European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies
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Learn CSS Layout the Pedantic Way
Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct – the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37. – Number 1.0 (Futurama, S2E15) I won’t lie to you, Neo. Every single man or woman who has fought an agent has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed. Why? I’ve seen an agent […]
Don’t Mock Machine Learning Models In Unit Tests
I’ve been applying typical unit testing practices to machine learning code and it hasn’t been straightforward. In software, units are small, isolated pieces of logic that we can test independently and quickly. In machine learning, models are blobs of logic learned from data, and machine learning code is the logic to learn and use these […]
Scheduling Internals
A sneak peek to what’s coming! I remember when I first learned that you can write a server handling millions of clients running on just a single thread, my mind was simply blown away 🤯 I used Node.js while knowing it is single threaded, I used async / await in Python, and I used threads, […]
Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene
/ Floppy disks are facing extinction, but musicians are still pumping out DIY music projects. The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s computer piracy. I’m briefly […]
Unreasonably effective – How video games use LUTs and how you can too
Look-up-tables, more commonly referred to as LUTs, are as old as Mathematics itself. The act of precalculating things into a row or table is nothing new. But in the realm of graphics programming, this simple act unlocks some incredibly creative techniques, which both artists and programmers found when faced with tough technical hurdles. We’ll embark […]
Blind, Alone, and Confused for 24 Hours Challenge (2020)
For 24 hours I will be blind and alone in my apartment. I eventually want to try being blind for a week, but I’ll need seven days with no other obligations, and I won’t have that for a while. For now, I’ll suffice with a smaller-scale experiments with a few extra provisions for added difficulty. […]
Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama sign UAW authorization cards
A majority of workers at Mercedes-Benz’s largest plant in the United States have signed authorization cards for United Auto Workers representation, the union said on Tuesday. The milestone comes less than seven weeks since the Detroit-based union hit the 30% milestone at the plant in Vance, Alabama, outside Tuscaloosa. Securing a majority of the autoworkers’ […]
New FCC standards should consider latency
WASHINGTON, February 27, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission is being told that its focus on speed in its proposed draft order released Thursday is obscuring other important broadband metrics, namely the time it takes for traffic to be routed. Suggestions included in a draft report and order published by the FCC last week suggest […]
GoboLinux
GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution whichredefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. In GoboLinux you don’t need a package database becausethe filesystem is the database: each program resides in its own directory,such as /Programs/LibX11/1.6.9 and /Programs/GCC/9.2.0. Like it? Learn more…