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Amazon's Prime Video Tech blog recently released an article that has gotten some internet attention. The article examines a team that was able to reduce their infrastructure cost by up to 90% by moving from a serverless to "monolithic" architecture. It's…

An overly complicated social networking platform

The volume of a cone with height $h$ and radius $r$ is $\frac{1}{3} \pi r^2 h$, which is exactly one third the volume of the smallest cylinder that it fits inside.
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I’ve been following the X68000 Z mini computer since it’s announcement in the hope that it will bring new activity to the X68000 scene and it seems to be hav...

This is an introduction to data structure flattening, a special case of arena allocation that is a good fit for programming language implementations. We build a simple interpreter twice, the normal way and the flat way, and show that some fairly mechanical…

Currently, if you’re deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem, you likely have a huge range of data stored on iCloud...

RESOLVED (nobody) in Core - Privacy: Anti-Tracking. Last updated 2023-06-30.

The cost of delegating the writing process to other entities (like LLMs)

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Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have been making a lot of comparisons between internet institutions – particularly various social media things – and premodern political forms and figures.

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“It does mean you’ll need to pay more attention.”

The OSIRIS cybersecurity lab is an offensive security research environment where students analyze and understand how attackers take advantage of real systems. This approach gives our students a unique perspective and a proper foundation that allows them to…