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BlueUmarellon How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

Bossware, where

the boss is nowhere

BlueUmarellon Formatting code should be unnecessary

Ohhh, a topic about code formatting

BlueUmarellon How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent

Thanks! will have a look..

BlueUmarellon How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent

Any resource/link you know of that further develops your point?

BlueUmarellon Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)

That was.. surprisingly good TBH.

BlueUmarellon Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser

Does anybody know if the results can be saved to file, or the results somehow retrieved?

BlueUmarellon Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)

Post: "9 rules of debugging"

Each comment: "..and this is my 10th rule: <insert witty rule>"

Total number of rules when reaching the end of the post: 9 + n + n * m, with n being number of users commenting, m being the number of users not posting but still mentally commenting on the other users' comments.

BlueUmarellon A washing machine for human beings, from 1970

Thanks for your contribution to science. On a related topic, I guess there are more than 1 person that tried looking directly into a laser, though. And multiple times.

BlueUmarellon Roman Roads (2017)

Quid narras?

BlueUmarellon A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)

As I understood, one of the japanese officer's hut - which is even bolder! Hence why they tricked the translator to have the japanese character for "workshop". A lot of smart and bold moves all along. Especially as the japanese were known for their "harsh" treatments (humiliations, beatings, torture, slow death, brutal death etc etc) toward prisoners, anything that would lead to a cue that they were doing something hidden would have had a radical and definitive answer...

BlueUmarellon A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021)

The "Python", the "Actually" and the "Portable" parts.

BlueUmarellon Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)

Shortly after, same guy invented "RTFM"...

BlueUmarellon United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections

"Hey, wanna hang out with a beer this evening?"

"Nah, I don't need to slouch anymore in this moral crumple zone!"

"We need this new feature in our program!"

"If we implement this it means the management fell in a moral crumple zone"

"What seat would you have to have for your flight?"

"Anywhere, but not in the moral crumple zone, please"

BlueUmarellon The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Sendmail (2011)

(shatters?)