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LWN has finally swapped its proprietary accounting system, QuickBooks, for the free open-source accounting system, GnuCash. After five years of searching for a better system, they discovered that many of the available complex systems were “unwieldy”, and those based on plain-text files lacked “useful features”. Importing and exporting data was paramount in their choice of […]
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Are you experiencing intermittent cable modem internet connectivity issues? The root cause of many issues could be bad/loose cable/connector issues, which is something you can solve yourself. The first step is to confirm that the cable modem is having a problem, and one way to do this is to use the cable modem diagnostics webpage. […]
Foundation is a package that aims to provide a base layer of functionality useful in Swift applications. It includes fundamental types for numbers, data, collections, and dates, as well as functions for task management, file system access, and more. The package is a work in progress that aims to build a new and unified Swift […]
This web content provides information about the subreddit LLaMA and its rules. Posts must be directly related to LLaMA or LLMs, and low effort posts are discouraged. The community is open to collaborative resource sharing, but self-promotion should be limited to 10% of content and links must be directly to the source. Users are expected […]
privateGPT offers the ability to ask document-related questions without an internet connection. This system is built using LangChain, GPT4All, LlamaCpp, Chroma, and SentenceTransformers. To use privateGPT, users must install all required packages, download the LLM model, and reference it appropriately. The software supports various file extensions and allows users to ingest their own datasets. Additionally, […]
Cloud GPUs have become crucial hardware accelerators for training and running neural networks. The popular graphics processing unit (GPU) is the most widely used for these purposes, but serverless GPUs are increasingly gaining popularity. Cloud GPU vendor pricing has been assembled in tables that are filterable to the user’s liking and includes GPU cloud servers […]
The author describes their journey towards creating a versatile image generator that can be used to create custom civilization sprites for Age of Empires II lobbies. They used various techniques, including machine learning and Control Net with Zoe Depth Estimation, to refine the outputs and get consistent results while still being imaginative. The author also […]
The author, Barry, shares the story of his most intense year as a professional developer, where he was hired as the sole developer for a 14-year-old high-end marketplace that was going through a chaotic ownership transition while simultaneously being targeted by fraudsters. He shares the technical challenges they faced, including phishing attacks, fraud, and bugs […]
The author provides a guide to network programming using Internet sockets for those who know some C or C++. The sockets API has been ported to many platforms, including Unix, Linux, and Windows. The API may be overwhelming, but the guide should help readers jump into network programming with ease. The guide includes errata, HTML, […]
After retiring from a 26-year career as a programmer for Apple, the author was initially relieved to be done with programming. However, after a few months, they found themselves starting a small project to learn Python and play with e-ink displays. Since programming had initially been a hobby for them, it’s not surprising that they […]