Recursion is an idea often associated with infinity, a process that repeats ad aeternam. It is perhaps surprising, then, that the origin story of mathematical recursion is grounded in finitism, the re
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite
Aggregation is the most important operator in ClickHouse and also the most optimized one. This article attempts to analyze the internal implementation of ClickHouse’s aggregation operator, including t
Understanding how search engines crawl, render, and index web pages is crucial for optimizing sites for search engines. Over the years, as search engines like Google change their processes, it’s tough
My fellow Americans: I am happy to have this opportunity to talk to you once more before I leave the White House. Next Tuesday, General Eisenhower will be inaugurated as President of the United States
Ladies and gentlemen: From force of long habit I almost said, "My fellow delegates." Tonight you and I join forces for the 1936 campaign. We enter it with confidence. Never was there greater need for
A script to analyse 7+ years of my YouTube history Before deleting my YouTube account, I used Google Takeout to get a complete history of all videos I watched. I used this history to analyse how much
More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a
As of today, I’ve been blogging for 10 years. In this time I’ve written 302,000 words across 343 articles — a rate of one article every week and a half. These articles form a record of my professional progress, touching on both “hard” technical skills and “soft” communication skills. My older…
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“The end of history will be a very sad time.” —Francis Fukuyama As 1992 drew closer, a specter haunted the Republican Party establishment—the white-robed specter of David Duke. The former grand wizard
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Dutch primatologist and ethologist (1948–2024) In this Dutch name, the surname is de Waal, not Waal. Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) was a Dutch-American primatolo
In advertisements that have aired during the Olympics and are popping up online, Apple says its Safari is “a browser that’s actually private.” That’s mostly true, with caveats. Apple deserves credit f
Today's links A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement: Actual property rights are less important than the metaphorical property righ
Leander Kahney talks to Bill Atkinson, the programming genius behind MacPaint and much of the original Macintosh operating system, about HyperCard: What Could Have Been: Atkinson, now a successful nat
Home About Projects Posts C Macro Reflection in Zig Zig Has Better C Interop Than C Itself By Jacob Strieb. Published on July 30, 2024. Zig Zig is a nascent programming language with an emphasis on lo
Jack Wallen\ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free.It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid a
We’re excited to announce Replit Object Storage, a fast and durable way to persist files and other unstructured data. Object Storage ensures your data is resilient against data loss and usable across
On January 1, 2023, Apple sunsetted (pun intended) the Dark Sky mobile app on iOS. Apple purchased the company behind the popular weather application in early 2020, then announced that it would be shu
FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE ABOUT CONTACT RSS GIVE July 29, 2024 Carving the Super Nintendo Video System Last time, I explored the inside of the Super Nintendo cartridges. Today I am going through its v
Longtime customers know there are two distinct categories of AWS services. Category 1 contains the gold-plated, inner-circle, first-ballot Hall-of-Fame services like EC2, S3, DynamoDB, etc. These are
Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science, wants to help everyone, regardless of their math background, navigate the dazzling array of numbers flung around by journalists, advertisers and polit
Reprinted with permission from HAMPTON SHORTS; Fiction Plus from the Hamptons and the east end; volume IV 1999. One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived at the home of Kurt Vonnegut in Sagapon
Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! Previous status updates: Money Healthchecks.io currently has 652 paying customers, and the monthly recurring revenue
How to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill I decided to try out Vercel's analytics product on a newly minted pro plan, it included some 25k events. You see, I had to start paying Vercel $ as more than 20 pe
Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa, in the 1890s Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highes
Privacy 11:00 AM PDT • July 27, 2024 The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand and block all the ways that advertisers we
Hayao Miyazaki tries to imagine an engineer that can sidestep questions of ethics by dedicating himself to the pursuit of the technological sublime. WARNING: Spoilers in here for THE WIND RISES and AP
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A talk prepared for UC Berkeley’s Build the Future speaker series in Oct 2018. The Cruel Tutelage of Pai Mei. Thank you all for coming this evening. I want to preface this talk by warning you that it’
References: Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, and Peter Baer Galvin, "Operating System Concepts, Ninth Edition ", Chapter 4 4.1 Overview A thread is a basic unit of CPU utilization, consisting of a pr
Apache Airflow is a popular tool for orchestrating data workflows. Google Cloud offers a managed Airflow service called Cloud Composer, a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache A
I've been working on systems administration / engineering / infrastructure development for many years and somehow I've managed to avoid any interaction with Kubernetes. This avoidance wasn't accidenta
When I consider my hand– A foreign thing related to me – I stand in no country, I am neither here nor there I am not certain of anything. So begins one of Hannah Arendt’s poems, written in the summer
Let me just take a second to say what I suspect most of us are thinking right now: Sigh. All right — with that out of the way, we’re ready to get to the crux of this conversation: Google’s next-gen Pi
Avery Pennarun is the CEO and co-founder of Tailscale. A version of this post was originally presented at a company all-hands. We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’
Layers of Optimization There’s also a for this post. Optimization Programming can be an emotional rollercoaster. This isn’t externally obvious as we impassively look at our screens and tap on the keyb
Workload isolation makes it harder for a vulnerability in one service to compromise every other part of the platform. It has a long history going back to 1990s qmail, and we generally agree that it’s
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