iOS 17.4 SDK introduces new capabilities that let marketplace developers build and distribute marketplace iOS apps as part of an alternative app marketplace in the EU. These apps can install and support software on devices, access data across a catalog of apps, … Read more
The Rockchip RK3588 system-on-chip (SoC) is an impressive flagship with 8 ARM cores (4x A76, 4x A55), plenty of cache, and a vast amount of peripherals. Among other things this SoC has an Arm G610 Mali GPU, multiple PCIe lanes, … Read more
Most of my career has been working on web services and mobile apps but at some point this got old for me—in high school I was part of a soldering club and I had this lingering feeling that I wanted … Read more
How SSH port became 22 The default SSH port is 22. It is not a coincidence. This is a story of how it got that port. When I (Tatu Ylonen first published this story in April 2017, it went viral … Read more
Almost exactly a year ago, I began playing pinball at my friend Noah’s house. I didn’t understand how he could be so interested in Pinball that he bought two machines, but since I was staying there I figured I should … Read more
Context In March, OpenAI released GPT-4. It was (and still is) the state-of-the-art AI text generation model. In June, I argued that GPT-4 had clearly and massively degraded, as evidenced by worsened performance in various tests from March to June. … Read more
Getting to know the right people Published 2022-06-05 Here’s a draft bankruptcy piece about how you solve the problem of finding good people in areas you lack expertise in. It’s hard to find good people these days How do you … Read more
Let’s dig deeper into this new capability and how it’s helping Bard improve its responses. Improved logic and reasoning skills Large language models (LLMs) are like prediction engines — when given a prompt, they generate a response by predicting what … Read more
August 20, 2010 | I’ve spent a lot of time in my life trying to force myself to do things. Really good things. Things that are important to me. Things like meditating, journaling, going to the gym, and so on. … Read more
2023-04-08 What does Ctrl-D do when typed into a terminal? The typical and unsatisfying answer is it sends end-of-file (EOF) to the terminal. But what is EOF exactly? What does this trigger? Where in the immense stack of code involved … Read more