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The author discusses the importance of values and goals in creative projects, comparing baking pies for personal enjoyment to presenting new research on sweet pastries at a scientific conference. The author emphasizes the need to clearly communicate intentions upfront, whether it’s for personal exploration or serious research contribution. They suggest starting with playful exploration to […]
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Robert W. Bly, a chemical engineer and experienced copywriter for engineers, shares valuable insights into marketing to this unique audience. Engineers dislike gimmicky advertising and prefer informational and professional content. A straightforward, low-key approach often outperforms flashy ads and mailings. The engineer’s purchase decision is logical, heavily influenced by technical specifications. Jargon is welcomed by […]
The National Library underwent a major overhaul of its digital preservation system, transitioning from DSM to DPS for long-term preservation of its historical materials. A crucial part of this transition was the re-archiving process of 2.2 million hours of digital radio, which included born-digital and digitized radio programs from 1993-2022. Surprisingly, during the re-archiving process, […]
Read Max HQ provides updates on media appearances, discussing topics like “Explainer Movies” and “Halogencore.” The recent arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France has sparked controversy, with implications of “free speech” vs. “censorship” being debated. Durov’s interactions with various governments raise questions about the true nature of Telegram as a communication platform. The […]
In distributed systems, selecting a leader is crucial to prevent multiple nodes from performing the same task. Implementing leader election using distributed locking is essential. Often, costly stateful services are used for this purpose, but with AWS S3 recently adding support for conditional writes, a simple and efficient leader election algorithm can be implemented. This […]
Lem simplifies Common Lisp development with built-in LSP support for multiple languages. The editor is perfect for keyboard-oriented users, especially those coming from Emacs or Vim. The unique twist? John McCarthy supposedly shared alien technology with the world in 1958 when he introduced Lisp – a tradition Lem continues. With a GUI version available since […]
After 27 years of covering the world of computing hardware, AnandTech is sadly ending its publication journey. Starting with a review of an AMD processor and ending with the same, AnandTech has seen the evolution of technology from boxy desktops to pocket computers. The platform will keep its website and articles live, ensuring access for […]
CIEL 0.0-dev is an extended Lisp that is 100% Common Lisp with batteries included. It allows users to easily interact with APIs and perform tasks like reading JSON data from a website. The code snippet provided demonstrates how to retrieve product information from a fake store API using CIEL. To access the full documentation, users […]
Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering course aims to teach you how to create effective prompts in Claude. You will learn the basics, common mistakes, and advanced techniques to build strong prompts for various scenarios. The course includes hands-on exercises and examples to practice with Claude 3 Haiku model. Anthropic offers more advanced models like Claude 3 Sonnet […]
The post discusses tricks for jailbreaking hosts behind enterprise firewalls to facilitate inbound and outbound requests over any protocol. These tricks are beneficial for deploying software in hostile networking environments, especially for vendors selling on-premises software that needs to operate within restricted networks. The post outlines techniques such as forward proxies, reverse proxies, reverse tunnels, […]