Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (123 stories)
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2025-06-24 -
2025-01-20 AI developers think about their bit of code, but with AI Flame Graphs they can now see the entire stack for the first time, including the HW, and many layers they don't usually think about or don't know about. It basically looks like a pile of gibberish with their code only a small part of the flame graph.
This reaction is similar to people's first experiences with CPU flame graphs, which show parts of the system that developers and engineers typically don't work on, such as runtime internals, system libraries, and kernel internals.
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- Mathematics Meta Stack Exchange - Why do people use blackboard bold here and elsewhere in print?
- LaTeX Stack Exchange - Looking for a blackboard bold (\mathbb) math font that is thicker than Latin Modern or Computer Modern
- The LaTeX Font Catalogue - Fonts with math support
- CTAN - bbold – Sans serif blackboard bold
- CTAN - amsfonts – TeX fonts from the American Mathematical Society
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2023-08-25 The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help.
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- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/modify-instance-metadata-options.html
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/defense-in-depth-open-firewalls-reverse-proxies-ssrf-vulnerabilities-ec2-instance-metadata-service/
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-host-based-routing-support-for-aws-application-load-balancers/
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/elastic-load-balancing-announces-support-for-redirects-and-fixed-responses-for-application-load-balancer/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/e18e5n/botexploit_what_is_this_trying_to_do_and_how
- https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/e18e5n/botexploit_what_is_this_trying_to_do_and_how/f8qympp/
- https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=316889
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery
- https://www.wired.com/story/capital-one-paige-thompson-case-hacking-spree/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/what-we-can-learn-from-the-capital-one-hack/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-impacts-106m-people/
- http://www.thecloudavenue.com/2019/08/how-capital-one-hack-was-achieved-in-aws.html
- http://www.thecloudavenue.com/2019/11/changes-to-aws-ec2-instance-metadata-service.html
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- https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/159
- https://gist.github.com/kapkaev/4619127
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19581059/misconf-redis-is-configured-to-save-rdb-snapshots
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42502636/unable-to-save-in-background-redis-server
- https://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel4_vm.pdf
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- http://writingcities.com/2015/07/23/donald-appleyard-on-creating-livable-streets/
- http://writingcities.com/2015/06/02/the-social-life-of-small-urban-places-or-things-planners-should-know-but-still-dont/
- http://writingcities.com/2015/04/30/topophilia-pt-1/
- http://writingcities.com/2015/05/15/how-to-study-public-life-the-danish-way/
- http://writingcities.com/2015/12/03/3899/
- https://vimeo.com/16399180
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2018-04-20 -
2018-04-04 - https://roobert.github.io/2015/11/09/Sensu-What/
- https://blog.sensuapp.org/our-journey-implementing-sensu-to-monitor-kubernetes-in-production-5764aff2dd50
- https://phillbarber.blogspot.fr/2015/03/nagios-vs-sensu-vs-icinga2.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/56xrnj/how_are_people_suffering_through_sensu_core/
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2017-08-19 -
2017-06-27 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/374123/how-to-check-if-your-slides-are-understandable-for-colourblind-people
- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/122621/is-there-a-way-to-show-the-version-of-a-document-as-seen-by-a-colour-blind-reade
- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/366480/how-to-make-the-resulting-pdf-file-web-accessible-for-screen-readers-when-figur
- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/261537/a-guide-on-how-to-produce-accessible-pdf-files
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2017-05-15