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BERT is just a single text diffusion step
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,194 posts.
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Redis explained
A deep technical dive into all things Redis. Covering various Redis topologies, data persistence and process forking.
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An interactive guide to SVG paths
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do with it!
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Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
After nearly 10 years of using OS X as my primary OS for personal work, I switched away in late 2014. I consider it to be the best tech decision I made last year.
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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all…
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Fuck being productive
Fuck being productive. I decided to go easy on my self about being "productive". I'm already working full time from 6:30 to 18:30 everyday and I've got o...
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Markov chains are the original language models
Back in my day, we used math for autocomplete.
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Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
A classically trained sysadmin shouting into the void.
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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip
I'm in the process of rebuilding my homelab from the ground up, moving from a 24U full-size 4-post rack to a mini rack. One of the most difficult devices to downsize (especially economically) is a NAS. But as my needs have changed, I'm bucking the trend of all datahoarders and I need less storage than the 120 TB (80…
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Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
My hypothesis was that Uber seemed to be picking a higher price because I had credits in my account. I might be willing to spend more because my 'real' out of pocket cost was less, and those credits were trapped anyway. I decided to use my Uber credits for Uber Eats instead. That pricing seemed normal.
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OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
OpenZFS 2.3.0 will be released any day now, and it includes the new “Fast Dedup” feature. My team at Klara spent many months in 2023 and 2024 working on it, and we reckon it’s pretty good, a huge step up from the old dedup as well as being a solid base for further improvements. I’ve been watching various forums and…
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I want to pay for TextMate 2
I’m sorry I doubted TextMate 2’s future. With your announcement that it is indeed tangibly progressing, it’s a good time to revisit your former statement that it would be a free upgrade to all TextMate 1 customers, which I think you regret .
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Examples are the best documentation
Examples are the best documentation | exotext
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6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far
It's been 6 months since the official launch of Lunch Money and I've been sharing milestones, both big and small. But that's hardly the full picture.
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A generalised solution to distributed consensus
A generalised solution to distributed consensus Howard & Mortier, arXiv’19 This is a draft paper that Heidi Howard recently shared with the world via Twitter, and here’s the accompanying …
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Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
Republished by Slate. Translations available in French (Français), Spanish (Español), Chinese (中文) For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work corresponde…
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Web3 is centralized
I've long been interested in the decentralization of computing and communication in general, and of the web in particular. The trend of communication and information becoming more and more centralized in large corporations is worrying and worth fighting against, particularly from the perspective of systemic risk. I…
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We need physical audio kill switches
PARDON!?
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I switched from VSCode to Zed
For many years VSCode has been my day-to-day IDE for everything: Python, Go, C, occasional frontend development, and what not. It was never...
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Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Lidl is launching sovereign cloud computing in Europe. GDPR and data compliance is driving the EU to look for local alternatives.
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Apple has lost the functional high ground
Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has fallen so much in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future. I’m typing this on a computer whose existence I didn’t even think would be possible yet, but it runs an OS with embarrassing bugs and fundamental…
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Blurry rendering of games on Mac
ProblemSolutionAffected GamesWhat Apple could do Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game …
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DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N300 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.
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Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
Earlier this year, when Spotify announced that “The Joe Rogan Experience” would stream exclusively on Spotify, it sent shockwaves throughout the podcast ecosystem. This deal – reportedly worth over $100 million – is one of the most lucrative podcast deals. The presence of this deal, let alone the magnitude, is rare…