Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/
Blocks and Files
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording – Blocks and Files
Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic recording drives submarined into the channel. Alan Brown, a network manager at UCL Mullard Space Science…
Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2020/04/15/breakthrough-finland-accepts-demoscene-on-their-national-list-of-intangible-cultural-heritage-of-humanity/
Demoscene - The Art of Coding
Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity…
"Demoskene is an international community focused on demos, programming, graphics and sound creatively real-time audiovisual performances. [..] Subculture is an empowering and important part of identity for its members."
What Happened to Lee https://wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/
WIRED
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.
Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation https://www.axios.com/stripe-fundraising-600-million-1f1f38b6-fde6-4316-b111-2f3b0e868ab7.html
Axios
Digital payments platform Stripe raises $600 million and is valued at nearly $36 billion
Venture capitalists remain willing and able to invest big dollars in select companies.
A Taste of GPU Compute [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqkAaplKBc4
YouTube
A Taste of GPU Compute
Presented by: Raph Levien
The GPU in a modern computer (desktop or mobile) has about an order of magnitude more raw general purpose computing throughput than the CPU, but is barely used except for games, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining, largely…
The GPU in a modern computer (desktop or mobile) has about an order of magnitude more raw general purpose computing throughput than the CPU, but is barely used except for games, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining, largely…
Learning to See in the Dark (2018) https://github.com/cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark
GitHub
GitHub - cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark: Learning to See in the Dark. CVPR 2018
Learning to See in the Dark. CVPR 2018. Contribute to cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark development by creating an account on GitHub.
Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (2006) [pdf] http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf
It’s Time to Build https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/
Andreessen Horowitz
It’s Time to Build | Andreessen Horowitz
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to…
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018) https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/
blog :: Brent -> [String]
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…
Things I wished more developers knew about databases https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78
Medium
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated…
Career advice for people with bad luck https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/career-advice-for-people-with-bad
chiefofstuff
Career advice for people with bad luck
Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone who’s had a mediocre career? But there’s massive sampling bias. All this advice will try to draw grand, sweeping narratives and also typically…
A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app` https://github.com/then/is-promise/issues/13
GitHub
ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_TARGET · Issue #13 · then/is-promise
The module fails to import with node v13.12.0. The version 2.1.0 still works fine. sorunome@sorunome-desktop repos/mx-puppet-skype $ node ./build/index.js 1 internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:616 if (e...
Debugging Distributed Systems https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2927299.2940294
Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/microservices-back-again/
InfoQ
To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith. At QCon London, Alexandra Noonan told…
Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html
beza1e1.tuxen.de
Software Folklore
a blog post by @azwinkau
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir
ICANN
ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)
After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board found that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital was reasonable, and the right thing to do.
What would you do if you lost your Google account? https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/losing-google-account/