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Microsoft's gaming division has overtaken
Windows to become the company's third-largest
business thanks to the recent acquisition of
Activision Blizzard. And here I thought the only
way gaming could overtake Windows is if Solitaire
got a major update and became the most addictive
game ever.
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Companies using AI need to establish policies to
address ethical, practical, and legal issues.
Imagine if we had AI guardrails in our personal
lives too. "Sorry, you can't leave the
house wearing that outfit, it violates the AI
Fashion Police guidelines."
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General Motors is grappling with buggy software in
its electric vehicles, causing flickering screens
and glitchy charging. Turns out, making cars into
"supercomputers on wheels" isn't as
easy as updating your phone. Looks like the auto
industry needs an IT team that can handle more
than just "rebooting" the car.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured
stunning images of 19 nearby galaxies, revealing
large spherical shells in the gas and dust.
Astronomers believe these "holes" may
have been created by exploding stars, which just
proves that even in space, things can go boom!
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OpenAI is making it easier to bring GPTs into
conversations by allowing ChatGPT users to invoke
them with a simple "@". But with all the
"romantic" and politically mischievous
chatbots flooding the GPT Store, moderation might
just become the next popular profession! Better
start studying "Chatbot Moderation 101"!
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Google is making waves in Africa with the launch
of its first cloud region in South Africa. Now,
African businesses can deploy cloud resources
closer to home, giving them the power to scale,
innovate, and compete. With this news, Google is
really johannes-burgling the African cloud market!
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Well, well, well, it seems we have ourselves a
good ol' existential crisis! The possibility
that our universe is just a simulation, huh? Makes
you wonder if someone's trying to win a cosmic
game of The Sims. I can already imagine the
"Player" frantically searching for the
cheat codes.
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Introducing the "Poem/1" clock,
where AI and poetry collide. This whimsical
timepiece will tell you the time with rhymes, even
if it means fibbing a little. Just don't rely
on it for rocket launches or athletic
competitions. And hey, it may even come up with
new words like "teason"!
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China is aiming to hit the jackpot on the Moon
with their upcoming Chang'e 7 mission.
They're heading to the Shackleton crater in
the south pole, where a sun-lit rim holds precious
resources. It's like the Moon's own
version of a luxury resort. Just don't expect
room service.
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Men, it's time to lace up those sneakers and
hit the road! A Swedish study has found that
aerobic exercise like jogging, cycling, or
swimming can reduce the risk of prostate cancer by
35%. So, gentlemen, let's jog our way to a
healthier prostate and a longer life.
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A change to the core application that manages the
underlying infrastructure for the Common Runtime
included a dependency upgrade that caused a timing
lock issue that greatly reduced the throughput of
our task workers. This dependency change, coupled
with a failure to appropriately scale up due to
increased workload scheduling, caused the
application's work queue to build up.
Contributing to the issue, the team was not
alerted immediately that new router instances were
not being initialized correctly on startup largely
because of incorrectly configured alerts. These
router instances were serving live traffic already
but were shown to be in the wrong boot state, and
they were deleted via our normal processes due to
failing readiness checks. The deletion caused a
degradation of the associated runtime cluster
while the autoscaling group was creating new
instances. This reduced pool of router instances
caused requests to fail as more requests were
coming in faster than the limited number of
routers could handle. This is when customers
started noticing issues with the service.
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Kites Software takes flight with their new blog!
With a team full of potential and a mission to
help SMEs in Egypt, they're tackling complex
challenges like gathering business requirements
and reducing laptop-breaking problems. Stay tuned
to see if they save your laptop or just tell more
dad jokes! 🪁
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In the world of system design, consistency is key,
just like in life. Imagine opening multiple
restaurants but only offering coupons in one.
Inconsistency leads to unhappy customers and a bad
reputation. Whether you choose strong, weak, or
eventual consistency, finding the right balance is
important. SillySystemDesign strikes again! 🫡
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Once upon a time in Tech Land, there was a
housemaid named Martha who was worried about her
son Bob's road rage incident. She roped in her
brother, Uncle Paul, who went on a wild adventure
involving lawyers, courts, and police stations.
It's like a tech version of "Law and
Order: OAuth2 Unit."
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Hey there! Ready to dive into the exciting world
of real-time communication with WebSocket? Join me
in this series where we'll scale chat apps and
master Redis and Kafka. Get set for a journey
filled with interactive learning! Together,
we're coding our way to greatness. 🚀💻
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Linux memory management is like a magician's
disappearing act. It's all about making the
most out of limited resources and making processes
believe they have endless memory. Swap this,
allocate that, and voila! It's like a virtual
reality game, but with less dragons and more
paging.
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A mapper in software development is like a
real-life translator. It takes an object in one
language (data structure) and converts it into
another language (object type). Like a
multilingual AI, it helps with DTO mapping, view
model mapping, database entity mapping, and even
testing and mocking. Impressive!
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Style your React app so fast. Load up your
Tailwind code and visually build out your app
using cool prefab kits, autocomplete, and AI
that’s actually useful Experience all the goodness
of Tailwind in a studio that is actually visual,
that not only reads your code but injects clean
code too
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white label features, organizations, and an even
more powerful dashboard. Get 25% off your first
invoice with promo code PH25OFF until February 29!
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Developer friendly Kubernetes. Cyclops is an
open-source tool that simplifies software
deployment by translating configuration files into
an intuitive UI. With a primary focus on the
Kubernetes community, Cyclops aims to help
developers deploy easier while reducing the
potential for errors.
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⭐ 75, 🖖 32
Fix date-handling bug when today’s date is
later than the target month
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⭐ 19, 🖖 0
Hacking Hacker News
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⭐ 3196, 🖖 953
Source Code for Sigma Web Development Course
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⭐ 979, 🖖 37
Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
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⭐ 628, 🖖 9
Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu
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