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Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?
Meta's release of Llama 3.2 marks a turning point where open-source AI models match and even surpass proprietary models.
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Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York
Advocates for better Internet access are breathing a sigh of relief in New York as the State Assembly nixed a budget bill amendment that would have undermined the state’s municipal broadband grant program.
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The Design of Everyday APIs (2022)
What makes a good API for a library? Or more importantly, what makes it bad? This talk discusses the principles of what goes into user-centered design, and how best to apply those principles when writing a Python library for fellow developers.
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Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked
TL;DR: Fritz!Box devices using custom DNS resolution services like Pihole or Adguard might have been compromised by DNS hijacking and using those Fritz!Box devices might be unsafe, especially for Windows users. Update: I updated the article to downscale the severity of the situation. After posting the article on HN, I…
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From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
This post shares the story of Pedro David Garcia Lopez, a Ruby and Rails developer based in UK, who used to be a Lorry driver.
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I love programming but I hate the programming industry
On being a faulty cog in a machine when the machine itself is faulty
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Fallout style RPG made in Excel
fallout-like-excel-rpg_v2Download Check out the video here: Story It is the 145th year of the second age. Life in Mercer is unrecognisable to that which came earlier – The bombs saw to that. …
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Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
Pretend you have a really great programming day. You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...
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A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022)
Narrow waists: an idea in software architecture that relates to networking, operating systems, language design, compilers, and distributed systems.
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Why everything is becoming a game
All the better to control you
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Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS
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VLC vs. the App Stores
Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users…
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Stop Doing Cloud
An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.
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Coroutines and effects
For the past few months I’ve been mulling over some things that Russell Johnston made me realize about the relationship between effect systems and coroutines. You can read more of his thoughts on this subject here , but he made me realize that effect systems (like that found in Koka) and coroutines (like Rust’s async…
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U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.
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Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?
Who's teaching doctors how to think?
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Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor
Compared to Llama 2, Llama 3 feels much less censored. Meta has substantially lowered false refusal rates. Llama 3 will refuse less than 1/3 of the prompts previously refused by Llama 2.
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Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
When I was working in the Cairns Casino I’d often arrive on the floor to replace a guy who had been in the industry as long as casinos had b...
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Meta.ai Oh My
“Meet Your New Assistant” says the announcement , going on with “Built With Llama 3”. And oh my goodness has it ever got a lot of coverage. So I thought I might as well try it.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Fair Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and The Curse of Monkey Island . No puzzle spoilers, however…
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Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84 CE
If you’re here from the Cemetech or Sonic Retro threads, then you probably already know the gist of this post. I’ve ported Sonic 2 to the…
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JEP draft: Exception handling in switch
Enhance the switch construct so that exceptions thrown by the selector (the e in switch (e) ... ) can be handled in the switch block. Alongside a previous enhancement to handle null selectors, this makes switch even more useful for pattern matching. This is a preview language feature .
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I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
"It was a complete overreaction on their part to not only fire everyone who was and wasn't involved, but then also threaten everyone else in the company who would dare think to stand up against this...it feels like a very fascist environment."
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The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers
The Nuberodesign Blog
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The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
In the previous post i discussed a bit the history of digital map design, in particular also outside of OpenStreetMap. I also wrote in the past about the history of OpenStreetMap Carto , the cartographic face of OpenStreetMap and without doubt the most influential map design project in OpenStreetMap – today as well as…