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,
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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
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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,
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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
Cloud de-seeding Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years Co-founder thinks other companies should consider a "swim against the stream." Kevin Purdy – Oct 21, 2024
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Text-based 2FA is the worst Here’s how SIM swap in alleged bitcoin pump-and-dump scheme worked False information posted to official SEC account caused spike in the currency. Dan Goodin – Oct 17, 2024
We read all the Google blogs so you don't have to Android 15’s security and privacy features are the update’s highlight New tools aim at phone snatchers, snooping kids or partners, and cell hijackers.
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Franceta Brown was on her fifth day without power Monday, and the hurricane snacks had long since run out for her four kids. At their house in the Fish Hawk area of eastern Hillsborough County, the fo
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Werner Herzog is celebrated as one of the most influential and innovative filmmakers of our time, but his ascent to acclaim was far from a straight trajectory from privilege to power. Abandoned by his
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Apple is infamous for redesigning its phones, computers, and tablets on a regular basis, sometimes to a detriment. However, there’s one Apple product that has stuck around for over a decade without a
While a lot of people will use a camera until it dies and don't care about the update cycle, there will come a time when Canon will no longer service a camera or lens. Third-party repair shops may con
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm.com domain and all links will remain active,
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October 18, 2024 My NumPy Year: Creating a DType for the Next Generation of Scientific Computing From no CPython C API experience to shipping a new DType in NumPy 2.0. Nathan Goldbaum This project was
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care by Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein Portfolio, 275 pp., $29.00 “We take
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