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The title of my blog today is a quotation from an email I received yesterday from Noemi De Santis of RECEPTIO, the Research Centre for European Philological Tradition (website here). It comes at a very opportune moment, because this week … Read more
ChatGPT is truly amazing. I’ve never been one to mince words about how astonishing AI’s gains have been in the last 20 years. Machine learning’s ability to achieve human or near-human performance on well-defined tasks, enabled by (1) the voluminous … Read more
@mdo December 24, 2022 It’s a Christmas miracle—Bootstrap v5.3.0-alpha1 has arrived just in time for the holiday break! This release brings new color mode support, an expanded color palette with variables and utilities, and more. We’re keeping things short and … Read more
Just wanted to wish everybody here a Merry Christmas. HN is one of those Internet communities which I would be the saddest to see go, even looking back on other communities in which I’ve participated over the years. I see … Read more
More Americans are opting to purchase an electric vehicle, but some EV owners are surprised to find out how much their car’s driving range is compromised by winter weather. Why it matters: Getting over the hurdles of buying an EV … Read more
Maxi Jazz, the artist best known as lead vocalist of English electronic music group Faithless, has died. An official statement shared on social media today (24th December) confirmed that the musician, real name Maxwell Fraser, died “peacefully at his home … Read more
This week I received a new 12th Gen Intel laptop from Framework. And like with any new piece of hardware I get these days, my first instinct was to put NixOS on it 😄. But I wasn’t just content with … Read more
Linden Lab open-sourced Second Life’s client on January 8th, 2007. In the 15 years since, open source contributions have led to countless new features and bug fixes that have markedly improved the life of our virtual world. Without open source, … Read more
Challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try – Austin Z. Henley Austin Z. Henley I work on AI + dev tools. 12/21/2022 See the discussion of this post on Reddit. Alright, so we are all spending our leisure … Read more
If you’ve read this blog, you know that I like my hardware a little janky and a little weird. A classic example: the SuperGrafx. The beautiful three-chip architecture of the PC Engine, but two of one chip, and a video … Read more