The Daily Index — Monday, June 10, 2024 · TLDR Index

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postman.com

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PRERENDER PAGES IN CHROME FOR INSTANT PAGE NAVIGATIONS

Chrome has reintroduced full prerendering of pages to improve navigation speed by using the address bar, bookmarks, search suggestions, and the Speculation Rules API. This feature enables near-instant page loads by opening pages in a hidden background tab and activating them when needed.

developer.chrome.com · 25 min

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I TRIED REACT COMPILER TODAY, AND GUESS WHAT…

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developerway.com · 21 min

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HANLON'S RAZOR - MENTAL MODEL

Hanlon's razor is a mental model that states one should not attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. This engineering manager found this model helpful in promoting understanding and empathy at work by avoiding assumptions of bad intentions. They instead recommend focusing on improving a lack of skills or experience instead of blaming others for mistakes or miscommunication.

read.perspectiveship.com · 4 min

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MY MONTH WITHOUT A SMARTPHONE

This author replaced his smartphone with a flip phone for a month. This experiment led to huge improvements in his focus, awareness, and engagement with others, but also presented challenges like difficulty managing his schedule and navigating traffic.

collabfund.com · 10 min

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confluent.io

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HOW A SINGLE CHATGPT MISTAKE COST US $10,000+

A startup lost $10,000 due to a single mistake in its code that was generated by ChatGPT. This bug caused a unique ID collision in its subscription process, preventing new users from signing up. Its backend setup had multiple instances, which masked the problem during the day due to frequent deployments but caused it to surface at night when deployments stopped.

archive.ph · 5 min

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THE BACKROOMS OF THE INTERNET ARCHIVE

The Backrooms is an internet legend based on an image of an empty series of rooms, which gained popularity in 2019 when it was connected to a “creepypasta” story about an endless, maze-like dimension. This led to the creation of numerous games and videos based on the Backrooms concept, which often went viral. However, the mystery of the original photograph was recently solved - it was found to have been taken in 2003 during the renovation of a furniture store in Wisconsin and preserved by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

blog.archive.org · 6 min

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THE WEIRD NERD COMES WITH TRADE-OFFS

Katalin Karikó, a Nobel Prize winner, faced criticism for expressing her dislike for the political aspect of academia, highlighting the challenges faced by "Weird Nerds" in such environments. “Weird Nerds” have an unyielding devotion to Truth, often placing it above social graces or conventional norms. These individuals usually have unique talents and intellectual courage, but struggle with the social and political aspects of academic life. A lack of "Weird Nerd-friendly" environments can hinder their contributions and potentially lead to a loss of valuable talent.

writingruxandrabio.com · 11 min

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I REBUILT THE VISIONOS FROM SCRATCH (14 MINUTE VIDEO)

The creator of this video built a clone of visionOS to better learn how it works under the hood.

youtube.com

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COMPILERS ARE (TOO) SMART

Unexpected assembly code discovered in a function using std::unordered_map::find turned out to be a complex method for counting set bits used by the Clang compiler to optimize the conversion of large hash values.

msinilo.pl · 3 min

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HOW TO USE COREPACK

Corepack, a tool bundled with Node.js, simplifies package manager usage by making sure the correct version is used for each project and providing error messages for mismatches.

totaltypescript.com · 2 min