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This has gotta be the world’s coolest and/or saddest “OR gate” 🤣 #locks #padlocks #gates
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d6dzG6aA19A

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Gestern Abend hatte ich die Freude unser neues Buch in der Hand zu halten 🥰 @hschwentner und ich haben alles aufgeschrieben, was wir in den letzten Jahren gelernt haben 🤩 ohne die vielen tollen Menschen um uns herum in der DDD Community, in unserer Firma, der @wps, und in unseren Familien wäre das nicht möglich gewesen. Vielen Dank Euch allen!

Today I unlocked the next #SQL level: I got to use Common Table Expressions (CTE aka WITH statements), and my mind got blown up how easily I was able to write a rather complex statement, combining 6 to 8 tables, simply by proceeding step by step, one #CTE at a time. Thanks #dbt!

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For software development to be more successful, communication is critical. Yet, I now use *dialogue* instead. Communication can be oneway: giving instructions such as "Command and Control." Dialogue is explicitly collaborative. Communicate collaboratively with dialogue. #DDDesign

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First chip designed with ChatGPT? An interview with Dr. Hammond Pearce & Jason Blocklove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vC3t_soJok

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Microsoft is rewriting parts of GDI in Rust, as evidenced by a new file called "win32kbase_rs.sys" which contains a complete reimplementation of the REGION type in rust, and a vive ID called "Rust_GDI_REGION".

#rust #rustlang #microsoft #windows

A screenshot of ViveTool GUI showing the new Rust_GDI_REGION flag.

A screenshot of file explorer showing the new "win32kbase_rs.sys" file.

A screenshot of IDA showing the functions inside "win32kbase_rs.sys".

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My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:
When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"
If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!
But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.
It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

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Thanks to Andrew Jenner for disassembling the microcode.
https://www.reenigne.org/blog/8086-microcode-disassembled/

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🍄 Missed your jump over the mushroom?

🔫 Splatted next to your target?

🚧 Drifted your kart outside the track?

This shall happen no more!

We contacted Nintendo to address the recurring problem with defective Switch controllers and they agreed to offer all consumers the right to repair, free of charge, even beyond the legal guarantee!

This will prevent the disposal of unrepaired controllers and unnecessary waste.

In the foreground, two Nintendo Switch controllers, one yellow, one blue.

In the background, an EU flag and a videogame hat with the question mark characteristic of Nintendo games.

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#MonolithicArchitecture != Tight Coupling

#BigBallOfMud == Tight Coupling

#ROI is in differentiated strategic innovation, not in a deployable container.

Architect for purpose.

https://www.informit.com/store/strategic-monoliths-and-microservices-driving-innovation-9780137355464

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hey it’s starting to look a bit like a real thing??

two pcbs! one has a circular touch pad and a display, the other has various components

the other side! the electronics pcb has sd card slot, usb c, buttons, and a trs jack. the other pcb has a haptic motor!! they connect via a little ribbon connector

the two pcbs back to back. it looks like a little ipod!!

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"What if we took 2-3 months to rewrite the whole thing? Start from scratch, fix all the mistakes we know about, and we will have a clean state, all our problems solved."

There's a divide between engineers who thought about doing this, and those who did it, and it's a big one.

As tempting it is to summarize what you learn by this approach: words don't do justice.

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This is how they arrive on Earth.

Orange cat laying inside a hole in a tree stump, there’s a black cat behind it

Black cat sleeping on the hood of a mostly shattered car windshield

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Why search the old-fashioned way when you could use AI? Why talk to a trained reference librarian when you could ask that guy at the bar who will tell you all about what he's pretty sure he heard from his cousin one time?

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Often, math is beautiful. When it isn't beautiful, that kind of blows my mind.
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RT @KangarooPhysics
The optimal known packing of 17 equal squares into a larger square - i.e. the arrangement which minimises the size of the large square.
https://twitter.com/KangarooPhysics/status/1625423951156375553

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:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :cat_hug_triangle: :blobcathearts: A new day has begun, have a wonderful day :blobfoxsnuggle: ❤️

@adamghill fair enough

@adamghill I would have said, if you are into markdown, look at pandoc. I’m sincerely convinced rst is superior to md, but the battle seems to have been fought. Rst is seen as more invasive, as I understand. As I see it, you’re bringing the invasivity of rst into your md. What I don’t understand, if you’re into sphinx, why not write restructuredtext?

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It took me a long time to understand why people love #sphinx and to be honest reStructuredText was a big reason I kept avoiding it. I have a hate/love relationship with #markdown, but I use it almost every day so I sort of understand it.

Pared with Myst, Sphinx is so awesome I don’t want to write docs in anything else.

My go-to documentation stack (even for non-Python projects):
https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-autobuild
https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/
https://pradyunsg.me/furo/

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The cat just went over to the HomePod mini on my desk, meowed at it, and Siri said "sure here is some music for you" and the cat perched on the window sill listening to Garbage and Elliott Smith.

I just want to know how long this has been going on.

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