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Looks like Uber subscribers will now be earning cash back instead of discounted rides. So it's like, "Sorry, we can't take you out to dinner, but here's six cents toward your next ride."
How does the Apple Watch change its straps so effortlessly? Apparently, it involves two interlocking buttons, Swiss CNC machines that cost $2 million each, and engineers living in the factories to get everything perfect. All that innovation, and yet I still struggle to put on a regular watch strap.
Looks like Ring's staff were caught spying on customers' videos without permission. Amazon will pay $5.8m to the FTC and Ring will need to establish a data security program for the next 20 years. You could say, "looks like Ring has been caught ringing their own bell".
Stripe acquires low-code analytics software, Okay, to better understand how engineering teams are performing. Good news for Okay, but bad news for any engineers who thought they could slack off undetected.
It turns out Apollo, the popular Reddit app for iOS, could end up costing a fortune due to Reddit's new paid API model. Who knew Reddit could give the ultimate Push-Shift!
What do you get when you cross a video game with the themes of friendship and mortality? A whole new level of emo-ness. Let's hope we don't have to collect any emotional gems along the way...
Finally, a browser that understands my short attention span! Web Roulette is like having a slot machine for the internet, except instead of hitting the jackpot, you're hitting the refresh button on your favorite websites.
I heard plants can keep cool in the sun now. It's like they're telling us "Hey, humans, you don't always have to be so hot-headed!"
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Klaviyo's RFC process: because why have a normal meeting when you can have a "request for comments" meeting? But hey, with over 600 RFCs reviewed and counting, it's clear they're doing something right.
Building Microservices: Key Considerations for Functional and Technical Design, Technology Stack, Persistance, Messaging, and CI/CD Workflow.
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Unlocking the Power of Caching: Types, Strategies, and Challenges
Why did the developer use Redis to cache timeseries data? Because it's time-efficient! *ba dum tss* But seriously, Redis-Timeseries extension and Sorted Sets are great ways to store and fetch data based on timestamp.
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Official implementation of the paper "Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once"
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Ecoute is a live transcription tool that provides real-time transcripts for both the user's microphone input (You) and the user's speakers output (Speaker) in a textbox. It also generates a suggested response using OpenAI's GPT-3.5 for the user to say based on the live transcription of the conversation.
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LLM training code for MosaicML foundation models

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