Thanks to the DALL·E 2, we finally have a very nice graphic representation of the feelings of a Docker container inside a macOS environment, I will try with this article to make this poor container safe to the coast. TL;DR Link to heading At the time of writing, the only viable option to have a decent performance and a good DX are: VirtioFS to share the filesystem (Docker Desktop, Rancher Desktop, Colima) - There are still some issues.

Students understand just enough statistics to get by

Another interesting continuation of the debate on the impact of chatGPT and Stable diffusion and the other newest ai based creative genetors. I think these new tools are a big thing, a game changer. Will it bring on a series of new and common ways tomdigitslly sign content produced? This idea sounds ok but there are a lot of issues with bringing it about. Will it bring out a new, singular, ethical concept sitting along side “original work” and “plagiarism”? Here is the author: “My drawings are a reflection of my soul. What happens when artificial intelligence — and anyone with access to it — can replicate them?”

Now that heroku eliminated their generous free tier (an understanable business decision) all of us “freeloaders” are scrambling to find alternatives. This article revies what they consider to be “Top Free Hosting Providers in 2023”

Regexp Preprocessor URL: https://pomsky-lang.org/docs/get-started/introduction/ Type: article Domain: pomsky-lang.org Notes: Interesting but not for me. I know regexps are arcane and confusing but they are well documented and people know them. I put this in the same bucket as scss and sass and many other helpful pre-processors. Not for me. Of course, you may not know that C++ started out literally as a C pre-processor (called cfront) that would generate C. So... The author says: "Summary of what pomsky is and what it looks like. Pomsky is a language that compiles to regular expressions. It is currently in an alpha stage and will likely change in the next few releases."

Too cool. Let the author speak: "Hello Acorn fans! We recently released a new video, linked below. The rest of this post is an article version of the video for those that want to quickly scroll through the screenshots or prefer to read. If you’re new here, make sure to check out our announcement post where we talk more about the motivations and goals of the project. A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover Hello everyone and welcome to Twisted Fields, our research farm in San Gregorio ..."

I was in a Barnes and Nobel again after many years. Actually many years before that I would go to a B&N more than once a week. Then between Amazon and terrible inventories at B&N and Kindle and Nook I stopped going. Then a few weeks ago I visited one and it was a revelation. I had a great time browsing books and books and books. Great article:"Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?"

This is a really cool algorithm that i never heard of. Also geohashes are not too hard to compute and have very useful and unteresting properties. the concept of a z-order curve is explained. That too is a useful model and concept. The author says: “Latitude and longitude as a locality-preserving string.”

A wonderful exhaustive tour of the architecture and operation of thr PDP-11, a venerable early comouter. It helped popularize the interactive computing paradigm we take for granted today.

Useful advice and framework for structuring your academic or technical writing. Author says: "TL;DR: Writing about writing and having written, and self-referentiality. Complementary musings on AI."

GPS is an amazing, complex and super interesting technology. People have a vague understanding that it involves satelites and so on. But there is so much more to it! Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

Common bottlenecks that prevent startups from scaling as quickly as they should. Thoughtworks always has good deep insight about software engineering. This too is an interesting series.

Interesting package although I don't have a use for it yet. It's your own IFTTT built for geeks that you run on your ownn server. It's got no UI to speak of. On the other hand, it has a sophisticated way to create logic around events and is extensible and open source.

Learn about HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor module. This tutorial includes working, Pinout, Specs, Datasheet, Wiring, Library, Code & Arduino Project.

A bit esoteric Robotics article. It explains how one roboticist handles multiple ultrasonic sensors, using a clever polling and interrupt driven scheme.

This seems like a very nice simple tool to solve a common problem. My only confusion is that there are a bunch of similar tools to do the same thing. Each has its own DSL, written in ruby or some other language, has its own conceptual steucture, and its own bugs. It’s enough to make me decide to just keep doing it by hand. Heres what the author says: “ Prepper is a simple server provisioning tool, built on top of SSHKit. You can use it to script your server build process. - GitHub - gregmolnar/prepper: Prepper is a simple server provisioning tool...”

I read and heard about Ractors in ruby. This article demystifies them. My evaluation: Ractors are a safer alternative to Threads. I’m sure thats a massive oversimplification and even incorrect in a way. But for me I need a simple hook to hang the concept onto! The author says: “Discover when and why you should use ractors, and build a ractor in Ruby.”

Several million people employ electronic mail for some significant portion of their professional communications. Yet in my experience few people have figured out how to use the net productively. A great deal of effort is going into technical means for finding information on the net, but hardly anybody has been helping newcomers figure out where the net fits in the larger picture of their own careers. These notes are a first attempt to fill that gap, building on the most successful practices I've observed in my twenty years on the net. I will focus on the use of electronic communication in research communities, but the underlying principles will be applicable to many other communities as well.

This is not a new thing by a long shot. But thw fact that it is published by dhh is a big deal imo. For me it assures me to some extent that it is “correct” and that it will be maintained. From author: “Running Rails from Docker for easy start to development - rails/docked: Running Rails from Docker for easy start to development”

Insights about simplifying your architecture. Wow! Using postgres instead of REDIS? This flies in the face of what I thought I understood! Author: “Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everything”