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Verlyn Flieger on the late addition of Tolkien’s most iconic characters: Hobbits were no part of Tolkien’s original plan. They entered rather late and through a side door, as the unexpected central characters in a children’s story, The Hobbit which Tolkien invented for his own children but which found an immediate and lasting worldwide audience. And of which The Lord of the Rings was the commissioned, longed-awaited and trebly successf..
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Verlyn Flieger on the late addition of Tolkien’s most iconic characters: Hobbits were no part of Tolkien’s original plan. They entered rather late and through a side door, as the unexpected central characters in a children’s story, The Hobbit which Tolkien invented for his own children but which found an immediate and lasting worldwide audience. And of which The Lord of the Rings was the commissioned, longed-awaited and trebly successf..
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Verlyn Flieger on the late addition of Tolkien’s most iconic characters: Hobbits were no part of Tolkien’s original plan. They entered rather late and through a side door, as the unexpected central characters in a children’s story, The Hobbit which Tolkien invented for his own children but which found an immediate and lasting worldwide audience. And of which The Lord of the Rings was the commissioned, longed-awaited and trebly successf..
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Verlyn Flieger on the late addition of Tolkien’s most iconic characters: Hobbits were no part of Tolkien’s original plan. They entered rather late and through a side door, as the unexpected central characters in a children’s story, The Hobbit which Tolkien invented for his own children but which found an immediate and lasting worldwide audience. And of which The Lord of the Rings was the commissioned, longed-awaited and trebly successf..
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Table of Contents KIP-974: Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker With help of the GraalVM configuration developed for KIP-974 (Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker), you can easily build a self-contained native binary for Apache Kafka. Read on to learn how you can build a native Kafka executable yourself, starting in milli-seconds, making it a perfect fit for development and testing purposes. When ....
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Table of Contents KIP-974: Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker With help of the GraalVM configuration developed for KIP-974 (Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker), you can easily build a self-contained native binary for Apache Kafka. Read on to learn how you can build a native Kafka executable yourself, starting in milli-seconds, making it a perfect fit for development and testing purposes. When ....
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Little elephant company — 7 people working out of a random house — 2013 I know we haven’t paid you for 30 days, but would you be willing to float another month? No, sorry, I’m out. Ok, sad to see you are not loyal to the company. No pay, no work It was the end of 2013; I’d gone two paychecks without pay. The client still hadn’t paid, I wasn’t about to start working for free.
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Little elephant company — 7 people working out of a random house — 2013 I know we haven’t paid you for 30 days, but would you be willing to float another month? No, sorry, I’m out. Ok, sad to see you are not loyal to the company. No pay, no work It was the end of 2013; I’d gone two paychecks without pay. The client still hadn’t paid, I wasn’t about to start working for free.
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Fejtón o tom, ako sa podplatením nikoľkých organicácií, novinárov, lekárov a vedcov dá vyvolať falošná pandémia, nanútiť očkovanie na chorobu na ktorú sa neumiera a dobre na tom zarobiť. A ako sa to isté dá spraviť aj s dobytkom: pomocou rozširovania slintačky a krívačky.
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I went to the most fascinating lecture about the history of the nuclear bomb last week. I’m not even going to try to shorten my notes. I want to remember it in as much detail as I possibly can. As before, my own post-lecture note interjections are [L: Highlighted like this] (I also highlighted a couple of questions I’d asked during the lecture in the same format).
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Comment on Springsteen at the Main Point, Feb. 1975 by BillSaysThis: What is will be
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curmudgeon.cafe
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p>@billsaysthis.com
Brucebase entry for the show: http://brucebase.wikidot.com/1975#050275 |
Are you a big Springsteen fan like me? Then you already know this bootleg—heck I had a vinyl copy 45 years ago. If not, I can tell you this is a clean recording of a classic ‘75 show that took place a few months before Born to Run was released. One of the interesting aspects … Continue reading Springsteen at the Main Point, Feb. 1975
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Henceforth, when we feel the hammers of life beating on our heads or on our hearts, we can know – we must know – that he is here with us, taking our blows. Every tear we shed becomes his tear. He may not yet wipe them away, but he makes them his. Would we rather […]
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At GopherCon2023 I presented a talk about how I built a custom index for searchcode . In there somewhere I mentioned that having a visualization of how the search works is something I would like to add in. With some free time on a weekend rather than “wasting” time playing a game I decided to actually build it, and as is the current trend on the internet attempted to vide code it, at least for the UI portion anyway.
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DeepSeek + Inference-Time Scaling and Generalist Reward Modeling
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www.hlfshell.ai
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1 year ago
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DeepSeek released another cool paper expanding on reinforcement learning for LLM alignment. Building off of their prior work (which I talk about here), they introduce two new methods. The first - Rejective Fine-Tuning (RFT) - They have a pre-trained model produce N responses. Then the collected responses are combined in a prompt wherein the model is instructed to produce principles for evaluating the responses, critiques of each response, a..
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Back in the Europe (Issue #199) 2025-04-05 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition : Politics, detention centers, deportations, AI, tariffs, crypto, dev environments on Android, peace, love, and back in wonderful Europe :) Issue details: Title: Back in the Europe Issue: 199 Page: issue webpage Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #
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Kate Bowler hosts the “Everything Happens” podcast, and has also written a book of “blessings”. I can’t remember how I stumbled across this one, but I did, at a time when I was in the depths of carer’s burnout. It resonated with me more than almost anything else I’d read before (or since!) about how […]
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Moving beyond triple-bracket kernel launches to production-ready CUDA: proper error handling, CUDA Driver API, cooperative groups, and inline PTX for robust GPU code.
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At last, here’s the final installment of the JIT calculator saga! In previous blog posts, I presented the JIT calculator challenge and followed up with my own solution. Today we’ll get to look back on the submissions sent by some readers who were nerd-sniped into cracking the puzzle. As you can imagine, people are creative and came up with things I didn’t expect, like using Cranelift to generate code… That was a pleasant surprise!
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Moving beyond triple-bracket kernel launches to production-ready CUDA: proper error handling, CUDA Driver API, cooperative groups, and inline PTX for robust GPU code.
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How come Linux replaced Unix? What happened to proprietary Unix?
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liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org
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The personal histories involved are highly relevant and they are one of the things that get forgotten in boring grey corporate histories. Bill Gates didn't get lucky: he got a leg up from mum & dad, and was nasty and rapacious and fast, and clawed his way to industry dominance. On the way he climbed over Gary Kildall of Digital Research and largely obliterated DR. Ray Noorda of Novell was the big boss of the flourishing Mormon ....
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Supervisors Often Prefer Rule Breakers – Up to a Point (Michael Bratsis)
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If you get caught breaking the rules, it’s not going to go well with the boss, right? Wrong. Research by AOM scholars shows that in many cases, supervisors are likely to reward people who intentionally break rules. (…) When we think about people breaking the rules, we often
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Bootstrap v5.3.5 was released as a hotfix for a regression from upstream in Autoprefixer that caused floating form labels to always be “floated” in Firefox due to unintended CSS output. Read the GitHub v5.3.5 changelog for a full list of changes (including a ton of documentation and dependency updates) in this release. Get the release Head to https://getbootstrap.com for the latest. It’s also been pushed to npm: npm i bootstra..
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Choosing Wisely: for vs. forEach in Kotlin (A Thinking Dev’s Perspective)
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blog.blundellapps.co.uk
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1 year ago
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The forEach loop, are you using it without thinking? In Kotlin, empirically forEach is often the go-to loop, it’s pragmatically close at reach in the IDE auto-complete, but is it always the right choice? This… Read more of Choosing Wisely: for vs. forEach in Kotlin (A Thinking Dev’s Perspective) → The post Choosing Wisely: for vs. forEach in Kotlin (A Thinking Dev’s Perspective) first appeared on Blundell .
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What are the current Python graphical user interface libraries? Should you build everything in the terminal and create a text-based user interface instead? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Der Kahlschlag – Nach einem Kahlschlag herrscht meist gähnende Leere. Und selten wächst dort später noch einmal etwas.
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Microsoft just turned 50. I also just themed XFCE running on the Ubuntu that powers my personal Surface Laptop to Chicago95 . Don’t ask. I went the extra mile to make it do the start music.
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Early post-war computing can often seem alien as terminology mixed metaphors and the pioneers brought their own distinct toolsets to the field. Thus, it seems fitting that a powerful influence on computing design would come from a “Martian”: John von Neumann. During the war, von Neumann surveyed computing capabilities within the United States, which introduced him to the ENIAC and the Harvard Mark I. Von Neumann joined as a consultant to th....
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Early post-war computing can often seem alien as terminology mixed metaphors and the pioneers brought their own distinct toolsets to the field. Thus, it seems fitting that a powerful influence on computing design would come from a “Martian”: John von Neumann. During the war, von Neumann surveyed computing capabilities within the United States, which introduced him to the ENIAC and the Harvard Mark I. Von Neumann joined as a consultant to th....
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Nu är det äntligen balkongdags! I helgen fick jag lite (ok, mycket) hjälp med att fixa golvet på min balkong. En jättetrevlig kille kom med sina handyman-skills och sågade till några träplattor så att de passade längs kanterna där en hel platta inte fick plats.
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Bootstrap v5.3.4 is here with several bug fixes and a load of documentation updates. Here are a handful of highlights from the CSS and JS changes: Fixed modal and offcanvas headers collapsing when any padding variables were set to 0. Fixed close button display in color modes. Fixed light mode carousel when in dark mode. Updated floating labels for better
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