One of the great strengths of strace as a debugging tool is that it shows you what a program is doing regardless of whether it was compiled with debug info or not. The downside of this is that you only … Read more
Say Anything (1989). Credit: 20th Century Studios. I recently tried Spotify’s new DJ feature in which an AI bot curates personalized listening sessions, introducing songs while explaining the intention behind its selections (much like a real-life disc jockey). Every four … Read more
In 1920 the British Psychological Society invited John Broadus Watson to address a symposium on behaviourism (Watson, 1920). Watson was disappointed that his university was unable to fund his crossing. This article provides new information about a study Watson would … Read more
In a remarkable story of product innovation, Stanley became, in the words of its Global President Terence Reilly, a “110-year-old overnight success.” The company’s journey from inventing the first vacuum-sealed water bottle in 1913 to becoming a TikTok sensation began … Read more
For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. I managed to find a new one, but it took longer than I thought, and it was a lot of work. I … Read more
Alan Donovan12 December 2023 Functions that are part of your project’s source code but can never be reached in any execution are called “dead code”, and they exert a drag on codebase maintenance efforts. Today we’re pleased to share a … Read more
Introduction Leica M10 | TTArtisan 28mm 5.6 | f/5.6 In Part 1 of this series we tried to figure out what things might be interesting to take pictures of where you live, this time I want to talk about collections. … Read more
The other day at work, we had a situation where we suspected a thread leak in one particular service, i.e. code which continuously starts new threads, without taking care of ever stopping them again. Each thread requires a bit of … Read more
0x0 , and “letter” otherwise. Within each byte, we consider the most significant nibble comes before the least significant nibble. Baseline It is quite tempting to have a baseline algorithm as follows: fn count_leading_digits(x: [u8; 16]) -> u8 { x.into_iter() … Read more
In late August 2022 Bastien, my co-founder, approached me with a serious face: “We need to talk. I think this product is not working out.” Bastien had just returned from a vacation. With fresh eyes he saw what I was … Read more