Warning: This is not for sensitive cats The best loaves will rise to the top I was at my local Coney Island bar commenting how poorly this cat was sitting and unhappy. I didn’t want to be spending my life … Read more
There are times when adopting a standard approach just isn’t good enough. This post is about making minimal changes for maximum effect where it matters. The problem domain At Vortexa we use Python extensively. Great for prototyping, great for … Read more
We have been using different things for text, images, and tables. I think it’s worth pointing out that PDFs are extremely messy under-the-hood so expecting perfect output is a fool’s errand; transformers are extremely powerful and can often do surprisingly … Read more
For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: … Read more
SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) is a powerful tool for accelerating data-intensive operations in high-performance computing. While our previous exploration focused on thread-level parallelism with Rayon, SIMD enables parallelism within a single core, simultaneously operating on multiple data points. Understanding … Read more
Bots using residential proxies are a major source of frustration for security engineers trying to fight online abuse. These engineers often see a similar pattern of abuse when well-funded, modern botnets target their applications. Advanced bots bypass country blocks, ASN … Read more
Book the midtown DropofaHat Zone now! I am a simple midwesterner living in the middle of New York City. I put my shoes on one at a time, I apologize when I bump into people on the street, and I … Read more
j3s.sh Stop Using Fandom 2024-06-16 fandom is a wiki website (allegedly) if you are unfortunate enough to browse a fandom wiki without an ad blocker, you will experience what i like to call “attention assault” upon opening a fandom page … Read more
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Recently I was gifted a T65 rotary telephone. This was the standard telephone in The Netherlands in the seventies and eighties. I remember my parents having one as well. Because this phone does not use DTMF but pulse dialing it … Read more