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December 2022

06-12-2022
How to Frame a Roof (with Pictures) - wikiHow

How to Frame a Roof (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Source: wikihow.com

How did this particular link end up here? I am learning to construct small wooden models. Currently I am making a simple framed house. I needed to review how a roof truss is constructed. Here is what the author says: “Framing a roof is the l. ast step in framing new construction. While most home builders will outsource the construction of roofing trusses–the rafter supports of the roof itself–learning to frame a roof yourself is one of the true arts of...”

Tags: model wood miniature roof truss how-to
05-12-2022
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow

AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow

Source: theverge.com

I'm interested what's going to happen as ChatGPT gets better. I hadn't thought about StackOverflow. But I was thinking about students using it to do homework assignments, like papers and essays. Here's what the author says: "People have been using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to flood the site with AI responses, but Stack Overflow’s mods say these ‘have a high rate of being incorrect.’"

Tags: stackoverflow cheating plagiarism teaching articles chatgpt
05-12-2022
How to post Instagram posts on Mastodon using IFTTT

How to post Instagram posts on Mastodon using IFTTT

Source: alephnaughtpix.github.io

As you can tell, I've been trying this and it is a little squirly. But I think I got it to work.

Author says: "A lot of people are starting to join Mastodon these days as an alternative to Twitter, because of it’s perceived benefits of community and local moderation over Twitter’s centralised structure and problems with moderating hate speech and harrasment. (Although, as Sage Sharp notes on Twitter, this is dependent on picking the right community, or “instance” in Mastodon, that supports you.) I’m currently on one of the main active instance of Mastodon to try a few things out before moving to another instance, and one of the things that I been trying out is seeing if I can post my latest Instagrams on Mastodon the way I can on Twitter."

Tags: mastodon web ifttt api web-hooks
04-12-2022
Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Source: engraved.blog

This is a truly amazing and mind-bending example of something that ChatGPT can do. Wheels within wheels. The Matrix. Check out what the author says: “Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?l

Tags: text-generation linux shell matrix chatgpt
04-12-2022
ChatGPT

ChatGPT

Source: chat.openai.com

For 2022, the performance of this AI is truly amazing. Maybe in a year or five it will seem simple but for now, its crzay good and a bit scary: “A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges. “

Tags: ai text-generation cool-tools chatgpt
04-12-2022
Swurl - Search everything instantly

Swurl - Search everything instantly

Source: swurl.com

Played with this a little. While google already searches all those other sources still i like the formatting of the output. Not sure if i will continuw to like it ad i use it more. But intriguing! Author dsys: “Search Google, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, & many more sites all at once. See all the results in 1 organized view.”

Tags: search google instagrsm instagram limkedin linkedin
02-12-2022
I Was Wrong About Mastodon – EscapingTech

I Was Wrong About Mastodon – EscapingTech

Source: escapingtech.com

Excellent article explaining mastodon logic and semantixs, especially with respect to the relationship that instances have to each other and what moderation options instance operstors have. The author: “I said that Mastodon moderation wouldn't scale, it does. The cultural differences will likely continue to maintain a friendlier atmosphere regardless of size.”

Tags: mastodon moderation fediverse federated explainer

November 2022

27-11-2022
teaxyz/cli: the unified package manager (brew2)

teaxyz/cli: the unified package manager (brew2)

Source: github.com

This is pretty crazy/amazing (to geeks, i guess). I heard a podcast with the author and he convinced me. Looking at the readme, I am confused/impressed. Author: “the unified package manager (brew2). Contribute to teaxyz/cli development by creating an account on GitHub.”

Tags: tea brew package installer explainer
27-11-2022
Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

Source: scribe.rip

The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”

Tags: rust programming programming-language coding
27-11-2022
Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE

Source: matthewtejo.substack.com

Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I’d like to explain my little corner of Twitter (though it wasn’t

Tags: twitter scale scaling caching cosi105