Lumen transit signed + filtering safe 3356 Arelion (formerly Telia) transit signed + filtering safe 1299 Cogent transit signed + filtering safe 174 NTT transit signed + filtering safe 2914 Sparkle transit signed + filtering safe 6762 Hurricane Electric transit … Read more
A couple of years ago, “slop” became the popular shorthand for unwanted, mindlessly generated AI content flooding the internet including images, text, and spam. Simon Willison helped popularize the term, though it had been circulating in engineering communities in the … Read more
The Common Table Expression, or CTE, is often the first feature developers reach for beyond basic SQL, and often the only one. You write a subquery after WITH, give it a name, and use it in the rest of your … Read more
Way back in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, memorialized in a photograph of him striding to the stage past rows of men with the Oculus Rift VR headsets strapped to their … Read more
As news of Meta shutting down Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality social platform, started to spread, commentators rushed to declare VR technology dead. They are wrong. Five years ago, the future looked promising for VR technology. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg … Read more
Today, Arm is announcing the Arm AGI CPU, a new class of production-ready silicon built on the Arm Neoverse platform and designed to power the next generation of AI infrastructure. For the first time in our more than 35-year history, Arm … Read more
Years of countless pours led me to the question “Is this really a pint? They say so, but really?” The findings gave rise to the Pint Patrol, a grassroots movement that could change how Americans are served their beer, wine, … Read more
CPUs didn’t have brand names, besides the manufacturer, until the 1990s. They had part numbers and clock speeds. Frequently we shortened the part numbers. The 486’s full part number was 80486. The courts wouldn’t let Intel trademark a number, so … Read more
My friend Henrietta Dombrovskaya pinged me on Telegram. Her production cluster had just been killed by the OOM killer after eating 2 TB of RAM. work_mem was set to 2 MB. Something didn’t add up. Hetty, like me, likes playing … Read more
