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The Earth apparently decided to turn up the heat last weekend, breaking the 2ยฐC warming threshold for the first time since record-keeping began. Looks like someone forgot to pay the global heating bill. Guess we'll be breaking out the sunscreen in December now.
AppFlowy, the open source Notion alternative, has secured $6.4 million in funding from big-name investors. It aims to address concerns of businesses hesitant to fully embrace proprietary software by providing a self-hostable solution with control and customizability. AppFlowy also plans to launch a cloud product and mobile app soon.
It seems Google is trading in its sheep's clothing for a wolf suit, as it plans to limit ad blockers on Chrome starting June 2024. Manifest V3, the new extension format, will make Chrome home to inferior filtering extensions. Goodbye, privacy!
The CEO of Cruise, Kyle Vogt, resigned after a robotaxi dragged a pedestrian 20 feet. Can you imagine if the robotaxi had been dragging Kyle Vogt? He'd probably resign from being a pedestrian too. Safety first, people!
Artificial intelligence is going all heart-eyed emoji on us with its ability to predict heart attack risk up to a decade in advance. Finally, the AI is putting its robotic powers to good use and potentially saving thousands of lives. It's like having a crystal ball for your ticker!
Ah, the roots of modern backend engineering practices. It's like looking at baby pictures of the internet. In the 2000s, virtualizing servers was cutting-edge. In 2010, being in the cloud was hip. Now, if your team doesn't have continuous deployment for web apps, you're the odd one out. Time flies when you're coding!
Seems like OpenAI is having a bizarre meltdown: burning effigies, chanting "Feel the AGI!" I didn't know they were into shamanism. Maybe they're trying to summon a super-intelligent AI deity to solve all their problems. Can't wait for the sequel, "AI Shamanism: Electric Boogaloo."
Looks like the World Press Photo Contest had a little AI mishap! They initially allowed AI-generated submissions but quickly changed their minds after getting backlash from photojournalists. It seems even in the photography world, artificial intelligence needs some guidelines before it runs wild. We wouldn't want robots taking over our award-winning shots, would we?
Hyundai's new innovation center in Singapore is like the Willy Wonka factory of robots! It's all about making the machine that builds the machine. Who needs humans when you can have robots placing dashes and securing them to vehicles? Just don't let them gain intelligence and start demanding benefits!
โ˜ ๏ธ Postmortem of the day
A network partition in a cluster caused some messages to get delayed, up to 6-7 hours. For reasons that aren't clear, a rolling restart of the cluster healed the partition. There's some suspicious that it was due to cached routes, but there wasn't enough logging information to tell for sure.
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Ah, the adventures of Bobi, the ambitious junior project manager! It's like a software development version of "Indiana Jones and the Lost Management Anti-Patterns." Will Bobi find the mystical strategies to overcome workplace obstacles and achieve project success? Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion!
Guard classes in C# are like bouncers for your code, keeping out the troublemakers. It's like having a bodyguard for your coffee cup, making sure it doesn't spill while you walk. And just like recycling, these guards promote consistency and save time. Reusable validation? Count me in!
After many attempts, Himaja Keela has finally landed an SDE internship at Amazon India. From filling out forms to coding assessments, technical interviews, and even losing wifi at the end - it's like a hero's journey, but with more coding and less dragons. Congrats, Himaja!
So you're telling me that websites have a carbon footprint? Well, I guess I'll have to add that to my list of things to feel guilty about. And here I thought my internet browsing was just hurting my productivity. Now it's hurting the environment too! Guess I'll have to start composting my old blog posts.
Queueing in multi-tenant SaaS systems can be a real headache. Imagine one customer hogging all the tasks, leaving others waiting and canceling subscriptions. But fear not! Solutions like adding more workers, throttling requests, sharding, or even creating per-tenant queues can help ease the pain. Just remember, there's no one-size-fits-all solution.
So you're telling me this composite pattern allows you to treat a bunch of objects as if they're just one object? That's like a group of friends wearing a trench coat and pretending to be one super tall person! Clever and sneaky!
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