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Summary: Choosing good colors for charts can be challenging, but this article aims to make the process easier. The author provides tips for selecting colors for different categories of charts, such as line charts, pie charts, and bar charts. They emphasize the importance of considering saturation and lightness along with hue when choosing colors. The […]
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In a bizarre incident, a U.K. woman found herself with three different poses in a photo taken while trying on wedding dresses. This unusual occurrence was not due to a glitch in the Matrix, but rather a simple mistake in Apple’s computational photography. The camera failed to recognize that it was capturing a mirror, and […]
KolibriOS is an impressively small yet powerful operating system that requires only minimal disk space and RAM to run. It offers a wide range of applications including a word processor, image viewer, graphical editor, web browser, and numerous games. It also supports various file systems and has drivers for popular sound, network, and graphics cards. […]
A recent discovery of a system of six planets orbiting a nearby Sun-like star has provided valuable insights into how planetary systems are formed. These planets, which range in size from Earth to Neptune, are arranged in a resonant chain configuration, a rare phenomenon in nature. The discovery was made using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey […]
The European Parliament has officially adopted its position on the draft ‘Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse’ (CSAR), marking a positive development for human rights despite the controversial nature of the proposed law. EDRi, an advocacy organization, has long spoken out against the mass scanning and encryption-breaking measures proposed in […]
US Senator Ron Wyden is urging US Attorney General Merrick Garland to release more information about the controversial Hemisphere phone surveillance program. The program, which has been in operation since 1987, allows law enforcement agencies access to trillions of domestic phone records collected by AT&T. Wyden has raised concerns about the program, highlighting that it […]
In this article, the author introduces a new command line search tool called ripgrep. They claim that ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the performance of GNU grep. The author provides a detailed comparison of ripgrep with other code search tools through a series of benchmarks. According to the benchmarks, ripgrep outperforms […]
In this paper, the authors explore the capabilities of GPT-4, a generalist foundation model, in various domains and tasks. They challenge the assumption that these models cannot perform as well as fine-tuned specialist models. The authors conduct a systematic exploration of prompt engineering to unlock deeper specialist capabilities in GPT-4. They introduce Medprompt, a composition […]
Edbrowse is a unique program that combines the functions of an editor, browser, and mail client. Originally designed for blind users, sighted users have also found value in its scripting capabilities. With edbrowse, users can edit multiple files, render HTML, access web pages, and interact with databases without human intervention. Karl Dahlke, the primary developer […]
In the novel “The Invincible” by Stanisław Lem, the characters are faced with the unknown and the inexplicable, forcing them to confront the limits of human knowledge. The story follows a space cruiser sent to investigate the fate of a sister spaceship that has lost communication with Earth. On the planet Regis III, the crew […]