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Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
A short review and troubleshooting guide.
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Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)
Revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
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2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.
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JEP draft: Prepare to make final mean final
Issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. These warnings aim to prepare developers for a future release that ensures integrity by default by restricting final field mutation, which will make Java programs safer and potentially faster. Application developers can avoid both current warnings…
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More random home lab things I've recently learned
From my series of "Christian's Home Lab adventures", here's some more things I've recently learned / discovered and figured are worth sharing: NVMe SSDs on a Raspberry PI, ARM64 adventures, more zfs troubles, and some cool tools you should try.
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Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
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How to sell if your user is not the buyer
Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer
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State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
Read OpenRouter's 2025 State of AI report — an empirical 100 trillion token study of real LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights.
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Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings
Flock's 'licence plate readers' read much more than license plates. A judge says what they record must be released.
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Being good isn't enough
Giving good career advice is hard. Maybe it’s because careers can look more alike than they really are. Two people can have the same title but what helps one...
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How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around
How we saved 7 TiB of memory across our Kubernetes clusters by disabling namespace listwatching in Vector, reducing daemonset overhead and API server load at scale.
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Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM
The open-source LLM combines the sequence-modeling skill of a transformer with the inferencing speed of an SSM. IBM Granite will soon adopt key Bamba features.
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Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide…
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Passing planes and other whoosh sounds
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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Oberon Pi
Oberon, the jewel by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht: Operating System, Compiler and Computer.
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How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself
It takes less than an hour and $3.
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Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data
We study subliminal learning , a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a "student" model learns to prefer owls when trained on sequences of numbers generated by a "teacher" model that prefers owls. This same…
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A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)
Today I'll stop my 3rd person perspective . I'm going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what's it's like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I'll give them a tour of the Mac Lab…
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Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
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Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools
Why I reach for Zig first for my CLI tools lately
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I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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The UI future is colourful and dimensional
On the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI.
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The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes
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Pasta Cooking Time
I generally find the numbers printed on pasta boxes for cooking time far too high: I'll set the timer for a minute below their low-end "al dente" time, and when I taste one it's already getting too mushy. I decided to run a small experiment to get a better sense of how cooked I like pasta. I decided to use Market…
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Rolling the ladder up behind us
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing
AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing | exotext