You're frustrated with AI responses that don't address your questions and people forwarding AI answers instead of engaging in real conversations. You want to interact with humans who can provide thoughtful and relevant responses.
XLIDE is a VS Code extension for editing Excel VBA code with syntax highlighting and symbol navigation. It works on multiple platforms without Office installation and supports Live Share for host-only VBA editing.
The user discovered that matrix multiplication performance on an Nvidia A100 GPU is influenced by the values in the matrices being multiplied, with all zeros being the fastest and a normal distribution being the slowest due to power throttling. The GPU's power limit and clock speed also affect performance, with the GPU unable to sustain its peak clock speed due to power throttling, resulting ...
Epicure is a family of skip-gram ingredient embeddings retrained from a multilingual recipe corpus with 4.14M recipes. It uses three Metapath2Vec variants to model ingredient relationships.
Private equity firms acquire and consolidate essential services, loading them with debt and cutting costs to maximize profits, often at the expense of workers, communities, and service quality. This business model, exemplified by the fire truck industry, prioritizes returns over public needs, leading to delayed services, increased costs, and even loss of life.
A modification to the Raft consensus protocol uses finite projective planes to allow progress with fewer than a majority of nodes, ensuring safety by guaranteeing any two valid voting blocs share a common node. The trade-off is that not every subset of nodes forms a valid bloc, and the protocol is not guaranteed to make progress whenever a majority of nodes is active.
Vibe coding, a practice using generative AI tools, accelerates software prototyping but creates systemic security exposure due to AI agents prioritizing the path of least resistance. To combat this, teams must write security context files, be cautious with AI permission requests, and provide builders with secure-by-default harnesses and templates to ensure safe AI-assisted development.
Flagship is Cloudflare's feature flag service that controls application visibility without redeploying code. It integrates with OpenFeature and supports Workers, Node.js, and browsers.
Claude Code is a programmable agent that needs guardrails to produce high-quality output, and its workflow shifts when treated as an autonomous agent with verification. The key to Claude's success lies in setting up a CLAUDE.md file, skills, subagents, and plugins to create a compounding infrastructure that improves over time.
Lombardy approved a law to discourage data centre construction by increasing charges in agricultural and park areas. The law aims to control the phenomenon and favour the use of disused industrial areas, with no additional burdens.
A vulnerability in Starlette versions less than 1.0.1 allows attackers to forge request URLs and bypass path-based authentication middleware, affecting thousands of FastAPI and Starlette applications. To mitigate this, update Starlette to version 1.0.1 or later, use a reverse proxy, or prefer endpoint-based authentication instead of path-based middleware.
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We propose adding generic concrete methods to Go, allowing methods to have type parameters like functions, which will increase the language's expressiveness and simplify code in certain situations. This change is fully backward-compatible and does not preclude the implementation of generic interface methods at a later time.
The writer had a bad job interview experience at a mental health startup where they were asked invasive personal questions, making them feel emotionally drained and judged. The writer suggests reconsidering the approach to evaluating cultural fit to avoid making candidates feel vulnerable.
Cia cartographers combined demographic, political, and geographic information to visualize the regional impact of war. the 1980 cia map of the soviet capital shows major boulevards, rail terminals and metro lines around the center of moscow - later front lines during the yugoslav wars a u.s. imperial power. this 1985 map shows the boundaries of panjshir valley, one the strongest resistance ...
Someone recently introduced me a weird and wonderful little board game that has become my latest obsession. It's a game for 2-12 players where horses race on a track. Except that the players don't control the horses directly. Nor do they choose when and how to bet on said horses. Nor do they have any input whatsoever regarding how the game unfolds (though the proceedings are not ...
Latin remained the dominant language in Poland until the end of the 17th century despite the rise of Polish. Latin was used in official documents, literature, and everyday speech among the nobility and elite.
Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables use copper wire to connect devices over a fixed length, typically up to 5m, and are commonly used in data centers for high-speed networking. DACs are simpler and more reliable than optical connections but have limitations in distance and speed, making them essential for short-range connections within racks.
Designers created pixel fonts like Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Two Slice to evoke nostalgia and visual interest. Geist Pixel is a functional pixel font designed for real usage, solving problems like scaling and typographic rigor.
The author discusses the importance of story and writing quality in fiction, then shares their process for formatting and publishing their Christian historical novels. They use Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, and Calibre to create print and electronic versions of their books.
TSDuck is a digital television and video streaming tool for test, monitoring, and integration, supporting various standards and formats. It is an open-source, cross-platform C++ library and command-line tool with a modular architecture and plugin system.
Minicor builds and maintains desktop automations for teams to focus on deals and product shipping. It adapts to UI changes and edge cases with 93-96% click accuracy.
Rosalind is a Rust genomics engine with a compact memory footprint, running whole-genome workloads in under 100 MB RAM. It achieves deterministic replay and O(√t) working memory, ideal for clinical diagnostics, outbreak monitoring, and education.
The author discusses how arrays in C decay to pointers, which can be confusing, and proposes a strict separation of arrays and pointers to make the language easier to learn. They also explore how arrays can be treated as pointers and propose a new operator, @, to create an array from a pointer, and discuss the implications of this on the language.
The author attended their 30th college reunion and noticed a trend of anxiety about AI's impact on the future. They reminisced about their old game BattleTris, which they created in college, and with the help of AI, they were able to revive it and play it again after 20 years.