jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

roycewilliams

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Top 20K hashes from the Troy Hunt / haveibeenpwned Pwned Passwords list v2 (2018-02-21)
#    with frequency count and cracked plaintext passwords
#
# The latest version of this file can be found here:
#    https://gist.github.com/roycewilliams/281ce539915a947a23db17137d91aeb7
#
# NOTE: THIS FILE IS DEPRECATED.
# The equivalent of this file, but based on v6 of the Pwned Passwords, is here:
#    https://gist.github.com/roycewilliams/226886fd01572964e1431ac8afc999ce

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

[ Update 2020-05-31: I won't be maintaining this page or responding to comments anymore (except for perhaps a few exceptional occasions). ]

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

Kartones

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

• -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
• -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

rgs

Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

1. You can store a price in a floating point variable.
2. All currencies are subdivided in 1/100th units (like US dollar/cents, euro/eurocents etc.).
3. All currencies are subdivided in decimal units (like dinar/fils)
4. All currencies currently in circulation are subdivided in decimal units. (to exclude shillings, pennies) (counter-example: MGA)
5. All currencies are subdivided. (counter-examples: KRW, COP, JPY... Or subdivisions can be deprecated.)
6. Prices can't have more precision than the smaller sub-unit of the currency. (e.g. gas prices)
7. For any currency you can have a price of 1. (ZWL)
8. Every country has its own currency. (EUR is the best example, but also Franc CFA, etc.)

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

romainl

My Vim-related gists

Long-form

• How to use Tim Pope's Pathogen
• Idiomatic vimrc (superseded by idiomatic-vimrc)
• Clipboard sharing on Mac OS X is easy
• Apprentice — The Making Of
• Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits
• The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

aras-p

// Just before switching jobs:
// Add one of these.
// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
//
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
//
// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

caksoylar

Display improvements for the Corne-ish Zen keyboard

This note details the changes made to the Zen and ZMK codebase to improve the experience of e-ink displays.

Getting the changes

You can test out below changes using your Zen config repo by modifying your config/west.yml file, following ZMK instructions:

manifest:
  remotes:
 - name: caksoylar