Interesting stuff from me
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How to average hues
November 13, 2022
Averaging hues is weird, you can't just take a normal average
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Jailbreaking language models with user roleplay
July 24, 2024
I show how safety safeguards in large language models can be bypassed by having the model roleplay as the user.
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Resolving an email deliverability mystery
June 24, 2024
I broke my mail server by forgetting to update a DNS record
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GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much
January 21, 2024
Asking it to repeat "ponyuseRal ponyuseRal ponyuseRal pony" makes API requests fail
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Can I buy I-bonds with my tax refund, as a non-resident?
August 5, 2023
I want to own American I bonds, but I'm not a US citizen/resident so I don't have a SSN (I …
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Everything the Rust format! macro can do
November 19, 2022
My printable summary of everything the Rust format! macro can do
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Hidden HTML markup Google Sheets adds to the clipboard
June 20, 2022
Google Sheets/Docs/Slides adds extra HTML markup when copying stuff to the clipboard
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Undocumented Google Sheets formula functions
May 8, 2022
Google Sheets has several interesting undocumented functions
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Turning off Rust's borrow checker, completely
March 28, 2022
Breaking all of the safety in Rust
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Tracking PDF forms as plain text
March 12, 2022
How I manage my answers to PDF forms in Git
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HTML comments work in JavaScript too
February 23, 2022
Some weird legacy behavior in JavaScript
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Is there a way to collect statistics from cargo test?
January 23, 2022
On nightly compilers, you can use some unstable flags to get these statistics.
Passing the unstable --report-time to the test executable makes it …
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Zopfli is *really* good at compressing PNGs
December 16, 2021
The Zopfli compression engine provides very good compression ratios.
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What is the etymology or software principle behind "fuse" in Rust?
December 13, 2021
The earliest use I could find of "fuse" in the Rust ecosystem is …
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Your Phone app has an email client
November 14, 2021
An explanation of how visual voicemail systems work
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Google's new related search box optimizes for the wrong metric
November 10, 2021
A box with related searches comes up at the worst possible moment
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How do I programmatically taint the Linux kernel?
September 24, 2021
Is it possible to taint a running Linux kernel programatically? I want to be able to test things with a tainted kernel, without recompiling it to make …
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Is it possible to check if `panic` is set to `abort` while a library is compiling?
September 21, 2021
You can use this unstable code in your binary or library to cause an error when -C panic=abort is specified:
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How to compile Rust to LLVM bitcode including dependencies?
September 3, 2021
Expanding on Aiden4s comment:
Delete the current target directory to prevent any old artifacts …
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How good is Codex?
August 17, 2021
I evaluate Codex, a large-scale language generation model intended to generate programming source code from OpenAI.
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Accidentally causing a Switch rumor
July 31, 2021
Nintendo's website wasn't updated because of a big update, but because I asked them to.
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Remove default linker flags in Rust
July 23, 2021
Start by making sure that you are passing the right linker-flavor. rustc …
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SecurityClassificationLevel in email headers
May 17, 2021
Recently I got a non-automated email from a government agency. While the email was interesting, what was more interesting was the email headers.
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Why doesn't converting a u8 pointer into a [bool; 8] pointer yield the number bit-by-bit?
May 5, 2021
The behavior of that program is undefined (so the output is meaningless). From Miri:
error: Undefined Behavior: memory access failed: …
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Is repr(C) a preprocessor directive?
April 23, 2021
#[repr(C)] is not a preprocessor directive, since Rust doesn't use a preprocessor 1. It is an …
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Interesting things in Nintendo's OSS code
March 25, 2021
The Nintendo Switch has some open source parts, and Nintendo very kindly allows the source code for these parts to be viewed.
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Destructuring an Option<Box<_>> inside a match statement in Rust
March 15, 2021
Dereference the box after matching:
if let Some(inner) = self.pending_removal.take() { let (temp_structure, some_boolean) = *inner; …
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Writing a Boolean expression parser in Rust
March 15, 2021
Let's write some Rust to parse and evaluate Boolean expressions.
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Linear transformation playground
March 13, 2021
Play with some linear transformations in your browser!
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How to run a single doc test in Rust?
March 1, 2021
You can run doc-tests at the granularity of individual documented items.
If you have some source code like this:
/// ## Example /// ``` …
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TagTime Web: my stochastic time tracking web app
August 26, 2020
It randomly samples what you are doing
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Gmail's fake loading indicator
July 4, 2020
Gmail's loading progress bar doesn't *actually* measure the progress of loading.
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Generating our own knowledge panels
June 14, 2020
About how I made a simple clone of Google's knowledge graph.
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Itch game
Doubleshoot
May 10, 2020
Shoot the red enemies with your duel-sided laser, while avoiding the good guys!
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A bookmarklet to amplify YouTube
November 15, 2019
A bookmarlet to amplify YouTube videos.
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Is your shift key pressed?
October 24, 2019
Wondering if your shift key is pressed? Not anymore.
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How to use private JS class variables
September 30, 2019
A short tutorial on using private class variables in JavaScript.
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AlertReady To Retire Ku Band Alerts
July 5, 2019
Pelmorex, the company that runs AlertReady will stop providing alerts over the satellite Ku band on August 31.
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Easily upload files to IPFS, online
June 5, 2019
Easily upload files to IPFS with my new online tool!
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How to watch YouTube video frame-by-frame
April 14, 2019
Watching YouTube videos frame-by-frame is simple: here's how.
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Next Canada-wide emergency alert test announced for May 8
April 9, 2019
Pelmorex has announced the test alert, which will be played across phones, TV shows, and radios.
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Nim: How to use a cstringArray
February 6, 2019
A overview of how to use a cstringArray in Nim.
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Splinterlands explorer
November 25, 2018
Explore operations that have happened on Splinterlands.
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