The writer appreciates FreeBSD's coherence, stability, and quiet strength, comparing it to a mainframe humming in the background. They hope it stays different, earning trust with its reliability and long-term focus.
The Advent of Sysadmin is a 12-day Advent calendar of Linux and DevOps challenges of different difficulties that runs from December 1st to December 12th. Each day there will be a scenario that you can solve to earn points (Easy = 1 point, Medium = 2 points, Hard = 5 points). Sign up for a free account (needed to keep track of your progress) and start solving the scenarios!
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms for engineering design, covering various optimization topics and techniques. The book aims to equip readers with the knowledge and skills to apply optimization algorithms to real-world problems, with a focus on engineering design and applications in fields such as mathematics, statistics, and ...
To onboard Claude into your codebase, use CLAUDE.md to define your project's WHY, WHAT, and HOW, keeping instructions to a minimum and using Progressive Disclosure to avoid bloating the context window. Avoid auto-generating CLAUDE.md and use linters, code formatters, and other features to handle implementation and formatting separately for better results.
Eric Wastl created Advent of Code, an annual programming puzzle event with varying difficulty levels. It's free to use, but not to copy, and users can participate with any programming language and skill level.
Windows allows drive letters outside of A-Z, but they don't appear in File Explorer and can't be navigated to due to explorer.exe's special logic. The kernel32.dll API SetVolumeMountPointW has a quirk where it truncates non-ASCII drive letters, creating a symbolic link to a different drive letter.
BrickLink, a major online marketplace for LEGO enthusiasts, has announced it will no longer be available in 35 countries starting December 12, 2025, affecting thousands of fans and sellers worldwide. The decision has sparked outrage and disappointment among the LEGO community, with many questioning the reasoning behind the ban and calling for a boycott of BrickLink.
Rodrigo Arias Mallo wants to migrate Dillo project from GitHub to a self-hosted server with multiple mirrors to avoid single point of failure and solve usability issues. He chose cgit as the git frontend and created a simple bug tracker software called buggy to store data in plain text.
The US economy is experiencing a divergence between job creation and overall growth, with the stock market and AI investment driving growth. The Federal Reserve is considering further interest rate cuts to support a weakening jobs market.
The user migrated their GitHub repositories to Codeberg, a process that took a weekend and involved setting up their profile, importing repositories, and configuring CI/CD pipelines. They also successfully migrated their website to git-pages, a service that supports uploading and hosting static websites.
llvm-mos is an open-source LLVM fork for MOS 6502 and relatives, providing modern software development for classic platforms. It includes a C compiler, SDK, and automated testing infrastructure for various targets.
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Researchers proposed "Program of Thoughts" (PoT) to improve step-by-step reasoning in language models. PoT achieved an average 12% performance gain over state-of-art method Chain-of-thoughts prompting (CoT) on various math and financial datasets.
The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite captured high-resolution images of Antarctica, South America, and Bremen, Germany, within 50 hours of launch. The images show glaciers, ships, and sea pollution, providing valuable data for climate change research and monitoring.
CachyOS is a Linux distribution built on Arch Linux with optimized performance using the BORE Scheduler and advanced instruction sets. It offers various desktop environments and installers, including GUI and CLI options, for a customized experience.
Ukrainians face frequent power outages due to drone attacks, prompting tech-savvy individuals to build their own backup battery systems. One user built a 4.3kWh LiFePO4 battery system for $600, outperforming a $2300 Ecoflow model.
The class introduces digital circuit design and computer architecture from the bottom up, covering execution paradigms and hardware description languages. It focuses on fundamental techniques for modern microprocessor design and hardware/software interface.
Sir Brian May and collaborators created a 3D book about galaxies using photography and scientific knowledge. The book, Islands in Infinity: Galaxies 3D, shows the vastness of the universe in a new way.
Aristotle solved a version of the Erdős conjecture with an olympiad-style proof, but not the original version. The conjecture remains open for now.
A tool to snap pixels to a perfect grid. Designed to fix messy and inconsistent pixel art generated by AI. Pixel Snapper is a Sprite Fusion project. Sprite Fusion is a free, web-based tilemap editor for game developers supporting a wide range of engines including Unity, Godot, Defold, and GB Studio.
The Thinking Game takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI labs, as it strives to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The author retested local AI performance on the M5 iPad Pro and found it exceeds Apple's claims with a 4.4x improvement in time to first token. The M5's Neural Accelerators greatly reduce prompt processing time, making it ideal for long prompts and local AI apps.
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[ MJC Gordon verification HOL system Stanford higher-order logic ] In the late 1960s, breakthrough papers by Robert W Floyd and Tony Hoare seemed to herald the advent of fully-verified software. Progress soon slowed however. It became clear that once you went beyond a simple flowchart program and had to deal with the horrors of procedures, variable scopes and aliasing, things were not so ...
The user purchased a reMarkable 2 tablet, Marker Plus, and book cover during a Black Friday sale. They are impressed with the device's writing experience and customizable brush, but have some issues with touch gestures and reading sheet music.
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RetailReady is hiring an Associate Product Manager to drive day-to-day product execution and grow into a full PM role. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator with technical learning skills and experience in QA or supply chain.
Understanding the separation of Model (logic and data) from UI. Introduction to some of the fundamentals of the Swift Type System.
Langjam Gamejam is a 7-day challenge to create a programming language and then use that language to build a game. You set the rules. Be as creative as possible, use any technologies you want, and have fun. There will be prizes for the most creative submissions!
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