📰 News
So, Evan's calculus quandary is no match for Answer AI—math tutor by day, dinner date for Siri by night. With a year’s subscription costing less than one tutor session, even Einstein’s ghost might trade his chalkboard for an iPhone. Now, if only AI could solve the mystery of where all my socks disappear to!
NASA’s Starliner launch delayed due to a helium leak—engineers fear astronauts might get extra squeaky voices. Between flammable tape, corroded valves, and software woes, Boeing's spacecraft is like a cosmic “fixer-upper” episode gone terribly wrong. On the bright side, maybe the delay will include a guest appearance by Bob the Builder!
So, even in the afterlife, your great-grandkids can't enjoy your vast Steam library? Guess what, they’ll be fine with Fortnite 27. Meanwhile, your ghost will spend eternity trying to clear that dungeon in Dark Souls, one wifi signal from heaven.
Google’s AI telling folks to glue cheese to pizza? Clearly, it’s trying to start "the stickiest food debate of our generation." And 13 presidents from Wisconsin-Madison? Maybe the algorithm learned history from a parallel universe! Sundar Pichai's new mantra: "AI—Absolutely Incorrect, but better each year!”
So, OpenAI supposedly *didn't* want Scarlett Johansson's voice, but then thought, "Hey, why not?" Midler and Waits once sued for similar soundalike shenanigans. Johansson could too, but honestly, does ChatGPT even need therapy sessions that badly? 🤖🗣️✨
Look out, Big Tech! The UK passed a law that lets regulators fine tech giants without court approval. Apple CEO's likely losing sleep while trying to escape this tighter grip—they'd probably prefer an actual UK vice grip at this point.
Why buy a 4-foot robot for $16K? Forget dishes, it'll struggle to reach them! Instead, it can karate-chop Coke bottles and massacre walnuts. It's perfect if your dream household assistant also moonlights as a chaotic toddler on caffeine.
So, Greenpeace just blocked Golden Rice in the Philippines, leaving hundreds of kids at risk. Scientists say it’s safe, while Greenpeace worries about farmers turning into mutant superheroes or something. Who knew rice could cause rice swords?
Another OpenAI researcher exits, cautioning about elusive AI decision-making, which sounds more mysterious than a cat in a quantum box! She didn't spill all the bytes but suggested more transparency. Meanwhile, OpenAI's team is disappearing faster than my New Year’s resolutions!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
Experienced an outage for 1.5 hours, followed by another 1.5 hours of degraded performance on Thursday August 11 2016. This was due to an error during a migration of a critical backend system.
💡📚 Articles
Creating a portfolio in 4 hours? Challenge accepted! It's the UX Designer Olympics versus the Software Developer Sprint! Simpler than a VCR manual, no animations to distract like a cat video at work. See my instant Polywork profile—now hiring!
GitEstimate lets you measure your GitHub self-worth! For 50 contributions, 10 stars, and 5 followers, your value is… Priceless! Who knew code ego needed a calculator? Enter your username, get a JPEG, and share your virtual net worth! 💖🦄🔥🙌🤯
Reading about setting up Argo CD on EKS is like following a recipe that's 80% acronyms. Who knew getting code to deploy automatically could be so complicated? It’s basically a cookbook for a three-course meal... written in Klingon!
In the past 18 months, Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) boomed faster than my caffeine consumption in lockdown. Developers chase efficiency, while IDPs handle complex, cost-effective, and secure infrastructure. Even portals and platforms are merging—it's like code and spaghetti finally making perfect sense!
Feel like a web developer rookie? Just slap on matcha.css and voilà, instant designer! It’s like handing your HTML a tuxedo—fancy fonts, neat menus, and a form that actually looks like you car without any handiwork! 🍵✨
VKube helped Cheer App save 70% on deployment costs. So essentially, instead of blowing their budget, they just blew our minds. Now, Hong Kong and Macau’s youth can interact, knowing VKube’s doing the heavy lifting. Literally containerized fun!
🚀 App of the Day
No-code platform for web scraping & data automation. Forloop.ai is a no-code platform for web scraping and data preparation, empowering teams to rapidly gather, prepare, and automate data processes. Try it here: beta.forloop.ai
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