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Why early modern books are so beautiful
Three theories
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Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot (2022)
Software engineer, artist and musician
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Do something, so we can change it
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Elastic tabstops
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code
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IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face
IBM & open-source AI platform Hugging Face today announced that IBM's watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA's satellite data – will now be openly available on Hugging Face.
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Don't be clever
The story of the CRUDController
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Polars: Company Formation Announcement
We are excited to announce the start of company that will build around Polars, enabling data processing at any scale.
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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
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Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic
Author: Dylan DuncanA new phishing tactic utilizing Google...
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Netscape Meteors
I went on a small journey the last couple days to find the original Netscape Navigator “meteors” animation. This one has a special place in my head and heart because it is so clearly connected to my memories of discovering the web as a kid. Here it is in its original 60×60 px glory:
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System settings that aren’t in System Settings
Where would you set the default call handler for macOS? And where in System Settings do you set the default web browser?
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The infamous coin toss
In 2011 I gave a 15-minute talk to a lay audience in London. The topic I had chosen was ergodicity breaking, and the challenge was clear: how do you get this across? I invented a coin-toss gamble, which has since become a go-to illustration of ergodicity break
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Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware
Both Butterscotch Varifocal and Flamera are very much in the research stage, and the technologies they’re investigating may never make their way into a consumer-facing product. And, as we hope you’ll come to see, that’s very much the point.
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If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
Rem recently asked:
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Cookbook: Finetuning Llama 2 in your own cloud environment, privately
An operational guide on finetuning Llama 2, ready for commercial use.
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Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)
Let’s get one thing out of the way: it’s not normal to stuff $100,000 in cash into a suitcase and then check said suitcase on to a domestic flight.
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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation : it's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
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If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch
The title says it: if you’re involved in drug or medical development and have experienced the FDA’s torpor, or vengeance, consider getting in touch; anonymously is fine. I want to make …
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Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
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Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
The first official release of Fedora Asahi Remix is slated to be available by the end of August 2023!
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Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio
AudioCraft is a simple framework that generates high-quality, realistic audio and music from text-based user inputs after training on raw audio signals as opposed to MIDI or piano rolls.
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Adtech is built on a privacy fault line
The IAPP's Cobun Zweifel-Keegan rounds up the latest privacy developments from Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the U.S. for the week of 24 July 2023.
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A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmers
Read my manifesto on Code as an alternative to Mathematics. Code for this article can be found on this Colab Notebook should you choose to follow along. Why Kalman Filters? Kalman filters are ingenius. If you have never heard of them, then a very intuitive (and arguably reductive) way to think about them is to
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The underground world of credit card network exploitation
SaaS companies face rising card testing attacks, with similar card parameters hinting at a possible bank leak. Stripe's Radar and custom rul
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Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless
In recent years, research showed that many professionals consider their work to be socially useless. Various explanations have been proposed for the phenomenon. The much-discussed “bullshit jobs theory” by the American anthropologist David Graeber, for example, states that some jobs are objectively useless and that…
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CodeCov is now Open Source
Authors Note: Hey, we messed up in this post by referring to BUSL-1.1 as Open Source. We’re sorry, we are leaving this post as-is to keep the record clear and ...
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Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
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Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
Short answer: no. Quite the opposite, actually — Archive.is is intentionally blocking 1.1.1.1 users. Here's why.