A good balanced post on the topic. Maybe we'll finally see a resurgence of real research innovation and not just stupid scaling at all costs. Reliability will stay the important factor of course and this one is still hard to crack.
It tries hard at not being a "get off my lawn" post. It clearly points some kind of disconnects though. They're real. I guess it's to be expected with the breadth of our industry. There are so many abstractions piled onto each other that it's difficult to explore them all.
It looks like analog chips for neural network workloads are on the verge of finally becoming reality. This would reduce consumption by an order of magnitude and hopefully more later on. Very early days for this new attempt, let's see if it holds its promises.
Kind of unsurprising right? I mean LinkedIn is clearly a deformed version of reality where people write like corporate drones most of the time. It was only a matter of time until robot generated content would be prevalent there, it's just harder to spot since even humans aren't behaving genuinely there.
I wouldn't use it as much as advocated in this article, still this is a good reminder that Java became way more approachable for smaller programs in recent years.
Indeed, we'll have to relearn "internet hygiene", it is changing quickly now that we prematurely unleashed LLM content on the open web.
IRIS² is the friendly reminder that tens of thousand of low orbit satellites is not the only design... and likely not the smartest one.
This is not all bad news, there are a few things to rejoice about.
Bluesky is already hitting growth pains regarding moderation and its guidelines. By being centralized it is also more at risk within the current US political climate.
I don't exactly use this approach to factor in the uncertainty... but I guess there's something to be made out of this proposal. I'll keep it in mind for my next project.
The TV market is really turning into a anti-consumer one.
Definitely a good list of advices for first time contributors.
Interesting explanation of a research paper exploring the possibility of a faster SQLite by focusing on async I/O.
A good question, it is somewhat of a grey area at times. We need to come up with better answers.
Interesting ideas about leadership lacking in impact. Indeed it should be seen as a communal function, it's not about individuals leading each in their own directions. Think about it in a systemic way.
Yet another long piece in this interesting and in depth conversation about Bluesky. The fact that it stays civil is called out explicitly and this is appreciated.
Good list of the undocumented rules terminal programs tend to follow. It's nice to have this kind of consistency even though a bit by accident.
Nice little systemd trick, definitely an alias to add to your setup.
Excellent post showing all the nuances of AI skepticism. Can you find in which category you are? I definitely match several of them.
JSON is full of pitfalls. Here is a good summary. Still it is very widespread.