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Famously, Unix has the concept of a process's 'current directory',including for your shell processes. Recently, I saw an interestingFediverse discussion on some aspects of the current directory which
I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize: On Friday, t
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Table of Contents Remove ads Python’s Rich package is a tool kit that helps you generate beautifully formatted and highlighted text in the console.More broadly, it allows you to build an attractive te
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Ever been in a situation where you landed a software engineering job with a particular techstack, mastered it, switched to another company with a different stack, nailed that too, andthen found yourse
Metric measuring the decay of knowledge The half-life of knowledge or half-life of facts is the amount of time that has to elapse before half of the knowledge or facts in a particular area is supersed
llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer 29th November 2023 Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile , and I think it’s now the single best way to g
Nowadays many cloud service providers design their own silicon, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) started to do this ahead of its rivals and by now its Annapurna Labs develops processors that can well com
Opinion Ukraine aid’s best-kept secret: Most of the money stays in the U.S.A. By Columnist | November 29, 2023 at 12:04 p.m. EST Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most o
If Curtis Priem, Nvidia’s first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he’d be the 16th richest person in America. Instead, he sold out years ago and gave most of his fortune to his alma mater Rensselaer P
Background This speech was originally delivered by Charlie Munger to an audience at Harvard University in 1995. Speech Transcript I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment, and Lord kno
Sam Altman once said: “Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter. It’s hard to overstate how important this is, and how bad most are at it. Get rid of distracti
The revelation that ChatGPT, the astonishing artificial-intelligence chatbot, had been trained on an Nvidia supercomputer spurred one of the largest single-day gains in stock-market history. When the
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It’s About Time! What's the time? Time to get a watch. My friend Al Vermeulen used to say time is for the amusement of humans . Al’s sentiment is still the common one among distributed systems builder
July 2023 If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lotof different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decidedto find out by making it. Partly my goal was to create
OpenAI chief Sam Altman stood on stage in San Francisco earlier this month to announce that ChatGPT, the start-up’s brainchild which kick-started a new era of artificial intelligence a year ago, has 1
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Allison Parrish : My name’s Allison Parrish, and I have a little talk prepared here. The title here is on the screen, “ Programming is Forgetting: Toward a new hacker ethic.” I love that word
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I've had many different development platforms over the years - from Notepad++on library computers in my youth, to Gentoo and then Ubuntu installed on aseries of carefully-chosen laptops with working d
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