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Grimoire is a magical book that allows you to store and organize your bookmarks with ease. It offers a unique feature called mystical extraction, which transforms saved pages into compact content snippets. This tool helps users embrace the magic of web organization and tames the clutter that often plagues bookmark collections. Grimoire also supports tags […]
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Guix Packager is a new web user interface designed to simplify the process of defining packages for Guix. With over 28,000 packages available in Guix, it’s important to have an easy way to create new packages. The interface is intuitive, allowing users to fill in forms on the left and generate a correct package definition […]
VectorDB is a lightweight Python package that offers an easy-to-use interface for storing, retrieving, and managing textual data with associated metadata. It utilizes chunking, embedding, and vector search techniques to enable efficient and accurate retrieval of relevant information from large language models. By converting text into high-dimensional vectors, VectorDB allows for quick comparisons and searches, […]
Yamauchi Fusajiro, the founder of Nintendo, would never have imagined that his small playing card business would eventually evolve into a video game console giant. However, Nintendo’s first foray into the console market with their Pong clones, the Color TV Game series, was far from successful. Compared to its competition, the Color TV Game consoles […]
Whisky offers a no-terminal setup, making it accessible even for those with no terminal experience. The setup process is hands-off and easy to follow. Unlike other platforms, Whisky includes pre-built tools, so there is no need to wait for hours for GPTK to compile. The native UI of Whisky is designed specifically for macOS, giving […]
The GNU Coreutils version of ‘test’ and ‘[‘ has a peculiar difference. While ‘[‘ is a program and also known as ‘test’, on most systems, it is implemented as a hardlink to ‘test’. However, GNU Coreutils is an exception. Although the two names are derived from the same source code, they are different binaries, with […]
The Grand Paris Express is an ambitious project that aims to expand and improve the transportation network in Paris. It will introduce four new lines and 68 new metro stations, connecting distant suburbs to the city center and each other. The project is expected to have a significant environmental impact, but once in operation, it […]
The author introduces the concept of an ambassador service, which acts as an out-of-process proxy that helps with network requests on behalf of a client service or application. This pattern is useful for tasks such as monitoring, logging, routing, and security, particularly for legacy applications that are difficult to modify. The author suggests putting client […]
Latin roots are like carefully planted beans in the soil, while Germanic words are like mushrooms growing on a rotten log. Alphabetization is becoming obsolete due to AI searches that provide instant results. However, editing or understanding a website requires seeing it alphabetically. Latin-derived words follow patterns and rules, while Germanic words have a unique […]
Researchers have used an algorithm to search through millions of genomes in order to find new and rare types of CRISPR systems that have the potential to be adapted into genome-editing tools. The algorithm, called FLSHclust, analyzed genetic sequences in public databases and found around 130,000 genes associated with CRISPR, with 188 of them being […]