29 March 2023

37 links · Wednesday

The Metaverse - Doumer's Blog

The metaverse, a new world where everything is possible. Today, we talk about this new industry and we cover the blockchain projects on it

Le Metaverse - Doumer's Blog

Le métavers, un nouveau monde où tout est possible. Ici, nous parlons de cette nouvelle industrie et nous couvrons ses projets blockchain

Alien - Emergency Destruct System Activated [HD]

Alien Scene Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Helen Horton Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett Music: Jerry Goldsmith Producers: Gordon ...

The Two Cuts of the Community Pilot

Which episode should I do next?Socials:https://www.tiktok.com/@voxelfroghttps://www.instagram.com/voxel.frog/

Let's Learn .NET - Modernization

In this month's .NET beginner series, get a full introduction to modernizing your .NET, ASP.NET, and WPF projects from their current version to the latest bu...

Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignment

Far fewer people are working on it than you might think, and even the alignment research that is happening is very much not on track. (But it’s a solvable problem, if we get our act together.)

Exploring power distribution networks · James Wilson

Anyone who has done electronics design knows the importance of bypass or decoupling capacitors, but mostly through received rules-of-thumb such as: “each IC should have a .1 µF capacitor,” “add one 1 µF for every eight ICs,” place decoupling capacitors “as clo…

The Dangerous Territory of Pre-GPT4

With broader access to Llama, Alpaca, ChatGLM, and Dolly available on ordinary consumer-level hardware, we have entered a new phase where every technology-literate person can access GPT-3 level perplexity language models, which also inherit all the shortcoming…

What Power BI is still missing

During these months, I had the chance to take a look at Power BI at the enterprise level, juggling advanced requests from hundreds of users and reports. I am impressed by all the features that the developers have rolled out recently, greatly improving both use…

Using simple things — bayindirh

As I try to move towards minimalism, I discover what it is like in different dimensions.

Observability in Wolverine

Some colleagues and I are working on the technical modernization of a large system at work, and lately we’ve been talking quite a bit about the observability we want baked into the system goi…

oh $%!&, I didn't want to do that! UNDO UNDO UNDO!

You're writing an email and click "Send". Then immediately think, "oh no!" because you sent it to the wrong person. Or maybe you're checking out of an e-comm...

Introducing Stackoverflow.com

A little over a month ago, I announced that I was quitting my job [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001074.html]. But there was also something else I didn't fully announce. > But I refuse to become a full-time blogger. I think that's a cop-out. If …

The Perils of Polishing (LONG!)

I have been working with the SLATEC library. Following the closure of Absoft and Lahey during the last few months, I felt that I needed to preserve their versions of the library, which they included as free add-ons that their customers could choose to use. Lah…

Debunking Web Component Myths and Misconceptions

A re-publication and expansion of some previous content on the subject. This post adds more corrections and will be continually updated.