Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz) I have played a little bit with OpenAI's new iteration of GPT, GPT-o1, which performs an initial reasoning step before running the LLM. It is certainly a more capable tool than previous iterations, though still struggling with the most advanced research ...
How America’s universities became debt factories – Anand Sanwal Here's a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can't be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here's a trickier one: how do you fix this mess when the solution threatens a multibillion-dollar indu...
R1/beta5 – Release Notes The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use. Nearly 350 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this rele...
Creating Right-Click (Context Menu) actions in Linux Mint - Nemo How to create right-click (context menu) actions in Linux Mint - Nemo
GitHub - RyanWelly/lisp-in-rs-macros: A Lisp interpreter written fully in rust macros. A Lisp interpreter written fully in rust macros. . Contribute to RyanWelly/lisp-in-rs-macros development by creating an account on GitHub.
Safe C++ Over the past two years, the United States Government has been issuing warnings about memory-unsafe programming languages with increasing urgency. Much of the country’s critical infrastructure relies on software written in C and C++, languages which are v...
Who The Hell Wrote This Code? – Dev Leader Weekly 61 Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss how to be curious when joining a team and not belittle others.
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong.
The Myth of the Lone Wolf Developer: Why Collaboration Skills Matter More Than Coding Skills Picture this: a dimly lit room, the soft glow of multiple monitors, and a solitary figure hunched over a keyboard, fingers flying as they single-handedly save the world through code. Sounds familiar? If you’re thinking, “Hey, that’s the plot of every hack...
Becoming perceptive This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” It can be read on its own.
.NET Aspire: A Game-Changer for Cloud-Native Development? .NET Aspire promises to revolutionize cloud-native development for .NET applications, but does it live up to the hype? In this hands-on review, I'll share my experience migrating a real project to Aspire, exploring its strengths, limitations, and potentia...
The importance of tech docs When I chose to pursue a career in computer science when I was 15 years old, it was basically on liking math and physics. I want to distance myself from writing posts, essays, etc. Time goes by, and now, one of the things that I value at a mature company ...