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Jun 13, 2024 from Muffin Man

Node.js script to run multiple commands in parallel

If you encountered a case where you wanted to run multiple commands in parallel, the usual suggestion is to use the shell's & operator to send commands to the background. This approach kind of work...

Jun 09, 2024 from Ishan Das Sharma

Why FileLinks Didn't Work in Google Colab

If you’ve ever worked on a project in Google Colab and tried to provide download links for files using FileLink, you might have encountered some issues. Specifically, you might have noticed that th...

Jun 07, 2024 from Boris Tane

Lessons from starting, building, and exiting a devtools startup

Key learnings from building Baselime

Jun 06, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

What are Sparse Autoencoders?

MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']], displayMath: [['$$','$$'], ['\[','\]']], processEscapes: true, processEnvironments: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 's...

Jun 05, 2024 from Heitor's log

TIL: Listing PCI devices by their vendor or class

Listing PCI devices by manufacturer and/or device type/class.

Jun 01, 2024 from Home on A blog

Riding the AI Hype Train: Destination or Derailment?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has swiftly transitioned from a niche technology to a mainstream phenomenon, heralded as the next big revolution in tech. Everywhere you turn, AI is making headlines. F...

May 30, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak

My thoughts on Google's Content Warehouse API doc leak, what we can learn from its ranking factors, and why the following SEO hype is overblown.

May 30, 2024 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

AIs vs the SQL Server Fill Factor - It is not easy to be a AI DBA

Do you also have the feeling AI advice often tricks you as much as it helps? Today I challenged a colleague who specified a fill factor of 80 of when creating a new table with a non-clustered index...

May 29, 2024 from Michael Lynch

I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business

My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began questioning my decision to quit my cushy Google job....

May 24, 2024 from nixCraft

sttr – Awesome Linux & Unix tool for transformation of the string

sttr demo The sttr is a free and open-source command-line tool in Golang that lets you easily change and modify text. You can perform transformation operations on the string, such as hashing text, ...

May 24, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

Next steps for my search engine collection

Reply to A look at search engines with their own indexes by Seirdy My search engine article blew up recently, as yet another major publication linked it (yay! /gen), so I made some fixes:Moved a co...

May 23, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta

Ken Williams learns from Bill Gates

“There’s a secret of business that Ken Williams says he learned from Bill Gates. Ask an executive or a prospective hire for their golf handicap, and if they give an answer, write that person off. S...

May 22, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

Coercion and Windows Recall

Reply to I’ve got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works. by evacide The best ways to improve opsec against coercion are to:Limit what can be taken (reduce what’s stored on a device...

May 21, 2024 from seize the dev

Improving Date Formatting Performance in Node.js

A look at how I was able to improve the performance of date formatting in Node.js and the ICU library.

May 20, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

How does HNSW work?

Suppose we have a vector database with a billion items in it (the haystack). And suppose we are looking for K vectors, the needles which maximize some similarity function. (In the case of cosine si...

May 18, 2024 from Mr. Money Mustache

The Ultimate Life Coach

Almost  nineteen years into early retirement now, I’ve come to realize that the complete freedom of this lifestyle can be a double-edged sword. You’ve already heard me raving plenty about the upsid...

May 18, 2024 from Hugo’s Blog

Skip Discord Updates on Linux

If you use Discord on Linux, and installed via a .deb, you might have seen this annoying pop up every time you start Discord: This seems like Discord requires you to upgrade before you can start th...

May 16, 2024 from Home on A blog

DBT (Data Build Tool): Zero to Hero

Welcome to the first edition of “Andreas takes you on the ride while he learns how to do his job.” Today, we’re diving into dbt (Data Build Tool) to understand its core concepts, project structure,...

May 15, 2024 from R74n Newsletter

☀️ Sandboxels v1.9.5 - Update of the Summer OUT NOW 🌊

One of our favorite updates ever.

May 12, 2024 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Import Maps for Cross-team Collaboration

In large organizations, it takes many inputs across multiple teams to produce a single web page. Import maps aid in reducing the potential friction between teams by abstracting package names over r...