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Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no topic has been more polarising than AI coding agents. What I keep noticing is that a lot of the criticism directed at these tools is perfectly legitimate, but it often comes from people without a meaningful amount ....
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Hacking a Cheap PIR Night Light Into Something Actually Useful
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www.atomic14.com
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5 months ago
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eng
I’ve been picking up a whole bunch of these motion sensitive night lights and, let’s just say, they haven’t been great. The range is poor, the battery life is nowhere near the advertised “charge it four times a year”, and the timeout is so short it’s not even enough time to get to the toilet. I thought it might be interesting to crack one open and see if I could improve it. I’ve got both flavours — round ones and oval ones — and ....
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Hacking a Cheap PIR Night Light Into Something Actually Useful
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www.atomic14.com
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5 months ago
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eng
I’ve been picking up a whole bunch of these motion sensitive night lights and, let’s just say, they haven’t been great. The range is poor, the battery life is nowhere near the advertised “charge it four times a year”, and the timeout is so short it’s not even enough time to get to the toilet. I thought it might be interesting to crack one open and see if I could improve it. I’ve got both flavours — round ones and oval ones — and ....
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let's talk about embedded languages and language standards that are optimized for embedded usage i'm talking tiny c, mruby, micropython, lua, ETC i'm trying to school myself on embedded languages so I can truly have a solid toolkit for using the Ox64 by pine
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Get Oracle Partition High Values as VARCHAR2 types instead of LONG in Oracle 19c and earlier
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tanelpoder.com
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5 months ago
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eng
Here’s a little PL/SQL function create_partition_high_value_func.sql that allows you to write SQL queries against data dictionary for partition maintenance automation and examination operations, by converting the cumbersome LONG-datatype to VARCHAR2 on the fly. This approach works also on Oracle 19c and earlier versions. It runs a nested SQL query inside PL/SQL for every (owner, table, partition_name) tuple that your SQL passes into the..
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Get Oracle Partition High Values as VARCHAR2 types instead of LONG in Oracle 19c and earlier
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tanelpoder.com
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5 months ago
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eng
Here’s a little PL/SQL function create_partition_high_value_func.sql that allows you to write SQL queries against data dictionary for partition maintenance automation and examination operations, by converting the cumbersome LONG-datatype to VARCHAR2 on the fly. This approach works also on Oracle 19c and earlier versions. It runs a nested SQL query inside PL/SQL for every (owner, table, partition_name) tuple that your SQL passes into the..
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From Reddit I learn that a new generation of LLM bots is getting really really good at finding exploitable vulnerabilities in large C codebases, and making exploits for them. Good. Maybe it will result in the destruction of the entire C-based software industry before the LLM industry self-immolates. Slight snag: it may take human civilisation with it. I am vaguely working towards some kind of overall Liam's Theory of Software thin....
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What goes into managing a major project? What techniques can you employ for a project that's in crisis? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Discover the seven habits that set high-performing data teams apart—from treating data as a product to ensuring data trust, quality, and decision impact. Learn how leading teams scale reliable data systems.
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Insights from NVIDIA Research | NVIDIA GTC - YouTube Talk by Bill Dally at GTC 2026. Low latency decode at right end of pareto: At concurrency 1, generation of 1 token touches all the weights of the model and the results have to be updated all through the model. So, bandwidth (data movement) and latency (communication) limited. High efficiency decode at left end of pareto: energy (data movement) limited. Key limiter of LLM decode on GPU i....
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Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that number. Lift more weight. Run this far under that time.
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Sharing Tailwind CSS Styles Across Apps in a PNPM Workspaces Nx Monorepo
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nx.dev
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5 months ago
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eng
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How the Rise of Fascism and the ICE Terror Highlights the Role of the Chican@ Movement
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www.prisoncensorship.info
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5 months ago
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eng
How the Rise of Fascism and the ICE Terror Highlights the Role of the Chican@ Movement by Communist Party of Aztlán April 2026 permalink [Editor: This essay was originally penned in summer of 2025 around the time MIM(Prisons) also recognized the Amerikan imperialists had chosen the fascist path . It remains a relevant call as the legal struggles against Amerikan fascism are not over, and the preparations for the next stages a....
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Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that number. Lift more weight. Run this far under that time.
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Governing Security in the Age of Infinite Signal – From Discovery to Control
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snyk.io
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5 months ago
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eng
AI can find vulnerabilities at scale, but enterprise security now depends on control, validation, and governance that can keep up.
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In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. “Zero nines uptime”? 99.99% uptime, or “four nines”, is a common industry standard. Four nines of uptime is equivalent to 1.008 minutes of downtime per week. GitHub is not meeting that, and it’s frustrating. Even though they’re owned by Microsoft’s, one of the richest companies on earth, they aren’t clearing th....
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Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that number. Lift more weight. Run this far under that time.
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Swift and Kotlin Native Interfaces, Faster Base64, and More
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www.codenameone.com
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5 months ago
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eng
The biggest change this week is that native interfaces now support Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android.
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Climate science: Changes in the cryosphere and climate denialism [UU lecture notes]
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liza.io
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5 months ago
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eng
This lecture was given by Veijo Pohjola, Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala. He’s been working with glaciers for about 40 years. These are my rough notes and paraphrased questions/answers.
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The big question for science is: Does it stay on the ground in the jar, or does it form floating lumps?
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