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TeX and related systems are often associated with their default fonts, Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern (CM) typefaces. While these fonts are excellent, they have become so ubiquitous in the scientific community that many LaTeX users have sought alternative fonts for their documents. As a result, a plethora of font…
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
it’s too hard
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It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.
Understand the building blocks of the Model Context Protocol - tools, resources, prompts, transports, sampling, and roots - and how they fit together.
That doesn’t spy on you
This is a copy of the update to the Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders from openletter.earth :
I often get distracted. I obviously don’t like it. So I decided to turn my computer’s clock into a constant reminder to help me focus. Implementation This hack requires: Ubuntu with GNOME desktop environment The Panel Date Format extension A simple bash script 1. Install the Panel Date Format extension # If you don't…
When dealing with disks and I/O things on Linux, you’d regularly run commands like lsblk, lsscsi, nvme list, etc. All of them tend to report a different set of information, so I ended up running multiple commands and correlating their output based on the device name or number. And then I had to run commands like…
A port conflict pushed me to abolish container port forwarding once and for all, making my Firefox talk to Podman's whole network. Also: containerizing dev environments for command-line addicts.
See how we slashed PyPI’s test suite runtime from 163 to 30 seconds. The techniques we share can help you dramatically improve your own project’s testing performance without sacrificing coverage.
Current reasoning models trained with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) often rely on manually curated datasets, raising scalability concerns and potentially limiting future AI growth beyond human-defined tasks. To address this, we propose the Absolute Zero paradigm, where a single model…
From the Zed Blog: Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor. What's more, Zed's new AI features are also open-source, just like the whole editor.
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Why Pi-hole, the Raspberry Pi DNS sinkhole, is worth running at home to block trackers, ads, and analytics endpoints across every device on the network.
Deep dive into mechanical design that is optimized for 3d-printing.
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Claude can now connect to your apps and tools through Integrations, while advanced Research searches across the web, Google Workspace, and connected services to quickly deliver comprehensive reports.
Dumping a SQLite database to a text file can make it much smaller, which means you can download it faster.
Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.
What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it. Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect –
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but ./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it does to actually do the build.
Type, see, tweak, repeat! Instant SQL is now in Preview in MotherDuck and the DuckDB Local UI. Bend reality with SQL superpowers to get real-time query results as you type. | Reading time: 8 min read
Vim is a powerful text editor that improves coding speed & efficiency through its shortcut-based Vim language. While learning Vim can be challenging, it is a valuable skill that can enhance your career as a computer professional.
YAGNI, or, You aren't gonna need it , is a standard piece of advice that warns against over engineering and building too many features too early. I think its great and saves you from wasting time, which can kill a project.
