The Plummeting Cost of Intelligence On smaller models, on-device inference and the path to zero cost intelligence
[Workaround] Fix Testcontainers.SQL error “Docker.DotNet.DockerApiException : Docker API responded with status code=Conflict” Recently an error occurred in an Azure DevOps build pipeline due to a conflict with a non-running Docker container, impacting integration tests using Testcontainers.MsSql. A workaround was suggeste…
Questions to Consider Before A Collaboration - Tasshin It’s relatively easy to propose a collaboration: “Hey, we could work on something together!” But in my experience, it takes considerable thought, care, and effort to structure a collaboration so that it’s a fun, useful, win-win exercise. In other words, t...
Consider using array operators over the SQL in operator In my post about batch operations, I used the where id = any(:ids) pattern, with ids bound to a JDBC array. I’ve gotten questions about that afterwards, asking why I do it like that, instead of using in (:id1, :id2, ...). Many libraries can take care of t...
Jacob Personal I closed our seed round for Rezi with StrongVC in Seoul, South Korea in the end of March 2021.
Simple event broker: data serialization is expensive In the last post I described my weekend project of using advice from Tiger Style to optimize the write path of Seb.Here, we found that data serialization and...
How I completely quit social media I used to love social media as it was a way to keep up with friends, keep up with the world, and was a creative outlet for myself. Being able to connect with anyone across the planet still sounds as magical as it did when the internet came out. As time we...
Waiting for many things at once with `io_uring` When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web serve...
The Future of Programming Systems - four thoughts Last week I gave a 20 minute mini talk at M&I Partners in Zeist about the Future of Programming Systems, and how the work of architects and...
Delete Your Backlog - Maxwell Forbes Delete your backlog. Unread books, unplayed games, unwritten essays, unwatched movies. They are all cognitive weight....
How I used ChatGPT o1 and Claude for generating a SQL RBAC report and was surprised by the results I gave ChatGPT o1 and Claude Sonnet 3.5 the same prompt to generate a SQL report for a Role Base Access Control (RBAC) system and you won't believe the results
Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder and CEO of Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, made some strong criticisms of WP Engine, a WordPress-fo...
“Bad Romance”: How Kaspersky Lab Failed to Conquer the Western Cybersecurity Market The story of one Russia-based cybersecurity company that once set out to conquer the Western cybersecurity market
Stop using REST for state synchronization tl;dr: Most apps need state synchronization, not state transfer. We should replace REST and friends with proper state synchronization protocols where appropriate.
GitHub - VadimBoev/FlappyBird: Less than 100 Kilobytes. Works for Android 5.1 and above Less than 100 Kilobytes. Works for Android 5.1 and above - VadimBoev/FlappyBird
Hy 1.0.0, the Lisp dialect for Python, has been released · hylang/hy · Discussion #2608 I'm pleased to announce the release of Hy 1.0.0, after nearly 12 years of on-and-off development and lots of real-world use. Hy is a Lisp dialect embedded in Python. See Hylang.org for an introduct...
Omega-3 fatty acid intake counteracts symptoms of stress-induced anxiety and depression in mice Omega-3 fatty acids reduced anxiety and depression-like symptoms in stressed mice, highlighting their potential as a protective supplement against stress-related mental health issues.
Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s Assembly Extensions Spargine, an open-source tool for .NET 8, offers enhanced methods like GetAllInterfaces, GetAllTypes, GetInstances, and GetTypes. These methods improve performance and reliability, with benchmark r…
🚀 Secure your .NET Apps with Visual Studio! 🚀 As developers, ensuring the security of our applications is paramount. Did you know that Visual...