Goodbye Non-Kiss Appliances
2023-12-14 Yesterday, we gave away our ~6-year-old GE French-door refrigerator after a never-ending slog of repairs. At least the guy and his mother who came to pick it up have a side-hustle of repairing and reselling appliances. There’s hope it won’t end up in a landfill. He offered to sell me a 4-door Samsung. No […]
MAME Debugging
Here are some tips and a small guide on how to use MAME for debugging more effectively I’ve been working on a ROM hack for the Neo Geo game Puzzle Bobble (video on it here, github repo here). The purpose of the hack is to replace the joystick controls with a rotary dial. The MAME […]
Over the Edge: The Use of Design Tactics to Undermine Browser Choice
In order to be able to choose their own browser, people must be free to download it, easily set it to default and to continue using it – all without interference from the operating system. Windows users do not currently enjoy this freedom of choice. To investigate Microsoft’s tactics and the impact on consumers, Mozilla […]
Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]
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Designer News Is Dead
Designer News, once a daily destination for product designers, is dead. For many years, it was the best place on the internet to discuss designing and building software. The community was recently sold to a job board called WeWorkRemotely. Since then, there has been a modal that states Designer News will no longer be supported. […]
A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
Posted by Rajat Sen and Yichen Zhou, Google Research Time-series forecasting is ubiquitous in various domains, such as retail, finance, manufacturing, healthcare and natural sciences. In retail use cases, for example, it has been observed that improving demand forecasting accuracy can meaningfully reduce inventory costs and increase revenue. Deep learning (DL) models have emerged as […]
SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake
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Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age
Tim Brinkhof On the afternoon of January 2, 1565, an iceberg drifted down the harbor of Delfshaven, a fishing village in the Netherlands. According to the inscription on a 16th-century oil painting of the event, the block of ice measured nearly 20 feet tall and 230 feet wide—large enough to cut off the village’s access […]
Why Isn’t the Element 100% Supported on CanIUse.com?
Why Isn’t the Element 100% Supported on CanIUse.com? February 02, 2024 I saw a Mastodon post that made me laugh this morning. It seemed sort of crazy that the html element wouldn’t have 100% support on CanIUse.com. Heck, I’ve been using it since 1994 and it worked just fine back then! This led me down […]
OpenBSD System-Call Pinning
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