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Dan McKinley, a seasoned engineer, shares his observations on common pitfalls in organizational design, including the creation of unnecessary roles, division of work, and lack of cooperation between teams. He advocates for tearing down barriers, valuing cooperation, and rewarding curiosity, citing his own experiences in creating a high-functioning engineering team that prioritized ...

The author created LiveView to build dynamic server-rendered applications without JavaScript, and it has become a powerful tool for building fast and scalable applications with Elixir and Phoenix. LiveView's unique diffing engine and stateful client-server connection enable features like real-time updates, minimal payloads, and efficient navigation, making it a game-changer for web development.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law accusing opposition of sympathizing with North Korea. He vows to protect democracy and eradicate pro-North Korean forces.

The author left their job at an art gallery to focus on writing, reflecting on lessons learned about career agency, collaboration, and funding. They highlight the importance of aligning artistic values with market forces to achieve success, citing their own experience in transforming the gallery's revenue by 311 percent.

Intel announced the Battlemage graphics cards with initial availability next week, featuring the BMG-G21 GPU with 20 Xe cores and up to 70% performance improvement per Xe core. The Arc B580 and B570 cards will be available for $249+ and $219+ USD, respectively, with Linux support expected to be available with the stable Linux 6.12 kernel and latest Mesa graphics drivers.

Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models for AI tasks, available in Amazon Bedrock with low costs and latency. It includes understanding and creative content generation models for tasks such as document analysis, video creation, and image generation.

DuckDuckGo donated $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation on Giving Tuesday. The donation supports Perl and Raku programming language development and community engagement.

AdGrok founders were sued by former employer Adchemy, but Y Combinator's Paul Graham helped them by threatening to cut ties with Adchemy's investors. Graham's pressure led Adchemy to drop the lawsuit, allowing AdGrok to continue fundraising and eventually sell to Twitter.

Skia Canvas is a Node.js library that emulates the HTML Canvas API using Google's Skia graphics engine. It provides fast and compact rendering with GPU acceleration and supports various image formats.

User wrote about 30cc, a self-hosting C compiler written in C that can compile itself. It emits unoptimized x86-64 assembly and requires bootstrapping with make and build.py.

The user has decided to stop using React in personal projects due to dependency management fatigue, citing frequent breaking changes in essential packages like wouter and TanStackQuery. They plan to use Go, HTMX, and Templ instead, as Go's stable stdlib and language specification allow for more focus on shipping features without worrying about frequent dependency updates.

Glenn Wichman, one of Rogue's original creators, discussed the game's influence on the roguelike genre. Rogue, released in 1980, created its own genre and inspired many games, including Diablo and Minecraft.

The author compares Haskell and OCaml, stating that Haskell has a more elegant syntax but is often overwhelming due to its numerous features, while OCaml is more straightforward and easier to work with. The author prefers OCaml for its simplicity and ease of use, but still appreciates Haskell's features and documentation quality.

Gilead will allow cheap, generic versions of its HIV prevention shot to be sold in 120 poor countries, mostly in Africa and Asia. However, it has excluded nearly all of Latin America, sparking concern the world is missing a critical opportunity to stop the disease.

GOG is keeping the original Warcraft I and II games available after Blizzard asks them to be removed. GOG will maintain and update these classic games for buyers even after they're no longer for sale.

The user built a modern 8-bit tube computer using recycled 1950s vacuum tubes and designed it to run a simple airship flight sim for their grandchildren. The project was a labor of love and a learning experience, requiring continuous tweaking and adjustments to overcome the challenges of working with high-voltage vacuum tubes.

Raspberry Pi engineers tweaked SDRAM timings for a 10-20% speed boost at 2.4 GHz, and further tweaks with NUMA emulation added up to a performance improvement for multi-core workloads. Overclocking to 3.2 GHz achieved a 32% speedup, with potential for future firmware updates to roll out these changes to Pi 5 and Pi 4 users.

The user's email address appears in Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client due to its use of libcurl, a product the user leads. They receive many emails about AnyConnect issues but can't help as they're not associated with the product.

Erlang is a language that provides built-in support for concurrency, fault tolerance, and distribution, allowing for the creation of fault-tolerant and scalable systems. However, building distributed Erlang systems can be complex and has several pitfalls, including scalability issues, network partitions, and single-point bottlenecks, which must be carefully considered when designing such systems.

The user successfully remastered the 1992 flight simulator game Stunt Island by patching its rendering engine to increase detail levels, and created a patching program to upgrade the game without embedding Disney's code. The user also made the patch compatible with Disney's released patch "#3" containing beginner-friendly flight model features.

Beeks Group, a UK cloud operator, has migrated most of its 20,000+ virtual machines from VMware to OpenNebula due to higher costs and management issues. The move has led to a 200% increase in VM efficiency and is part of a larger trend of companies abandoning VMware due to Broadcom's changes.

The FTC is taking action against Gravy Analytics and Venntel for unlawfully selling sensitive location data, including health and worship locations. The companies will be prohibited from selling such data and must establish a sensitive data location program under a proposed order.

Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database offering virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. It provides PostgreSQL-compatible experience for building scalable applications with high availability and performance.

Phishing attacks increased 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) being targeted by scammers due to low registration requirements. ICANN plans to introduce more gTLDs despite research showing they are exploited by cybercriminals.

The author rewrote their website in Astro, moving from Next.js to a server-side rendering approach on a VPS for better performance and simplicity. This change allowed for a more straightforward development experience and improved caching with DatoCMS Cache Tags.

Copper framework v0.2.3 introduces several new features, enhancements, and bug fixes including deterministic log replay, improved monitoring capabilities, and support for multiple and optional inputs/outputs. The release also includes various driver support, macOS development support, and logging system improvements, ensuring better cross-platform compatibility and stability.

Beeks Group, a UK-based cloud operator, switched from VMware to OpenNebula due to high licensing costs and declining support quality. The move resulted in a 200% increase in virtual machine efficiency and lower costs for Beeks and its clients.

Kagi Search API is in closed beta for $19/mo plus 2.5c per search, available to Kagi Business plan users. It incurs metered searches and costs $25 for 1000 queries.

Stephen King is selling his Maine radio stations after 40 years due to steady losses. The stations, which included "Stephen King's Rock 'n' Roll Station," will shut down on New Year's Eve.

Porsche Macan Electric has a software-related recall due to overly bright headlights that may reduce visibility for incoming drivers. 2,941 affected vehicles will need to be reprogrammed at a service center for free.

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The author shares their experience with text editing, highlighting the complexity of implementing text selection and rendering. They discuss various issues with caret movement and emoji rendering in different editors.

The author built a film scanning setup using a 26-year-old Nikon LS-2000 scanner and a vintage PowerBook G3, achieving consistent results and high-quality scans. This setup is a viable alternative to modern DSLR macro scanning, but requires a compatible vintage Apple infrastructure.

BonBook makes travel effortless for those who do it most and expect the best. We put your travel on autopilot.

A 60-year-old California middle school teacher Leah Seneng died from rabies after being bitten by a bat in her classroom in mid-October. Health officials are conducting contact tracing with hospital workers who cared for her.

Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston advocates for abolishing death by preserving human identities through brain preservation, allowing people to live indefinitely. He believes current technology can make this possible, with costs comparable to medical procedures, and proposes various methods for resurrection, including nanomedicine and mind-uploading.

Astral will take over python-build-standalone on 2024-12-17, maintaining and developing the project. It provides standalone Python distributions, solving issues with hardcoded system paths and dynamic library linking.

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Non-expert readers are unable to reliably distinguish between AI-generated poetry and human-authored poetry, often preferring AI-generated poems due to their simplicity and ease of understanding. This preference contributes to the "more human than human" phenomenon, where AI-generated poems are mistakenly judged to be human-authored, and highlights the need for regulations regarding ...

MTA's AI-powered bus cameras issued 3,800 incorrect tickets for blocking bus lanes, mostly in legal parking zones. The MTA has reversed the tickets and refunded payments, citing software misconfiguration and lack of programming for alternate side parking zones.

DNSimple increased annual spend from $810 to $4,000, a 396% increase, after deprecating the legacy plan. The company has raised domain registration fees from $10 to $15.50 over the years, with no justification provided for the latest price hike.

Heroku now supports .NET in public beta, allowing developers to build and deploy C#, F#, and Visual Basic apps with ease. Official support offers consistent updates, rigorous testing, and quality assurance for a reliable experience.

Enron, a company infamous for a massive accounting fraud, has relaunched as a company focused on solving the global energy crisis. However, experts believe the relaunch may be a parody or publicity stunt rather than a genuine effort.

Guile-Emacs integrates Emacs and Guile with a new Elisp implementation for future development. It aims to make Emacs a central part of a 'Lisp machine for the 21st century' within the GNU Project.

Customers feel uncomfortable when their tipping is scrutinized, leading to resentment and reduced loyalty. Giving customers privacy to tip can make them feel more generous and in control, benefiting businesses.

To run ChromeOS Flex in a VM without a USB key, properly mount the .bin image and set graphics drivers to VirGL GPU or VirtIO-GPU. Set up a loop device, change the boot order, and start the VM to access the ChromeOS Flex install screen.

The Paul Allen Museum in Seattle closed permanently in June 2024 due to lack of interest from the estate's new management. Its collection was auctioned off, with some items likely sold to interested buyers.

Vocera AI is a platform that automates testing and monitoring of AI voice agents to ensure reliability and production-readiness. It simulates real personas, generates testing scenarios, and provides real-time insights into performance, saving developers time and effort.

The FTC took action against companies in the location data industry, banning them from selling sensitive data and requiring them to delete historic data. The ban applies to data from sensitive locations like health clinics and places of worship, except in cases of national security or law enforcement.

Researchers have developed a new method of printing temporary, custom-designed sensors directly onto the scalp using digital printing technology, allowing for non-invasive brain monitoring without the need for cumbersome electrodes or cables. This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the field of neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces, enabling long-term, high-fidelity EEG ...

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The app provides local weather forecasts with human reasoning and unique graphics from the National Weather Service Office. It offers real-time precipitation conditions and 48-hour predictions from the HRRR model.

NVIDIA continues to show exceptional growth driven by AI demand, but faces increasing regulatory complexity and supply challenges. Strong financial performance with 94% YoY revenue growth demonstrates robust demand, while expanding export controls create market access challenges. The transition to new product architectures presents both opportunities and operational hurdles.

New data engineers should follow the 2024 breaking into data engineering roadmap and join high-quality data engineering communities to learn and network. The roadmap and communities can help with passing data engineering interviews and advancing in the field.

This library is a wrapper around clap for building CLI apps with minimal code. It uses attributes to define commands and subcommands.

ChatGPT has a hard-coded filter that prevents it from mentioning certain names, including David Mayer, Jonathan Zittrain, and Jonathan Turley, to avoid spreading false information. This filter causes the chatbot to cut conversations short when these names are mentioned.

A UK university student from Iran claims many international students lack English skills and cheat on coursework, with some paying others to do their work. Universities are accused of overlooking language skills to attract high-fee paying overseas students.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law to prevent anti-state forces from depriving citizens of freedom and happiness. He blamed the opposition-controlled parliament for gridlock and threatened to wipe out anti-state forces.

The paper discusses what software is, not how to distinguish it from hardware or non-software things. It argues that software is an abstract artifact, existing beyond physical instances.

The European Federation of Journalists will stop publishing content on X due to Elon Musk's transformation of the platform into a machine of disinformation and propaganda. The EFJ joins other European media outlets in boycotting X citing its impact on democracy and freedom of expression.

1Password joins the Rails Foundation as a core member to support the ecosystem and make Rails more accessible. They're committed to using Rails for their security tools and want to attract the next generation of software engineers who share their values.

The user discusses the challenges of extending the SQL language, which is hostile to abstraction, and proposes using Parsing-Expression Grammars (PEGs) to dynamically rewrite the language's parser. They also explore the idea of breaking up the language into smaller features that know both their syntax and semantics, which could provide a more flexible and extensible way to extend the language.

The user is concerned about an increase in low-quality, spammy, and AI-generated security reports to open source projects, wasting maintainers' time and causing burnout. To address this issue, the user suggests implementing systems to prevent automated reports, requiring human review, and promoting responsible reporting practices among vulnerability reporters.

The author reflects on the similarities between children and adults, suggesting that adults are essentially giant kids with the same desires, fears, and needs. This perspective can be both condescending and gentle, acknowledging the intergenerational circularity of time and the value of commonality and togetherness.

The Heaviside step function is not continuous, but it can be approximated by a nonstandard function. This function is infinitely close to the step function at every point.

Svix is a webhooks service that helps build secure, reliable, and scalable webhook platforms. Building a production-worthy webhook system requires addressing reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience challenges.

A glitch in ChatGPT caused it to freeze or refuse to respond when users typed David Mayer's name, sparking internet speculation about his identity. OpenAI explained the issue as a "glitch" caused by an internal tool mistakenly flagging Mayer's name, not related to personal data or requests.

Leetcode for implementing Arxiv papers.

Intel fired CEO Pat Gelsinger due to financial concerns despite his efforts to change the company's culture for the better. The board's decision may hinder the company's progress as Gelsinger's replacement may struggle to survive in a culture that still has underlying issues.

Christopher Hitchens's universalism emphasized the importance of shared values and international institutions, which he believed could help transcend tribalism and promote human rights. His views on identity politics, nationalism, and internationalism were informed by a commitment to individual rights, democratic values, and the idea that human beings should be treated as individuals rather ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocates for using beef tallow in cooking, claiming it's healthier than seed oils, but most nutrition scientists dismiss this as a conspiracy theory. Research suggests that polyunsaturated fats, found in plant-derived oils, are beneficial for heart health, contradicting Kennedy's views.

The idea of 'liberal authoritarianism' - a system that combines authoritarian politics with economic liberalism - is unrealistic and dangerous because it would inevitably lead to the concentration of state power and the suppression of individual freedoms. Classical liberals should instead focus on reforming democratic systems to limit the scope of clientelism and strengthen checks and ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, accusing the opposition of plotting an insurgency, but later lifted the order after the National Assembly voted to rescind it. The move sparked widespread protests and international concern.

Satin Rhodon Rose. Dubbed ‘Miami Pink’ in honour of the city’s iconic architecture. Inspired by the distinctive rose colour of brass as it ages. Inception Silver Blue. Dubbed ‘London Blue’ in honour of British creativity. Inspired by the Opalescent Silver Blue of the 1960s Jaguar E-type.

You're nostalgic for the 80s and frustrated with current UX. You're looking for a new challenge in wifi hacking and want to create a persistent vector.