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etqwzutewzu··on Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better
For the past 10 years, I've documented everything I've learned on any topics, most often non-technical ones. Whenever I revisit a topic, I refine and update my knowledge base. I use a private github repo with textual files. This has helped to increase my knowledge tremendously.
etqwzutewzu··on Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
It's called Edge.
etqwzutewzu··on All-new iMac features the M1 chip
Logitech MX Master 3 for Mac and MX Anywhere 3 for Mac have USB-C to USB-C charging.
etqwzutewzu··on The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (2018)
One last thing...
etqwzutewzu··on It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine
It's like the story of Picasso doing a quick sketch. "It took me 5 minutes + 40 years".
etqwzutewzu··on macOS Big Sur
It's been now 30 min https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/ is down.
etqwzutewzu··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
I'm also predicting there will be no difference in battery life.

If you check technical specifications on past MBP battery specification and battery life you can notice one thing: Watt/hour battery is always decreasing and battery life is always remaining constant (e.g., 10 hours of web scrolling).

Gain in power consumption allows to reduce component space which allows further slimmer designs.

etqwzutewzu··on The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source
Switzerland's app is opensource.

https://github.com/DP-3T

etqwzutewzu··on Mathematical languages shape our understanding of time in physics
Nature article (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0748-5
etqwzutewzu··on The Society of the Spectacle
I heard many times people mentioning this book but I also heard it is not very readable. Could somebody explain for people without a degree in philosophy like me what are the main ideas that are exposed in this book?
etqwzutewzu··on A Life of Pliny
Pliny the Elder, the beer?
etqwzutewzu··on Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
Do you know one keyboard on the market today that has LE Secure Connections feature enabled?
etqwzutewzu··on The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)
Funny to think "olive oil" is nearly pleonamsatic. Oil from Latin from Ancient Greek comes from the word "olive".
etqwzutewzu··on The best way to tour a city is through its grocery store
Swiss here. Globus > Manor > Coop > Migros. Aldi and Lidl are in Switzerland too but they are German and Migros > Aldi > Lidl.
etqwzutewzu··on Antonio Salieri’s Revenge
Salieri.

It reminds me this quote: "Whenever I want to add new functionality to Sanjay’s code, it seems like the hooks are already there. I feel like Salieri. I understand the greatness. I don’t understand how it’s done."

in the excellent article "The Friendship That Made Google Huge" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

etqwzutewzu··on If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?
likely
etqwzutewzu··on Does growing up poor harm brain development?
It is well know that first-born are more risk averse than not-first-born when adults (e.g., they buy more insurances).

See references here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5802/do-first-b...

etqwzutewzu··on Embedded C: Struct and Union (Part 2)
The only issue with C bit-fields is as KR says it: "Almost everything about fields is implementation-dependent" (bit order, endianness, padding size, etc.)
etqwzutewzu··on Impossible Foods raises another $114M for meatless burgers
I tried the Impossible burger @ Umami Palo Alto. I was quite impressed, it tastes like a real beef burger and not like a vegan burger thing.
etqwzutewzu··on Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister
Look at the facts, UBS and Credit Suisse are in the top 5 for assets under management banks in the private banking world (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_banking ). Also in top rankings for investment banking ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_banking ).
etqwzutewzu··on Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
Wikipedia has a long page on the etymology of tea and how to say it in various langages in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea
etqwzutewzu··on There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions
If bitcoin is becoming even more successful (in the sense of high transactions number) and if blocksize remains at ~1 MB, what will be the impact on fees? And could we imagine unsustainable fees?
etqwzutewzu··on How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?
(answering to myself) "De natura rerum" seems to be also the name of a part of Etymologiae (TBC)
etqwzutewzu··on How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?
"Isidore’s encyclopaedic work De natura rerum asserts that there are"

- but "De natura rerum" is Lucretius's poem

- Isidore of Seville's encyclopedia is "Etymologiae"

- "De rerum naturis" (De Universo) is Rabanus Maurus's encyclopedia

what is the correct one?

etqwzutewzu··on Linux kernel: multiple vulnerabilities in the USB subsystem
TLDR: severity is denial of service (as of today) for all of them
etqwzutewzu··on Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra
Same as gcc.
etqwzutewzu··on Defining the Undefinedness of C (2015) [pdf]
> something I'd love to know about undefined behavior in C: is this something specific to C

Other languages with undefined behavior: Algol 68, Fortran and Lisp.

etqwzutewzu··on Linux kernel coding style
Yes, for pointer types for example type qualifiers (e.g., const or volatile) cannot penetrate typedef of pointer types. So if you use typedef with pointers you are stuck.
etqwzutewzu··on Linux kernel coding style
"It’s a mistake to use typedef for structures and pointers."

C programmers tend to forget this wise recommendation.

etqwzutewzu··on Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
What does it mean for Android Things (former Brillo) project? Intel Edison and Intel Joule were ones of the few supported boards.
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