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Macaroons Escalated Quickly
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On January 28, 2022, about an hour before dawn, the four-lane Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collapsed without warning. Five vehicles, including an articulating bus, fell with the bridge, and another car drove o
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David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way
I recently came across a great quote from David Chang, “Just because we’re a casual restaurant, doesn’t mean we don’t hold ourselves to fine dining standards. We try to do things the right way. That usually means doing things the long, hard, stupid way.” David has elaborated on this quote: When your back is turned […]
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Claude's Character
How character training cultivates traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, and thoughtfulness in Claude using a variant of Constitutional AI.
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HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained
Understand better how HTTP works in each version.
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Why so few Matt Levines?
Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combination of expertise, obsession, and persistence are also rare.
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Some notes on influenceering
The ups and downs of publishing non-commercial content on the internet.
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Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python
As DebConf22 was coming to an end, in Kosovo, talking with Eeveelweezel they invited me to prepare a talk to give for the Chicago Python User Group . I replied that I’m not really that much of a Python guy… But would think about a topic. Two years passed. I meet Eeveelweezel again for DebConf24 in Busan, South Korea…
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Using a list to manage executive function
I use a fairly well-developed todo list system to manage my workload during the day. Some of the details are unusual, so I thought it would be worth sharing.
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All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots
TL;DR — We are excited to announce voyage-multimodal-3, a new state-of-the-art for multimodal embeddings and a big step forward towards seamless RAG and semantic search for documents rich with both…
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Why is it so hard to build an airport?
Airports are a critical piece of modern infrastructure.
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Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell
What if you had to fight against your company's culture to bring a revolutionary tool to life? Meet Jeffrey Snover, the Microsoft architect behind PowerShell, a command tool that transformed Windows system administration. Initially met with skepticism, Snover's idea faced resistance from a company that favored…
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Aristotle – How to live a good life
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good…
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2023 Letter
A walk-and-talk; Crumb; running and tangping; Knausgaard; Elon as Palmer Eldritch; memelords; Chicago as a megacity; Norton; and a pause.
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The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app
Tony Alaribe challenges common myths about multi-page applications (MPAs) and explores how modern browser technologies can enable fast, interactive, and offline-capable web applications without relying on single-page application (SPA) frameworks. Alaribe discusses advancements in service workers, caching, and…
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Button Stealer
Steals buttons from the websites you visit. Do your usual online stuff and watch the collection of stolen buttons grow.
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Perf Is Not Enough
Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database. | Reading time: 17 min read
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The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening
There are many potential ways to use AI 1 (and computers in general) for 2D animation. I’m currently interested in a seemingly conservative goal: to improve the productivity of a traditional hand-drawn full animation workflow by AI assuming responsibilities similar to those of a human assistant.
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Please stop the coding challenges
Let’s talk about tech interviews – specifically, the ones that go overboard with unrealistic coding assignments. If you’re a developer who’s been asked to de...
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Why Not Comments
Why not "why not" comments? Not why "not comments"
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Why does FM sound better than AM?
Frequency modulation (FM) is more robust to noise than amplitude modulation (AM) because static itself is primarily a form of amplitude modulation.
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Figma’s Journey to TypeScript
Figma's team recently converted one of its codebases from a custom programming language to TypeScript without disrupting a single day of development.
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Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
Welcome to another edition of 5-Minute Whiteboards. And folks, we've got a doozy of a topic. Yes, I'm being intentionally provocative. But it's because
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Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
Joel Gustafson
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0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced
The Junkyard contest focuses on deprecated systems, responsible disclosure, and meme-worthy exploits. Join us today!
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Qwen2 LLM Released
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction After months of efforts, we are pleased to announce the evolution from Qwen1.5 to Qwen2. This time, we bring to you: Pretrained and instruction-tuned models of 5 sizes, including Qwen2-0.5B, Qwen2-1.5B, Qwen2-7B, Qwen2-57B-A14B, and Qwen2-72B; Having been…
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Short Message Compression Using LLMs
ts_sms works similarly to ts_zip . It uses a specific padding system compatible with arithmetic coding so that the message length does not need to be explicitly encoded.
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A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
I’m unsure how popular GameNOW magazine was, but over the course of two years, they pulled off one of the weirdest running gags I’ve seen in a game magazine, just to have fun at the expense of an irate reader who didn’t like Final Fantasy VIII .
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MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown ex...