1 November 2024

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.NET Conf 2024 - Day 3

NET Conf has been a virtual event since the beginning, and this year we’re celebrating our 14th online conference. We always strive to create a world class, engaging, virtual experience for all our attendees no matter where they are. Over the years we've expan…

GitHub Universe Announcements

In this edition of #tech on ice, I go over some of the major announcements at @GitHub Universe and if developers should be excited about them. #technology #programming #developer #coldplunge #copilot

Consuming Amazon AWS Notifications using MassTransit

Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses its Simple Notification Service (SNS) extensively to route all types of events. In this video, I cover a new sample that shows how to consume SNS events using MassTransit and Amazon SQS. The Simple Email Service (SES) sends bounc…

The Best Way to Work with Units in .NET

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I Built a .NET App Using AI (with Cursor) - This Is Amazing

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Get Me Out Of Data Hell — Ludicity

It is 9:59 AM in Melbourne, 9th October, 2024. Sunlight filters through my windows, illuminating swirling motes of dust across my living room. There is a cup of tea in my hand. I take a sip and savor it.

Memecoins are the point

Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known a...

An update on Apple M1/M2 GPU drivers [LWN.net]

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to L…

Gamers are weird

Many years ago I worked for a small Mom-and-Pop type ISP in New York state (I was the only network / technical person there) -- it was a very free wheeling place and I built the network by doing whatever made sense at the time.

Of Virtual Turduckens (WSL on AWS)

One of my clients requires that I use a virtual machine to access the company network. I do all my dev work in UNIX environments, but I need a Windows machine sometimes, to test their products. I was informed that two virtual machines was an unreasonable expen…

Help fight the proprietary software monsters!

KDE’s yearly fundraiser is now live, with the theme of spooooky proprietary software. Go check it out — no, really! It’s great! I think this one absolutely nails it, because the stories…

Circles Sines and Signals - Aliasing

You must always avoid the temptation to “connect the dots” (to naively interpolate between samples) when working with discrete signals.1 Let’s recall the example from the previous section, and see how connecting the dots can get us into trouble.

Lessons from one too many model spreadsheets

Few things can be as helpful and potentially time-wasting as modelling your business with a spreadsheet and setting metrics. A clear model of how you make money is a great tool to help identify bottlenecks or risks. On the other hand, it is very easy for model…

Dan's Weekly AI Speech and Language Scoop #32 - Daniel D. McKinnon

On SimpleQA and factuality in LLMs OpenAI released an LLM benchmark called SimpleQA [csv of questions]. It is far from simple. This is pub trivia on steroids. I suspect I could reason my way to directionally correct answers for about … Continue reading →

Wait Until 8th

The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until the end of 8th grade.