When we started Segment, we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcompli
How I Use Git Worktrees Jul 25, 2024 There are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacemen
tl;dr — sqlite-lembed is a SQLite extension for generating text embeddings, meant to work alongside sqlite-vec. With a single embeddings model file provided in the .gguf format, you can generate embed
Gabriela Cowperthwaite, director of the documentary “The Grab,” which will have its U.S. premiere at the 2022 Mill Valley Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 7. Photo: Mill Valley Film Festival Filmmaker Ga
The United States is the top destination in the world for people moving from one country to another. Over 70 million immigrants have arrived in the U.S. since 1965, according to a Pew Research Center
Study participant Freddie sits next to a jar with an odor sample, then approaches a bowl to check for a treat. University of Bristol New research out of the United Kingdom suggests that the smell of h
The Steve Jobs Archive today shared never-before-seen footage of 28-year-old Steve Jobs speaking at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado. His speech was focused on the future of
New AI tools give Adobe creators more design and editing firepower. Adobe is bringing its popular AI feature to Illustrator users and releasing a slew of new tools and updates, including a brand-new A
There are some obvious reasons. For one, Iconiq’s clients include some of the wealthiest Americans—many of whom would rather keep quiet about where they park their money. It’s well-known that Makan ma
(Image credit: Shutterstock) Switzerland has recently enacted a law requiring its government to use open-source software (OSS) and disclose the source code of any software developed by or for the publ
Wildlife photography sounds like a fun hobby (and for some, it is), but it can also be an intense game of strategy, effort, and patience. Anyone who's called themselves an amateur photographer has exp
By Aoibhinn Mc Bride Has the sun finally set for digital nomads in Portugal? ADVERTISEMENT Lisbon once welcomed digital nomads flocking to the country in their droves, thanks to cheap rents, mild wint
During the R1 launch event in Arizona, Canon representatives told PetaPixel that the R3 line isn’t going anywhere. But side-by-side with the new R1, there doesn’t seem to be any reason for it anymore.
Thoughts on 'The Open Source Definition' Published Jun 13, 2024 by Eron Wolf " … the obvious meaning for the expression ‘open source software’ is ‘You can look at the source code’." Richard Stallman I
Every company relies on some form of workflow organization, where they devise a mechanism or tool that helps them utilize the resources to the best of their ability, meet customer demands, facilitate
Accuracy is important in just about everything we do, so it’s difficult to think of a situation in which one can be too exact. But it’s not impossible. There’s good ol’ 1Password search, for instance,
A Rocket Lab Electron vehicle lifts off from New Zealand in this scene from the new HBO documentary "Wild Wild Space." (Image credit: HBO) If you’re not in, you're out, as they say in the shark tank o
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot
Morning, sunshine. Grab your caffeinated beverage of choice—you have a long day ahead of you. Get organized There is not an app for death. You are about to come into possession of a stunning amount of
There are 47 millionaires working for Central States Manufacturing, and they’re not all in the C-Suite. Many of them are drivers or machinists—blue-collar workers for the company. How? The company is
Prefabbed components and appliances for a Levittown home. For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded,
While we’re on the cusp of Canon making some major camera announcements here this week about the future of their popular digital mirrorless line, it’s perhaps fitting that folks are getting nostalgic
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PEP 751 – A file format to list Python dependencies for installation reproducibility Author: Brett Cannon Discussions-To: Discourse thread Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Top
What is Zine? A Zine site is a collection of markdown files, HTML templates and static assets. Zine turns your markdown content into HTML, styles it using your templates, and finally copies the result
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Microsoft was convinced that its customers would benefit from an “intelligent assistant”. An animated paperclip, Clippit—which users renamed “Clippy”—appeared whenev
Bojanikus/Getty Images Several European countries are betting on open-source software. In the United States, eh, not so much. In the latest news from across the Atlantic, Switzerland has taken a major
The European Commission has raised the alarm about the independence of Italy’s public service media and Rome’s failure to reform the country’s strict defamation law, which is widely seen as silencing
This latest generation continues to push the boundaries of cost efficiency, speed, and performance. Mistral Large 2 is exposed on la Plateforme and enriched with new features to facilitate building in
Developing on Windows can be frustrating; while some development software is Windows-native or fully cross-platform, a lot of tools are made primarily for Linux. Surprisingly this even includes very p
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In the early days of high-performance computing, the major tech companies of the day each invested heavily in developing their own closed source versions of Unix. It was hard to imagine at the time th
The key for every AI startup is to identify a problem where your products benefits from AI advances, which then creates a powerful flywheel effect: Better AI models improve your product Enhanced produ
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A few days ago, I gave a very well received talk about API design at dotJS titled “API Design is UI Design” [1]. One of the points I made was that good UIs (and thus, good APIs) have a smooth UI compl
This post is a response to Do people IRL know you have a blog? A short while before I came across bacardi55’s call to conversation, I asked my wife if she wanted to see something cool. She said yeah.
Yet another non usual technical blog post today… But something I have been thinking about for a few weeks… So I thought that writing it here might get it out of my system (and maybe raise intersting r
home No More Blue Fridays 22 Jul 2024 In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code
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