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There’s an issue with Linux that doesn’t get much attention: its strong reliance on the internet. To install distributions like Arch or Gentoo, an active internet connection is required, since essential components such as the kernel, graphics drivers, and other packages must be downloaded during installation. Linux ecosystem heavily depends on package managers, which fetch applications from online repositories. While formats like Flat....
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They say traveling broadens the mind. I am on an extended vacation in Europe, seeing wonderful new vistas, trying new foods, meeting interesting people, connecting to strange Wifi networks...... and...
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My start to the day using the new task based workflow: Me: So lets get started with task-001.03 - Can you gove a short 1 paragraph summary of where we are within in the fuller parent task (task-001), just so we remember what we are doing, at a high level. Gemini: Of course. It's great to be back at it. At a high level, we are in the middle of a significant refactor (task-001) to align the frontend with modern architectural guide....
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The FC/FC Chasm: Why Teaching Programming Still Matters
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blog.charliemeyer.co
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10 months ago
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Background In Fall 2013, I enrolled in Comp 11, my college’s intro programming course. I had intended on studying political science, but “computer” quickly replaced "political" and I’ve been coding ever since. After that first semester, I spent considerable time as a TA for Comp 11 and other courses. By the time I’d left college, I had spent hundreds of hours working with novice programmers. Being a TA was the best job I’ve ever had. Fast....
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When you dive into the world of large language models and artificial intelligence, one of the chief concerns you’ll run into is security. There are several different aspects we need to consider when we want to start using a model in our systems: What does the model do with the data we give it? Will it use it for any other purposes? Do we have to worry about privacy from the model? This is especially relevant when you talk about compliance....
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When you dive into the world of large language models and artificial intelligence, one of the chief concerns you’ll run into is security. There are several different aspects we need to consider when we want to start using a model in our systems: What does the model do with the data we give it? Will it use it for any other purposes? Do we have to worry about privacy from the model? This is especially relevant when you talk about compliance....
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Give some good reading resources for SELINUX. Want my setup with MAC and dedicated user for chat client. Distribution is a RHEL variant.
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The corporate AI catch-22: move fast and break things, or move slow and get disrupted. Lessons from real-world AI enablement.
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I just released version 1.5.0 of Emacs Bedrock —a super minimal starter kit for Emacs. This is a minor change: I’ve fixed a few bugs and added a package or two to some of the optional config files under extras/. Bedrock’s philosophy and updating # Unlike some starter kits, Bedrock isn’t meant to be updated in any systematic way: you copy Bedrock’s config files once, and then you modify them to your liking. Why? Bedrock is meant....
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I just released version 1.5.0 of Emacs Bedrock —a super minimal starter kit for Emacs. This is a minor change: I’ve fixed a few bugs and added a package or two to some of the optional config files under extras/. Bedrock’s philosophy and updating # Unlike some starter kits, Bedrock isn’t meant to be updated in any systematic way: you copy Bedrock’s config files once, and then you modify them to your liking. Why? Bedrock is meant....
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I’m back in Uppsala after two back-to-back road trips - one to Jönköping, and another to Tiveden followed by some Dalarna exploration. I doodled on my reMarkable tablet through the trip, and figured I’d break this post up with my unfinished sketches.
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A retelling of the initial encounter in Tenoxtitlan between the Aztecs and the Spanish. I found it a bit hard to get into this book. Translations are always tough since translators are rarely as skilled with words as the original authors and there’s two levels of intention and meaning to work through. One thing I did enjoy was how Moctezuma and Cortés, both giant historical figures, were brought down to human scale through their point-of-..
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A retelling of the initial encounter in Tenoxtitlan between the Aztecs and the Spanish. I found it a bit hard to get into this book. Translations are always tough since translators are rarely as skilled with words as the original authors and there’s two levels of intention and meaning to work through. One thing I did enjoy was how Moctezuma and Cortés, both giant historical figures, were brought down to human scale through their point-of-..
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In reply to Nicholas. @Nicholas I finally figured out a workaround for communicating what I need back to MATLAB in version 2024b using javascript in the HTML browser. Since I was able to get that to work, I next needed to get it compiled. It worked for me to just replace both the jar and jarext folders in the "C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB ....
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In reply to Nicholas. @Nicholas I finally figured out a workaround for communicating what I need back to MATLAB in version 2024b using javascript in the HTML browser. Since I was able to get that to work, I next needed to get it compiled. It worked for me to just replace both the jar and jarext folders in the "C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB ....
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Neuromancer has become more than just an influential novel; it’s now the blueprint for the entire Cyberpunk genre. Even if you’ve never read it, you’ve felt its impact in nearly every major sci-fi film, TV show, anime, and video game of the past 40 years. Gibson didn’t invent cyberpunk, but he defined it. He created the lexicon—cyberspace, matrix, sprawl—that shaped how we imagine our digital future. Reading Neuromancer for the very fir..
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Everyone’s either panicking that AI will replace them or assuming they don’t need to learn anything anymore. Both miss the point entirely. AI amplifies what you already know. If you understand distributed systems, you’ll use AI to build better ones. If you don’t, you’ll use AI to create distributed disasters. The difference? When that AI-generated code breaks in production — and it will — you need to know why. When it doesn’t scale — a..
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I have two types of journals for work: a small-ish disc-bound one for time-based task planning, and a second for notes and research. The first one is a 5x7 I just got from the dollar store. It turns out they have a bunch that work just fine. Each morning I write out the hours and mark in the meetings I have. I wrote down what I'll say at the Standup (= what I'm working on). During the day I plot each task as it's being done in 15-minute i....
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Using ublock origin, we can block the pesty Google SSO popup that seems to be added to random websites all over right now. Head to the uBlock origin settings, the “My Filters” tab and paste the following: 1 || id.google.com^ 2 || accounts.google.com/gsi/$3p 3 || smartlock.google.com^ 4 ! Block "Sign in with Google" iframe in top right corner of websites || accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe et voila: no more SSO..
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong–and What You Really Need to Know . By Emily Oster. 328 pages. When Emily Oster found out she was pregnant, she immediately began researching the best ways to take care of her child in utero. On the internet, there are a lot of opinions and not a lot of data, even among the medical community. For example, she wanted a cup of coffee but didn’t know if it would affect her baby.....
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Discover how Snyk's Security R&D Group integrates AI agents to enhance the Snyk Vulnerability Database. Learn how we ensure timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and actionability in open source security intelligence.
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How a Hibernate deprecation log message made our Java backend service super slow
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ounapuu.ee
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10 months ago
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eng
It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic 1 backend service that my team was responsible for. We took great precautions with these types of changes due to the scale of the system, splitting changes into as many small parts as possible and releasing them as often as possible. With bigger changes we opted for running a few instances of the new version in parallel to the existing one. Then came Hibernate 5.2. Hibernat....
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When comparing REST and GraphQL, it’s not just about payload size, flexibility, or tooling. The real distinction is in how you design your API. REST is centered around resources, with endpoints like createUserGroup or getUserProfile. GraphQL shifts the focus to capabilities, encouraging more semantically rich mutations like groupJoin, which are disconnected from the underlying datastore and instead represent meaningful actions within your..
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Introducing a new type of Quest reward: Discord Orbs! Earn them by completing Quests and redeem them in the Shop for hundreds of different items — including Discord Nitro credit. Available on desktop and mobile.
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Originally published in 2019, this article is part two of a three-part series exploring Go’s garbage collector. Though the Go runtime has continued to evolve, the performance principles covered here remain highly relevant today. This installment focuses on practical techniques for analyzing and reducing garbage collection (GC) overhead in real-world Go applications. It walks through how to interpret GC traces using GODEBUG=gctrace=1 and unc..
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On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data system containing an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a bitemporal database. Because? Because laying about on a hammock, contemplating hopelessly complected objects like Current Databases isn't just for the Ri..
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Prime Day just happened, so I wanted to grab the Chase Amazon Prime Visa while the bonus was higher than normal.
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When comparing REST and GraphQL, it’s not just about payload size, flexibility, or tooling. The real distinction is in how you design your API. REST is centered around resources, with endpoints like createUserGroup or getUserProfile. GraphQL shifts the focus to capabilities, encouraging more semantically rich mutations like groupJoin, which are disconnected from the underlying datastore and instead represent meaningful actions within your..
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If I had the budget/compute power and time to research anything at the moment, this is what I would try researching. It’ll make sense in a bit, I swear. The Problem Training robotic policies to perform complex tasks is incredibly difficult. We have some success with generalist policies and existing reinforcement learning research, but they typically have limits on what they can accomplish. The Routing Agent Architecture A common patte..
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