26 August 2023

43 links · Saturday

The Rise of Joe Rogan

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How To Use Typed HttpClients In .NET #shorts

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How AGI Happens

Two trends are roaring into existence.  Trend 1. "AI-assisted self-improvement": As AI systems become more capable of understanding and predicting human behavior, they will be used to help...

UX Design Patterns for Loading

Loading UX takes careful consideration of both the user's and the system's context to use the appropriate loading pattern.

Thoughts about what worked in math circles

Thoughts about what worked in math circles After about 7 months of math circles with a group of 7- turning 8-year-old boys and girls, I decided to take a...

Implications of Approaching the Singularity

It's clear that we're approaching the singularity, & most are drastically underestimating the impact that AI will have on society within the next couple years. Some predictions: - Humans will not be writing code by hand in a few years. - Workers will be expe…

Arguments Against IDEs

I don't use IDEs when I code, which I find is a position I keep having to explain. In this article, I aim to present some of my reasons.

YABS [yet another benchmark]

IntroductionI love how many amazing VPS services are available. I can easily take any project of mine online by deploying a container to a VPS from any of these providers. The servers are quite compet

JVM Anatomy Quarks

"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to read…

The hierarchy of innovation

“If you could choose only one of the following two inventions, indoor plumbing or the Internet, which would you choose?” -Robert J. Gordon Justin Fox is the latest pundit to ring the &#…

You Should Be Working On Hardware

Or, why Elon Musk’s impossible hardware businesses have succeeded. “Why should I work on hardware???” I hear you cry. Not because I work on hardware, and I need you to validate my…

The Ptrace Anti Re Trick

This blog post describes an old Anti-RE technique under Linux using the ptrace syscall. A program is introduced that shows different behavior on whether it is being debugged or not.

Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

Every time any of us packs a bag, we are making some very specific tech-focused decisions. It starts with what devices we need (or can live without) and cascades into charging bricks and cords and …

CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs

This is a story consisting of several little building blocks and they occurred spread out in time and in different places. It is a story that shows with clarity how our current system with CVE Ids and lots of power given to NVD is a completely broken system.

How to Use Mutex in C# - Code Maze

In this article, we look at how to use the Mutex in C#, explore the types of Mutex, and how to handle errors when using it in our code

Orchestration vs Choreography

More than 63%+ of organizations said in a Dzone survey that they are adopting Microservices for some or all of their applications. As more businesses adopt the use of Microservice architectures, we as developers have to become more skilled with Microservices c…

An Introduction to OpenAI fine-tuning

We’ve been tinkering with LLMs to write code on Val Town. Our platform runs vals - little snippets of TypeScript - with zero configuration, no deploying needed. These self-contained bits of functionality seem like the perfect target for something like GPT, wit…

Nurses should spend less time helping patients and more time ordering bandages

I was speaking to the absolute epitome of a pub bore. Flapping his jaws about how the problem with the NHS was too many admin staff doing absolutely nothing. "Quite right!" I said, feverishly agreeing with his red-faced ranting, "Nurses should spend less time …

Raise Less, Build More

The conventional venture capital funding path – from raising an institutional Seed, Series A, B, C, D, E, etc, all the way to exit via IPO – has long been treated as gospel. Its verses …

Foreach derp with Csh

Rather than thinking of the parentheses as a corner to hold your args, in Csh, the mandatory parentheses do that, but also mutates your word list into an array (Thank you? Csh?)