Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
Some years ago, Matt Daniels [1] wrote a great article on who has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop. I thought it was brilliant: comparing Shakespeare to famous hip-hop artists. It got me thinking and gave me the inspiration of doing something similar with a genre I love: Power Metal. People know metal or heavy metal […]
Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 (2002)
Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 The new programs keep requiring more and more space. But many of the files are not necessary. All the files you may need for every possible computer the program may be installed and are cluttering up your hard drive. Windows 3.11 freshly installed with a network card takes […]
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Introduction If you want to tile a bathroom floor, square tiles are the simplest option — they fit together without any gaps in a grid pattern that can continue indefinitely. That square grid has a property shared by many other tilings: Shift the whole grid over by a fixed amount, and the resulting pattern is […]
Quality is a hard sell in big tech
23 February 2024 I have noticed a trend in a handful of products I’ve worked on at big tech companies. I have friends at other big tech companies that have noticed a similar trend: The products are kind of crummy. Here are some experiences that I have often encountered: the UI is flakey and/or unintuitive […]
The Earth is getting greener
Maybe you’ve heard: Earth, our planet, is not doing great. Tropical forests are getting cut down. Parking lots are replacing bird-filled grasslands. Climate change is fueling forest-razing wildfires. On the whole, natural, plant-filled habitats, seem to be disappearing. Despite this destruction, scientists keep coming to an odd conclusion: The Earth is growing greener. Not green […]
What DNS Is Not (2009)
November 5, 2009Volume 7, issue 10 PDF What DNS Is Not Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium DNS is many things to many people—perhaps too many things to too many people. DNS (Domain Name System) is a hierarchical, distributed, autonomous, reliable database. The first and only of its kind, it offers realtime performance levels to […]
Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky
I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll… Your browser does not support the video tag. Look at that table header disappear! Now, if I scroll all the way down to item #300 […]
GPT in 500 Lines of SQL
Translations: Russian This year, the talk of the town was AI and how it can do everything for you. I like it when someone or something does everything for me. To this end, I decided to ask ChatGPT to write my New Year’s post: “Hey ChatGPT. Can you implement a large language model in SQL?” […]
Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU
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That Time America Outlawed Pinball (2016)
On March 6, 1948, a New York City patrolman in plain clothes entered a cigar store on 106th Street in East Harlem and dropped a penny into a machine called “The Marvel Pop Up.” He pulled back the game’s plunger and launched a small steel ball into play. The silver orb danced around the tabletop […]