Visiting a café and seeing all the menu items can be daunting, especially if you don’t know what they mean. This post is an attempt to clear up that confusion. First, we will discuss what each drink is, and then how to pick a drink. Espresso: An espresso is the foundation for many drinks that …
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As we discussed last time, creating a new syntax is insufficient if your editor won’t recognize and highlight it. Luckily, since our language (which we’re calling pysh because we’re silly people) is a superset of Python with minor syntax changes, the extension is easy to create. We’ll follow the VS Code tutorial for creating an …
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Okay so I didn’t make a new language from scratch so much as a superset of an existing language. Here’s the problem: Shell commands can do some things incredibly well, while Python does a lot of other things well. I mainly code in Python, but often times I want Shell functionality–not that I can’t do …
The Web has come a long way since the days of AOL and Netscape in the late ’90s. We now have websites that can responsively adapt their design to suit the device they’re being viewed on, collect metrics, and more. And yet, there’s the dark side of the advancements–ads that can circumvent ad-blockers, fingerprinting, and …
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This brief post will talk about how to quickly set up a VM for deep learning on Google Cloud. Google Cloud makes things like driver installation trivial, so this whole process should take maybe 5 minutes. Go to Google Cloud Console. If this is your first time, you may have some setup to do, but …
Simple: just uninstall everything Google, Facebook (including Instagram and WhatsApp), Microsoft, and move away from iOS/Android/Windows. Compile your own software, and live off the grid. At least, that’s what some privacy advocates seem to tell you. The reality is that a lot of services, while being terrible for privacy, do provide value and convenience. Yes, …
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A summary of the privacy risks of using TikTok were compiled in a comment by u/nightauthor. TikTok censors Tiananmen and Tibet references. TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators. TikTok has been accused of secretly gathering “vast quantities” of user data and sending it to servers in China. TikTok is paying …
This is the first part on a series I’m calling, “On digital privacy”, which goes into why digital privacy matters, how you can improve yours, and how to support ongoing movements in this front. What is digital privacy? You’re already familiar with privacy in the non-digital world: you probably close your curtains at night, and …
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I recently had to set up a VM on Google Cloud, but have a GUI access to it. It took me longer than it should have to set it up between reading multiple articles online, so here’s how I ended up succeeding. Create a VM with a display device. We’ll start by creating a VM. …
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Raleigh has a surprising number of specialty coffee shops. This is my opinion of them. Highlights Below are (in my opinion) the best of the best. Cafés after the slash are runner-ups.