If you have been on invent.kde.org lately you might have seen some merge requests about “Install Qt metatypes” and wondered what that’s all about. When defining QML types in C++ the buildsytem tries…

(writing this instead of studying! >. I have always said and will continue to say that Koreans are the truest, most biblically accurate looksmaxxers. I used to think it was mainly a K-pop thing,…

Hi, I’m Lena, and I’ve been off of instagram for 462+ days now. This could be a thing you know? And if you think I’m poking fun at it, I really am not. After ‘quitting’…

In my opinion wondering round charity shops searching for books is one of the best ways to spend time. The weekend just gone I picked a copy of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Next to Nature by Ronald…

AI is reshaping what technical leaders are for. Six patterns of response — buyer, vibe builder, depth-seeker, evangelist, governor, abstainer — each delegating the thinking somewhere different. The…

This is an interesting article. The author argues that AI alignment should not be understood as “making AI maximize human preferences.” The mainstream approach to current AI alignment…

Reading Time: 2 minuteson the first of May. I am always grateful to have been born on Labor Day, and grateful for a life I live contingent on so many hands who have built for me, as distant as the…

I grew up hearing about places various places inside the town's industrial sites. My dad's job is literally going to all those places and checking if their stuff still works. So he knows his way…

For the past two years we, meaning all five of us, have taken a two-week road trip in the summer. Driving around our beautiful country that is Norway 🙂 First year we rented Airbnb’s —…

(Which, incidentally, raises the delirious spectre of the converse of a p-zombie: a being that shows all the properties of being aware, except awareness—wait. No. Strike that. Reverse it.)

Good days. Good bonding. New app? Transcript

The Lost Americana Tour came through Auckland, but all I really wanted to hear was Tickets To My Downfall

ServiceNow just unleashed a barrage of announcements that set the stage for its goal: doubling revenue to $30 billion in the next four years. In a nutshell, they want to own the management tools,…

Between the motion and the act falls the shadow.

Suppose that x is a variable of an unsigned type. In C/C++, it could be of type size_t for example. You have an expression like 6 * x and you want to know whether 6 * x overflows. That is, you want…

The weak Yellow Hive got robbed out by another bee colony. Robbing is when another colony comes and steals/eats the honey in a weak hive. I noticed the sign of chewed up wax cappings and did an…

Two musical worlds and two icons meld their respective styles into a unified canvas of artistic subtlety and beauty. Source: The Perfect Note over at AllMusic 💿 Stream

Join John Warrillow on Wednesday, May 13, at 12 pm ET, for an exclusive live session on creating a business that can thrive without you. Sign Up Free This week on Built to Sell Radio, Boris Berenberg…

First track test on the calendar. Last week was the sprint to close the gap. Three big ones got done — and one of them was an actual drag-out fight with the drive inverter. o o o RADIATOR MISTING…

Devorah and I are spending the week in Boston, well techincally Cambridge. We came up last year around this time and had a big StuyCS meet up hosted at Formlabs. I was talking to my friends in the…

I’m overdue an update. Two months on from my last workflow post, much has shifted - some of it from new tools, more from joining an organisation that takes AI seriously. The biggest change:…

I’ve always been a voracious reader. Non-fiction mostly. In fact, I credit a lot of my early professional success to learning to leverage the big ideas I discovered in books written by people a lot…

I've been thinking a lot about feedback, because I've been taking an improv class, and part of taking an improv class is getting a lot of notes on my performance. I expected to hate this because…

One thing I’ve learned building creative and technical teams is that motivation does not come from process alone. It comes from grounded creative freedom. People do their best work when they have…

Heya! So, for the past couple days, it's been basically impossible to escape this hypothetical question: "Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more…

I own four old ThinkPads now. I blame the algorithm. It really doesn’t take much, watch one nerdy video and suddenly your whole feed is people doing cool things with old laptops, and a few…

If you follow me on Mastodon you know it as my home server. If you click through to my ForgeJo you know it as my git forge. It’s the host that hosts my private Elk server where the majority of…

Anthropic raised Claude limits by renting SpaceX compute. The funny part is where the compute came from.

hljs.configure({languages:["python","bash"]});hljs.highlightAll(); We’ve just uploaded mypy 2.0.0 to the Python Package Index ( PyPI ). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes…

Why coordinate-level optimizers can behave differently on weights that represent the same model, and how quotient-aware updates remove the hidden gauge.

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I was trying to remember the name of some old hidden-object games I used to play as a kid, and after a while and some searches I got it! The two main series I liked were Mystery Case Files…

Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration. Many people are unhealthily and dangerously…

Learn how to honestly analyze your own logs and data to improve your technical SEO performance. Discover practical tips for objective self-assessment and identifying optimization opportunities.

I've been starting to get back into composing music, which for me also means looking at YouTube videos and social posts related to the topic. But the more I start looking at videos and content…

This article refutes the claim that patient video recording makes doctors 'robotic.' Patients record mostly out of fear of forgetting details rather than seeking trouble; practicing medicine…

TV interview with Scott Budman / WNTV (NBC Bay Area) regarding the Elon Musk versus OpenAI / Sam Altman trial in Oakland, CA, for TODAY: NBC. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/author/scott-budman/

John invited me over to run the RDC-M on his Kanada Railway. It ran a few laps and one of them is shown in the video. I was quite pleased at how well the old Bachmann drive unit ran being some 50 or…

In this part of the Yocto hardening we talk about how to verify the integrity of a file system with dm-verity in embedded systems. The post Yocto Hardening: File System Integrity with dm-verity first…

Recently, a port of Notepad++ to macOS has been making the rounds online, mainly due to the project using the Notepad++ name without permission and in breach of the original author’s trademark. But…

The best software engineers are endlessly curious about how things work in a way that can bewilder other brain orientations. Once upon a time I attended a DEFCON talk given by an engineer who found…

On May 23, 2011, I bought Building Java Programs 2nd edition from bokkilden.no to learn how to program. A week later, product.support@pearsoned.com emailed me a password I had registered an account…

Need to randomize things? I did too. Here's a tool that's helpful to me and might be helpful to you. 🔷 These tools aren't server-side, so they probably won't work without JavaScript enabled. Shuffle…

I have briggs.seattle.wa.us , and you might be able to get one for yourself, with your own city and state, if you're in the US! They're free, too. I had success following Frederick Chan's great guide…

People who go for leadership...may be viewed as one of two extreme types. There are those who are so constituted physically and emotionally that they like pressure — seek it out — and…

This Saturday (9th May) EDGEWAYS presents "Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced" with me talking about my artwork on Zoom from 20:00 BST. Attendance is free, but places are limited so…

A meditation on token economics, the AI hierarchy, and the moment your most agreeable collaborator turns out to have been on a payroll.View Post

I've been buying Vinyl Records for the last 10 years or so after not having owned any since the late 90's when I left for college and sold my dad's collection. I had moved on to CD's and soon Napster…