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The author explores impostor syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, common psychological issues in the dev community. Impostor syndrome involves doubting one’s skills and attributing success to luck, while the Dunning-Kruger effect leads to overconfidence due to an inability to objectively evaluate oneself. Both stem from the difficulty of self-assessment and are exacerbated by industry changes […]
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Hayden James, a self-proclaimed expert at failure and supporter of home labs, shares his journey of creating and maintaining a home lab for experimenting with tech projects. With a focus on the hardware selection process, Hayden discusses the importance of location, network vs. server racks vs. cabinets, and recommended home lab hardware such as a […]
Summary: Updates on the Pirate Library Mirror include two generous $10k donations from anonymous supporters. The team faced technical difficulties with their second release but resolved them. The article delves into the importance of digital preservation, mentions the risk and loneliness associated with pirate archiving, and provides tips for starting a project, including domain selection, […]
A research team has created an “atlas of internet surveillance” by mapping the ownership of network infrastructures in democratic and authoritarian states. The study reveals that in authoritarian states, more influential internet service providers are state-owned, while in democracies, they are mainly privatized. Authoritarian countries with foreign internet service providers usually have providers from other […]
The X Window System is known for its unique feature of allowing nested windows, where everything in an application, from buttons to text areas to menu entries, are treated as individual windows within the main window. This approach enables the X server to render sub-window borders and manage events like mouse clicks efficiently. Older X […]
Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, has tragically passed away at 68 due to subdural hematoma. The official Dragon Ball account urges fans not to intrude on the family’s privacy during this difficult time and mentions the unfinished works Toriyama had to leave behind. Despite this, his legendary contributions to manga and anime will be […]
Station gallery allows users to select a city and station on the map to explore detailed information. Alicante’s TRAM system is operated by FGV, owned by the Valencian regional government, with an underground line in the city center having three stations. Amsterdam Metro operates M52 services alongside other groups of lines, running mostly overground parallel […]
Home Manta is a versatile tool designed for moving data between a host machine and an FPGA efficiently. This tool allows for debugging and rapid prototyping of FPGA designs, offering various functionalities like reading and writing to registers, capturing data with a logic analyzer, and creating memory cores. The Manta CLI or Python API links […]
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez left behind a novel written while struggling with dementia, which he wanted destroyed. Despite his wishes, his sons published the book, titled Until August, which received mixed reviews. The novel focuses on a female protagonist and marks a departure for García Márquez. Critics have questioned the decision to publish […]
The European Space Agency is closely monitoring the reentry of a pallet of used ISS batteries with the prediction of occurring on 8th March around 18:56 CET. The total mass of the batteries is estimated at 2.6 metric tonnes, with a low likelihood of reaching the ground and causing harm to individuals due to most […]