3 November 2023

57 links · Friday

The Innovations of Open Source

Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg In IEEE Computer vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 59-63. Open source has given us many innovations. This article provides an overview of the most i…

How I learned to stop worrying and love byte ordering

In the last post I announced musli-zerocopy. In this one I’ll discuss one of the concerns you’ll need to mitigate to build and distribute archives: endianness.

GNU Denemo is Really Great – Jack's Blog

I just downloaded GNU Denemo, a music editor (like Finale, Sibelius or Musescore) and it’s incredibly well-designed. I really like GNU Lilypond, but the Denemo frontend really speeds up writing music.

Lessons learnt after interviewing over 300 engineers

We'll explore the importance of conciseness, the impact of preparation, and the necessity of clarity. By the end, you'll have actionable advice and exercises to help you stand out in your next interview.

No Broken Browsers

Open letter to the European Commision on its eIDAS proposal

When is an Erlang process a shell?

Recently, I was trying to port an Erlang function to Elixir, with the goal of answering one question: “When is an Erlang process a shell?”

I Trapped 200 Scammers in an Impossible Maze

My team and I designed an impossible maze that traps scammers for days on end. They waste their own time while I sleep!► Epic Kraken Partnership: https://kra...

How To Convert Strings To Enums in C#

In our previous video, we looked at the basics of Enums in C#. We saw that we could cast integers to the Enum type, but we couldn't do that with strings. So ...

.NET Conf 2023 AppRochester

Join us at .NET Conf 2023 AppRochester, the ultimate gathering for developers in Rochester to explore the latest trends and innovations in t

Datenleck bei Fitmart

Nur zur Info, habe gerade eine email von Fitmart bekommen, dass die Datensätze von vor Oktober 2021 "abgeflossen" sind (rainbow) . danke, dass du in der

Comparison of HTTP libraries

The article contains comparison of pure HttpClient with RestSharp and Refit.

The Managerial Menace

Back in August, the Wall Street Journal ran a long article on the insane spending of American public universities, with special emphasis on their proclivity for expensive building projects. This is an issue very close to my heart. I spent over a decade in Amer…

Mechanistic interpretability of LLM analogy-making

Can LLM make analogies? Yes, according to tests done by Melanie Mitchell a few years back, GPT-3 is quite decent at “Copycat” letter-string analogy-making problems. Copycat was invented by Douglas Hofstadter in the 80s, to be a very simple “microworld”, that w…