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Ask vs. Guess Culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 791 posts.
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An interactive intro to CRDTs
CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.
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I would rather see my books get pirated than this
Amazon and Goodreads must take steps to combat the flood of AI-generated content that will mislead readers and damage author reputations.
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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Automerge 2.0
Automerge 2.0 is here and ready for production.
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Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
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AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
The thing I’m most excited about in our weird new AI-enhanced reality is the way it allows me to be more ambitious with my projects. As an experienced developer, ChatGPT …
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Passkeys will come at a cost
Firstyear's blog
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The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
Note: If you're here because you just want to watch Netflix on Asahi, install this (Edit: for Arch users, grab this . Fedora users can install the widevine-installer package), and then scroll down to the "Netflix-Specific Annoyances" section.
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iMessage, explained
This blog post is going to be a cursory overview of the internals iMessage, as I’ve discovered during my work on pypush, an open source project that reimplements iMessage.
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)
Lessons learned from 15 years of writing SumatraPDF, a great open-source PDF, eBook, and comic book reader for Windows
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Thunderbird 115
Supernova features a single dynamic toolbar, presenting frequently used and contextual options based on the tab or Space that is currently active. Take full control by customizing the toolbar and window layout to perfectly fit your workflow.
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Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
Learn how Tailscale's partnership with Mullvad enables secure, private browsing with Mullvad’s VPN servers as exit nodes. Protect your internet traffic, maintain privacy, and enjoy fast, encrypted browsing worldwide. Discover how to configure Mullvad with Tailscale for ultimate security.
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Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
We harness every resource, insight, relationship, and competitive advantage to drive superior results for our clients.
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We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
ChatGPT lies to people. This is a serious bug that has so far resisted all attempts at a fix. We need to prioritize helping people understand this, not debating the …
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Writing Python like it's Rust
You can check out a YouTube recording of a talk based on this blog post.
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Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems…
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I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
Two years ago, Red Hat killed CentOS, a widely-used free version of their Enterprise Linux distribution. The community of CentOS users—myself included—were labeled as 'freeloaders', using the work of the almighty Red Hat corporation, without contributing anything back. Don't mind all the open source developers, Linux…
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Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
Use Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery to analyze suspicious GitHub star activity and protect open-source credibility.
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Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
We have been very public about how reliable Samsung SSDs have been in the past, so we wanted to explain why we are now moving part of our line to Sabrent.
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SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
Moving SciPy to Meson meant finding a different Fortran compiler on Windows, which was particularly tricky to pull off for conda-forge. This blog tells the story about how things looked pretty grim for the Python 3.12 release, and how things ended up working out just in the nick of time.
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Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
[Sidney Harris cartoon used with permission. Copyright holder: ScienceCartoonsPlus.com .]
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OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
We’re happy to announce that OpenAI and Microsoft are extending our partnership.
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Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI
We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re o