I'm a huge advocate for public transport, and as is typical in Europe , my attitude towards private cars in an urban environment is on the negative side. My opinion however, may be much more negative than most! To preface this, I have a driver's license, and
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A very touching Akhil Sharma in The New Yorker : Not long after we began dating, my now wife, Christine, and I started making up stories about the child we might have. We named the child—or, in the stories we told about him, he named himself—Suzuki Noguchi. Among the things we liked about him was that he was cheerfully indifferent to us. He did not wish to be either Irish (like Christine) or Indian (like me). Suzuki was eight, and....
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I started this blog few weeks ago and I installed, despite my will, Google Analytics but, just few days after… G. Analytics has been declared illegal in EU. Then? Okay, first a bit of background: everyone is curious of how many visitors, from where and from which referral site, is coming to his website. And I’m too, so what is the easy to install, free and detailed analytic service? Google Analytics, you bet. Well, maybe it’s true, if you....
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I started this blog few weeks ago and I installed, despite my will, Google Analytics but, just few days after… G. Analytics has been declared illegal in EU. Then? Okay, first a bit of background: everyone is curious of how many visitors, from where and from which referral site, is coming to his website. And I’m too, so what is the easy to install, free and detailed analytic service? Google Analytics, you bet. Well, maybe it’s true, if you....
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I wanted to use Blackblaze's B2 service to host uploads for this site using Active Storage. I wrote this up when I couldn't find a guide to configure the two to work together. B2 advertises itself as the most affordable cloud bucket storage. 🤞 here's to hoping it remains competitively priced. Rails 5.2 introduced Active Storage, a simple way to add attachments in your Rails applications. Rails 6 introduce Action Text with simple built-....
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Learn about a recent Stranger Danger live hack where Simon Maple, Field CTO at Snyk, Eric Smalling, Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk, and Micah Silverman, Director of DevSecOps Acceleration discussed the Log4Shell vulnerability and demonstrated how an exploit could work.
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ArgoCD Health Checks: How to create custom Health Checks to validate resource statuses
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www.patrickdap.com
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4 years ago
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Or how health checks avoid me from running into issues with controller-managed resources Here's an interesting problem I ran into while doing some work a few days ago. I was working on a pipeline to deploy new resources using ArgoCD. Everything was going great until one of the Kubernetes resources was, in fact, a resource managed by a Kubernetes controller: that is, applying it will not create it, it will merely tell the controller to cre..
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In the previous posts, I discussed [[p2-quantile-estimator-intro]] (a sequential estimator which takes $O(1)$ memory and estimates a single predefined quantile), the moving P² quantile estimator ([[mp2-quantile-estimator]]) (a moving modification of P² which estimates quantiles within the moving window), and the extended P² quantile estimator (a sequential estimator which takes $O(m)$ memory and estimates $m$ predefined quantiles). Now ..
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In the previous posts, I discussed [[p2-quantile-estimator-intro]] (a sequential estimator which takes $O(1)$ memory and estimates a single predefined quantile), the moving P² quantile estimator ([[mp2-quantile-estimator]]) (a moving modification of P² which estimates quantiles within the moving window), and the extended P² quantile estimator (a sequential estimator which takes $O(m)$ memory and estimates $m$ predefined quantiles). Now ..
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The Apology is Plato's record of the speech given by Socrates in court as he tries to defend himself in 399BCE against the accusations of 'corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes'.
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The UK CMA (along with other regulators and web activists) are largely evaluating Google’s Privacy Sandbox as an isolated, independent set of features. Evaluations that fail to consider how Privacy Sandbox will interact with other upcoming Google proposals will miss how radical and harmful Privacy Sandbox will be to the Web in practice. This piece presents how Privacy Sandbox, when considered with other upcoming Chrome features, will harm u..
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Google’s Topics API: Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
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brave.com
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4 years ago
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eng
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
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Welcoming Kathleen Murphy and Zach Nelson to the Snyk Board of Directors
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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eng
We’re excited to announce that both Kathleen Murphy and Zach Nelson have joined the Snyk Board of Directors effective as of January 1, 2022.
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New year resolutions can be a useful & necessary first step
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www.unsungnovelty.org
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4 years ago
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eng
I see a lot of dislike towards new year resolutions. There is a assumption that new year resolutions is bad and ineffective. Atleast some people think new year resolutions as a finalised plan. It is not. It is just a rough script for how you want your new year to go. You need to be working on it everyday. Trim it down or expand as necessary. You don’t have to hit it all. In fact, most people won’t hit it all. And that is fine. It is definit....
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"wait-for", a tiny utility to wait for TCP or UDP resources to be ready
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www.patrickdap.com
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4 years ago
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Use it in your Kubernetes clusters to wait for resources to be ready, like SQL Databases I know I'm not the first one to create this and, in fact, there are a plethora of options out there to use as of right now. Still, I wrote my own version of wait-for, and there are a few differences that make it to be a little more useful than the alternatives. For those of you who have never heard about this, wait-for is a very simple and tiny applic..
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I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful, its challenges and struggles, innovation engine, people, its organizational structure, operations, and its legacy. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is an excellent albeit slightly inaccurate summary of what,
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Tomorrow we’re releasing a major project on which we’ve been working non-stop for two and a half years. No matter how many years in the trenches, release day always makes me a bit nervous. Experience does help. I know there will be problems, and we will solve them. Some customers will complain, and those will be the most vocal. The vast majority of them will appreciate the effort, enjoy the features, and stay silent. That’s how it works. We..
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Tomorrow we’re releasing a major project on which we’ve been working non-stop for two and a half years. No matter how many years in the trenches, release day always makes me a bit nervous. Experience does help. I know there will be problems, and we will solve them. Some customers will complain, and those will be the most vocal. The vast majority of them will appreciate the effort, enjoy the features, and stay silent. That’s how it works. We..
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Obsidian is first and foremost a Markdown editor with first-class support for internal links between notes. But just because it wasn’t built as a to-do app, doesn’t mean it can’t become one. Community plugins and external tools have made Obsidian work just as well for me as any task management app I’ve used in the past. As an added bonus, because I’m keeping notes about my day and what I’m reading, it’s easy for me to keep tasks in the cont....
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Obsidian is first and foremost a Markdown editor with first-class support for internal links between notes. But just because it wasn’t built as a to-do app, doesn’t mean it can’t become one. Community plugins and external tools have made Obsidian work just as well for me as any task management app I’ve used in the past. As an added bonus, because I’m keeping notes about my day and what I’m reading, it’s easy for me to keep tasks in the cont....
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I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first time. This post builds up to a text editor with a few keyboard shortcuts. I'll be giving a virtual talk based on this work at Hacker Nights on Jan 27 . There are a definitely bugs. But it's hard to find intermediate resources for bootloader programming so maybe parts of this will be useful. If you already know the basics and the intermediates and just want a fantastic int....
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I have recently been thinking a lot about tagged unions in SystemVerilog, since I discovered them a few months ago. In this post I present some of the ideal use cases for tagged unions, and why I think no one actually uses them. Despite being initially proposed in 2003 , and officially part of the language since the SystemVerilog 1800-2005 standard was released, at this point tagged unions appear to be a forgotten language feature. I t..
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I have recently been thinking a lot about tagged unions in SystemVerilog, since I discovered them a few months ago. In this post I present some of the ideal use cases for tagged unions, and why I think no one actually uses them. Despite being initially proposed in 2003 , and officially part of the language since the SystemVerilog 1800-2005 standard was released, at this point tagged unions appear to be a forgotten language feature. I t....
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I have recently been thinking a lot about tagged unions in SystemVerilog, since I discovered them a few months ago. In this post I present some of the ideal use cases for tagged unions, and why I think no one actually uses them. Despite being initially proposed in 2003 , and officially part of the language since the SystemVerilog 1800-2005 standard was released, at this point tagged unions appear to be a forgotten language feature. I t..
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I have recently been thinking a lot about tagged unions in SystemVerilog, since I discovered them a few months ago. In this post I present some of the ideal use cases for tagged unions, and why I think no one actually uses them. Despite being initially proposed in 2003 , and officially part of the language since the SystemVerilog 1800-2005 standard was released, at this point tagged unions appear to be a forgotten language feature. I t..
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I have recently been thinking a lot about tagged unions in SystemVerilog, since I discovered them a few months ago. In this post I present some of the ideal use cases for tagged unions, and why I think no one actually uses them. Despite being initially proposed in 2003 , and officially part of the language since the SystemVerilog 1800-2005 standard was released, at this point tagged unions appear to be a forgotten language feature. I t..
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Arrived just after 7am to catch the sunrise. We were perhaps the fifth car, and got a space right next to the Gold Creek Snowshoe Trailhead. The road from the I-90 (NF-4832) was in a fairly good condition, with several snow free stretches, but also some stretches of hardened snow and ice. The iciest sections were at the corner by Gold Creek Sno-Park where you first enter the road, and by the Gold Creek Snowshoe Trailhead, but with our AWD i..
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This is the second part in a 2-part series on the "Fibonacci" interview problem. We are building off of a previous post, so take a look at Part I if you haven't seen it. Previously, we examined the problem and constructed a logarithmic-time solution based on computing the power of a matrix. Now we will derive a constant time solution using some more linear algebra. If you had trouble with the linear algebra in part I, it may help to re..
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Arrived just after 7am to catch the sunrise. We were perhaps the fifth car, and got a space right next to the Gold Creek Snowshoe Trailhead. The road from the I-90 (NF-4832) was in a fairly good condition, with several snow free stretches, but also some stretches of hardened snow and ice. The iciest sections were at the corner by Gold Creek Sno-Park where you first enter the road, and by the Gold Creek Snowshoe Trailhead, but with our AWD i..
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