards | endjin

C# has gradually been adding support for discards. This article explores how this evolution has led to some surprises.

James Randall

Having loaded the maps as byte arrays I now needed to decompress them. The maps in Wolfenstein are double compressed first using a fairly standard run length encoding algorithm and then using “Carmack compression” which basically allows for similar blocks of b…

Dark Sky Blog

Blog of the best weather app and weather API in the world: Dark Sky

My Android work profile setup

I use an Samsung Galaxy A41 Android 11 phone professionally and privately, separating private data from work data via an Android work profile [1]. Samsung Knox [2] implements work profiles on A41, …

Revisiting “SET® Probabilities Revisited”

In my last post, I discussed a greedy algorithm to select cards during the play of SET in order to take as many as possible by the end of the game, thereby increasing the chances of ending the game…

Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3

Riley Goodside, yesterday: Exploiting GPT-3 prompts with malicious inputs that order the model to ignore its previous directions. pic.twitter.com/I0NVr9LOJq- Riley Goodside (@goodside) September 12, 2022 Riley provided several examples. Here’s …

PDF viewer text search speed comparison

Recently, I implemented a super fast search index into sioyek which accelerates normal search and also enabled regular expression search. It is not yet released in a stable sioyek build, but if you want to try it out, there are experimental builds here. It is …

Have You Even Read Kant?

If your goal is to find the answers to philosophical questions, what's the use of a text whose main points are inseparable from its literary form? If it's impossible for experts who specialize in the respective historical school of thought to give a truthful t…