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Isseven
isseven — Is your number seven? v7.7.7 The only number validation API you’ll ever need. One number. One truth. Zero compromises. // live demo POST POST /api/isseven // response will appear here // api documentation POST /api/isseven Send a JSON body with a number field. Returns whether it is seven. Request { ”number”: 7 } […]
Shooting down ideas is not a skill
Someone proposes an idea in a meeting. It’s new, it’s different, and it would take effort. Before they’ve finished explaining it, three people have already thought of reasons it won’t work. ”I haven’t heard any customers request this.” ”We can’t use Python for that, it’s too slow.” ”That introduces too much complexity.” ”We tried something […]
AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf Halved by Linux 7.0, Fix May Not Be Easy
An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit halving the PostgreSQL performance is known but a revert looks like it may not happen and currently suggesting that PostgreSQL may […]
Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself (2024)
I’m really not qualified to give advice. But enough people DM’d me on Twitter, so here it is. I don’t have to answer the same question over and over again. After some more editing, I realized that I am actually writing this for my younger sister Katherine. Don’t read this if you’re seeking a nuanced […]
German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
Motivation The Wallet Unit provides for authentication means which can be bound to multiple identification means, such as the PID, via a public/private key pair, see cryptography. When issuing the PID, the WB confirms to the PP (via OpenID4VCI Key Attestation) that the keys to which a PID is to be bound are controlled by […]
How many products does Microsoft have named ’Copilot’? I mapped every one
A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things. Apps, features, platforms, a keyboard key, an entire category of laptops – and a tool for building more Copilots. All named ‘Copilot’. I went looking for the […]
Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration Videos and Press Coverage
Archived ropes: Sundial -E (recovered from ropes at the MIT Museum) Sundial-E is the Command Module equivalent of Aurora 12 which was written for the LM. It contains the full test suite of the AGC, as well as the tests for all the subsystems of the Command Module (Aurora would contain the same AGC test […]
Plague Ships
It was not just the Ruby Princess that allowed unchecked and infected passengers ashore, this has been happening for centuries. But 600 years ago, some local officials were more cognisant and proactive towards the dangers of infection than we have seen recently in NSW. Quirky, who readers will suspect only paid attention during the history […]
LLM Wiki – example of an ”idea file”
A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs. This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration […]