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Ahoy, matey! Ever wondered what life was really like on a 17th century pirate ship? Historian Rebecca Simon spills the beans in her book, "The Pirates' Code." Turns out, pirates had more rules and organization than you might think. Talk about organized chaos on the high seas!
AI madness continues as companies like Microsoft purchase the Nvidia HGX H100 chip for generative AI at a whopping $30,000 each. It's like a high-stakes game of poker, but with silicon instead of chips. Let's hope they're not bluffing about the long-term impact of AI!
Mickey Mouse has finally entered the public domain, but don't celebrate too soon! The copyright leash may be off, but there are still plenty of restrictions and complications. Just be careful not to let major elements from later designs slip in, or Mickey might come after you!
Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, reflects on his career and discusses the future of gaming. Despite his immense influence on pop culture, Miyamoto remains humble and focused on finding unique opportunities for Nintendo. And yes, he's still wearing that iconic grin!
Volkswagen's Car-Net service refused to help locate a stolen car with a child inside because the GPS subscription had expired. Talk about penny-pinching! I guess Volkswagen forgot that saving lives is more important than saving $150. Maybe they were just trying to teach the kid a lesson in patience.
Are you tired of mindlessly scrolling through your phone? Well, the Guardian is here to help you reclaim your brain! Sign up for their coaching newsletter and start spending less time online, unless you want to read more of my hilarious jokes, of course.
Archaeologists have reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, corroborating the biblical accounts. The Babylonians were apparently very thorough in their destruction - they didn't want to leave any walls standing, maybe because they didn't like paying for renovations.
Frontier, a supercomputer, broke the exascale barrier by performing 1.1 quintillion calculations per second. It then used machine learning to achieve a mind-boggling speed of 9.95 quintillion calculations per second. Can it run Crysis? Yes, but it's too busy advancing science and research instead.
☠️ Postmortem of the day
In 2013, a temporary network partition in the redis cluster used for billing operations, caused a massive resynchronization from slaves. The overloaded master crashed and when it was restarted, it started up in read-only mode. The auto-recharge component in This resulted in failed transactions from Twilio's auto-recharge service, which unfortunately billed the customers before updating their balance internally. So the auto-recharge system continued to retry the transaction again and again, resulting in multiple charges to customer's credit cards.
💡📚 Articles
Creating a Cordova Plugin may sound intimidating, but fear not! With Node.js, npm, and your favorite IDE (mine is a talking one), you'll be on your way. Just don't forget your GitHub account and OutSystems Service Studio or ODC Studio (they sound like rival boy bands). Let's plug in and code away! 🎸
The Secret Developer is on a mission to turn software development into a disciplined art form. But first, they need to deal with weak security measures, defects, dependency management, and the notorious legacy code. It's like trying to tame a wild beast and teaching it proper dinner table manners. Good luck!
Who knew a GitHub contributions chart could cause such stress? Apparently, having every day colored in is a big deal. But hey, remember that mental health is more important! So go ahead, take a break, color outside the lines, and prioritize your sanity over bragging about coding streaks.
Os sistemas distribuídos são como formigas trabalhando em conjunto para resolver problemas. Eles escalam em tamanho, geograficamente e até mesmo administrativamente. Eles também são transparentes, tornando tudo invisível para os usuários finais, como mágica! Mas cuidado, sem um relógio global, pode haver muitas festas de horários perdidos!
Canary Releases, the software developer's version of canaries in a coal mine! They let you test new features on a small group of users to catch any bugs before going live. A risk mitigation strategy that allows you to chill out without disrupting the entire user base. Canaries always have your back!
When your server is slow, check for slow code and optimize your queries. Upgrade your database server. If that's not enough, scale horizontally with master-slave replication. Replication strategies include synchronous (wait for confirmation), asynchronous (keep moving), and semi-synchronous (a mix of the two, like a good compromise). Oh, the joys of server optimization!
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👨‍💻 Repositories
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Insomnium is a fast local API testing tool that is privacy-focused and 100% local. For testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. This is a fork of Kong/insomnia
⭐ 2009, 🖖 53
☁️ The Most Secure and Easy Selfhosted Home Server. Take control of your data and privacy without sacrificing security and stability (Authentication, anti-DDOS, anti-bot)
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Subject-First Commit Messages
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DBChaos – A Database stress testing tool
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UBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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Pokemon prototype game made with JavaScript and p5.js
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Fish shell 3.7.0 released, the last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
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Lapce: Fast and Powerful Code Editor Written in Rust
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Web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend
⭐ 2013, 🖖 63
AI on the command line
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