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Troubled construction projects are not exclusive to modern times, as history reveals grand and wasteful infrastructure schemes plagued by mismanagement and spiraling costs. Even the Romans, renowned for their architectural achievements, fell victim to abandoned works and white elephants. Pliny the Younger was tasked with sorting out economic messes caused by monumental building projects in […]
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The author shares their not-so-secret secrets for creating engaging conference slides, focusing on fonts, editing features, and design elements. They emphasize the power of a good font to enhance slides and recommend utilizing free or affordable options from sites like Google Fonts and Creative Market. Tips for using Adobe Photoshop effects, creating colour palettes, presenting […]
The author offers an easy way to learn R for statistics, recommending the lm() function since many statistical tests are variations of a linear model. By showcasing the mathematical background and code implementation, the post demonstrates how common statistical tests like the One-Sample T-test and Two-Sample T-test are linear models. Surprisingly, comparing group means using […]
The debugbar is a powerful tool that provides insights into your application’s performance and behavior, allowing you to identify issues and optimize its performance. With the debugbar, you can easily track variables, SQL queries, and more, giving you a better understanding of how your application is functioning. This tool is essential for developers looking to […]
The author discusses the importance of fair benchmark testing and why they are publishing their results of mesh VPN offerings. They provide guidelines for meaningful benchmark testing like being objective, buying hardware, detuning hardware, testing multiple streams, comparing functionally equivalent things, leveling the playing field, never co-mingling software on a host, tuning everything, and having […]
Awareness of software supply chain risks is increasing with the rise of vulnerabilities like Log4j and Spring4shell. Cyberattacks targeting open source suppliers have increased by 650% year-over-year. The White House Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity has led to new requirements and standards worldwide for enhancing software security. Google is actively involved in […]
This series delves into the Vector Packet Processor (VPP) and its implementation on FreeBSD, boasting high-performance networking suitable for SDNs and NFV applications. The VPP project’s port to FreeBSD has sparked interest and comparative performance analysis. Despite kernel-based functionality, the article explores VPP’s advantages, including vectorized operations and parallelism. The test results highlight FreeBSD’s kernel […]
Git repositories are commonly used to serve websites, with the webdev pushing changes to a branch that is served as the website. Domani reverse proxy simplifies this by only needing the current branch hash. Git branches are references to commit hashes, each commit pointing to a tree object that describes the repository’s files at that […]
The author shares the controversy surrounding the 2023 Hugo Awards, detailing how potential Chinese nominees were mysteriously marked ineligible due to political concerns about China. The author expresses embarrassment at being included on the finalist list amidst this scandal and removes “Hugo winner” from their bio. They highlight the need for restructuring the awards to […]
Author’s voice: The content emphasizes the importance of surprise in text files, measuring it using an equation. Surprising information includes the concept of calculating surprise at the word level and compressing text to improve readability. The script mentioned calculates frequencies at the word-level and suggests identifying frequent sequences of words for compression. Surprising content involves […]