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Google is to Android as Meta is to Llama. But this time it’s all about AR glasses.

Sat in the rear, it feels claustrophobic. I’m told they will solve that with extra daylight lighting installed behind the rear headrests.

It’s known as Atwood’s Duck. https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

I “founded” and ran the acorn computer user www server at this time. The remains of the site still have a Taos press release on it. http://www.poppyfields.net/acorn/docs/acorndocs/…

Is the abomination that is “I’ll revert on that” a wart?

Distillation. Corpora. Zero-shot. One-shot/few-shot. Labelled and unlabelled. Self-supervised.

Just use axios and https://www.npmjs.com/package/retry-axios

Debugging CrashLoopBackOff

“level triggered” vs “edge triggered” is the kubernetes term for stateless vs stateful. It’s one of the reasons why any cluster configuration drift becomes eventually consistent wi…

ONS sampling disputes this.

As one of the 60%, its not about deity worship, but more about a sense of stability. Especially where the monarchy has effectively zero involvement in daily life. When looked at fr…

I had a large tree in the garden of my previous house. I used to make significant quantities of medlar jelly every year and give the jars away to family and friends. The house was …

Just be glad no-one thought of running Internet Explorer as the desktop background....oh wait....

> Davis Adams, who works at Honda and drives an S2000, told me about a Lotus Elise he used to own that had a motion sensor. "If you locked the door, and moved your hand in the open…

These corporate phishing test emails come from phishd and similar services. Very easy to fingerprint them with smtp headers and set up mail rules to bounce them to your corporate p…

For those that have access to Menlo Security’s safe browsing saas service, it’s worthwhile analysing what client side JavaScript can tell you about the runtime environment. Device …

What about Edge and other Chromium browsers? For Edgium on Linux, will this likely result in a change of store?

Perfect example of the trough of disillusionment. The ORM slope of enlightenment comes when you realise the power of the unit of work, not just a single query. But that was then, a…

Waypoint feels similar to Skaffold mixed with some Eirini or Google’s dead kf project.

Got to wonder whether it’s something like ncipher/Thales due to the van someren/aleph1 connection.

https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Error-Handling-Oper... Lots of love for it in Rx

Mali was an ARM acquisition. It makes sense for NVidia to smash Mali and RTX together to allow Android manufacturers to compete against Apple. Apple built their GPU studio from ex-…

As suggested by the previous comments here, there are different types of architect in technology. The software architect elevator is a new O’Reilly book that explores this. I have …

https://medium.com/zoom-developer-blog/zoom-url-schemes-748b...

A friend once explained that boys are like dogs. They need exercising twice a day. A back yard and a ball are sufficient for that. A paved area is more likely than lawn to provide …