Articles by dmazin
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Medieval Widowhood (medievalmarginalia.substack.com)

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Illuminating Data: From Medieval Scriptoria to the Cyber-Saint (substack.com)

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So You've Decided to Become Dead to the World: On Becoming an Anchoress (medievalmarginalia.substack.com)

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Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect (2017) (cyberdemon.org)

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Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (stephenwolfram.com)

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[dupe] Hosting a website on a disposable vape (bogdanthegeek.github.io)

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Second Life and the Beginnings of the Metaverse in 1999 (cybercultural.com)

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The Illustrated TLS 1.2 Connection (xargs.org)

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Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system (newyorker.com)

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EverQuest (filfre.net)

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The American system of democracy has crashed (theverge.com)

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UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone (theguardian.com)

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Live blog: Claude 4 launch at Code with Claude (simonwillison.net)

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Hide Zeros for Users (vitonsky.net)

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El Paquete Semanal (wikipedia.org)

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Widespread power outage hits Spain and neighboring countries France and Portugal (theverge.com)

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The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 2: The Scandal (filfre.net)

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The Soul of an Old Machine (thechipletter.substack.com)

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LLMs make embarrassingly parallelizable scripts even more embarrassing (cyberdemon.org)

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Half-Life (filfre.net)

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[dupe] Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP (theverge.com)

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I code with LLMs these days (phillipcarter.dev)

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GNU/Linux Naming Controversy (wikipedia.org)

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A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events (jeremymorrell.dev)

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Half-Life (filfre.net)

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Jaeger Releases Version 2 with OpenTelemetry at the Core (infoq.com)

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Demystifying Git Submodules (cyberdemon.org)

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Prometheus 3.0 (prometheus.io)

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Retro No More: Interactive Fiction of the Early Comp Era (filfre.net)

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OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now (dynomight.net)

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A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events (jeremymorrell.dev)

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Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?

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Starcraft (A History in Two Acts) (filfre.net)

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Local, First, Forever (tonsky.me)

2

Demystifying Git submodules (cyberdemon.org)

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Demystifying Git Submodules (cyberdemon.org)

5

Software Defined Radio WiFi Modem Implemented in an FPGA (nuand.com)

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Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect (cyberdemon.org)

2

Cowsay should not be enabled by default (github.com/ansible)

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[flagged] Paul Biggar removed from CircleCI board for pro-Palestine blog post (hachyderm.io)

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Fantasy meets reality (cabel.com)

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Cold restart whole system after total outage (evalapply.org)

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A disk is a bunch of bits (cyberdemon.org)

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Rands on Salary Negotiation (randsinrepose.com)

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How does Linux handle writes? (cyberdemon.org)

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Linux writes don't work the way you think they do (cyberdemon.org)

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Reddit is OpenAI’s moat (cyberdemon.org)

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Apple Vision Pro: A Watershed Moment for Personal Computing (macstories.net)

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Web3's fake version of Web history (davekarpf.substack.com)

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Cold restart whole system after total outage (evalapply.org)

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I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical (cyberdemon.org)

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What's Writing to My Brand-New Disk? (cyberdemon.org)

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Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter (dair-institute.org)

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GitHub Copilot for the Command Line is amazing (christianheilmann.com)

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I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical (archvile.net)

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I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical (archvile.net)

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Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges (fly.io)

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GNU/Linux Naming Controversy (wikipedia.org)

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Turning your side project into a real project (bradfordtoney.com)

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A crash course in black-box monitoring (archvile.net)