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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde Welcome to part 8 of the series on “How to be a game changer”. You can find the previous posts here 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . Growing up in post-socialist-turned-cowboy-capitalist Bulgaria, I grew up around a lot of cynical behavior and absorbed it deep into me. It was the water I was swimming in, and I knew no better. There ....
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T.: We're already hot ^^ fc17: I beg to differ… T.: Look at that butt. fc17: Being hot isn't just about butts… T.: And that hair. fc17: It's more… holistic… Listing individual body parts won't get you anywhere… T.: What'f I list alla them? fc17: I definitely don't think all are hot… I don't want you to list all of them. T.: But c'mon. That pancreas.
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The advent of code is an annual coding challenge in the month of December. This article covers the first day's puzzle with a solution written in Go.
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I read this article ( “Open Source” is Broken by Xe) written in the aftermath of the unfortunate log4j2 fiasco . The author discusses a pertinent problem that has plagued the FOSS (Free and Open Source) world ever since large for-profit corporations started their widespread consumption of FOSS, ever since countless “unicorns” raised infinite amounts of funding on valuations built pretty much entirely on FOSS, ever since FOSS got co-opte..
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Plain Org v1.1 is now available on the App Store . The update receives new features and bugfixes. If you're finding Plain Org useful, please help support this effort by getting the word out. Tell your friends, tweet , or blog about it. What is Plain Org? Ok, now on to what's included in the v1.1 release… Compact mode By default, Plain Org layout uses generous padding. The new option Menu -> View -> Compact mode packs more content....
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I read this article ( “Open Source” is Broken by Xe) written in the aftermath of the unfortunate log4j2 fiasco . The author discusses a pertinent problem that has plagued the FOSS (Free and Open Source) world ever since large for-profit corporations started their widespread consumption of FOSS, ever since countless “unicorns” raised infinite amounts of funding on valuations built pretty much entirely on FOSS, ever since FOSS got co-opte..
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If your experience is rooted in HTTP-land, then you are probably familiar with the concept of server middleware.
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If your experience is rooted in HTTP-land, then you are probably familiar with the concept of server middleware.
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It's been a while since I had announced the release of Berkeley Mono. The more I examine it under scrutinous eyes, the more I find that there is more work to be done. At one point, I had the following masters going through the final tuning: Berkeley Mono
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A known thing - I am just posting this here as a reference Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambigu..
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A known thing - I am just posting this here as a reference Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambigu..
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There are few cities providing open source LIDAR data for 3D-modeling. However, leveraging OSM building, road and landuse data gives you neat city models in no time!
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Lately I’ve been studying Fully Homomorphic Encryption, which is the miraculous ability to perform arbitrary computations on encrypted data without learning any information about the underlying message. It’s the most comprehensive private computing solution that can exist (and it does exist!). The first FHE scheme by Craig Gentry was based on ideal lattices and was considered very complex (I never took the time to learn how it worked). Some..
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Lately I’ve been studying Fully Homomorphic Encryption, which is the miraculous ability to perform arbitrary computations on encrypted data without learning any information about the underlying message. It’s the most comprehensive private computing solution that can exist (and it does exist!). The first FHE scheme by Craig Gentry was based on ideal lattices and was considered very complex (I never took the time to learn how it worked). Some..
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Lately I’ve been studying Fully Homomorphic Encryption, which is the miraculous ability to perform arbitrary computations on encrypted data without learning any information about the underlying message. It’s the most comprehensive private computing solution that can exist (and it does exist!). The first FHE scheme by Craig Gentry was based on ideal lattices and was considered very complex (I never took the time to learn how it worked). Some..
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Migrating a Windows 10 VM to Windows 11 in Parallels Desktop: a story of TPM chips and BIOS upgrades
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nicolaiarocci.com
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4 years ago
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eng
This weekend assignment was to upgrade a couple of old Windows 10 VMs to Windows 11 in Parallels Desktop 17. I couldn’t do that right away because Windows Update was complaining about the lack of the TPM chip. A little research revealed that TPM chips only work on UEFI BIOS. To check which BIOS version was being used in my VMs, I used the msinfo32 (System Information) application. It showed the BIOS to be of “Legacy” type. So my task was n..
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Log4j vulnerability explained: Prevent Log4Shell RCE by updating to version 2.17.1
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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eng
A new critical vulnerability was disclosed for log4j, a very popular Java logging framework from the Apache foundation. All current versions of log4j2 up to 2.14.1 are vulnerable. You can remediate this vulnerability by updating to version 2.17.1 or later.
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Are you ready to break open the first days of puzzles from the annual Advent of Code challenge? Advent of Code is an advent calendar of twenty-five programming puzzles published each December. Practicing solving puzzles is a great way to build your Python skills. This week on the show, we have previous guest and Real Python author Geir Arne Hjelle to discuss his recent article titled, "Advent of Code: Solving Your Puzzles With Python."
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Find and fix vulnerabilities in your CI/CD pipeline with Snyk and Harness
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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eng
With modern tooling like Snyk and Harness, you can find, fix, and remediate through a CI/CD pipeline and mitigate the risk to the business without affecting your ability to release software quickly.
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This entry is about a few problems the search engine has been struggling with lately, and how I’ve been attempting to remedy them. Before the article starts, I wanted to share an amusing new thing in the world of Internet spam. For a while, people have been adding things like “reddit” to the end of their Google queries to get less blog spam. Well, guess what? The blog spammers are adding “reddit” to the end of their titles now.
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After five years in Oracle’s MySQL team, Steinar H. Gunderson resigned a few days ago. On the same day, he dropped the bomb on his blog : let me point out something that I’ve been saying both internally and externally for the last five years (although never on a stage—which explains why I’ve been staying away from stages talking about MySQL): MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead 1 ..
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We’re happy to announce the open beta of C/C++ security support in Snyk Open Source, enabling development and security teams to find and fix known security vulnerabilities in their C/C++ open source code and libraries!
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Space-junkie me is back, this time reading about the innumerable opportunities that SpaceX’s Starship will offer once it becomes operational, hopefully no later than this year or the next. In his Science Upside for Starship , the exceptionally knowledgeable Casey Handmer makes a case for Starship relevance in the future of space exploration by listing an astounding number of reasonable use-cases for the vessel. I think it is relatively..
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Space-junkie me is back, this time reading about the innumerable opportunities that SpaceX’s Starship will offer once it becomes operational, hopefully no later than this year or the next. In his Science Upside for Starship , the exceptionally knowledgeable Casey Handmer makes a case for Starship relevance in the future of space exploration by listing an astounding number of reasonable use-cases for the vessel. I think it is relatively..
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In any organization, the role of a manager is crucial to ensure that the team performs to its full potential. As teams grow larger and more complex, managing them effectively becomes increasingly challenging. At a certain point, you need to subdivide the team into several teams and make the decision to either promote or hire additional managers. This is where a director takes on the role of a “manager of managers.
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Running IntelliJ IDEA with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
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mustafaakin.dev
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4 years ago
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eng
Over the years, although a tremendously valuable tool, IntelliJ IDEA started to feel slowed down, even on these latest M1 Pro machines. It’s become frustrating. I disabled as many plugins as not needed. However, it’s still not sufficient. I have discovered that you can improve the performance by switching IDEA to the latest JDK. JetBrains has its runtime with its patches for HiDPI supports, performance improvements, and bugfixes for running..
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DDR5, PCIe Gen5, CXL, and new CPUs from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA converge in 2022. The biggest datacenter hardware refresh in a decade.
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Let’s say we have two distributions $X$ and $Y$, and we want to express the “absolute difference” between them. This abstract term could be expressed in various ways. My favorite approach is to build the Doksum’s shift function . In order to do this, for each quantile $p$, we should calculate $Q_Y(p)-Q_X(p)$ where $Q$ is the quantile function. However, some people prefer using the shift distribution $Y-X$. While both approaches may provide..
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