chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

hellerbarde

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

hubgit

Anonymising PDFs

PDF metadata

Metadata in PDF files can be stored in at least two places:

• the Info Dictionary, a limited set of key/value pairs
• XMP packets, which contain RDF statements expressed as XML

PDF files

misho-kr

Cryptography I

Cryptography is an indispensable tool for protecting information in computer systems. This course explains the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them. Students will learn how to reason about the security of cryptographic constructions and how to apply this knowledge to real-world applications. More ...

Week 1

This week's topic is an overview of what cryptography is about as well as our first example ciphers. You will learn about pseudo-randomness and how to use it for encryption. We will also look at a few basic definitions of secure encryption.

Introduction

karpathy

"""
Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
BSD License
"""
import numpy as np

# data I/O
data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
chars = list(set(data))
data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)

asford

# Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/c++,cmake

### C++ ###
# Prerequisites
*.d

# Compiled Object files
*.slo
*.lo

kafene

I just got this working so I figured I'd share what I found, since there's hardly any information about this anywhere online except an RFC, the GPG mailing list and one tutorial from the GnuPG blog.

You can use automatic key discovery with WKD (Web key directory) to make it easy for users to import your key, in GPG since version 2.1.12. Since this feature is fairly new, it isn't yet available in the current LTS release of Ubuntu (16.04; xenial), however it is available in Debian stable (stretch).

I couldn't add a DNS CERT or DANE / OPENPGPKEY record through my email service (which also hosts my nameservers). I tried making the PKA record - a foo._pka.example.com TXT record but GPG doesn't seem to recognize it and fails; I'm still investigating why.

So the last option for self-hosted auto-discovery was WKD.

First thing I had to do was add an email address to my key. My primary UID is just my name so the key represents my identity rather

publicarray

// https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/ 
// https://tutorial.cloudflareworkers.com
//
// A Service Worker which adds Security Headers.
// Checks:
//     https://securityheaders.io/
//     https://observatory.mozilla.org/
//     https://csp-evaluator.withgoogle.com/
//     https://hstspreload.org/
//     https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

cdleveille

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=bash $HOME/xone_install_or_update.sh
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=preferences-desktop-gaming
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=Install⁄Update Xone
Name=Install⁄Update Xone

SavageCore

Enjoying this script? Consider buying me a beer/coffee!

First time setting up your Deck? You may enjoy my setup guide. It'll get you started on Emulation.

Improvements

Main changes at initial release versus cdleveille's original script:

• Added zenity for a basic "GUI"