The company's customer service was poor, with a long wait and an unhelpful AI assistant. This contrasts with a small start-up that showed empathy and understanding when the author cancelled their service.
Researchers built a 397 billion parameter AI model in 24 hours using C, Objective-C, and Metal shaders on a MacBook Pro. The model runs at 4.4+ tokens/second with production-quality output, using a custom Metal compute pipeline and 48GB RAM.
The author argues that curried functions are not as superior as they seem, especially when considering partial application and function composition.
The user successfully implemented an FPGA reimplementation of the Voodoo 1 graphics card using SpinalHDL, which allowed them to describe, simulate, and debug the complex design. The user used netlist-aware waveform queries in conetrace to identify and fix a bug that was caused by a stack of small hardware-accuracy mismatches rather than a single catastrophic failure.
Project NOMAD is a free, open source offline server that runs on any computer, providing access to knowledge, AI, and maps without internet. It's a self-hosted solution for digital independence, offering a complete library and AI assistant for learning, navigation, and more.
Nintendo released a $35 Talking Flower desk toy that chirps random quips without AI or internet connection. It's a low-tech, quirky companion that's either annoying or charming, depending on the user's perspective.
Classic Minesweeper laid across the Strait of Hormuz. Clear the water, flag the mines, and survive the shipping lane.
The user used a Large Language Model (LLM) to learn algorithmic concepts and solve LeetCode problems in a week, bridging a 10-year knowledge gap and gaining confidence in solving algorithmic tasks. The user's speedrun was partially successful, but they realized that fluency and speed in solving problems are not the only metrics that matter, and that a human teacher would be better in ...
Engineers often confuse convincing with persuading, where convincing is about logic and persuading is about moving people to act. The gap between the two is where technical proposals often fail.
Node.js has a single-threaded event loop that handles concurrency without locks, but CPU-heavy code can starve the event loop. Worker threads provide isolation, but require a separate file with its own entry point and communication via message passing.
System diagramming mistakes include poorly labeled resources, disconnected resources, and overly complex diagrams. Common errors also include oversimplification, unnecessary animations, and fan traps, which can lead to confusion and misinterpretation.
The dice included in the game's box have density issues within their plastic which could cause biased results, but they are safe to use for this game due to the limited number of rolls. The user recommends these dice for casual games but not for games that heavily rely on dice rolling.
The user scanned 11,345 receipts since 2001 and used AI agents to extract data, focusing on egg purchases. The project took 14 days with 15 hours of human input.
The white lab coat originated from Victorian England's hygienist movement, where surgeons adopted white attire to signal cleanliness and professionalism. Over time, the lab coat became a symbol of scientific identity, despite its limited functionality and potential for innovation.
The fastest way to put a word on a shirt. Type your text, pick a size, and order.
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The user encountered a sign-extension bug in their C code while developing a Type-2 hypervisor, which caused the system to crash unpredictably due to a triple fault. The bug was caused by integer promotion and sign extension in the get_desc64_base function, which was fixed by casting values to unsigned types before the bit-shift operation.
We are hiring full time software engineers and looking for contributions to tinygrad, a deep learning framework. We also sell a computer called the tinybox, a powerful computer for deep learning with low price and high quality.
Playback speed maps to lid velocity — slow creaks and fast snaps sound completely different. Haunted door cracks, cat meows, alien whispers, whale songs, wind effects, and more. All generated in real-time. No dock icon, no windows. Just a tiny menu bar icon to toggle, adjust volume, and pick sounds.
Circuits is Rec Room's technology for programming rooms: a multiplayer-synchronized realtime scripting system that lets players build interactive experiences together. Creating Circuits is one of the top honors of my career. I'd like to share how we solved core networking challenges, for anyone working on similar problems. Before the Circuits we know today, we had "Circuits ...
The author believes that instant gratification is replacing the value of time and effort in software development and business, leading to short-lived projects and relationships. They argue that true quality and community are built over years, not weeks or months.
The e18e community has seen significant growth and performance-focused contributions, but this has led to "dependency bloat" in npm trees due to redundant, outdated, or unmaintained packages. To address this, maintainers and consumers should work together to identify and remove unnecessary packages, using tools like e18e, npmx, and module-replacements to clean up dependency trees.
Everything runs in the browser. Your media stays local with the File System Access API — nothing leaves your machine.
The user's chest fridge consumes 0.1 kWh a day and costs $5 a year to use. They question why mediocre fridges are made and used despite being energy inefficient and wasting at least 1 kWh of energy a day.
A long study of over 130,000 people found moderate caffeine consumption may lower dementia risk by 18 percent. Consistent, mid-range caffeine intake, around two to three cups a day, may help maintain memory and thinking skills as people age.
HopTab is a macOS app that allows users to customize their workflow with keyboard shortcuts, profiles, and layouts. It enables users to pin apps, snap windows, and switch profiles with ease.
Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures have been rejected by theologians and mocked by comedians, but he continues to promote his ideas. Thiel's talks aim to justify capitalism and authoritarianism by using Christian scripture and philosophy, but his efforts have been criticized by a Vatican advisor as a prolonged act of heresy.
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Floci is a free, open-source local AWS emulator with no account or feature gates. It can be used with any AWS region and credentials, and is an alternative to LocalStack's community edition.
One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as an introduction, the man began describing a way to create currency that could not be forged, based on the laws of quantum physics. “I was trapped, so I listened politely,” Brassard later ...