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FAF: Group Text Messages

Author Tom PawelekPosted on February 23, 2023February 23, 2023Categories PersonalTags faf, sms, telegram, whatsappLeave a comment on FAF: Group Text Messages

From party planning to sharing memories: what is my go to platform for group texting and why. Plus some background info.

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Optimal Sizing of VMs & Containers

Author Tom PawelekPosted on January 30, 2023January 31, 2023Categories PersonalTags k8s, paper, uiuc, vmLeave a comment on Optimal Sizing of VMs & Containers

UIUC paper on how kernel-space loads determine the best course of action for business workflows deployed as either Virtual Machines or Kubernetes containers.

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Introducing FAF Series

Author Tom PawelekPosted on December 24, 2022February 23, 2023Categories PersonalTags faf1 Comment on Introducing FAF Series

“Friends and Family” are lightweight articles designed to describe most common aspects of everyday IT to my inner circle (hence the name).

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Functional Quantum Gates, Part 1

Author Tom PawelekPosted on August 31, 2022January 8, 2023Categories PersonalTags haskell, ibm, qasmLeave a comment on Functional Quantum Gates, Part 1

Hands on approach to Quantum Information Processing 101, using declarative syntax.

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D3 And Carbon Dioxide

Author Tom PawelekPosted on November 12, 2021November 12, 2021Categories PersonalLeave a comment on D3 And Carbon Dioxide

A small D3-based presentation of the atmospheric CO2 concentration based on data from NASA GISS and NOAA.

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Reporting on COVID

Author Tom PawelekPosted on December 30, 2020January 3, 2021Categories PersonalTags covid, nlpLeave a comment on Reporting on COVID

A very brief look into how reliably the mass media and scientific publications report from the battlefronts of Novel Coronavirus war.

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Impression Management

Author Tom PawelekPosted on January 31, 2020March 7, 2020Categories PersonalTags psycheLeave a comment on Impression Management

Bombarded with information, our brains find it more and more difficult to separate facts from fiction (or wishful thinking).

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Ethics in a Jar

Author Tom PawelekPosted on November 12, 2019October 6, 2020Categories PersonalTags vrLeave a comment on Ethics in a Jar

It was a cold autumn night, 10th of November 1619, when young René Descartes in his nightmares encountered an evil demon of deception for the very first time.

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AdGuard keeps Personal CA after uninstall

Author Tom PawelekPosted on August 21, 2019August 21, 2019Categories PersonalTags mac, sslLeave a comment on AdGuard keeps Personal CA after uninstall

Since I’m not a huge fan of SSL bumping, I decided to uninstall AdGuard on my mac. Unfortunately, the process described by the authors leaves an unwanted artifact. Continue reading “AdGuard keeps Personal CA after uninstall”

PHP Tutorial… 18 years later

Author Tom PawelekPosted on April 1, 2019January 8, 2023Categories PersonalTags 1337Leave a comment on PHP Tutorial… 18 years later

This is about to be more cheesy that Apple’s latest Mac Pro case.

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