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Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora
We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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De-googling, so far
Over the past few years, I have tried to gradually reduce or eliminate my use of Google products and services. It has been difficult to ditch Google’s products in some categories, and in some others, it has been nigh impossible. Here, I list the services I have tried to find alternatives for, discuss the ease (or lack…
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What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos
Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos.
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How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
How do you transfer files off an Apple laptop from 1994? It's harder than it sounds!
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Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware
At least seven more Russian, Belarusian, Latvian, and Israeli journalists and activists have been targeted with Pegasus within the EU.
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This Message Does Not Exist
It can only be discarded
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25 Years of Krita
Halla Rempt Twenty-five years. A quarter century. That's how long we've been working on Krita. Well, what would become Krita. It started out as KImageShop, but that name was nuked by a now long-dead German lawyer. Then it was renamed to Krayon, and that name was also nuked. Then it was renamed to Krita, and that name…
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Apple Silicon MacBook batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third party
I bought a new M1 MacBook Pro in April 2022. A little over two years later, I'm seeing a service recommended message, and the maximum capacity of the battery is now down to 78%. Admittedly, my MacBook Pro experiences heavy usage: basically all day, every day. The batteries in my previous 2014 Intel MacBook Pro, which…
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Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
Fig0. Photo of my workplace, my cat Noutti (my main inspiration for Carrot) says hello!
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Maybe This Is Too Cool
Between rounds of shock layoffs, Amazon directors enjoy private rock concert
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YOLOv5 on FPGA with Hailo-8 and 4 Pi Cameras
Running multi-camera YOLOv5 on Zynq UltraScale+ using a Hailo-8 AI accelerator via FPGA Drive FMC
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Engineering for Slow Internet
How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.
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Steam's Last Stand
In the year 1900, automobile sales in the United States were divided almost evenly among three types of vehicles: automakers sold about 1,000 cars powered by internal combustion engines, but over 1…
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I added some optimizations to my compiler that turns Lisp into JavaScript
Smaller programs that do less work.
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What We're Working on in Firefox
We recently shared a number of updates with our community of users, and now we want to share them here: At Mozilla, we work hard to make Firefox the best b
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Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
Will Larson, a veteran engineering leader and the CTO at Carta, holds three conventional engineering management “anti-patterns” up to the light for a closer look.
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What's Next for Kagi?
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web. Kagi Search instead works for you, the user, and not an advertiser paying for your attention....
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The Pumpkin Eclipse
The Lumen blog and newsroom is your source for business technology news and insights, customer stories, press and media, and trending articles.
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Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...
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'Operation Endgame' Hits Malware Delivery Platforms
Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today announced Operation Endgame , a coordinated action against some of the most popular cybercrime platforms for delivering ransomware and data-stealing malware. Dubbed “the largest ever operation against botnets,” the international effort is being billed as…
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Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search
Optimize your support with Assembled's Hybrid Search. Learn how we enhance RAG results using Reciprocal Rank Fusion for accurate, relevant answers.
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I run a software book club
How I run a software book club
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EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services
An updated version of the methodology to be used in the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, leaked by the news portal Contexte, reveals more details on the approach pursued by the Belgian Council Presidency: The text doubles-down on services that allow people to protect themselves. If services are used t
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PyPy has been working for me for several years now
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby
“Moveable Type,” the public art installation in the New York Times’s lobby, is ending its 17-year run. The Times, which is replacing the exhibit as part of an update to its lobby…