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One hash Bloom filters.

https://www.calabro.io/ohbf

saved 2026-10-19 https://dotat.at/:/F4W31.html

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Developing for debugging: Oxide’s DNS control plane.

https://www.davepacheco.net/blog/2025/developing-for-debugging-dns-propagation/

saved 2026-10-17 https://dotat.at/:/QSDXP.html

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Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.

https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl

saved 2021-11-12 https://dotat.at/:/ZKQZT.html

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Rosemary Grant on the Galapagos finches: “Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought”.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/21/rosemary-grant-peter-grant-charles-darwin-finches-evolutionary-biology-princeton-one-step-sideways-three-steps-forward-memoir

saved 2024-07-26 https://dotat.at/:/ARXN1.html

youtube’s algorithm randomly showed me a review of the bbc domesday interactive video disc made by my ex-colleague robert franklin https://youtu.be/UAWSOCOTjIU

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Is WebP really better than JPEG?

https://siipo.la/blog/is-webp-really-better-than-jpeg

saved 2020-06-23 https://dotat.at/:/YDG9T.html

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Index 1,600,000,000 keys with finite state automata and Rust.

https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/

saved 2021-08-21 https://dotat.at/:/A5VRA.html

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Analyzing data 180,000x faster with Rust.

https://willcrichton.net/notes/k-corrset/

saved 2023-10-21 https://dotat.at/:/MI5NW.html

we were finally motivated to dig up an exact citation for something we often want to reference

in 1965, Avalon Hill published the first edition of their "Battle of the Bulge" boardgame. wargames traditionally have reached niche audiences, but AH saw themselves as a company aiming for the mainstream. this led to some, uh, cultural friction

I wholeheartedly believe that every man should watch this video, because i bet none can grasp quite how terribly women get treated, even at work, without being challenged

@thisisjofrank:
“I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment.

With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording:”

https://youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0

Look inside a Burr-Brown 16-bit ADC module with me, and see some lovely bare dies under the microscope, plus a juiced-up comparator using a discrete gain-boosting input stage: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/de-capping-circuit-analysis-of-hybrid-modules/msg6382545/#msg6382545

France just does protesting better.

Yesterday in Paris.

#ClassWar #FrPol

I’ve been trying something recently on platforms that support emoji reactions for countering trolls: using Poe’s Law against them.

Poe’s Law says that, without clear expression of intent, extreme views and satire of those views are indistinguishable. But reaction emoji let other people provide a hint about that intent.

When someone writes a rage-bait troll, they want engagement. If you reply, they’re happy. If you put a thumb-down or angry-face reaction, they’re less happy but they know they’ve got to you.

But what happens if you do a laughing-face emoji? Minimal engagement (one or two clicks) and they haven’t upset you.

And then the next person seeing the post sees it framed by the laughing reaction. So their reaction is likely to be ‘oh, I guess this is meant as satire’ and they either add a laughing reaction or they just decide it’s satire in poor taste and ignore it. And no one engages in the comments because they’ve seen the laugh reactions and don’t take the post seriously.

And, after a while, the trolls get bored and go somewhere else.

I’m quite surprised at how well this works.

Join me as I write an ECS in C:

typedef struct {
int id;
} Entity;

That's it. We're done here. Everything else is relevant subsystems that actually have functionality, or plain regular data structures.

If you framework-ify it more than this, you're doing it wrong.

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The "smol" Rust async runtime.

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2020/07/09/async-interview-8-stjepan-glavina/

saved 2020-07-09 https://dotat.at/:/D3RLX.html

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fast_template: really easy blogging with GitHub Pages.

https://www.fast.ai/2020/01/16/fast_template/

saved 2020-01-18 https://dotat.at/:/EDB82.html

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CleverCSV: a Python package for handling messy CSV files.

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CleverCSV

saved 2020-01-14 https://dotat.at/:/HP9DB.html

New blog entry: Bizarre Blanets and Weird Worlds: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/10/bizarre-blanets-and-other-weir.html

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The sixtyforgan: a Commodore 64 with a spring reverb; chiptunes like a church organ.

http://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/

saved 2021-03-30 https://dotat.at/:/KMD0E.html

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Folders: an esoteric programming language.

https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders

saved 2026-10-16 https://dotat.at/:/SHZFT.html