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I am giving up on VM Gaming | Deploy on Friday
I was told one could use virtualisation software, spawn virtual machines with PCIe passthrough, and achieve near identical gaming performance.
A Little Explanation of Little's Law
I recently read Concurrency in Go by Katherine Cox-Buday. In the “Queuing” section, there was a discussion of how we can use Little’s Law to predict our pipeline’s throughput, given sufficient sampling. I honestly wondered why I had not come across this simple…
Total Engineering - Viet Than Blogging
You've heard the expression "total war"; it's pretty common throughout human history. Every generation or so, some gasbag likes to spout about how his people have declared "total war" against an enemy, meaning that every man, woman, and child within his nation…
Anyone who had a Hartz – 1
Ron is off on his travels again. And proving that DB ain’t what it used to be….. DAY 1 DB strikes again Train from Brussels to Aachen cancelled so 2 hour wait in Brussels and will not b…
Claude, Teach Me Something
Leveraging Claude to learn, instead of doom scrolling with a touch of the Socratic method.
Life is too short for a slow terminal
I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell spends its time.
What TTS throws away
When a podcast host says "spaaaace" and holds the vowel for 1.1 seconds, every ASR (automatic speech recognition) transcribes it as "space." When two friends banter and one reacts with "Oh. Ooh. Mm." for 2.4 seconds of pure non-verbal communication, the transc…
Some concerns about Ladybird's bylaws
Chris Wanstrath put $1M into a nonprofit browser. I read the public bylaws out of curiosity. This is what stood out to me, for whatever that's worth.
The Anger Isn't at the Tool
I've grown angry and disillusioned with AI, and the strange part is the anger isn't even aimed at the tool. A breakdown of where it actually comes from.
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute | TechCrunch
In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.
GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
In the Empire's Defense
I didn't watch Star Wars when it was released. I wasn't even born. By the time we popped the cassette tape in the VCR, it was at least 15 years old. But I liked the movie all the same. It was not my f
Amber Alert sends Spam URL?
I received an amber alert, but the link seems to redirect to a spam page. Important services need to be fault tolerant. The shorted link needs to be tested.
Stop Using Conventional Commits
You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people…
The web is changing, and we are not going back
Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers
Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I've Unsubscribed
I've remained subscribed to some newsletters for over 20 years. The authors managed to keep my attention all that time. But then, one day, they decided to switch to an AI-generated newsletter without
New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.
Why all the PRs?
It's a signal. That's why we get AI-generated PRs. We told everyone, in order to get your resume taken seriously, you need to show your work.
How Many Tokens Did You Burn Today
Early in my career, a manager at one of the big firms where I worked made a request so absurd it remains etched in my memory. I walked back to the team, repeated what he had asked, and couldn't finish
How to Talk to Your Coworkers
You know you've explained the same issue before in two or three different places, yet here they are asking again. Why don't they understand you? Why do they ask the same question when you've already g
Don't call yourself a Software Engineer, and other Career Advice
I can only imagine what it's like learning the skill of programming in this day and age. What does an average college class look like? What is the CS professor teaching? And students, how do you recon
The commencement speech that shook the world
There he was, the man at the helm of innovation. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google. The man who once said, google doesn't need to record your conversation, it already knows everything about you.
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing model compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
We’re releasing Gemma 4 quantization-aware training checkpoints, reducing memory requirements and improving on-device performance.