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In this web content, the author discusses the historiography of warfare and weaponry in medieval Japan. The author aims to evaluate the existing literature on the subject and draw tentative conclusions about the nature of warfare and society during this period. They examine different authors’ perspectives on who was fighting, what weapons were used, and […]
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The author shares their experience of working with an old version of 86-DOS and their discovery of a disk image of 86-DOS 1.14. They explain how they attempted to run the older version using the SIMH simulator, but encountered compatibility issues with the Tarbell disk controllers. However, they realized that they could adapt the Tarbell […]
Surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania have made progress in using pig livers to support failing human livers. In an experiment, a pig liver was externally attached to a brain-dead human body, successfully filtering blood and acting as a “bridge” to keep the body stable. Animal-to-human organ transplants, known as xenotransplants, have historically failed due […]
Duplicity is a backup tool that uses the rsync algorithm to efficiently back up directories. It produces encrypted tar-format volumes and uploads them to a remote or local file server. The use of librsync ensures that only the parts of files that have changed since the last backup are recorded, making the backups space efficient. […]
Security is of utmost importance in today’s digital world. It is crucial to identify and resolve vulnerabilities to protect sensitive information and prevent unauthorized access. By actively finding and fixing these security flaws, we can safeguard against potential threats and maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. While controversial information or surprising content may […]
Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary, understood that individuals cannot be understood in isolation. He believed that personal pathologies were political symptoms and that the maladies he treated in colonial Algeria were inextricable from the epidemic of French imperialism. However, Adam Shatz argues in “The Rebel’s Clinic” that Fanon was not as one-dimensionally bellicose […]
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the FBI violated the Fourth Amendment when agents searched the contents of over 700 safe-deposit boxes without proper protocol and beyond the scope of their warrant. The court highlighted the existence of “supplemental instructions” that instructed agents to look for cash and items that suggested criminal […]
Adam, the author of this web content, aims to provide practical solutions to complex problems faced by individuals and companies. He covers topics such as growth, product development, company building, and parenting while working. Adam recommends his podcast, Startup Dad, for those interested in parenting and startups. He emphasizes the importance of finding a balance […]
Before getting my first Macbook, I used an open-source photo album on Linux to store and share my photos. But with the advancement of technology and the availability of smartphones, I stopped using Flickr as my go-to photo-sharing platform. Recently, I realized I needed to back up my albums from Flickr to AWS. I attempted […]
This blog post discusses the optimization process for a function called DotNaive, which calculates the dot product of two vectors. The author explores various techniques to improve the speed and efficiency of this function, such as loop unrolling, bounds-checking elimination, quantization, and SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions. The use of SIMD instructions, in particular, […]