The article discusses the author's experiences in maintaining Raspberry Pis for extended periods with minimal intervention, exploring potential issues and solutions. It also hints at future, more comprehensive guides on the subject.

The Senate Committee hearing revealed that pharmaceutical companies spend more on executive compensation and dividends than on research and development. The high cost of drugs in the US is attributed to pharmaceutical greed, patent manipulation, and lobbying, not middle managers or research costs.

The article details the author's examination of GitLab's Postgres schema to learn best practices, highlighting GitLab's decision to use structure.sql over schema.rb to utilize advanced PostgreSQL features. It also discusses considerations in primary key selection and schema evolution, with insights into GitLab's use of internal and external IDs, text data types, and partitioning strategies.

Ollama's preview on Windows allows users to use large language models natively, with GPU acceleration and a full model library. It offers easy drag-and-drop for vision models and OpenAI compatibility without extra setup.

The article discusses the concept of "control vectors" in AI, which can modify a model's behavior during inference without prompt engineering. It also details how control vectors are created and their potential applications in controlling AI responses.

The author, after spending nearly 14 years at Google and contributing significantly to the Android team, has decided to quit tech and pursue a career in comedy screenwriting. Despite acknowledging the financial risks, he emphasizes the importance of pursuing personal passions and looks forward to his future in the comedy and writing fields.

Meta's TestGen-LLM tool enhances existing human-written tests, with 73% of its improvements accepted for production. This marks the first industrial-scale deployment of LLM-generated code with proven enhancements.

The article provides an in-depth discussion with Zed's co-founders about their technological choices, emphasizing the importance of Rust in their vision for a lightweight, powerful, and extensible editor. They share their journey from using Electron with Atom, their struggles with performance, and how their shift to Rust enabled them to build a multi-threaded, high-performance editor.

The author, transitioning from a front-end developer to an engineering manager, appreciates the power to improve products and team well-being, and sees management as a promising career with more opportunities. However, he also acknowledges the challenges of dealing with corporate practices, social tensions, and longer feedback loops.

The article emphasizes the significance of output impedance in headphone sources, noting that optimal sound quality and compatibility are achieved when it's less than 1/8th the headphone's impedance. High output impedance can cause audible variations in frequency response and degrade bass performance.

An article reveals that Apple has decided to remove Web App functionality in the EU, citing compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a move seen as an attack on open web. Critics argue that this move is an attempt by Apple to maintain control and limit competition, while misleadingly blaming EU regulations.

The article discusses a video shot at the WJLX tower site, highlighting its abandoned state and potential rule breaches by Big South Community Broadcasting. The company's noncompliance extends to its new noncomm permit for 90.1 in Hamilton, indicating a pattern of rule-skirting.

The article discusses the addition of keyboard and mouse button binding features in progman.ini, including shortcuts for executing commands and switching between virtual desktops. It also mentions a default right-click setup to display a launcher menu.

OS-Copilot introduces FRIDAY, an OS-level agent that outperforms others by 35% on AI benchmarks, showcasing strong generalization skills. FRIDAY's self-improvement and learning capabilities enable it to automate and refine general computer tasks with minimal supervision.

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The article details a sample program that can function as a packet sink or proxy, handling network packets with options like multishot receive and fixed files. It also includes code for socket management, buffer setup, and signal handling for stats.

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The article discusses the importance of fair and consistent benchmarking in software performance testing, exemplified by Nebula's benchmarks against similar mesh VPN software, which aim to provide objective, reproducible, and useful results for comparison. It also highlights Nebula's development within Slack, considering scale and reliability from the start, and the continuous improvement of ...

The article reveals that bullying at ages 7 and 11, based on prospective data, negatively impacts subjective well-being, job prospects, and even increases mortality risk before 55. These effects persist independently of other adverse childhood experiences.

The article discusses the lack of warranty or representation regarding the accuracy or non-infringement of rights for information in a report, and details on a specific welding process for plutonium that requires a controlled inert atmosphere.

Ink/Stitch aims to be a full-fledged, cross-platform embroidery digitizing platform based entirely on free, open-source software. Our goal is to be approachable for hobbyists while also providing the power needed by professional digitizers.

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The article discusses the evolution of ECC RAM support in desktop computers, highlighting that Intel's W680 chipset and AMD's AM5 motherboards offer this feature. It suggests that while ECC RAM support is now more accessible, the cost-effectiveness and meaningfulness of this feature remain debatable.

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Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library. It can build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited. Tree-sitter aims to be: Dependency-free so that the runtime library (which is written in pure C) can be embedded in any application

The research reveals that individuals who have lost significant weight experience increased hunger and desire to eat for at least a year, even when their hormones signal fullness after meals. Despite the body's efficient fuel burning and increased impulse for food, a sustained program of dietary restriction and physical activity can help maintain weight loss, though increased long-term hunger ...

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The article introduces a program that emulates the sounds of old storage drives, like floppy drives, using the user's C drive activity. Users can load custom sounds or use the included samples to mimic disk reading and writing noises.

The article discusses the author's concerns about raising children in an era of transformative AI, questioning the traditional life path in light of potential AI-driven changes. The author emphasizes the importance of preparing children for unpredictable futures, advocating for a focus on happiness, health, curiosity, and adaptability instead of specific career paths.

Emacs 26 introduced basic threading to lay the foundation for concurrent Emacs, with the potential for fine-grained concurrency in the future. The article discusses speculative approaches to implementing multi-threading in Emacs Lisp, considering the trade-offs and challenges of shared memory, data races, and reusing existing code.

JSR, introduced by the Deno team, is a new registry for JavaScript/TypeScript aiming to innovate on the package registry side with features like semver for dependencies and full TypeScript support. The author, an early Deno contributor, shares insights on JSR's benefits, such as faster type checking and automatic documentation, enhancing the package development experience.

Floating flower platforms can significantly reduce water pollution by extracting excess nutrients and potentially generate income through the floral market. Trials indicate giant marigolds are particularly effective, with implications for sustainable waterway management and job creation.

SP New Energy Corp. is fast-tracking its P200-billion Terra Solar Project, touted as the world's largest solar farm. The Central Luzon project, set for delivery by Q1 2026, will contribute 5% to the Philippine grid and 12% to its total demand.

The article explains setting up an SVG workspace with a viewBox and creating a hollow circle with stroke-dasharray for patterns. It concludes by demonstrating how varying dasharray and dashoffset values animate the circle.

The article provides a comprehensive guide on setting up a new Macbook, highlighting the importance of checking the serial number to verify authenticity, testing for defective pixels, and customizing settings such as enabling the tap-to-click feature, speeding up Dock animations, and personalizing the Launchpad app grid. It also recommends using the Wrap terminal replacement, customizing the ...

Updating OpenTTD's pixel font involves creating TrueType fonts, maintaining the pixel art style while enhancing readability on modern displays. Constraints in design preserve the original feel, with adaptations for various character sets.

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The article presents a minimalist code repository for Byte Pair Encoding (BPE), a tokenization algorithm essential for modern Language Models (LLMs). It details two tokenizers with training, encoding, and decoding capabilities, and includes usage examples.

A 280 million-year-old reptile fossil, believed to contain soft tissue, was revealed as a forgery with modern analysis showing the dark outline to be bone-black paint. The discovery prompts caution in using such specimens for comparative analysis due to potential misinformation.

The author replaced their X260 with a ThinkPad X201, praising its design but noting the limitation of 8GB RAM and WiFi connectivity issues. To fix the latter, they blocked PIN20 on the WiFi card, making the hardware switch redundant.

The article marks November 2019 as the 40th anniversary of Usenet's conception, with the author planning to publish a series of blog posts instead of a formal paper. A tag URL is provided for readers to access all related posts.

The article asserts that "agile" has become a hollow buzzword, misunderstood and burdened by complex processes and certifications. Despite the Agile Manifesto's valuable principles, the term "agile" itself has lost its meaning, leading to varying interpretations and misapplications.

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Greenmask is an open-source tool, developed in Go, for logical database backup, obfuscation, and restoration, offering extensive functionality, statelessness, and compatibility with existing PostgreSQL utilities. It provides advanced features like parallel execution, various storage options, and customizability, making it an effective solution for tasks like anonymization, transformation, and ...

The Master of the Playing Cards, active in the 1430s-1450s, is recognized as the first significant printmaker, known for his 106 engravings, especially a unique set of playing cards. His unidentified works, mainly surviving in single impressions, show a drawing-like engraving technique and are mostly housed in Dresden and Paris.

Vykee enhances software usability by selectively hiding features, revealing them based on user interaction, with an intuitive UI-Picker for easy organization. It also offers an Expert Mode for immediate access to all features and analytics to optimize feature visibility.

In 1989, Tiffany & Co and Sony released a limited-edition silver-plated Walkman, now a collector's item auctioned for high prices. Collector Mark Ip has amassed over a thousand Walkmans, focusing on those in original packaging, signifying a nostalgia-driven market for vintage tech.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, suggests tech layoffs continue as companies discover benefits in being leaner post-pandemic. He also discussed Meta's rivalry with Apple, dismissing AI as a significant factor in layoffs.

Mike Satinover, obsessed with precision, works tirelessly at his Chicago restaurant, Akahoshi Ramen, to craft the perfect ramen. He meticulously combines specific flours and ingredients, using scientific methods to ensure consistency and quality.

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have designed a silicon-photonic chip that uses light waves to perform complex calculations, potentially boosting computer processing speed and reducing energy consumption. The chip also offers privacy advantages, as simultaneous computations eliminate the need to store data in working memory, making it virtually unhackable.

April 1 marks the first day of the new year. the u.s. president's eu summit is set for june 1 - thursday, july 1 at london bridge, where he'll be speaking about the world cup and the euro 2012 qualifying games, including the gold medal match between britain and greece, which takes place in switzerland, will be

Wirebonding, a process used in semiconductor manufacturing to connect devices to their packages, has adapted over time to meet the demands of shrinking architectures, chip complexity, and increased interconnect density. The industry's shift from gold to copper wire due to cost and performance benefits, along with the need for solutions that can handle the complexity of multi-layer memory ...

The article discusses the "Three Six Rule", positing that a man must be a 6 in three categories to be date-able. It uses statistical analysis to explore this concept, examining factors like height, physical endowment, and income.

The US military is increasingly using video games and esports as a recruitment tool, targeting a young, tech-savvy audience. Critics argue this approach, which blurs the line between entertainment and potential warfare, is unethical and potentially manipulative towards minors.

A simple tool to create a mock API for testing your app online.

The article is a fictional story about James, who after successfully completing a major project, is unexpectedly laid off by an HR representative, Midori, who may be a bot. Techaro, the company in the story, has just acquired an AI firm, Humantelligence, specializing in HR automation.