It's easy to think of being serious and having fun as opposite sides of a spectrum. The problem is that 'being serious' has many unrelated meanings, for example: Serious as in somber or solemn. "This
People interested in how we can make good software. In more than one sense of the phrase “good software”. That means not just software engineers. A bit of context: Today I gave the second of two talks
Tooth for a tooth A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones It turns out you may not have needed those implants after all. Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, KFF Health NEw
The first Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the M4 Pro chip surfaced today. Impressively, the results that are available so far show that the highest-end M4 Pro chip is faster than the highest-end M2
As you drive through the gently rolling hills of Keswick near Charlottesville, you feel transported. Horse farms and vineyards, orchards and charming historic homes dot the landscape. Driving up to Ca
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Introducing Pixel Buds Pro 2, the newest earbuds from Google Pixel. For the first time, Pixel Buds Pro 2 are equipped with our all-new custom-designed Tensor A1 chip to power industry-leading audio pe
Starting in November, Amtrak fans can enjoy a trip that has not been possible in 45 years: a one-seat ride between Chicago and Miami. Dubbed “The Floridian” in honor of a long-defunct run between thos
A year ago, I talked about JPEG XL at ImageCon 2019. It’s time for an update. JPEG XL is a next-generation image codec currently being standardized by the JPEG Committee. Based on Google’s PIK codec a
This website you see right now, as well as the CMS powering it, is all thanks to Vim. Not because I wrote it in Vim (which I did, in Neovim) but because coming into contact with Vim as a freshman like
The Canon EOS R5 Mark II has been a highly anticipated update, and if you’re considering upgrading, there are a few things you should know. The original R5 set a high standard for image quality, but t
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge When the Mac Mini was first introduced in early 2005, it was pitched as a compact, “stripped down” desktop — and the most affordable Mac in Apple’s lineup. Steve Jobs
Remember when being a “Senior Software Engineer” actually meant something? I do, and I can’t help but feel nostalgic for that clarity. In recent years, our industry has witnessed rampant title inflati
Hello. I once met Katharine Graham at an intimate dinner party with five or six other people in her Georgetown mansion. It was early 1992 and the presidential primary season was just beginning. On the
October 2024 I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write. One of the strangest
Google’s Magic Editor added several questionable items to this scene. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to generative AI forever shaking ou
The key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours — Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers I'm certainly n
Fighting back against urgent and convenient work It’s too easy to spend the whole day working but never do the work that really matters. You can sit down at your computer at 9 AM and get into emails,
11 min read·5 days ago -- Half of Americans try to lose weight every year. Unfortunately, most fail. Even worse, most of those who do lose weight soon regain it: within 5 years 80% of the weight lost
The Japanese word ikigai, which has recently gained attention worldwide and enjoys widespread use, refers to a passion that gives value and joy to life. The author who prompted its craze speaks about
Ikigai (生き甲斐) is a Japanese word that can be read literally as a “life’s worth” but can be more appropriately translated as the “purpose of one’s life.” The term seems to have been popularized in Japa
Ever wondered which is the most demanded programming language in 2024? Although there are more than 200+ programming languages, only few of them are used in the real world industry. Knowing this infor
Key Takeaways diff3 detects differences between three text files to help identify edits, file versions, and merge changes. Diffs are displayed in hunks with line numbers and file indicators to easily
Ever wanted to just sketch an interface, press a button, and get a working website? Well, now you can at makereal.tldraw.com. And here’s the story. Try it out …but first, maybe you should try it yours
Published inNetflix TechBlog · 12 min read· Oct 14, 2024 -- By: Hechao Li and Marcelo Mayworm With special thanks to our stunning colleagues Amer Ather, Itay Dafna, Luca Pozzi, Matheus Leão, and Ye Ji
Both uBlock Origin and its smaller sibling, uBlock Origin Lite, are experiencing problems thanks to browser vendors that really ought to know better. Developer Raymond Hill, or gorhill on GitHub, is o
Human-in-the-loop distillation with Large Language Models (LLMs) provides a scalable way to leverage use-case-specific data to build custom information extraction systems. But compared to an entirely
19 min read· Jan 13, 2024 The following discusses the themes and philosophies of Hayao Miyazaki’s recent film, “The Boy and the Heron.” As such, it will contain spoilers. It will also discuss themes o
NEW YORK – In January 2023, I interviewed the Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf, hoping the conversation would flesh out the review I was writing of his recent book, The Crisis of Democratic Capit
Asia In Brief Baidu CEO Robin Li has proclaimed that hallucinations produced by large language models are no longer a problem, and predicted a massive wipeout of AI startups when the "bubble" bursts.
Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) for Linux systems is out with a v3.0 release for this featureful and modern alternative to WPA_Supplicant. It's been nearly two years since IWD 2.0 and in that time
Bookmarks Oct 20, 2024 2 min read Write for InfoQ Feed your curiosity. Help 550k+ global senior developers each month stay ahead. Get in touch AWS has recently released the EC2 C8g and M8g instances,
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding Princeton University Press, 274 pp., $24.95 Ta
The venture-capital industry has seen plenty of hype-driven investment cycles before, but the generative artificial intelligence craze might top them all. Rarely, if ever, have so few startups raised
If you’ve ever googled the question “Why do Python packages have empty __init__.py files?”, you could get the idea that Python packages wouldn’t work without them. This is a common misconception—they’
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week 21st October 2024 I’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CS
Stop what you're doing Judge slams Florida for censoring political ad: “It’s the First Amendment, stupid” Florida threatened TV stations over ad that criticized state's abortion law. Jon Brodkin – Oct
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