Many years ago I bought 10 LED juggling balls from Oddballs in the UK. At the time, the special they had on was pretty good for bulk orders, but even today the balls are pretty cheap, if a bit basic (11 Pounds UK). The balls, being cheap, did not last. They have replacable batteries and … Continue reading "Upgrading cheap LED Juggling Balls" The post Upgrading cheap LED Juggling Balls appeared first on Circus Scientist .
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Long day today, but managed to fix all the integration tests that had broken during the latest refactor. It‘s nice to finish the day with the latest build running smoothly. I had to re-record all the test fixtures, but that‘s been made a lot easier following recent changes I made. Previously I had to create all the test mocks by hand, which was really laborious and error prone, but now it‘s all automatic. Anyway, nice to have some progress ..
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Long day today, but managed to fix all the integration tests that had broken during the latest refactor. It‘s nice to finish the day with the latest build running smoothly. I had to re-record all the test fixtures, but that‘s been made a lot easier following recent changes I made. Previously I had to create all the test mocks by hand, which was really laborious and error prone, but now it‘s all automatic. Anyway, nice to have some progress ..
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Common French Phrases for Travelers to Learn Before You Visit France
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www.babbel.com
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1 month ago
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eng
So you want to learn some French for your vacation to France, but don't know where to begin? Never fear! The post Common French Phrases for Travelers to Learn Before You Visit France appeared first on Babbel .
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Prachař a Sandeva se zasnoubili: Potvrzení přišlo na pláži
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obcansky-tydenik.cz
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1 month ago
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ces
Herec Jakub Prachař a herečka Sara Sandeva potvrdili své zásnuby 16. března 2026 na Instagramu. Po pěti letech vztahu a společných projektech jako je Dvojka na zabití se rozhodli dát si prsten.
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What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search?
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stackoverflow.blog
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1 month ago
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yue
Ryan welcomes Brian O’Grady, Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text search engines powered by Lucene and modern vector databases, when vector search’s exact-match needs work for things like logs and security analytics and when semantic search works for user-facing discovery and non-exact results, and how Qdrant is growing into video embeddings and local-agent context....
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Figure 1: Plato's Cave by Jan Pietersz Saenredam; 24 hour clock licensed under CC3 from Wikimedia ; systemd logo by the systemd project licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 My favorite metonymic technology term is "cron job": even though cron may not literally be the daemon that executes actions on a schedule, we apply the term to anything that walks like a cron and quacks like a cron. As Patrick McKenzie likes to point out, cron jobs a....
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Gateway API is what Ingress should have been from day one. I don’t say that lightly. I’ve spent years wrangling Kubernetes Ingress resources, writing controller-specific annotations, and debugging routing issues that only existed because the Ingress spec was too simple for real-world traffic management. Gateway API fixes nearly every complaint I’ve ever had, and if you’re still running pure Ingress in production, it’s time to start planni..
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A practical breakdown of the agentic stack — MCP, Skills, Hooks, AGENTS.md, and Context Engineering — what each one does and where to start.
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Walking Through a Minimal Arch Linux Set Up with archinstall
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nickjanetakis.com
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1 month ago
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eng
We'll spend some time going through most of the options, in the end you'll have confidence to set up a system to your liking.
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Elastic 9.4: Workflows GA, Agent Builder updates, and Prometheus/PromQL support
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www.elastic.co
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1 month ago
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eng
Elastic 9.4 makes Elastic the context and retrieval layer of choice with Agent Builder enhancements and Workflows GA while native Prometheus support and TSDB improvements make Elastic Observability the best platform for logs, metrics, and traces.
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Celebrating the 2026 edition of Mother's Day with a photograph of a Brooklyn Mother's Day decoration I took back in 2025.
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A Traveler’s Guide to VPNs and Public Wi-Fi, Staying Secure on the Go
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intentmedia.com
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1 month ago
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eng
Every airport lounge or corner café can feel like a lifeline when you need to get online. But staying connected while traveling isn’t just about convenience; it’s about protecting your digital life. With a few simple habits, you can move freely without exposing your personal data or disrupting the small comforts that make travel enjoyable. […] The post A Traveler’s Guide to VPNs and Public Wi-Fi, Staying Secure on the Go appeared first ..
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Tištěné číslo vyšlo 28.4.2026. Časopis WM magazín vychází pro předplatitele v tisku každý měsíc. Tisk časopisu je financován z předplatného. WM magazín vychází také v [...]
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xAI has just released an API to clone your voice. It is pretty simple, read a script, and then an API where you can have text to speech in that voice. Here is the python code after you have cloned your voice. I need to figure out my audio set up a bit better (my […]
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Xbox Mode begins rolling out to players on Windows 11 PCs today. This feature opens the Windows 11 gaming hub (renamed Xbox Mode): a full-screen interface to browse using joysticks. Robot dogs with tech boss faces roam Berlin art exhibit. That’s awesome. Bird Radio. A radio station featuring bird songs. Each “station” represents a part of […]
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this dude posted his forumn on /g/ and I thought it was interesting. posts are deleted automatically in 3 days you can garble other posts idk I like the ui, it could be cool https://epmrl.com/
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AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)
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aws.amazon.com
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1 month ago
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eng
Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]
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Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
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www.theregister.com
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1 month ago
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eng
It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
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Put a capable coding model inside a developer’s primary workspace, and the IDE stops being a place where you write code. It becomes a place where you direct an agent, watch how it reasons, manage what it pays attention to, and decide when its output is worth shipping. That was the defining theme of the […]
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Engineering Leadership LIVE Event in San Francisco
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newsletter.eng-leadership.com
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1 month ago
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eng
Together with my friends from Augment Code, we are hosting a live event in San Francisco on May 26th!
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I was in a meeting a couple of years ago at a global life-sciences company where I spent 20 minutes explaining the limitations of FHIR. My role at the company was advising the technical architects as they put together their data flows and transformations, and incorporated FHIR into their systems. The reason I was on […]
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Some SQL operators are as esoteric as they’re powerful. One of the oldest operator that you’ve likely hardly ever used in real world applications is NATURAL JOIN which is the default in relational algebra. We’ve covered a funky use-case for NATURAL JOIN earlier on this blog. The main reason why it’s not very useful is … Continue reading Why JOIN USING Can Lead to Errors in SQL →
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Heavy AI Agents Are an Anti-Pattern: Why Fewer Agents With More Skills Wins
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www.dsebastien.net
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1 month ago
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eng
Heavy specialized AI agents are an anti-pattern. Fewer agents with deep skill libraries beat them on every axis that matters: cognitive load, flexibility, context budget, determinism, and maintenance
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Heavy AI Agents Are an Anti-Pattern: Why Fewer Agents With More Skills Wins
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www.dsebastien.net
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1 month ago
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eng
Heavy specialized AI agents are an anti-pattern. Fewer agents with deep skill libraries beat them on every axis that matters: cognitive load, flexibility, context budget, determinism, and maintenance
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We Gave Agents IDE-Native Search Tools. They Got Faster and Cheaper.
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blog.jetbrains.com
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1 month ago
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eng
We ran the same coding tasks with and without prebundled tooling, across multiple models and languages. Here’s what changed. Eval-driven development IDE-native search reduced latency, cost, and budget overruns. The comparison below uses paired task-level deltas. Aggregate medians and totals are shown for orientation. Budget overruns are tasks that exceeded the USD 0.50 per-task cap. […]
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Every weekday morning, someone on the AI team at incident.io kicks off our spend report skill. Claude pulls a dozen BigQuery queries, computes a 7-day baseline range for the KPIs we track, hunts for anomalies (runaway processors, mis-tagged spend, onboarding spikes) and posts a structured report into our #ai-costs-pulse channel. The skill exists because AI inference costs are growing fast and don’t reduce neatly to a single graph. Spen....
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Comment on Bean Machine Retrospective, part 9 by Nicole Thompson
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ericlippert.com
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1 month ago
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eng
Hey everyone, caught me at the right moment — This cleared up a lot of confusion for me. Keep them coming!
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If you’ve been connected to the internet for a while, you’ve surely heard of AI Agent Skills. They teach your agent to do this and that. You might have even used or written a couple of them yourself. If you aren’t yet familiar with them, the idea is simple: Instead of prompting instructions for a […]
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Sawe pod dvě hodiny, Assefaová nový rekord: Londýn šokoval
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obcansky-tydenik.cz
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1 month ago
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ces
Sebastian Sawe stal se prvním běžcem pod 2 hodiny (1:59:30). Tigst Assefaová vylepšila světový rekord žen (2:15:41). Londýnský maraton zaznamenal historické zlomy.
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How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot
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www.theregister.com
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1 month ago
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eng
Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.
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This post is part of the Game Boy series (#10). In my last post , I wrote about how retroachievements.org works, and I am currently creating achievement for the GameBoy game Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs. When I started out, I couldn't find any maps for the game, which is a pity, because a good achievement set should cover (to some extent) all of the available content of a game, including secret areas etc. Normally, VGmaps.com ....
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Each morning I look over my work calendar and make a series of verbal requests: Set a timer for 9:59 Set a timer for 10:59 Set a timer for 11:29 Set a timer for 1:29 Set a timer for 2:29 Why? I do not want to miss any meetings. I will miss occasional meetings if I'm not notified. I want to keep my phone on silent. I don't reliably notice my phone vibrating. While I do notice a smartwatch vibrating, I can't we....
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