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Framer's Magic Motion
How does Framer Motion make layout changes look seamless? In this post, we're taking a deep dive into FLIP, the technique used by Framer Motion to animate changes in layout without sacrificing performance.
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ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword
The first Times crossword Having seen several mind-blowing articles about ChatGPT’s ability (most notably this one), I wondered how ChatGPT would fare solving a cryptic crossword. I decided to try with an easy one: a Quick Cryptic from The Times. I had a search through the Times for the Times archives to try and find…
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Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins
Armed federal officers publicly threatening to defy orders from the President seems like it’s getting insufficient attention. The Biden administration largely continuing Trump’s border policies (he’s building the wall!) seems under-covered as well. The claim about vulnerable flights as a result is absurd.
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Hertz to pay $168M to customers arrested due to Hertz’s false police reports
Hertz announced a $168 million settlement covering 364 claims against them, at an average of just over $460,000 per customer. There are perhaps a dozen more customers who are suing Hertz, that are not a part of the settlement. I have to think that in many of those cases the customers believe the egregiousness of their…
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One does not simply destroy a nuclear weapon
It's the isotopes...
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AI Homework
The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.
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The Peking Duck Exemption
Most food safety regulations say that Peking duck should be illegal. But it's not, so what gives?
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Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
Drowning in AI Generated Garbage : the silent war we are fighting par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off
My Dad died on 5 December 2021. My earliest memory is sitting on his shoulders watching a Guy Fawkes bonfire on one of several visits to the UK as a child. An…
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Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder
In the quest to explore the capabilities of ChatGPT, I decided to utilized it as a startup brainstorming partner. From product description to building the product on AWS and GCP, crafting an elevat...
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FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi
How to install FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi, one step in building an Active Directory server with Samba and FreeBSD.
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How to estimate an SSD’s working life
The life of an SSD should be more predictable than a hard disk. All you need is its TBW, and the total amount of data written to it so far.
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Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software
Activision’s blind faith in the infallibility of their RICOCHET anti-cheat software , combined with a buggy and unstable Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II release, has resulted in faulty, permanent, and unappealable player account bans that prevent users from starting even the single-player game. These bans leave…
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Google has a company strategy, not a product strategy
Or, Why Google keeps killing products
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Software horror show: SAP Concur
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do
Less than a week ago OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world, and it kicked off what feels like a seismic shift in many people’s understand of the capabilities of large …
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Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
So, I’ve been working on a programming language in my spare time for over a year now. I’ll save you the details but it’s meant to be a minimal, easy-to-learn language for beginners. This year for the Advent of Code, I set myself a challenge; complete every day’s challenge using only my programming language.
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Convincing ChatGPT to Eradicate Humanity with Python Code
Full stack software engineer / entrepreneur specialized in AI agents, cybersecurity and graphics. In my free time I enjoy surfing, free diving, and contributing to open source software.
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Gameboy Doctor: debug and fix your gameboy emulator
Are you building a Gameboy emulator? Are you stuck? Are you failing Blargg’s test ROMs and can’t work out why?
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Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?
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Adventures in Advent of Code
I’ve been participating regularly in Advent of Code for the past couple of years. It’s one of the highlights of my holiday season. The puzzles are fun, the stories are appropriately ridiculous, and it’s a neat way for me to keep the cobwebs brushed off some of the things I learned years ago that I don’t regularly use…
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How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works
The 8086 microprocessor was a groundbreaking processor introduced by Intel in 1978. It led to the x86 architecture that still dominates de...
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AI solves Advent of Code 2022
I will try to solve all of the advent of code with as little human input as possible
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$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt
Our Amazon journey started in January 2018 when HyperVolt released the first massage gun on the market. We were so careful with this…
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The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months
Market Data section of the Financial Times US Edition print edition from May 5, 2021. If you’ve flipped through printed broadsheet newspapers, you’ve probably seen pages full of tiny te…
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Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0
This week I published the first alpha release of Datasette 1.0, with a significant new feature: Datasette core now includes a JSON API for creating and dropping tables and inserting, …
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Drag and Drop from Terminal
I have built up a pretty good workflow in the terminal. The main thing that I was missing until now was an easy way to drag and drop the files that I am looking at in a terminal to other apps.
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Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?
In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?