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What an interesting month January was reading-wise. For the first time in her 24 months of existence, I read more books to my daughter than to my son.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how difficult it has become to discover quality content on the Internet, not because it isn’t there, but because the signal to noise ratio is really bad, and most venues of discovery don’t seem to be able to handle it. Recommendation algorithms seem to work almost too well, to the point where it’s all kind of just showing you things you already like, rarely anything new that you might like. It’s an absolute ..
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In this post, I want to share my opinion on Socrates' style of conversation and argumentation, and why I think he is being a little bit of a dick.
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Enterprise security: Digital transformation and risk management with Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Manulife
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snyk.io
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4 years ago
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Learn about insightful talks from AB Inbev and Manulife at SnykCon 2021 about risk management and measuring key risk indicators for enterprise security.
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Shows how much the performance of Go has improved from version 1.2 through to 1.18 -- in its compiler, runtime, and libraries.
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Control all functions of your external monitor with a click on your (wireless) keyboard! Lower brightness, switch input, raise contrast or switch power modes with Python and Monitorcontrol. 1 2 3 4 from monitorcontrol import get_monitors for monitor in get_monitors (): with monitor : monitor . set_luminance ( 30 )
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Should children be allowed unlimited screen time? If not, what limits should we impose? This is a fairly common question that parents have to reckon with these days. What I find missing in these discussions is that not all screen time is created equal. In my mind, there are two main kinds of screen time. On the one hand, there is the harmful kind. It’s the passive, mind-numbing, and unprofitable waste of time where we allow children ..
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Should children be allowed unlimited screen time? If not, what limits should we impose? This is a fairly common question that parents have to reckon with these days. What I find missing in these discussions is that not all screen time is created equal. In my mind, there are two main kinds of screen time. On the one hand, there is the harmful kind. It’s the passive, mind-numbing, and unprofitable waste of time where we allow children ..
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How I sped up GoAWK by switching from a tree-walking interpreter to a bytecode compiler and virtual machine interpreter.
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Network defenders often struggle to obtain timely, accurate, relevant, predictive, and tailored intelligence about the enemy and other aspects of the operational environment. This document attempts to address that difficulty by detailing a single, curated list of reputable, open sources of threat data, information, and intelligence. This list combines traditional sources such as cybersecurity organizations that publish detailed reports (thi..
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I have been playing around with offline non cloud tool replacements for doing things like speech to text and the like. One that I found which looked promising was voice2json which is a command line tool for turning speech intent into text. It can do generic conversion too, but a review of that is not the subject of this post. Following the instructions from the website http://voice2json.org/install.html worked fine up till I tried to ru..
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Spurred by a conversation with a whip-smart friend and fellow gentlenerd, who unreasonably believed (believes?) they have nothing worth speaking about at the software conferences we like (IN/Clojure, FunctionalConf, local meetups etc).
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You often need a web interface for your Raspberry Pi projects. Flask is a Python framework that makes it easy to program web APIs. Then you need to add all the deployment steps to automatically run the Flask application. Here I want to show how you can do this with Gunicorn, Nginx and systemd.
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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security
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seirdy.one
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4 years ago
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Background I find it quite easy to handle views different from my own. I feel more troubled when I see people agree with me for the wrong reasons. It’s no secret that I’m a passionate supporter of software freedom: I’ve written two posts about how Free, Libre, and Open-Source software (FLOSS) is necessary but insufficient to preserve user autonomy: Whatsapp and the domestication of users The phenomenon of a class of predatory busines....
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Who among us doesn’t love Wordle? No one, that’s who! It’s gotten to the point that the NY Times announced they are purchasing the original Wordle from its author. There have been a bunch of copy-cats, both in app and web-app form. And, some of these have been up to no good!
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Twice a year, NextRoll celebrates Hack Week, where employees get to work for a week on a project of their choice. It’s an excellent opportunity to experiment, learn new technologies and team up with people from across the company. You can learn all about Hack Week here . As NextRoll increasingly adopts the Rust programming language, it’s common for engineers to use Hack Week as an opportunity to gain experience with it. Another popular ....
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I’m doing 99% of my coding in a “big” machine instead of my laptop. I do that by SSH’ing into it, hopefully into a tmux session, and coding on Neovim.
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Following the abandon of Google Analytics and the beginning of umami usage (you can read the details in this post ) I encountered in a little trouble: how to make a backup of the umami database, without having sFTP access to Heroku VPS, because of the free plan? I’ve found a solution that is a bit tricky (compared to a normal backup) but it works. It requires having Heroku CLI installed, can be done via
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Following the abandon of Google Analytics and the beginning of umami usage (you can read the details in this post ) I encountered in a little trouble: how to make a backup of the umami database, without having sFTP access to Heroku VPS, because of the free plan? I’ve found a solution that is a bit tricky (compared to a normal backup) but it works. It requires having Heroku CLI installed, can be done via
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Learn how Snyk is shifting left during API development, as well as the processes and tools we are using to create our API-first platform.
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This post compares MAD and the Shamos estimator across various distributions and sample sizes. Pragmastat adopts the Shamos approach as Spread — a more efficient robust scale estimator with a 29% breakdown point. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat There are multiple ways to estimate statistical dispersion. The standard deviation is the most popular one, bu..
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Understand the basics of seq2seq architecture and artificial neural networks (ANNs). Learn about multilingual models and their applications. Discover how to use these technologies to achieve scalable multilingual semantic search.
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In a previous blog post, we explained how we built an internal pull-based exception monitoring service called Periskop — which is heavily…
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I remember hearing about Bogan Ipsum, which was an alternative to Lorem Ipsum for you know bogan’s back in 2011 through LifeHacker . However it since became defunct. I became aware of this fact from Darren at work given the following message on slack? Dude Boganipsum where? Clearly this needed to be rectified! A quick search found this https://www.npmjs.com/package/boganipsum implementation which seemed to work well enough, so ..
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This post compares MAD and the Shamos estimator across various distributions and sample sizes. Pragmastat adopts the Shamos approach as Spread — a more efficient robust scale estimator with a 29% breakdown point. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat There are multiple ways to estimate statistical dispersion. The standard deviation is the most popular one, bu..
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For those unfamiliar, Artsy is a fine art marketplace. Knowing that, it follows logically to say that the form via which our partners list artworks for sale is an integral part of Artsy’s core systems. This form, known only as “The Artwork Form,” is whispered about in the halls of Arty’s New York headquarters. It is legendary. It is a colossus. It is old enough not only to predate React v16.8 hooks and context APIs, but Artsy’s use of React....
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I have a few primary source documents regarding my genealogy laying around. One of those items is an old family bible - a bible in a box labeled Grandmother Smith’s Bible .
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In a previous blog post, we explained how we built an internal pull-based exception monitoring service called Periskop — which is heavily…
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Understand the basics of seq2seq architecture and artificial neural networks (ANNs). Learn about multilingual models and their applications. Discover how to use these technologies to achieve scalable multilingual semantic search.
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the fattening - Yesterday involved almost no exercise, a trip to Chick Fil A to get a Spicy Chicken Sandwich Meal with large Fries and a Lemonade, three high calorie drinks, 10 pieces of dumplings and another trip to Chick Fil A to get the Chicken Sandwich with medium fries and a chocolate...
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One of the great things about Kindle readers is that you can read old books for free. You can grab an epub from places like Monergism , Gutenberg , Standard Ebooks , or Planet Ebook , and side-load them into your device. The problem is that Kindles don’t support epub files, and so you have to convert them to something it can read. Historically, the advice has been to convert your epubs to mobi files. However, in 2022, the mobi file....
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One of the great things about Kindle readers is that you can read old books for free. You can grab an epub from places like Monergism , Gutenberg , Standard Ebooks , or Planet Ebook , and side-load them into your device. The problem is that Kindles don’t support epub files, and so you have to convert them to something it can read. Historically, the advice has been to convert your epubs to mobi files. However, in 2022, the mobi file....
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Infinite Race is a mathematical racing game. Two players compete to move their piece the greatest distance along the number line by choosing how the dice will fall. However, the rolls must fit a distribution perfectly, so the player’s luck must revert to the mean. The strategy is to select a sequence of moves which allows one player to break free of the pack. Setup Each player specifies an infinite sequence of moves at the beginning of p....
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Infinite Race is a mathematical racing game. Two players compete to move their piece the greatest distance along the number line by choosing how the dice will fall. However, the rolls must fit a distribution perfectly, so the player’s luck must revert to the mean. The strategy is to select a sequence of moves which allows one player to break free of the pack. Setup Each player specifies an infinite sequence of moves at the beginning of p....
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Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot , but I still have a low tolerance for bad writing and bad editing. I write this post both to discourage thoughtless recommendations and to encourage the receivers of bad recommendations. For software developers, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a prime example. Written for freshman at MIT, it is ostensibly an entry-level text. But it requires such a lev....
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