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Github Copilot Wants to Play Chess Instead of Code
When OpenAI announced GPT-3 & its public beta I was fascinated but didn’t have an API key. I played with everything free that was built with GPT-3. Naturally, when I heard about GitHub Copilot I signed up for the waitlist and a few months later, I got access!
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Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Illegal
In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR.
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To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots
Parking lots amplify high temperatures. Why are we still requiring them to be larger than they need to be?
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Dark Web – Justice League
Uncover the hidden world of Dark Web justice as cybercriminals settle disputes in underground courts. Explore verdicts, high-profile cases, and more.
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Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling
Learn how our developers used flamegraphs to diagnose and resolve performance issues in our Tokio framework based Rust driver.
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Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
I'm very excited to announce @parcel/css, a new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier written in Rust! Check it out on GitHub, or try a live demo right in your browser.
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Favor real dependencies for unit testing
Which dependencies should be present in your code base? This article suggests an answer to that question.
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The State of Web Scraping 2022
What are the biggest trends and developments in web scraping? What does 2022, likely have in store for web scraping?
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Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality and stability
Work continues on the Wayland driver for Wine, with a focus on improving both functonality and stability, and on providing a more upstreamable patchset.
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Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta
Diskless infrastructure using stboot (in beta) is now available on a pair of WireGuard servers in Sweden.
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Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
How does an A.I. generate waifus and husbandos? Utilizing the power of machine learning algorithms, see how we taught an A.I. to make these magic anime portraits in the form of generative art.
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Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue
Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue
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New SysJoker Backdoor Targets Windows, Linux, and macOS
In December 2021, we discovered a new multi-platform backdoor that targets Windows, Mac, and Linux that we have named SysJoker.
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Charge, Baby, Charge for Parking
Donald Shoup, famed author of the most fascinating possible book about parking, can also do comedy. From his recent essay on “The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements“: Everyone wants to park free, and most people consider parking a personal issue, not a policy problem. Rational people quickly become emotional about…
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The WebSocket Handbook
Learn about the core building blocks of the WebSocket technology and discover the benefits of event-driven architectures with WebSockets.
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Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.
dsq is a commandline tool for running SQL queries against all the data file types that DataStation supports (JSON, CSV, Parquet, Excel, etc.). Here is a simple example:
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Firefox 96
We’ve made significant improvements in noise-suppression and auto-gain-control as well as slight improvements in echo-cancellation to provide you with a better overall experience.
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How we built a VS Code Extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
How we built language server protocol (LSP) support for the Oso VS Code extension with Rust, WebAssembly (Wasm), and TypeScript
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Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web
ThreatDown Patchwork Apt Caught In Its Own Web: threat intelligence on Patchwork APT tactics, targets, and how to detect and stop this threat.
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Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
Has Google's Search Quality deteriorated in recent years? This post measures Google Search using human evaluation.
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New Year, New CEO
It’s a new year, and I’ve decided it’s a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal. I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade. It has always been my goal for Signal to grow and sustain beyond my involvement, but four years ago that would still not have been possible. I was writ...
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I quit caffeine
Enough is enough.
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Switching to a four-day workweek (2021)
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