“Your ID is immaterial. We only use our face recognition software” is just the latest trend in surveillance and control in the United States. This blog post is not about ICE’s Mobile Fortify, however, but ...
I’m currently hiring a backend software engineer for my team. On the first day, we received hundreds of applications. Hundreds of garbage applications. This isn’t entirely a new phenomenon. No matter what you put in ...
Mocking functions in deno is very limited, compared to NodeJS. Maybe, it’s so bad that it’s actually great. As your resident ruby-hater-in-chief, I’m here to tell you that code “magically working” comes at great cost. ...
“Don’t mix pip and conda” – is the general advice from Anaconda, or if you must, use pip after conda. But why? One of the reasons is that conda and pip have different ways of ...
The technical bits are at the bottom, just skip ahead if you want 🙂 For all my academic friends out there, yes – this is yet another blog article lamenting the rise of AI-generated text. ...
When running an inference server, you can choose settings like temperature, top-p, and top-k. To understand these values, we really just need an understanding of the softmax activation function. I couldn’t really find one single ...
In today’s I-can’t-believe-I’m-doing-this-in-2024 I needed to re-build my webserver because it kept hard-freezing every week (another post for another day). Since I use a docker setup for this, my setup is pretty turnkey – I ...
Alternatively: S0ix is still awful My Linux laptop runs out of battery all the time. It goes to sleep, and then it just drains and drains until it’s dead. It’s a problem we’ve largely solved ...
Will this federate? Who knows! Will comments work? probably not!
I had a scenario for a personal project where I had e.g. a (+) button, and clicking that button should insert a new thingy into the DOM. No problem-o. button.addAdjacentHTML(element, <div>thingy</div>) to the rescue. Okay, ...
