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Where are the robotic bricklayers?
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,834 posts.
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The Engineer Crunch
For most startups in the bay area, the engineer crunch is a bigger problem than the Series A crunch (this somewhat applies to designers as well, but most startups need far more developers than...
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So where are all the AI apps?
Practical AI R&D
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Google: Open Letter to Australians
g.co/Australia-Letter
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"Nothing like this will be built again"
I've just had a really amazing experience: a guided tour of the nuclear reactor complex at Torness on the Scottish coast. What made this tour unusual is that the tour guide in question, Les, happens to be one of the reactor engineers (as well as a friend) -- and he showed me (and a couple of other friends) right…
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Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)
Great mentors help, but purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers.
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NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.
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Teaching with AI
We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.
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Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 21.04 is here, with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu. […]
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Native all the way, until you need text
Why building a rich, selectable, streaming Markdown chat UI on macOS still pushes you toward WebKit or Electron.
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If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
A client once responded to one of my questions by saying, "Oh Greg, I am too busy living to think about life!” His off-the-cuff comment named a trap al ...
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Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
Astro 1.0 is out now! Astro is a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Performance powered by Astro next-gen island architecture. Learn more about Astro 1.0 release, our new website, and what people are saying about Astro.
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How to not rewrite it in Rust
Once you get past the growing pains of the Borrow Checker and realise Rust gives you the power to do things which would be unheard of (or just plain dangerous) in other languages, the temptation to Rewrite it in Rust can be quite strong. However at best, the temptation to RiiR is unproductive (unnecessary duplication…
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'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
Kevin Patel - Application Security Engineer @ NISC
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How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article.
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The Future of Obsidian Plugins
Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.
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Underwater ears everywhere
Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am bad at computers (yet another case of "forgot to enable the systemd unit"). It's fixed now. The unsubscribe link was also broken and is now fixed but, you know, maybe that was a feature. Did wonders for reader retention.
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Million requests per second with Python
Is it possible to hit a million requests per second with Python? Probably not until recently.
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What every programmer should know about SSDs
A blog by and for database architects.
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Ten Years of Logging My Life
I've been continuously recording my daily activities by hand since I was 17, amounting to 85,000+ activities over the span of a decade.
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Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura
Did you know Clarus the Dogcow is hiding in the macOS Ventura beta?
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The myth of NASA's expensive space pens
There’s a story about NASA’s incredibly expensive space pen and Russia’s simpler solution that gets trotted out every time some large organization introduces so