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After a barrage of recommendations on my twitter, I finally ended up reading Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks. The central premise of the book is simple: everyone has got about four thousand weeks to live, and spending that limited time chasing efficiency is wrongheaded. The message seems old. The entire…
Did you know that Go lets us provide executable code examples as part of our documentation? It’s pretty neat. Let’s take a tour of this useful feature and see how it works.
It seems no matter how long I work with the command line, every once in a while I find handy utilities I've never encountered before. Most people have heard about the bird coreutils , that's where utilities such as echo , cat , and others come from. But did you know about moreutils ?
A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.
See also: Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment right now .
I've had the experience of using GitHub as a maintainer for very large open source projects (1000+ contributors), as an engineer for very large closed source corporate projects, and everything smaller. Through those experiences up to today, GitHub pull requests is where I spend almost all of my time while on GitHub…
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This post is the perfect starting point for learning to build your own LTE network. View this lession as a guided introduction – including the installation, configuration, and best practices that will ease your learning.
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
Today we're making the the Rerun open source project public. Rerun is now installable as `pip install rerun-sdk` for Python users and `cargo add rerun` for Rust users.
A number of students have asked me for strategies to 'stay consistent'. I assume they are referring to their study routines, not CAP consistency, otherwise this would be a very different article! I do feel like I can give some suggestions, but first allow me to talk about Omar.
How does git store different versions of a file? What about a commit? Find out creating your own commit without the help of git.
UPDATE 10/11: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes layers and transparency is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version
I’ve had the pleasure of having had to analyse multi-gigabyte JSON dumps in a project context recently. JSON itself is actually a rather pleasant format to consume, as it’s human-readable and there is a lot of tooling available for it. JQ allows expressing sophisticated processing steps in a single command line, and…
Mistral AI is the most exciting AI research lab at the moment. They’ve now released two extremely powerful smaller Large Language Models under an Apache 2 license, and have a …
I’ve spent a lot of time in my life trying to force myself to do things. Really good things. Things that are important to me. Things like meditating, journaling, going... READ MORE
How to run a latent consistency model on your M1 or M2 Mac
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Zig is a very interesting language from an IDE point of view. Some aspects of it are friendly to IDEs, like a very minimal and simple-to-parse syntax (Zig can even be correctly lexed line-by-line, very cool!), the absence of syntactic macros, and ability to do a great deal of semantic analysis on a file-by-file basis…
Discover the advantages of Podman Desktop, which provides a user-friendly interface for developers to manage containers and Kubernetes from a local machine.
The hard work from maintainers turned Vim into a completely new editor, while still maintaining its spirit.
This is a collection of keyboard and trackpad workflows that I accumulated over the last 7 years of using a MacBook. Here are some important abbreviations I am using in this article: | Term | Meaning | Explanation | ...
