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Flights Introduction During an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigation, there are occasions when tracking an aircraft associated with…
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Melvin Conway has a law that I’ve heard thrown about throughout my career building applications and backend systems. Verbatim it states: Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. Or, put simpler - your system/product/service/software reflects the organization of teams interacting with and building it. I’ve seen this play out ov..
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I’ve been fascinated about the rise of AI. However, for the most of the part, it feels like magic. I like to get to the bottom fo the things as much as possible. My favorite courses at CS Undergrad were Digital Design, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems and Networking, and I was in the 1% in them (except networking, damn Electronics students). I liked them very much. Though my father taught me Visual Basic and databases when I was aro..
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Create Your First Real Estate Lead-Capturing Chatbot Using Voiceflow and Python Flask
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blog.adnansiddiqi.me
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2 years ago
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eng
Introduction Chatbots are essential tools because they make communication between people and technology much easier. These clever programs can answer questions, provide helpful information, and even assist with tasks. In various fields like real estate, chatbots play a crucial role by engaging with potential clients, enhancing user experience, and helping businesses capture valuable leads. They’re like smart assistants who work around the c....
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Congrats Matt. Wow, Twins! It is obvious you are loving being a Dad and partner! It is so transformative. Best wishes to you, Lindsay, and the boys as you navigate parenthood.
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We watched Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron yesterday at the theatre, and I liked it. The official plot goes like this: A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. Unsurprisingly, the animation is stunning, and the complex story is beautifully narrated. Mahito Maki, the protagonist, is a kid grappling wi..
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Professor Ethan Mollick’s Signs and Portents analyzes what AI has achieved, what the effects have been so far, and what we might expect in 2024. To ground ourselves, we can start with two quotes that should inform any estimates about the future. The first is Amara’s Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Social change is slower than technological change...
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Every major city in the USA provides transportation as a public service. 1 Not only streets, but also vehicles , with professionals who drive them, and anyone can ride these vehicles, for a price between free and cheap! And it’s not intended only a service for the poor: transit agencies encourage everyone to ride.
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This is the Programming Employment thread, which exists for all general discussion regarding the topic. All discussion of employment not superseded by any more specific thread topic which isn't concerned with employment belongs in this thread. Do not create any threads for discussing employment, or they will be locked. It would be appropriate to discuss employment concerning a single language here, or in a thread dedicated to that lang..
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Today we’re announcing Mach nominated Zig versions, a sweet-spot between stable Zig and nightly Zig which offers a different balance of latest-and-greatest features and fixes, and less of a moving target. If you are in the Zig community, you likely fall into one of two categories: You target Zig nightly, a target which moves every day You target Zig stable, which may be released once or twice per year. The challenge of using Zig stable....
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Today we’re announcing Mach nominated Zig versions, a sweet-spot between stable Zig and nightly Zig which offers a different balance of latest-and-greatest features and fixes, and less of a moving target. If you are in the Zig community, you likely fall into one of two categories: You target Zig nightly, a target which moves every day You target Zig stable, which may be released once or twice per year. The challenge of using Zig stable....
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I have tried every productivity system imaginable, pairing them with every conceivable app out there, spending countless hours tuning dials and configuring things just the way I need “to get work done.” For many years, Todoist was my go-to tool. However, I decided to transition away due to concerns about data sovereignty. In my quest for the perfect system, I set up countless rules, reminders, and filters. But eventually, I realized I w....
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I don’t know what it tells about me, but I have a soft spot for prank calls. My guilty pleasure is listening to the prank call show Phone Losers of America. In the show, the host Brad calls up unsuspecting people with bizarre stories to get a reaction out of them. He’s done it for decades, which you can tell from his ability of giving his victims a hard time on the phone while remaining totally cool himself.
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I don’t know what it tells about me, but I have a soft spot for prank calls. My guilty pleasure is listening to the prank call show Phone Losers of America. In the show, the host Brad calls up unsuspecting people with bizarre stories to get a reaction out of them. He’s done it for decades, which you can tell from his ability of giving his victims a hard time on the phone while remaining totally cool himself.
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I don’t know what it tells about me, but I have a soft spot for prank calls. My guilty pleasure is listening to the prank call show Phone Losers of America. In the show, the host Brad calls up unsuspecting people with bizarre stories to get a reaction out of them. He’s done it for decades, which you can tell from his ability of giving his victims a hard time on the phone while remaining totally cool himself.
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I hope everyone had a good first week of 2024! I set some New Year’s resolutions this year (like I have in the past ). We’ll see how they stick — I’ve tried to make them vague enough that they’ll be difficult to objectively “fail” at, but only time will tell. Anyways, on to the links: Flakes aren’t real and cannot hurt you : This was one of the best technical posts I’ve read in a while. I mentioned in my post that Flakes were the ....
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is an intimate novel, exploring the boundaries of what makes us ‘human’. We follow Klara, an…
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Vagabonding by Rolf Potts was an inspirational read recommended to me by a friend, who after suggesting it, went and applied some…
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Everything I Know about Love by Dolly Alderton was a fascinating read of her life, navigating through relationships and friendships…
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In October, I had recently gone through the end of my first and only relationship, and it was one where I felt regret…
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy transports you to a world where the air is sticky with overly ripe fruit, nestled in the…
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Homecoming was a touching multi-generational account of the lives of Elfie Shiosaki’s family. Throughout the text, there was a…
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How to use bash to recursively search and replace a string in all directory files
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nicolaiarocci.com
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2 years ago
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Another achievement I unlocked with the recent website update is the newsletter switch from Substack to a fantastic and independent provider, Buttondown . That required updating all the “subscribe to my newsletter” links. We’re talking 5K posts, all saved as individual files in the same directory. The bash command that did that for me is: find content/post/*.md -type f -exec \ sed -i .bak 's|https://nicolaiarocci.substack.....
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While occasionally simplistic and revisionist, The Company is a fascinating foray into the history of human organization, corporate profits, and human society. An interesting reminder that things have not always been the way they are, humanity pushes forward through progress and chaos alike, and shows that even in the largest bureaucratic machines in the world, any choice can be traced back to an individual.
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It could be due to my curating the top design tricks and techniques from places like GSkinner and VeryGoodVentures. Continue reading on Medium »
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Every year, I get asked, “How many CVEs do you think will be published this year?“ I am always willing to take a guess, but last year, I read Time Series Forecasting in Python. As I started to read more about the Kalman Filter, I figured it would work great for predicting CVE growth, so I built a simple model to test it out. 2024 Prediction My 2024 CVE model using the Kalman Filter is predicting 32,600 published CVEs. Here is the monthly br....
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For the first time in ages we had a family night at the cinema to see the film “One Life”. It is unusual for my wife and I to agree on a film to watch, let alone the kids as well!
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