7 August 2023

64 links · Monday

The Concretude of the Cloud

It’s ironic that the “cloud” of the tech titans behaves in the opposite way to that of nature: instead of bringing water, it consumes it.

Layoffs and its impact

At a company I worked in, A senior leader used to start the town hall or quarterly business review meetings with, "Think, if this is your…

Bike: Row Types

Bike Outliner adds row types!

06 We Speak: IBM MQ

In this session, we continue with the "We Speak", Mission Critical Series with an episode on how Azure Logic Apps can unlock scenarios where is required to i...

Disinterest.

One of the benefits of time is perspective. When you’re writing or coding, letting the work rest for a day or two usually lets you review it with a fresh perspective revealing its flaws as obvious.

Tradeoffs in Testing

I’m finally getting around to putting down in words the testing philosophy I’ve developed over the years. Some of it might rock the boat a bit, other parts may be obvious to some folks, but what I’d like you most to take away is a reflection on your own testin…

The universe is (probably) not a simulation

If this is a simulation, then the universe running it must be, too The simulation hypothesis [1] assumes that if it is possible to simulate a universe in some cosmological frame, it is probably hap…

The Central Binomial Coefficient and Laplace's Method

The central binomial coefficient is the sequence down the "center" of Pascal's triangle, namely These numbers show up, for example, in a random walk on the integers: if we start off at and make independent increments of or , giving each choice even odds, t…

Writing a recursive descent parser in Bash · m10k

Two years ago, I was tasked to write a program that generates RPM package repositories from a large pool of packages. The pool is a set of directories that contain all packages that were ever built for a given Miracle Linux release, and the program would be us…

Notes on exit interviews

If you’re a manager, then there’s no shortage of information for you on how to conduct exit interviews. But there aren’t many resources that focus on how to handle them from an employee’s perspective. I’ve been meaning to write a quick piece that isn’t biased …

Sep 0.2.0 - Even Faster Parsing (~10 GB/s on Zen 3) and More

Shortly after Introducing Sep - Possibly the World’s Fastest .NET CSV Parser, Mark Pflug author of Sylvan.Data.Csv adopted the PackUnsignedSaturate trick from Sep and added a Vector256/Avx2 path in version 1.3.2 for impressive improvements. This meant Sylvan w…

The time Michael Jordan helped a guy win $1 million

Thirty years ago, Don Calhoun got picked to try a three-quarter-court shot during a Bulls game. He made it, sending Michael Jordan and the Bulls into an all-out frenzy because he had won $1 million. Or so everybody thought.

What is GIT? #shorts

What is GIT? #shortsSupport me on Patreon to access the source code:https://www.patreon.com/mohamadlawand.Net 7 SDK: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...

Not Using Zoom

Dear client, Setting aside the earlier challenges of using Zoom under ChromeOS and Linux, I have mostly been declining invitations to Zo...

Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”

David Zipper, who researches and writes about mobility and transportation, recently did a big thread on Mastodon (and Bluesky) a

06 We Speak: IBM MQ

In this session, we continue with the "We Speak", Mission Critical Series with an episode on how Azure Logic Apps can unlock scenarios where is required to i...

That wasn’t supposed to happen!

Software developers often find themselves walking a tightrope between innovation and potential disaster. While we celebrate the brilliant achievements in sof...

PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry By Default

The latest version of Intel Arc GPU Graphics Software introduced an interesting change that isn't reflected in the Release Notes. The installer of the 101.4578 beta drivers add a "Compute Improvement Program" (CIP) component as part of the "typical" setup opti…

Visualize Your Data with Charts in .NET MAUI

A big part of any mobile app is data, with Microcharts you can now visualize that data with amazing looking charts in your .NET MAUI app. Show data in a Data...

My Process for Submitting Pull Requests

I’ve been asked a lot of times about my process for submitting pull requests, so I figured I’d write it up!

Claims of Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure Superconductor

Compilation of all Claims/Reports of Replication Efforts underway that I know of. (By "Reliability of Claim", I refer to the reliability regarding whether this individual/institution is actually attempting a replication of LK99 or not. It does not refer to the…

Have I Been Pwned: Terms of use

Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.

370: The Rise of LK-99

It is time for some lightning topics! We have all sorts of good ones including the new and maybe real LK-99 superconductor, a chat about MacCatalyst, should you use 3rd party libraries? What is on Frank's desk and when will this all end?

The Rise of LK-99 | Merge Conflict ep. 370

It is time for some lightning topics! We have all sorts of good ones including the new and maybe real LK-99 superconductor, a chat about MacCatalyst, should ...

BotW Any% 23:42 [WR]

An incredibly unbalanced run. The plateau certainly isn't awful, but compared to my best plateau time it loses 15-16 seconds. On the flip side I only lost 6 ...

Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass

Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subjec…

BotW Any% 23:42 [WR]

An incredibly unbalanced run. The plateau certainly isn't awful, but compared to my best plateau time it loses 15-16 seconds. On the flip side I only lost 6 ...