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Reverse Engineering Google Colab
Take a peek into the internals of Google Colab, and discover how we can bend the rules of Colab a little in order to adapt it to our MLOps workflow
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How safe is Zig?
I keep seeing discussions that equate zig's level of memory safety with c (or occasionally with rust!). Neither is particularly accurate. This is an attempt at a more detailed breakdown.
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How Imagen Works
Given a brief description of a scene, Imagen can generate photorealistic, high-resolution images of the scene. Learn everything you need to know about Imagen and how it works in this easy-to-follow guide.
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Hardening the registers: A cascading failure of edge induced fault tolerance
An article by Anonymous : In 2017, Target announced that we had prioritized stores at the center of how we serve our guests – no matter how they choose to shop. To make this store-as-hubs model work, we spent several years redesigning operations and modernizing how we conduct business. We invested billions of dollars…
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Custom SQL functions for data analytics in PostgreSQL
There is a better way to explore and analyze time-series data with PostgreSQL: hyperfunctions. Learn how to ease your workload with faster and simpler data.
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How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts
We’ve been building Hydrogen for more than a year. Here’s a look behind the scenes at how we did it, what we learned from making big bets, and what it was like building a new framework from the ground up on experimental technology.
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Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours/day can help you lose weight: study
According to a recent study, sleeping an extra hour could help you lose weight if you're not sleeping enough to begin with
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Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis
Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis.
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Stockfish vs. ChessBase for GPLv3 violation: court hearing soon
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 detected in London, UK
News originally published on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative website. The Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) has confirmed the isolation of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) from environmental samples in London, United Kingdom (UK), which were detected as part of ongoing disease surveillance.
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Fighting JPEG color banding
How to compress JPEG even more without losing in visual quality
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New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
HarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien's writings of the…
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Schroedinger's streaming service just died
The sex industry has pioneered every new communications tool since the printing press: in my own lifetime, I've watched it take the lead in VCRs, desktop publishing, BBSes, digital text, digital images, digital videos, live streaming services, cryptocurrency, and VR. It would be easy to conclude that being interested…
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Mental Model: Difficult Problems vs. Hard Work
How to model work that interacts with ambiguity
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Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (2014)
I just stumbled across this old story I told somewhere, and thought I’d share more widely.
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Code vs. No-code
There was a conversation on Twitter this week that helped to clarify my thinking about something, and I wanted to share. There is a sort of tension between “code” and “no-code” (sometimes “low-code”) solutions. People who consider themselves software developers see people trying to use no-code solutions to do things…
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Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server
A programmer's blog with posts about Ruby, web development, algorithms and data structure.
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How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
Let's have fun, I'm now a salesperson and I have to convince customers to buy OpenBSD, here is how I would proceed.
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JVM Anatomy Quark #10: String.intern (2019)
"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to readily interact with each other.
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Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose search rankings
Private, independent search engine exits beta phase on its first anniversary, with innovative features that help users de-Google their search
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ESP32-C5: Espressif’s First Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 MCU
Espressif’s ESP32-C5 is the industry’s first RISC-V SoC solution that supports 2.4 and 5 GHz dual-band Wi-Fi 6, along with Bluetooth LE. It is designed for applications that require a high-efficiency wireless transmission.
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Tailscale SSH
Use this guide to setup Tailscale SSH. Learn how it transforms SSH connectivity by using your Tailscale identity for authentication. Enjoy simplified setup, added security with WireGuard®, and customizable access with ACLs. Ideal for managing secure connections across your tailnet.
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Chasing utopian energy: How I wasted 20 years of my life
Utopian energy is an imagined form of energy that’s abundant, reliable, inexpensive, and also clean, renewable, and life-sustaining. But utopian energy is as much a fantasy as a utopian society. Seeking the fount of perfect energy allows us to pretend there aren’t real-world tradeoffs between, say,
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Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?
Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice? It's dead. Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014! In contrast, LibreOffice's release schedule is robust: Timelines of major product releases. OpenOffice is light blue, LibreOffice is green. (source) In 2020, LibreOffice wrote a constructive letter, outlining a path for…
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State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction
Let's build a simple state machine in Ruby and use the state machines gem.
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What will a Chromium-only Web look like?
Most of the complexity and nuance of the Web is stuffed into browser engines. Even though they’re a huge burden to develop and maintain, the world is lucky enough to have three major ones, and they’re all Open Source.
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Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed
Before It Devours The World, Part I