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Why is my kitchen so clean? - Byte Tank If you had a video call with me, if you happened to see my videos, or if you visited my flat, odds are that a question came up to your mind.
Login with PDF Yesterday I saw this satire video on on Reddit showcasing a web application that offers an extensive list of sign in connectors. Among them there is an option that allows you to login with a pdf.
Why we haven't seen a Stripe-sized company in analytics | Riso Group Insights Exploring why the analytics industry hasn't produced a Stripe-sized company despite massive market opportunity, and how OpenAI's $1.1B Statsig acquisition could change everything.
Education in a Post Text World » Anand Sanwal Kids are not reading as much. Instead of fighting it, we should embrace our post text world.
How do LLMs work? What actually goes on inside an LLM to make it calculate probabilities for the next token?
StringWa.rs on GPUs: Databases & Bioinformatics 🦠 I’ve just shipped StringZilla v4, the first CUDA-capable release of my SIMD-first string processing library. Which in English means that it is now fast not only on CPUs, but also on GPUs! I’ve wanted to add ROCm-acceleration for AMD GPUs 🤦♂️ I’ve wante...
Upgrading By Downgrading Article written by <br>I've started to notice a sort of trend in today's society. It's becoming a sort of counter-culture in a way. We are choosing to regre...
Supporting our AI overlords: Redesigning data systems to be Agent-first This Berkeley systems group paper opens with the thesis that LLM agents will soon dominate data system workloads. These agents, acting on b...
Leveling up hurts I quit the startup before Figma after just 3 months. It’s not on my LinkedIn so you can’t look it up. It wasn’t the right role for me but I went for it, partly due to the higher pay. They offered way more than I made previously, which turned out to be pre...
Don't Optimize Everything - mr-stingy Optimization takes the magic out of life (when taken too far). Don't optimize everything. Make space to live.
How they tested video games in the nineties - Spillhistorie.no We interviewed old school game tester Robert Zalot about his time at Epyx and in EA's GOD Squad.
Dmitry Chekanov, full stack JavaScript developer Full stack JavaScript developer. Independent contractor.
We are starting a company to rethink email Email is the same as 20 years ago. Time for something better.
Take Home Interviews in the Era of Claude Back in 2023 I came up with our first take-home interview assignment: build a full-stack Secret Santa app that supports multiple users and groups. It proved to be an effective engineering screen. It tested SQL and denormalization, authentication, React, b...
How To Review Code That Deals With Money You're probably focusing on the wrong things. It doesn't look as good as you think.
How to Motivate Yourself To Do A Thing You Don't Want to Do Learn some ways to help encourage action when you feel unmotivated.
YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers In a new post, YouTube acknowledges creator complaints regarding lower view counts, which may be caused by ad blockers based on new data.
Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.
Fight Chat Control (@chatcontrol@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED. Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting....
Apple Photos App Corrupts Images The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it,...
Procedural Island Generation (III) Adding multi-scale noise layers, mountain distance fields, and elevation blending to create detailed terrain from the paint map foundation.
DOOM crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware Two and a half years ago, I started my now longest real-world software experiment. I had read an article about how DOOMs engine works and noticed how a variable
How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter Designed in Austria, Noctua's premium cooling components are renowned for their superb quietness, exceptional performance and thoroughgoing quality.
GitHub - Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive: A deep dive into the ACPI.sys DPC latency problems on Asus ROG laptops A deep dive into the ACPI.sys DPC latency problems on Asus ROG laptops - Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive
About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5 - Apple Support This document describes the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5.