tebeka / fastavro / issues / #11 – fastavro breaks dumping binary fixed [4] — Bitbucket
The Python “fastavro” library cannot correctly render “bytes” fields. This is a bug, and the maintainer is acting in a really crappy manner in this thread. Avoid this library
(tags: fastavro fail bugs utf-8 bytes encoding asshats open-source python)
A Team of Biohackers Has Figured Out How to Inject Your Eyeballs With Night Vision
Did it work? Yes. It started with shapes, hung about 10 meters away. “I’m talking like the size of my hand,” Licina says. Before long, they were able to do longer distances, recognizing symbols and identifying moving subjects against different backgrounds. “The other test, we had people go stand in the woods,” he says. “At 50 meters, we could figure out where they were, even if they were standing up against a tree.” Each time, Licina had a 100% success rate. The control group, without being dosed with Ce6, only got them right a third of the time.
Well, that’s some risky biohacking. wow(tags: biohacking scary night-vision eyes chlorin-e6 infravision sfm)
Tim Bray on one year as an xoogler
Seems pretty insightful; particularly “I do think the Internet economy would be better and more humane if it didn’t have a single white-hot highly-overprivileged center. Also, sooner or later that’ll stop scaling. Can’t happen too soon.”
(tags: google tim-bray via:nelson xoogler funding tech privacy ads internet)
How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
File under “silly network hacks”:
Comcast has an initiative called Xfinity WiFi. When you rent a cable modem/router combo from Comcast (as one of my nearby neighbors apparently does), in addition to broadcasting your own WiFi network, it is kind enough to also broadcast “xfinitywifi,” a second “hotspot” network metered separately from your own.
By using his Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H router’s extra radio, he can load-balance across both his own paid-for connection, and the XFinity WiFi free one. ;)(tags: comcast diy networking openwrt routing home-network hacks xfinity-wifi buffalo)
Unlocking the Power of Stable Teams with Twitter’s SVP of Engineering – First Round Review
Huh. we do this in Swrve — we call them “feature teams”
(tags: feature-team culture development teams coding twitter work teamwork)
How We Scale VividCortex’s Backend Systems – High Scalability
Excellent post from Baron Schwartz about their large-scale, 1-second-granularity time series database storage system
(tags: time-series tsd storage mysql sql baron-schwartz ops performance scalability scaling go)
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if (creation && object of art && algorithm && one's own algorithm) { include * an algorist * } elseif (!creation || !object of art || !algorithm || !one's own algorithm) { exclude * not an algorist * }(tags: algorism algorithm art algorists via:belongio)