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Banks create money out of thin air, but it's less impressive than it sounds
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www.attejuvonen.fi
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5 years ago
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eng
Most people are familiar with central banks’ ability to create money out of thin air. A central bank has access to physical printing presses…
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Someone shared my most recent post on Tildes . Now, I want to address some of the comments in there. First of all, as mentioned in the comments there, Bitmessage may be a less than optimal alternative, to say the least. The way it works is it downloads the entire blockchain (or, well, all the new commits) and checks which ones it can decrypt to figure out which ones are addressed to it. This, of course, means it is not scalable at all....
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A barely coherent rant about a year of progress (or lack thereof) in the realm of entity movement and path finding.
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A barely coherent rant about a year of progress (or lack thereof) in the realm of entity movement and path finding.
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Options for Packaging Your Python Application: Wheels, Docker, and More
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realpython.com
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5 years ago
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eng
Have you wondered, how should I package my Python code? You've written the application, but now you need to distribute it to the machines it's intended to run on. It depends on what the code is, the libraries it depends on, and with whom do you want to share it. This week on the show we have Itamar Turner-Trauring, creator of the website pythonspeed.com. We discuss his article "Options for Packaging Your Python Code: Wheels, Conda, Docker, ..
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Via Marcin Swieczkowski's Upgrading The OSX Dock , change default to make macOS's dock auto-hide faster: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.2; killall Dock
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Whenever individuals discuss the problems with blockchain, one of the first words to pop up will be 'scaling'. Monero sets itself apart in solving that issue.
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One of my goals for this year (and indeed, it was a failed goal for last year as well) was to create and publish an Android app. I’m happy to report that I have reached that goal.
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Snyk & Trend Micro deepen collaboration with a new solution for solving open source development risks
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snyk.io
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5 years ago
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eng
We’re thrilled to deepen our collaboration with our long-standing partner Trend Micro, a global cloud security leader, to co-develop a first-of-its-kind solution that will help security teams manage the risk of open source vulnerabilities.
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I am republishing here an excellent article that I first read back in 2002 and that I have read many times since then. I feel I just need to share it, it has worked well for me and might work well for you as well. The worlds greatest geniuses have all had 24 personality characteristics [...]
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I am republishing here an excellent article that I first read back in 2002 and that I have read many times since then. I feel I just need to share it, it has worked well for me and might work well for you as well. The worlds greatest geniuses have all had 24 personality characteristics [...]
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I am republishing here an excellent article that I first read back in 2002 and that I have read many times since then. I feel I just need to share it, it has worked well for me and might work well for you as well. The worlds greatest geniuses have all had 24 personality characteristics [...]
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I am republishing here an excellent article that I first read back in 2002 and that I have read many times since then. I feel I just need to share it, it has worked well for me and might work well for you as well. The worlds greatest geniuses have all had 24 personality characteristics [...]
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In Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology , Neil Postman argues that our infatuation with technology has insidiously eroded our culture. We gain much through technology, but it comes at a price; all too often we are blind to that price. This book seeks to call attention to the costs of a technology-focused society. I felt this poignantly because I, as a technology worker, know what that infatuation feels like. This book revie....
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In Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology , Neil Postman argues that our infatuation with technology has insidiously eroded our culture. We gain much through technology, but it comes at a price; all too often we are blind to that price. This book seeks to call attention to the costs of a technology-focused society. I felt this poignantly because I, as a technology worker, know what that infatuation feels like. This book revie....
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For those who have never ventured into the dark underworld of the Python C‑Extension API, you may believe that it is as fluid and rewarding as the rest of the Python ecosystem. I regret to inform you that this is not the case. Line 13 of The Zen of Python says: There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it. The C‑Extension API is an excellent example of what happens when one completely ignores that advice...
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We’re happy to announce the vastly improved performance of security testing for Go projects via the Snyk CLI, in some cases improving scan time by more than 90%!
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Update: After quite a few comments on Tildes, I wrote a follow-up post. Just click the Next> link at the bottom of this page to get there. Email sucks. Seriously. Here's why. TL;DR: Email is too complex and insecure. Try to get everyone to adopt Bitmessage or comparable. The thing that mostly holds is back is the fact it tries to be backwards compatible with more or less everything . Complexity Email needs more DNS records than sta....
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What follows is the personal statement that I submitted to Columbia and NYU as part of my college applications. I was always going to end up talking about the Navy, submarines, and the nuclear pipeline. It was my life for the past six years, there was no avoiding it. I needed to pick a single experience that could relate to all of that and also myself as an individual, inside six-hundred fifty words. Ultimately the essay needed to highlight..
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Where am I? I’ve been wanting to write about what I’ve been up to the past couple of months and keep putting it off because I convinced myself that I need to write a long and protracted post about why I’m living in a travel trailer. Oh yeah, I live in a travel trailer now. But I don’t think I’ll delve into why I felt compelled to leave NYC and become trailerfolk because it’s really not that profound or interesting. Before anyone asks –....
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Have you ever wondered what happens when you let two engineers loose on a project with a broad vision and little direction? In our case, LiteBrite happens. Every year Cerner hosts DevCon, an internal 2-day conference for all of Cerner engineering to come together, give talks about technologies, processes, and ideas - all with a little fun sprinkled in. DevCon always has a theme, for 2019 that was set to be “The 80s.
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Where am I? I’ve been wanting to write about what I’ve been up to the past couple of months and keep putting it off because I convinced myself that I need to write a long and protracted post about why I’m living in a travel trailer. Oh yeah, I live in a travel trailer now. But I don’t think I’ll delve into why I felt compelled to leave NYC and become trailerfolk because it’s really not that profound or interesting. Before anyone asks –....
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Where am I? I’ve been wanting to write about what I’ve been up to the past couple of months and keep putting it off because I convinced myself that I need to write a long and protracted post about why I’m living in a travel trailer. Oh yeah, I live in a travel trailer now. But I don’t think I’ll delve into why I felt compelled to leave NYC and become trailerfolk because it’s really not that profound or interesting. Before anyone asks –....
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In Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology , Neil Postman argues that our infatuation with technology has insidiously eroded our culture. We gain much through technology, but it comes at a price; all too often we are blind to that price. This book seeks to call attention to the costs of a technology-focused society. I felt this poignantly because I, as a technology worker, know what that infatuation feels like.
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In Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology , Neil Postman argues that our infatuation with technology has insidiously eroded our culture. We gain much through technology, but it comes at a price; all too often we are blind to that price. This book seeks to call attention to the costs of a technology-focused society. I felt this poignantly because I, as a technology worker, know what that infatuation feels like.
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If I like an article, I look into its author. Most good writers write well and often. This helps me find independent websites , like Ben Kuhn’s blog. In his 2018 piece, Stop Trying , Ben talks about steps he took to better his life: tracking time with RescueTime, and waking up with automatic lights. His productivity went up, and he gets out of bed on time now — because these changes required “literally zero maintenance”. He tried to m..
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If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first. Let's learn more about it in this article.
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Systématická analýza viacerých štúdií ohľadne chrómu a jeho vplyvu na cukrovku z júla 2020 zistila, že chróm podstatne znižuje hladinu glukózy, spotrebu inzulínu a diabetického markeru A1c (HbA1c), ako aj inzulínovú rezistenciu. Výskumníci odporúčajú formu pikolinát chrómu a to v dennej dávke 200 mcg. Štúdia bola publikovana v odbornom časopise Pharmacological Research. Podrobnosti nájdete tuto.
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This novel had an immediate impact on me, and after reading through the introduction I was entranced by the themes in the book I…
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Jari Safi published a wonderful Emacs video demoing python yasnippets in action . The constructor snippet, automatically setting ivars, is just magical. I wanted it for Swift! I took a look at the [[init]{.underline}]{.underline} snippet from Jorgen Schäfer 's elpy . It uses elpy-snippet-init-assignments to generate the assignments. With small tweaks, we can get the same action going on for Swift ø/ init.yasnippet: # -*- m....
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Edit: This content in this post is already a couple of years stale. Heroku Postgres is not free anymore. However, in the mean time Fly.io now features Fly Postgres. It’s a bit more hands-on than many managed Postgres services. However, it does fit within your free-tier and does not oversell your shared database. So, if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, then it’s a very solid option.
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WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools, and the Open Web
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brave.com
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5 years ago
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eng
Google is proposing a new standard called WebBundles. This standard allows websites to “bundle” resources together, and will make it impossible for browsers to reason about sub-resources by URL. While we appreciate the problems the WebBundles and related proposals aim to solve, we believe there are other, better ways of achieving the same ends without compromising the open, transparent, user-first nature of the Web.
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In a recent one-on-one with my boss he mentioned that, as a director, one of my core duties involves systems architecture. I was thrown for a loop a bit because while I’m happy to stay technical I didn’t think this was what many directors do. Yes, you need enough of an understanding of the systems you build to defend them in presentations with senior leadership or to help guide your teams to victory but I didn’t think it would involve thing..
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An overview of fuzz testing and the go-fuzz tool, as well as a look at the recent draft design for including fuzz testing in the `go` tool (LWN.net).
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The Snyk research team has uncovered malicious behavior in a popular Advertising SDK used by over 1,200 apps in the AppStore which represent over 300 Million downloads per month, based on industry expert estimates.
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The Mintegral SDK is a popular mobile app advertising SDK available for both the iOS and Android platforms. It is used by thousands of mobile apps with over a billion downloads per month. The Snyk security research team has made two significant disclosures surrounding the Mintegral SDK — vulnerabilities known as SourMint.
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An in-depth exploration of Apple's unified logging system and the promising OSLogStore API that Apple removed from iOS 14 at the last minute.
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