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HSBC Purchased Silicon Valley Bank UK (SVB UK) for $1.21 (£1)
List of media releases issued by HSBC Holdings plc and its subsidiaries.
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Framework 12th gen laptop review
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Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust (2021)
Some programming languages like Java or Scala offer more than one way to express a concept of “lack of value”. Traditionally, a special null value is used to...
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Things I learned after getting users
last month, i posted about my website basement community on hacker news and it sorta blew up. you can view the post here. it blew up so much, i was totally u...
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How Python virtual environments work
After needing to do a deep dive on the venv module (which I will explain later in this blog post as to why), I thought I would explain how virtual environments work to help demystify them. Why do virtual environments exist? Back in my the day, there was no concept
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What is Temperature in NLP?
Temperature is a parameter used in natural language processing models to increase or decrease the “confidence” a model has in its most likely response.
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When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?
When did Silicon Valley Bank insiders begin to realize they were potentially in trouble?
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Brex Devalues Rewards
Without notice, Brex just devalued cash, crypto, and airline point redemptions by 40%. Here's how you can still get value from your Brex Rewards points.
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TypeScripting the technical interview
An homage to Aphyr's Typing the technical interview
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Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen
It's easy to use the hyphen, em dash and en dash to make your writing flow better. Let's look at some examples of the en dash...
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Meta rediscovers the cubicle
Back in 2016, I reported on a rumor that was circulating about employee dissatisfaction at Meta (then, Facebook). Developers, it seemed, were unhappy with the ... Read more
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Urgent: Sign the petition now
Nearly 40,000 of all depositors at Silicon Valley Bank were small businesses. If swift action isn’t taken, over 100,000 people could soon lose their jobs.
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An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
The Circle Blog is your source for the latest product features, company announcements, and insights from Circle and USDC. Read and subscribe for more info!
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A Bank of One's Own
A fun fact about startups, if you've never worked for one, is that employees don't typically get equity in the company.
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Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
The open release of the Stable Diffusion image generation model back in August 2022 was a key moment. I wrote how Stable Diffusion is a really big deal at the …
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There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
One way to measure the magnitude of a bank's failure is by the amount of assets the bank held. At the time it failed, SVB's collapse was the second largest American bank failure of all time, and the largest since 2008.
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ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
Including OpenAI’s other text generating AI!
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Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c
I'm in the middle of turning two badly treated IBM ThinkPad 701CS machines (the ones with the lovely unfolding keyboard) into a single, wor...
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The water technology behind Avatar: The Way of Water
Learn more about the CGI technology created using Unity Wētā Tools to produce the water in Avatar: The Way of Water.
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Write Posix Shell
write posix shell 2023-03-10 /\ {.-} ;_.-'\ { _.}_ \.-' / `, \ | / \ | ,/ [0] \|_/ what is shell? most people in tech are familiar with shell scripts. but shell is a language! ... shit. actually. wait, let me rephrase- most people _use_ shell. most people _avoid_ shell. but mostly most people _hate_ shell. but should…
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Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Clouds for IT infrastructure are so popular lately that moving into the cloud has become a trend. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) …
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Common Beginner Mistakes with React
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a lot of potential frustration!
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Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough
A micro-architected material made from tiny knots proves tougher and more durable than unknotted counterparts.
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GNU Octave 8.1
GNU Octave version 8.1.0 has been released and is now available for download. An official Windows binary installer is available. For mac...
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Emacs is not just an editor (2015)
Emacs is Not Just An Editor