12 November 2023

36 links · Sunday

Jake Rodkin (@ja2ke@idlethumbs.social)

Attached: 1 video 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. T…

16 Writers on How Running Helps Them Write - Semi-Rad.com

  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…

0 KB Social Media Embeds

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…

Robotaxi Economics

Source The New York Times team of Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz and Yiwen Lu have been covering San Francisco's experiment with robotaxis from W...

Everything, all at once: inside a single Jeopardy clue

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…

Thank you reviewer 3

Be friendly. Be like reviewer 3.

Farewell to the felt - Quitting the full-time Poker scene

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…

Gossip Glomers: Unique ID Generation

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…

HTML First

Principles to make building web software easier, faster and more inclusive.

Craft Your Own AI: Exploring OpenAI's Revolutionary GPT Builder

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…

How to dig into the CLR

The goal of this post is to share the tips and tricks I used to navigate into the CLR implementation to better understand how .NET works

.NET Conf 2023 NEW DELHI

🗓 Date: Saturday November 18⏰ Time: 10:00 AM onwards📍 Venue: Auditorium, GGSIPU-EDC

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)

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 #threatintel

My Dysfunctional University

How corporations turned education into wealth extraction.

mht.wtf

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 Reasoning Computer

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…

What to do when someone tells you to "take initiative"

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…

Data Oriented Blogging

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.