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In the second book in the Ibis series, Amitav Ghosh writes about the situation in China before the start of the opium war.
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Crossposting this on as many /i/ boards as I can. Recently, Twitter art policers have started to go after Mike Inel, an NSFW artist and animator for making porn of The Amazing World of Gumball several years ago. Mike is just one in a long line of NSFW artists who have been hassled online by terminally online and terminally fandom kids with no ambitions, goals, father figures, or pussy in the forseeable future. Maybe it's time..
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Slow Sunday morning, while surfing the YouTube ocean, I stumbled upon the audio recording of David Foster Wallace’s This is Water speech. Any DFW fan knows about the commencement speech he famously gave at Kenyon College in 2005, and I’m probably one of the few who hadn’t yet listened to it. So this morning, I hit the play button and was blown away by it. Unsurprisingly, I guess, as the speech was met with universal acclaim.
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While I won’t go so far as to diagnose myself with ADD without consulting a doctor, those who know me know I can be distracted quite easily. So recently, I decided to do something a little different with a personal project I started a few weeks ago (link to come). I wrote unit tests. That may seem rather uninspired, but I’ve always poo-pood the idea of test-driven development (TDD), as it seems wild to me to write a test for something that ..
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The term software crisis was coined in 1968 to identify the inability of software development to keep up with the rapidly growing usage and requirements of computing. Today the crisis continues with poor software more common than good software and failure more common than success.
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The term software crisis was coined in 1968 to identify the inability of software development to keep up with the rapidly growing usage and requirements of computing. Today the crisis continues with poor software more common than good software and failure more common than success.
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Cryptography general I guess. I am working on something involving public key encryption. I would like to understand more about the possible uses of Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Do I understand correctly that it's only possible to derive a shared secret key between two people? That ECC algorithms do not allow you to create a public key that is analogous to an RSA public key? Ie. you cannot use an ECC public key in an of itself to encrypt. ..
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About five months ago, I followed the steps in this article: Use TouchID to Authenticate sudo on macOS via HN so that I could use my fingerprint to complete actions that require sudo privileges. Other than using TouchID to login at the start of my day, I rarely use the
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How streaming platforms like FloGrappling, UFC FightPass and YouTube are creating better experts in jiu jitsu, tech and beyond
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How streaming platforms like FloGrappling, UFC FightPass and YouTube are creating better experts in jiu jitsu, tech and beyond
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How streaming platforms like FloGrappling, UFC FightPass and YouTube are creating better experts in jiu jitsu, tech and beyond
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I wish everyone could listen to the song of the partridges as the sun rises, see the deer on pastures in spring, the larch trees reddened by autumn on the edges of rocks, the darting of fish among the clear waters of streams, and the bees gathering nectar from the flowering cherry trees. In these stories, I write about village places. These natural environments are still livable, about the beautiful social insects that are bees, but also ab..
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Have you used the Python Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) to explore the language and learn about how it operates? Would it help if it provided syntax highlighting, definitions, and code completion and behaved more like an IDE? This week on the show, Christopher Trudeau is here, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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One of MySQL 8’s biggest improvements is the support of window functions. As I always said in conferences, there’s SQL before window functions and SQL after window functions. Once you start using them, you’ll use them everywhere. Some of you poor souls are unfortunate enough to be stuck on MySQL 5.7, either of your own … Continue reading Emulating Window Functions in MySQL 5.7 →
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Rollei (Rolleimetric, now Trimble) Aerial Camera - With Phase One!
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blog.maxg.io
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3 years ago
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eng
Did you know Rollei built aerial camera using their lenses and shutters, combined with Phase One Digital Backs: From https://pdf.directindustry.com/pdf/optech/rollei-aic-digital-camera/25132-53145.html A more recent version: Poor resolution, sorry, from https://technokauf.ru/upload/iblock/cd4/cd4cd4ba2608842a9bc71703207c574e.jpeg This is pretty instersting, given
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As a child of the 80's, I had a front row seat to the beginning of what was then called personal computing. My elementary school got its first Apple around the time I entered kindergarten. That was also the time personal computers were starting to make inroads into offices (largely thanks to VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 ). By modern standards these machines weren't very good. At the time they were transformative. They brought computing to ....
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In a .gitlab-ci.yml job, if you do not specify a tag for an image, the latest tag is used by default. The default configuration of the gitlab-runner to pull Docker images is if-not-present, which means the image is only loaded if it is not already present. This in turn means that the image used is not updated. So if you use latest or no tag at all,, the image used is the one that was current at the time it was pulled, any updates afterwar..
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Introduction Table tests are a great way to test different inputs and associated outputs for a function in Go. To write a table test, you define a slice of some data struct with fields of the input data you’ll need and the expected outcome. Then you can loop through this slice and pass the data stored for each element to your function. One disadvantage of table tests is as the data set in your slice grows, the harder it is to find the fail..
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Introduction In episode 16, Bill implemented additional means of verification for his blockchain’s transactions. The first update he made was to verify if a transaction is destined for his blockchain by reading the first byte of the signature. The next one Bill made was to recalculate the public address from a signature and compare it with the from field of the transaction to verify if the request is valid. While building this, Bill demons..
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Repository: @knadh/koanf GitHub release page: v1.5.0 What’s Changed Add Set(key, val) shorthand for Merge(). by @knadh in https://github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/192 Full Changelog : https://github.com/knadh/koanf/compare/v1.4.5...v1.5.0
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Trying out a classification for "Tools for Thought" as a means of augmenting the human intellect, hot on the heels of recent community conversations about ChatGPT, CoPilot, Stable Diffusion etc...
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Previously on this blog, I’ve written a post explaining why you should use jOOQ’s code generator, despite the possibility of using jOOQ without it. In a similar fashion, as I’ve answered numerous jOOQ questions on Stack Overflow, where someone used jOOQ to build a query, but then executed it elsewhere, including on: jOOQ itself isn’t … Continue reading Why You Should Execute jOOQ Queries With jOOQ →
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For the next part in my Bean Machine retrospective to make sense I’ll need to make a short digression. In looking back on the almost 20 years I’ve been blogging, it is surprising to me that I’ve only briefly alluded … Continue reading →
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You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you still use the keyboard and trackpad, maybe even the webcam and TouchID from time to time. So you try things: you try turning off the display by lowering the brig....
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jOOQ already has a LoggingConnection (see also the manual), which acts as a JDBC proxy Connection to log all SQL statements that are executed by any JDBC client (including Hibernate, MyBatis, JdbcTemplate, native JDBC, etc.). Starting from jOOQ 3.18.0, 3.17.7, and 3.16.13, a LoggingConnection is now also available for R2DBC clients to log all reactive … Continue reading jOOQ’s R2DBC LoggingConnection to log all SQL statements →
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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www.hypergeometric.com
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3 years ago
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I tried this book out as an experiment of listening to a book on my way to the office. I figured I’d have 2 hours each way, so in theory I could close a book out in 9-10 days. Which really would mean 4 weeks, which is unfortunately longer that the loan from the library. […] The post Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster first appeared on hypergeometric .
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