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A ChatGPT Emacs Shell
UPDATE: has evolved a bit and is now on MELPA. I had been meaning to give ChatGPT a good try, preferably from Emacs. As an eshell fan, ChatGPT seemed ...
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Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
In this article, previously part of my new book, we look at the introduction of .NET Core, why it was created, and how it has evolved into .NET 7.
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Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)
Google is forcing its bullshit generator, Gemini, on many users of Gmail without asking them, and not even offering the users a way to deactivate it.
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PeerTube 5.1
Version 5.1 of PeerTube has been released! On the menu: moderation of account creation, a button to resume live broadcasting, improved management of e...
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So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
Software engineers are, if not unique, then darn near unique in the ease with which we can create tools to improve our own professional lives; this however can …
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Why construction projects always go over budget
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Boston, Massachusetts is one of the oldest cities in America, founded in 1630, more than a few years before the advent of modern motor vehicles. In the 1980s, traffic in downtown Boston was nearly unbearable from the tangled str
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Bing Image Creator
Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web – delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date. We’ve seen…
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
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Java 20 Is Out!
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 20 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 395 in the Java Community Process.
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Try Bard and share your feedback
Bard is an early experiment from Google that lets you collaborate with generative AI. If you’re in the U.S. and U.K., you can sign up to try it.
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Strong Consistency with Raft and SQLite
In the recent past, a typical client/server environment consisted of multiple clients connected to a central database server. A central database architecture is a system where all data is stored in a single centralized location. When client A from Si...
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GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
Explore top no verification casino sites in Australia offering instant crypto withdrawals, huge pokies libraries, and safe anonymous gambling.
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Curl 8.0.1
Right. I said in the 8.0.0 blog post that it might be a good release. It was. Apart form the little bug that caused it to crash in several test cases. So now we shipped curl 8.0.1, which is almost identical apart from a single commit that was reverted. Exactly why this was not discovered … Continue reading curl 8.0.1…
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Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.
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Bank failures come in waves
Interactive post about the frequency of bank failures over time
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MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse
Barry Duncan, a staff member at the MIT Press Bookstore, boasts a unique talent: writing palindromes, or prose that reads the same forward and backward.
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Building ClickHouse Cloud from scratch in a year
Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a serverless software as a service (SaaS) offering in under a year? In this blog post, we will describe how we built ClickHouse Cloud from the ground up
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Why use Rust on the back end?
I don't care about avoiding GC or about maximum performance. I treat Rust as a high level language.
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A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us
wingolog: article: a world to win: webassembly for the rest of us
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The End of Front-End Development
Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on social media. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the future of software development.
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SVB was particularly poorly run
Banks manage their liquidity through their asset composition and choice of liabilities. Badly run banks have volatile liabilities and assets.
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Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive
On the topic of life lessons from a born pessimist.
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Supreme Court asked to strike down immunity for police who brutally beat student
ARLINGTON, Va.—A new cert petition before the United States Supreme Court asks the Justices to strike down an immunity recognized by a lower court for […]
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Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Gitea 1.19
We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.19.0. We highly encourage users to update to this version for many new features and other improvements. We have merged 544 https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A1.19.0+is%3Amerged pull requests to rele