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Cloud Computing and Virtualization Company Citrix To Be Acquired for $16.5B
Citrix, a cloud computing and virtualization company used by companies including Microsoft, Google, and SAP, has revealed plans to be acquired by affiliates of global investment firm Vista Equity Partners, and an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management called Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation. From a report: The all-cash deal i … ⌘ Read more

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How many things do I own?
Even though starting my job has put me in a situation where I can sometimes afford stuff just like that, and maybe buy the occasional thing without thinking much when I should have before, I still make sure to keep the number of things I own low. ⌘ Read more

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Stream a USB webcam to HDMI on a Raspberry Pi
This post exists to collect my notes on displaying a USB webcam on the Raspberry Pi HDMI outputs. This is not the same as streaming the webcam (easy), and this is not for use with the Raspberry Pi camera module. This is specifically for USB UVC webcams. ⌘ Read more

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Finally sleeping better 😴
I have a very light sleep. The first brightness in the morning makes me wake up, noise from the neighbors in the evening does not let me fall asleep. No matter how late or early I go to bed, no matter how little I slept in total. ⌘ Read more

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PEP 682: Format Specifier for Signed Zero
Though float and Decimal types can represent signed zero, in many
fields of mathematics negative zero is surprising or unwanted – especially
in the context of displaying an (often rounded) numerical result. This PEP
proposes an extension to the string format specification allowing negative
zero to be normalized to positive zero. ⌘ Read more

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Dockerize your own Game of Thrones’ API
This article will demonstrate a fun and useful use case of docker, where we will create and deploy to production a custom-made API. In our case, it will provide information about the episodes of the TV show “Game of Thrones”. Besides Docker, our stack will include: About the API The API will serve information about […]

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** Notes on 6502 Assembly **
The NES runs a very slightly modified 6502 processor. What follows are some very introductory, and not at all exhaustive notes on 6502 Assembly, or ASM.

If you find this at all interesting, Easy 6502 is a really great introductory primer on 6502 Assembly that lets you get your hands dirty right from a web browser.

Numbers

Numbers pre … ⌘ Read more

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Self-hosting my calendar and contacts using Baïkal
I recently moved my emails to Purelymail. And since I also used the contacts and calendar synchronization feature of my previous email provider, I also transferred the contacts and calendar entries to Purelymail via WebDAV using WinSCP. ⌘ Read more

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Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme
In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways…. ⌘ Read more

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oliviersm199/Tweet-Generator

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The Tweet Generator uses a Markov chain to generate random tweet based off of past tweets. It uses Python and the Twitter API to obtain the last 200 tweets from a particular user, organizes them into a JSON tree structure and then executes a random walk on that tree structure. This results in sometimes hilarious sometimes nonsense tweets that mimic the Twitter user’s past tweets.

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Nix 2.6.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of
Nix 2.6.0.

Instructions how to install Nix on different platforms can be found on
the download page.

Here are the release notes:

  • New builtin functionbuiltins.zipAttrsWith with the same
    functionality as lib.zipAttrsWith from Nixpkgs, but
    much more efficient.

  • The Nix CLI now searches for aflake.nix up until the
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** Chess Rules **
I love when folks say stuff like“there are only a finite number of states a chessboard can occupy, therefore a computer can play chess.”

To the folks who say such things — I wish you to play chess with my 6 year old.

Be not confined by rules! The only things governing chess in this house here are the laws of physics!

…and even then, not all need apply.

For instance, during a recent game the opposing kings left the board in order to go out on an adventure. They returned later with a large, plastic dragon. The dra … ⌘ Read more

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Hopefully OneUI 4 will extend the life of my smartphone
Last year I wrote about how I check the battery health of my smartphone. The app I used for that shows a notification when a certain charge level is reached that you can unplug the smartphone so it doesn’t charge to 100%. ⌘ Read more

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How Docker containers are supporting the COVID-19 genomic monitoring effort
This is a guest blog post from Dr. Kelsey Florek and Curtis Kapsak. A video presentation of this post from Docker’s Community All-Hands can be found here. Dr. Kelsey Florek is the Senior Genomics and Data Scientist at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and a steering committee member of the State Public Health Bioinformatics […]

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How Docker Desktop Networking Works Under the Hood
Modern applications make extensive use of networks. At build time it’s common to apt-get/dnf/yum/apk install a package from a Linux distribution’s package repository. At runtime an application may wish to connect() to an internal postgres or mysql database to persist some state, while also calling listen() and accept() to expose APIs and UIs over TCP […]

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JMP: Newsletter: Snikket Hosting, Billing Overage Limits
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Fr … ⌘ Read more

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Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.13 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This is a(nother!) release for our stable branch to fix a memory leak caused
by the security fix. Deployments using websockets, SQL storage and possibly
other configurations may have noticed increasing memory usage after upgrading
to 0.11.12. This is resolved by this new release.

A summary of changes in this release:

Minor changes

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Bitcoin “Cult”
I have noticed that some people I respect have jumped on the bandwagon of calling Bitcoin a cult. I will agree with the word cult even know it is ment to be pejorative, giving the movement a religion like meaning. Is is a cult in the sense that it is a movement based on philosophical […] ⌘ Read more

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