Daily Shaarli

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October 20, 2023

The Carpentries retires its X/Twitter accounts and Facebook profile

More organizations leaving Twitter (now X... rofl). It's a good thing and a logical step if you take values and code of conduct into account. It clearly became a cesspool from what I see.

Inside STL: The different types of shared pointer control blocks - The Old New Thing
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This is a too little known fact in my opinion. Good thing someone sheds some light on it.

What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing

Nice primer on how computation works on GPUs. Goes a bit into the architecture as well. Good starting point.

LocalSend

Looks like a nice FOSS tool to share files between devices without going through the Internet.

I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I teach Python. — Reuven Lerner

The risks of too much automation... this is chilling to see what using machine learning based system all the way can lead to. It's just a ridiculous situation and no way to get out of it.