10 December 2023

39 links · Sunday

No hands and no feet

I imagined some scenes in my mind and gradually lost the sensation of my hands and feet as I approached sleep. But it wasn't scary at all.

My first $1 online as as solopreneur

Making $55,000/month was easier than making $1 online. What I would tell myself if I had to restart again.

Handling Process Debt in IT

I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth putting your best in, and I’m also sure you’ve

Paris-based Startup and OpenAI Competitor Mistral AI Valued at $2 Billion

In a significant development for the European artificial intelligence sector, Paris-based startup Mistral AI has achieved a noteworthy milestone. The company has successfully secured a substantial investment of €450 million, propelling its valuation to an impr…

About time and alphabets

In-depth personal investigation and debate on the nature of free will while discussing symbolic language systems

Non-Send Futures When?

Ever since reading What If We Pretended That a Task = Thread? I can't stop thinking about borrowing non-Sync data across .await. In this post, I'd love to take one more look at the problem.

Boris Cherny's Blog

For the last year and a half, I have been working at Instagram in Japan. It’s a bit of an unusual setup: I live and work remotely from Nara, Japan, in a timezone that few other Meta engineers work in (most of Instagram and Meta are spread across the US and Eur…

Live on Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8

"Better late than never" is a fitting saying here. We've finally gotten around to updating the CodeArt.dk website to Optimizely CMS 12 and .NET 8!

Bad NEWS, Emacs

Post by Eshel Yaron about changes for the worse in Emacs 30 registers feature

.NET Conf 2023 Bulgaria

This is an after-event party and/or post-conference presentation on .NET Conf 2023

Firsts: The Demo

Visit the Doug Engelbart Institute to explore his remarkable legacy and all it inspires (official site), Doug Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" - brief background with links to complete video footage, annotated video footage, abridged video footage, 1998 …

A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32

How a mistake of less than half a millimeter in a single part nearly brought down the world’s largest passenger aircraft.

Calling a bureaucrat by its name

I find it delicately amusing how many “white collar” people are incapable of admitting that they are bureaucrats. Call it being a clerk, a functionary or a bureaucrat; if you have a job…

Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink – Rodney Brooks

There are three things that the existence of LLMs, such as ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 make us have to rethink. At different times and amongst different communities they have all had lots of AI researchers talking about them, often with much passion.

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Mini Heart Attack: Supermicro BMC Hacked (or not?)

The Incident I was recently doing some remote server maintenance when I came across something online that prompted me to check on the baseboard management controller (BMC) via the IPMI/remote management interface. For those unfamiliar, it is a remote managemen…

Writing and Startups

How a team of two people went from basic writers to published authors in 3 months