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Christ, every time I come back here after spending some time on Bluesky, I find it shockingly terrible.
It's like I've just got used to the smell of sewer gas here, but when I leave and come back, I can smell it again.
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Wow! Big news for Java virtual threads!
Virtual threads in OpenJDK trunk are no longer pinned to a platform/physical/carrier thread when in Synchronized block 🎉
github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/…
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"Just" added full feature compatibility. With Microsoft Excel.
Here's the XLS file format spec. This covers only the Excel features that impact the file format, and none of the UI features. It's over 1,100 pages long.
msopenspecs.azureedge.net/fi…
why did google just stop like 75% of the way through cloning excel with google sheets? surely they could have just added full compatibility? instead it’s just a toy no one serious in finance actually uses
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You know what I want to see? An interview with Colin Farrell talking about The Penguin without mentioning the prosthetics.
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The ELT in Chile is cool. It's like, mankind has achieved amazing things by finding ways to make space telescopes that don't need an impractically large mirror... but while we're at it, let's also make an impractically large mirror.
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It's incredible how many opinions you can find about whether LLMs can reason like a human, from people who study neither LLMs nor human reasoning.
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Hot tip for @testcontainers with JDBC: you want to put "?TC_DAEMON=true" in your URL or else your database will be very forgetful.
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This guy is just the best. If you like physics and you're not subscribed to FloatHeadPhysics, you're missing out.
youtu.be/vPW0UYELfOg?si=Dtqt…
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Patrick Ꝺoyle retweeted
i think about this function from BeOS/Haiku a lot: haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/beb…
ALT int32 is_computer_on(); Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined.
Patrick Ꝺoyle retweeted
only reason people think OpenAI's o1 has 'PhD level intelligence' is because it replies with a dissertation every time you ask a question.
When it comes to programming, maybe 30% of these graphics are insightful. The rest demonstrate that the author doesn't know what side of the bell curve they're on.
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