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Perry Lorier retweeted
Or here, we open hundreds of thousands of homepages, find the jobs page on each site, follow the links to the apply pages, and return useful job data from each one, synced to Sheets.
You don't have to teach it about each site. It'll figure it out, even when the site changes! đ§
Perry Lorier retweeted
BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie
Perry Lorier retweeted
If you double the size of a mammal, you donât have to double itâs metabolism- even though you have doubled the number of cells to âfeedâ.
Instead you only have to increase the metabolism by 75%, giving you a 25% saving. Bigger is more efficient.
1/ Geoffrey West of @sfiscienceon why bigger is better in complex systems - as animals get larger, they become more efficient. Double the size of an animal, and you only have to increase it's metabolic rate by 75%. You get a 25% saving.
Perry Lorier retweeted
The badge this year at @hackaday Supercon was a work of art. It's a 4-bit processor that you can program instruction-by-instruction using the buttons on the front. The leds show you the state of the processor and the memory. I've played with it briefly, but it's a total blast
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Very interesting what's happening in Berlin:
- German road law already allows bikes to park on "car" parking spaces (although in practice no one knows it / does it)
- the Berlin municipality reiterates that this is the case and... (thread)
sueddeutsche.de/panorama/autâŚ
Perry Lorier retweeted
1/ Chris Langton on complex behaviour:
"The most surprising lesson we have learned from simulating complex physical systems on computers is that complex behavior need not have complex roots."
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LinkedIn really flies under the radar as the social media platform thatâs absolutely the most unhinged
Perry Lorier retweeted
I've been thinking for years about how to answer the question "What's the value of spotting a defect earlier?"
I no longer think that's even the right question. Thanks to @acmeducation for having me and @GHFairbanks on to present youtube.com/watch?v=xY4QgcXkâŚ
(Refined from ACCU'22).
Perry Lorier retweeted
Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.
Perry Lorier retweeted
That sound you're hearing is Eurostar bosses screaming
Exclusive
Frontier checks for British travellers to Europe next summer could take 4x longer than now.
Reason: the UK asked to be treated as a "3rd country" after Brexit so subject to the fingerprinting and face biometric checks of the new Entry Exit System
independent.co.uk/travel/newâŚ
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TfL seeking new provider for its contactless and oyster card payments
ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tflâŚ
Perry Lorier retweeted
This is why itâs often better to think in terms of (and plot) cache *miss* ratio
Perry Lorier retweeted
This was my tool. It would have used and respected rate limits if Twitter would return them like they do on most of their other endpoints. Would have also been nice if Twitter reached out instead of just fully disabling it. xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/159703âŚ
Perry Lorier retweeted
The BunningsâKruger effect: a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience with DIY projects tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge.
Perry Lorier retweeted
A similar concept in computing: a seemingly small drop in cache hit ratio from 99% to 98% results in double the origin traffic.
The potato paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result.
"You have 100kg of potatoes, which are 99% water by weight. You let them dehydrate until they're 98% water. How much do they weigh now?"
The surprising answer is 50kg
buff.ly/2B5t3xS
Perry Lorier retweeted
On x86, the stack grows âdownâ towards lower addresses. However, this is only true in the northern hemisphere due to the Coriolis effect. In Australia, the stack grows up actually. Thatâs because they are all looking at their monitors upside down to avoid falling off the planet.
Perry Lorier retweeted
1/2 What do you want to know about privacy, security or the weird world they operate in? @damokieran and @leakissner are teaming up to write a book. We want it to be useful as possible to the broadest set of folks as possible. [1/2]
#privacy #security #privacypros