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A couple of days ago at work we announced the Steam Deck OLED. It’s available next week (Nov 16) and though it’s got a bunch of great improvements like longer battery life, faster downloads, the star is the ultra-bright HDR OLED screen.
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Why CPU Knowledge Is No Longer Enough
In today's AI age, the majority of developers train in the CPU way. This knowledge has been part of our academics as well, so it's obvious to think and problem-solve in a CPU-oriented way.
However, the problem with C…
In his book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, legendary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami doesn’t spend a lot of time on how running influences his writing. But in the first chapter, he writes: As long as I can run a certain distance, that’s all I c…
I just saw Stefan Bohacek made a WordPress plugin for Mastodon embeds. As Dave noted, the <iframe> for a Mastodon embed is very big, the resources aren’t cached across instances. With S…
Like many Jeopardy contestants, I find that people love asking me about the experience. I, in turn, love talking about Jeopardy! A question nobody has ever asked me is “what’s it like to answer a c…
I have been a freelance Data Scientist for 6 months now, and I have more job offers than I can manage. I get offers almost every day and I have to turn down offers almost every week.
I used to play Poker for a living from 2018-2021. These days whenever I recount my past with new people, everyone inevitably asks me why I stopped playing the game (full time) if it was profitable to do so. Its understandably hard to comprehend why anybody wou…
The company fly.io has a set of challenges, the Gossip Glomers which is meant to to provide a means to test one's ability to work on distributed systems. I've done some work (broadly speaking) on that front but I've felt that I have plenty to learn; hence, why…
This November 7, 2023, at OpenAI's developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, OpenAI made an announcement that is revolutionizing the use of ChatGPT: the GPT Builder
OpenAI has created the GPT Builder with the aim of making GPT technology more accessible and easie…
In the next few posts we’re going to be looking at the TubePlayer sample application for the Uno Platform. For this post we’re going to focus on using Uno.Extensions to add dependency injection to an Uno Platform application. Uno.Extensions builds on the aweso…
DP World cyber attack thread. It’s ransomware, entry point is Citrix Netscaler #CitrixBleed. https://www.theage.com.au/national/ports-to-remain-closed-as-afp-investigates-cybersecurity-breach-20231111-p5ej9i.html
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TL;DR Today, we’re announcing a free early preview of CLion, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine instead of the CLion "legacy" engine. The Preview build is available via
Introduction
I was asked recently how I started when writing new Laravel packages.
In this post I'm going to build a new package called Laravel Tags it will take a string and replace placeholder tags kinda of like shortcodes.
For example, have a blog...
I used to think that simplicity is good because of the other values it often brings:
a simple system is easier to write;
a simple system is easier to build;
a simple system is more portable;
a simple system is easier to debug and reason about;
a simple system …
The Turing test is dead, and we killed it. The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. From the 1940s to the 2010s people programmed computers, and computers could…
I have always hated the phrase “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!”. It feels lazy. It incentivizes people to sweep things under the rug if they can’t figure out what to do. It doesn’t give any useful direction to the person bringing you problems, be…
Wherein I describe the setup of this blog. The main take away from the post are not specific
technical tools, but the underlying principles and ideas, which I wish I had articulated earlier.