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Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System

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Gary Kildall at the first West Coast Computer Faire in the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in...
Gary Kildall at the first West Coast Computer Faire in the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1977. [CHM Object ID: 500004174 © Tom Munnecke/Hulton Archive/Getty Images]Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system in Pacific Grove, California, in 1974. Following...

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Why Rust cannot replace C++

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The evolution of C++ in its recent standards (C++11 and later) has significantly closed the gap...
The evolution of C++ in its recent standards (C++11 and later) has significantly closed the gap in safety and ease of use, which are hallmark-strengths of Rust. Features like smart pointers, move semantics, and improved RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization) for concurrency have made C++ not only more robust ...

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Why AI Fails to Create Compelling Written Content

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An Alternative to Cursor Pagination

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I’m writing this to get an engineering regret out of my chest based on my personal...
I’m writing this to get an engineering regret out of my chest based on my personal thoughts.I need to first give context. I have been part of a multi-year project that splits an existing SaaS product from one AWS region into separate instances in several AWS regions, to improve availability and reliability through i...

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Every map of China is wrong

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Zooming in on the Huangpu river makes this particularly stark. A lot of activity in a...
Zooming in on the Huangpu river makes this particularly stark. A lot of activity in a body of water!Initially, it looks like everything is a little bit offset — why is this and can’t it be corrected?Why do Chinese maps look so odd compared to the rest of the world?On first pass, it looks like the satellite imagery w...

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LLM as an n-dimensional Object in n-dimensional Space

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China's VIDU Video Generation AI Competes with OpenAI's Sora

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In a world increasingly dominated by AI technologies, a remarkable breakthrough has emerged from China that...
In a world increasingly dominated by AI technologies, a remarkable breakthrough has emerged from China that is setting new standards in the field of video generation. Shang Shu Technology, in collaboration with Ting University, recently unveiled VIDU — China’s pioneering text-to-AI video model. This innovative tool ...

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How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

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A few weeks ago, I began working on the PoC of a document indexing system for...
A few weeks ago, I began working on the PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free-tier limits. Ap...

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GraphRAG with LangChain and Neo4j

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Monorepos: Please Don't (2019)

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Here we are at the beginning of 2019 and I’m engaged in yet another discussion on...
Here we are at the beginning of 2019 and I’m engaged in yet another discussion on the merits (or lack thereof) of keeping all of an organization’s code in a “monorepo.” For those of you not familiar with this concept, the idea behind a monorepo is to store all code in a single version control system (VCS) repository...

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Did we lose our way in making efficient software? – ~30 MB doc file vs. browser

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Yesterday, my father told me he needed to install Microsoft Word on his laptop to work...
Yesterday, my father told me he needed to install Microsoft Word on his laptop to work on his doc file.I told him to use Google Docs, because it is easier to use, cloud-based, and syncs automatically.I set up his doc file in Google Docs, and… When I type anything in the doc file, it takes seconds to see it on screen...

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What if null was an Object in Java?

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Brace yourself and get ready to try the red pill.Photo by Brett Jordan on UnsplashObject-oriented puritySmalltalk...
Brace yourself and get ready to try the red pill.Photo by Brett Jordan on UnsplashObject-oriented puritySmalltalk is often referred to as a pure object-oriented programming language. Smalltalk was created by Alan Kay, who was also the person who coined the term “object-oriented." Part of the pure object-oriented nat...

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The Beginning of the End for Terraform?

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Entering the graveyard of good software that is IBM…Source:imgflip.comAs I write this on the 25th of...
Entering the graveyard of good software that is IBM…Source:imgflip.comAs I write this on the 25th of April, I am still reeling from the announcement of IBM’s acquisition of Hashicorp. When I first heard the rumours yesterday, I was concerned about the future of possibly my favourite Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool...

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Apple cuts 2024 and 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts

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·FollowMy latest survey is as follows:Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400–450k units...
·FollowMy latest survey is as follows:Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400–450k units (vs. market consensus of 700–800k units or more).Apple cut orders before launching Vision Pro in non-US markets, which means that demand in the US market has fallen sharply beyond expectations, making Apple take a con...
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Jeff Bezos: 'No thank you, Mr. Pecker' (2019)

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Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn’t just unusual — it was...
Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn’t just unusual — it was a first. I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse. Or at least that’s what the top people at the National Enquirer thought. I’m glad they thought that, because it emboldened them to put it all in writing. Rather than capitulate...
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The Secret Tube Map That's Only Meant for TfL Employees

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“Mind the gap!” A phrase synonymous with the heartbeat of London — the Underground.As Londoners, we...
“Mind the gap!” A phrase synonymous with the heartbeat of London — the Underground.As Londoners, we navigate the labyrinth of tunnels and tracks that crisscross beneath our city’s streets daily.But beyond the familiar sight of coloured lines and station names lies a hidden gem — the PAYG Map.Join us on a journey to ...

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Fine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeed

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Model : LLAMA-8b-instructDataset: Openhermes-2.5(700k training, 300k testing)GPU: 4 RTX 4090, 24GBBit of background about me,I’m a...
Model : LLAMA-8b-instructDataset: Openhermes-2.5(700k training, 300k testing)GPU: 4 RTX 4090, 24GBBit of background about me,I’m a full-time software engineer 2, at the core of our platform team. In my scarce free time, I explore various aspects of the machine learning world, with interests in tabular data, NLP, and...

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C Isn't a Hangover; Rust Isn't a Hangover Cure

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Google (and others) please implement link analytics with "ping" or "sendBeacon"

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Did you notice that when hovering over some external links on a website, the links don’t...
Did you notice that when hovering over some external links on a website, the links don’t redirect to the external site, but to an internal redirection link?Redirect Link on Google NewsThese links get analytics from users’ clicks before redirecting them.For example let’s looks at Google News.Google NewsOn my computer...

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Show HN: Exploring Indra's Pearls with WebGPU

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Instead of carefully selecting circles and Mobius transformations mapping the outside of one into the inside...
Instead of carefully selecting circles and Mobius transformations mapping the outside of one into the inside of another, we can generalize the work by directly computing limit sets from the Mobius generators themselves. This yields limit sets that are not necessarily built from circles.Playing with parameters to get...

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The Future of Ruby and Rails in the Age of AI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we build, debug, and optimize code, and it’s happening...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we build, debug, and optimize code, and it’s happening at an unprecedented pace. As a long-time Ruby and Rails developer, I’m participating in these developments with excitement via my startup and my new book and open-source projects.The good news I want to share ...

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Getting Started with Gemini 1.5 Pro and Google AI Studio

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Google is taking a big step into the world of Large Language models with Gemini 1.5...
Google is taking a big step into the world of Large Language models with Gemini 1.5 Pro. Last week, the model became available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Similarly to OpenAI’s Playground (which I recently wrote an article about) the Google AI Studio is a simple interface to test Googl...

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Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84 CE

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If you’re here from the Cemetech or Sonic Retro threads, then you probably already know the...
If you’re here from the Cemetech or Sonic Retro threads, then you probably already know the gist of this post. I’ve ported Sonic 2 to the TI-84+ CE.This post is more about how I ported the game, rather than telling people that I did it. If you just want to try it out on your graphing calculator, click here.Now that ...

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AI Has Made Google Search So Bad People Are Moving to TikTok and Reddit

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