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Nostalgia for the past has supplanted our yearnings for the future, becoming the default marketing tool for corporations. Instead of asking ‘what’s new?’, they ask ‘what have we done before that you liked?’. This trend transcends marketing tactics, reflecting a destabilizing era of remakes and reboots. Crucially, nostalgia is a finite resource, and its exhaustion bears unknown consequences. Jean Baudrillard’s notions of simulacra and simu..
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A step-by-step approach on resolving memory issues I experienced at work, leading to an 84% reduction in memory usage with no adverse impacts on the product.
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I want to capture my thoughts around this experience… First, I know living on an island is a different experience than, say, the mainland but having to drive to Hilo for the surgeries and also drive home to Kona right after the second one is pretty annoying since Viv isn’t capable of doing the driving. … Continue reading Cataract Surgery
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Microblog: Focus op je belangrijkste taken met de meeste impact
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andrewchen.substack.com
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2 years ago
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Andrew Chen deelt op zijn substack het idee van ‘10x work’. Dat zijn taken die 10 keer zoveel impact heeft als andere klusjes. Dus in plaats van dat je de hele dag druk bent met reactieve dingen, zoals het beantwoorden van mailtjes of het bijwonen van onbelangrijke vergaderingen, verleg je de focus naar het maken/doen van nieuwe dingen. Zoals hij zelf zegt: “Agency and ownership rule the day, and this is why “Send email to X” is stronger th..
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Read thoughts from our Vice President of Product Marketing after his time at RSA Conference 2024, including his thoughts on proactive security.
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I’m starting my third year as a PhD student. I thought it would be good to look back on some of the things that have helped me to this point. I study programming languages, but I imagine these things will help anyone in computer science—and some might have application to other STEM fields as well. There are many softer skills that you need as a PhD student: curiosity, good work ethic, organization, etc. These are essential and nothing c....
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I’m starting my third year as a PhD student. I thought it would be good to look back on some of the things that have helped me to this point. I study programming languages, but I imagine these things will help anyone in computer science—and some might have application to other STEM fields as well. There are many softer skills that you need as a PhD student: curiosity, good work ethic, organization, etc. These are essential and nothing c....
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Right now I'm using the stock Gboard for my phone keyboard but I want to switch to a keyboard that doesn't track me. I went looking at the options and I see a ton of options. Is heliboard the best option? Are there better options for privacy? I was hoping we could have a thread where people talk about their experience and the overall usability of the multitude of keyboard options available right now. Are any of these options actually pri..
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I usually talk about the things that I do that were successful. Today I want to discuss something that I tried but failed at. Documenting failed approaches is just as important, though less enjoyable, as documenting what we excel at. In order to explain the failure, I need to get a bit deeper into how computers handle memory. There is physical memory, the RAM sticks that you have in your machine, and then there is how the OS and CPU presen....
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The Tour de France arrives yearly and this time NBC (Peacock) decided to no longer offer the World Feed.
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At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
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At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
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I’m encountering a somewhat controversial dilemma…in a few words: I can either write about what I’ve done, or I can do something. Let me put it this way: I’m often caught between doing (new) things and writing about them. Honestly, I’d rather dive into solving problems and making improvements than document what I’ve done, due to this, as soon as I solve one problem, my mind jumps to a next thing, which means I rarely stop to take my time ..
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I’m encountering a somewhat controversial dilemma…in a few words: I can either write about what I’ve done, or I can do something. Let me put it this way: I’m often caught between doing (new) things and writing about them. Honestly, I’d rather dive into solving problems and making improvements than document what I’ve done, due to this, as soon as I solve one problem, my mind jumps to a next thing, which means I rarely stop to take my time ..
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After 14 Years of Cantarell, GNOME is Testing a New Default Font
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www.omglinux.com
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2 years ago
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eng
When GNOME 47 is released later this year it may come with a new desktop font. Well, not new new, so don’t get too excited. We’re talking new to GNOME,... The post After 14 Years of Cantarell, GNOME is Testing a New Default Font is from OMG! Linux and reproduction without permission is, like, a nope.
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Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story about a mathematical problem I … Continue reading →
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Introduction Link to heading I’ve probably spent way too much time writing about cherry trees already (see Growing a cherry tree on a north-facing balcony 2019-2021 ). That said, I’d like to quickly jot down a few more notes, before hopefully wrapping up the topic once and for all:-) 2022 Link to heading We had a new roof installed in 2022, which was a big job involving scaffolding all the way up both sides of th..
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This year has seen a resurgence in really high quality systems programming meetups. Munich Database Meetup , Berlin Systems Group , SF Distributed Systems Meetup , NYC Systems , Bengaluru Systems , to name a few. This post summarizes a bit of disappointing recent tech meetup history, the new trend of excellent systems programming meetups, and ends with some encouragement and guidance for running your own systems programming events. ....
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Introduction Link to heading I’ve probably spent way too much time writing about cherry trees already (see Growing a cherry tree on a north-facing balcony 2019-2021 ). That said, I’d like to quickly jot down a few more notes, before hopefully wrapping up the topic once and for all:-) 2022 Link to heading We had a new roof installed in 2022, which was a big job involving scaffolding all the way up both sides of th..
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back to Smart Home overview A while ago my power net company installed new smart power meters, specifically the Iskra MT681 . It has a standardized infrared interface to get some data from it. There are different designs available to attach a microcontroller, both open-source and commercial. I've gone the lazy route and bought one from eBay . Unfortunately the meter is mounted in the basemet of my apartment building, too ....
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back to Smart Home overview A while ago my power net company installed new smart power meters, specifically the Iskra MT681 . It has a standardized infrared interface to get some data from it. There are different designs available to attach a microcontroller, both open-source and commercial. I've gone the lazy route and bought one from eBay . Unfortunately the meter is mounted in the basemet of my apartment building, too ....
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Shell Spell: Extracting and Propagating Multiple Values With jq
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www.morling.dev
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2 years ago
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eng
In my day job at Decodable , I am currently working with Terraform to provision some cloud infrastructure for an upcoming hands-on lab. Part of this set-up is a Postgres database on Amazon RDS, which I am creating using the Terraform AWS modules . Now, once my database was up and running, I wanted to extract two dynamically generated values from Terraform: the random password created for the root user, and the database host URL. On my way..
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Shell Spell: Extracting and Propagating Multiple Values With jq
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www.morling.dev
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2 years ago
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eng
In my day job at Decodable , I am currently working with Terraform to provision some cloud infrastructure for an upcoming hands-on lab. Part of this set-up is a Postgres database on Amazon RDS, which I am creating using the Terraform AWS modules . Now, once my database was up and running, I wanted to extract two dynamically generated values from Terraform: the random password created for the root user, and the database host URL. On my way..
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Surrounded By Paperclip Maximisers (Issue #171) 2024-07-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition: US EU French and UK Politics, music industry & AI, money problems in developing nations Issue details: Title: Surrounded By Paperclip Maximisers Issue: 171 Page: issue webpage Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #
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This is kind of a followup post to Using a Mac Mini as a bedroom PC for Kodi, Moonlight and YouTube . It's been nearly a year since I set up a Mac Mini as my one-stop-shop for all multimedia related tasks in the bedroom. It's generally worked well, and both streaming media, games, general web browsing and PC usage has been smooth. You're rolling around in bed, playing video games, watching YouTube, or maybe the freshest episode of Sm....
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Ep. 2: Mastering LLM Integration with Go and Prediction Guard
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www.ardanlabs.com
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2 years ago
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eng
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 2 of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this segment, Daniel dives into the practical aspects of working with large language models (LLMs) using the Go programming language and the Prediction Guard API. Accessing LLMs: Learn how to set up and connect to hosted models using the Go client for Prediction Guard. Prompt Engineering: Discover how to create effective prompts and configure parameters like ..
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Reading code is a Skill (with a capital letter, yes) that is really important for developers. You cannot be a good developer without it. Today I want to talk about one aspect of this. The ability to go into an unfamiliar codebase and extract one piece of information out. The idea is that we don’t need to understand the entire system, grok the architecture, etc. I want to understand one thing about it and get away as soon as I can. For e....
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Reading code is a Skill (with a capital letter, yes) that is really important for developers. You cannot be a good developer without it. Today I want to talk about one aspect of this. The ability to go into an unfamiliar codebase and extract one piece of information out. The idea is that we don’t need to understand the entire system, grok the architecture, etc. I want to understand one thing about it and get away as soon as I can. For e....
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Does Python round numbers the same way you learned back in math class? You might be surprised by the default method Python uses and the variety of ways to round numbers in Python. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Since lots of people come looking for the Arduino Uno technical drawing, I decided to make a drawing with the main dimensions of the Wemos ESP32 as well. It’s probably the same as the D1 and other Lolin / Wemos … Continue reading →
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Since lots of people come looking for the Arduino Uno technical drawing, I decided to make a drawing with the main dimensions of the Arduino MKR1000 as well. It’s based off the CAD-model by Johannes Funk on GrabCAD.
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Since lots of people come looking for the Arduino Uno technical drawing, I decided to make a drawing with the main dimensions of the Arduino Mega as well. It’s based off the CAD-model by Augustine Aelevanthara on GrabCAD.
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I love that browsers are now shipping new CSS features that may not necessarily have been fully baked yet behind feature flags. I can't actually pinpoint the…
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