What we would today call cash assistance for the differently abled could in a different era permissibly have been called welfare for cripples. The terms welfare and crippled sound somewhere between lo
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel Recorder app on the Google Pixel 9 can summarize transcripts of recordings that are over half an hour in length. In contrast, the same app on the Goo
Soniya Jobanputra, a Pixel product manager, told the Financial Express that the phones' Tensor processors are not designed "for speeds and feats" or to "beat some specific benchmark that's out there.
llamafile v0.8.13 (and whisperfile) (via) The latest release of llamafile (previously) adds support for Gemma 2B (pre-bundled llamafiles available here), significant performance improvements and new s
Share feedback here Writing a technical document is surprisingly hard. That is not because of the skill to tell a story. It’s because writing forces a level of clarity that is easy to gloss over while
Top highlight You're reading for free via The Medium Newsletter's Friend Link. Upgrade to access the best of Medium. 12 min read· Aug 12, 2024 Last week, I took my younger daughter, a rising senior, o
That Lingering ‘Meh’ Feeling Has a Name Persistent depressive disorder is underdiagnosed, and many who suffer from it have never heard of it. Credit...Dadu Shin By Dec. 4, 2023 Leer en español By the
uv: Unified Python packaging (via) Huge new release from the Astral team today. uv 0.3.0 adds a bewildering array of new features, as part of their attempt to build "Cargo, for Python". It's going to
written on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 It has been a few months since I wrote about Rye here last. You might remember that in February I passed over stewardship of my Rye packaging too to Astral. The f
In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American. Berners-Lee, along with two other researchers, Ora Lassila and James Hendler, wanted to give the
Naomi isn’t a terribly unusual name. There’s Naomi Watts. Naomi Campbell. Naomi Judd. There’s even a Naomi Biden—the president’s granddaughter. But it’s just unusual enough for the two most prominent
August 20, 2024 The idea of blogging always seemed so fun and yet I went many years without publishing any content online. It’s something I’ve wanted to do since highschool (over a decade ago). I just
The 9 Pro comes in big and bigger this time around. Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Google finally got the hardware right. The Pixel 9 Pro, its bigger Pro XL sibling, and the standard Pixel 9 look
Micro-libraries need to die already It is the year 2024. It has been eight years since left-pad first made people realize that, hey, maybe it’s not a great idea to outsource trivial functionality to r
Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by GitHub Today, I’m talking with Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub. GitHub is the platform for managing code — everyone from solo open-source hobbyists to the b
What would a book of philosophy contain if it were written by a dog? Dogs are natural philosophers, and I am convinced they can answer some important questions for us – about life, what is important i
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's abo
Enlarge / The 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 with the official fan and heatsink installed. Andrew Cunningham We're many months past the worst of the Raspberry Pi shortages, and the board is finally widely availab
2024-08-19 #software #web There’s a lot to be frustrated about contemporary software and the modern web. (If you are a software user and you are not frustrated, you can safely skip this article). Ther
Enlarge / If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box. Andrew Cunningham As we wait for this fall's Windows 11 24H2 update to be released to th
Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly
It should be clear to everyone that the Google documentation leak and the public documents from antitrust hearings do not really tell us exactly how the rankings work. The structure of organic search
Meta is shutting down its CrowdTangle tool, despite researchers petitioning the company to keep it going through January 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America Meta has been bombarded by aca
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images At the end of April, a TikToker named Megan Boni sang, “I’m looking for a man in finance, trust fund, six-five, blue eyes.” In under a month, the p
I was incredulous when I read this observation from Reginald Braithwaite: Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code
Aaron Zimmerman, Copy Chief I can’t remember the last disc I burned, but it was almost certainly a mix CD of some description. I’d like to think it was a compilation entitled “Silly Love Songs,” which
Dick Armey Is Back on the Attack I. At sunset on a September evening, Dick Armey, the former House majority leader, strode to a lectern set up in the parking lot of a Harley-Davidson dealership in Hic
I came across this viral post on X/Twitter where Pritam found that his Leetcode solution was slower when he was using Python’s min built-in function and the performance improved when he implemented mi
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com The majority opinion in Trump v. United States, the most sweeping judicial reconstruction of the American presidency in history, secure
Impressio Librorum, from the Nova Reperta, c. 1580–1605, engraving by Theodoor Galle. We have always believed that the internet’s powers for good could be realized if they were tied to a business mode
Today we are introducing post stats in the Substack app for iOS and Android. This highly requested feature allows you to view the most important statistics for your posts, a more detailed breakdown of
11 min read· Jul 15, 2024 -- /alt title: what happened when I stopped trying to sprint-plan my life I left my job as a software engineer 6 months ago. The pain of my departure caused colleagues to act
February 2009 I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions. As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. W
Rashid Khan is not a name known to many Americans. But any cricket fan — which includes the heads of Microsoft and Google — knows exactly who he is: a famous Afghan cricket bowler with a devastating v
Chuck Carroll Reading Writing Now The News is Information Junk Food Published: 2022-06-11 Updated: 2022-09-16 Cutting out the news has been one of the best lifestyle decisions I've made in recent year
1981 non-fiction book by Tracy Kidder For the album by Fear Factory, see Soul of a New Machine. The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chroni
Long ago as an undergraduate, I found myself back home on a break from school, bored and with eyes wandering idly across a family bookshelf. At school, I had started to find a calling in computing sys
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Ramblings from Jessie Table of Contents From the Intel x86 Manual: In the mid-1960s, Intel cofounder and Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore had this observation: “… the number of transistors that would be
Giacometti’s studio If I look at things that have turned out well in my life (my marriage, some of my essays, my current career) the “design process” has been the same in each case. It has been what C
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