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brakmicon Man 'Disappeared' by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows

brakmicon Parallel Computing in Node.js via HPX Addons

Explore building a Node.js addon with HPX, a C++ parallelization framework. This article covers the integration challenges, such as managing asynchronous operations and reducing performance overhead. Learn how batch predicate functions can enhance the performance of complex algorithms like countIf and sort, while simpler tasks see limited gains. Ideal for developers interested in combining JavaScript with parallel C++ capabilities, the guide includes practical examples and benchmark results.

brakmicon Revisiting HPX

This article explores the powerful parallelization and distributed computing capabilities of the HPX framework.

brakmicon Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)

Adam Curtis Documentaries on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25q3it0rDs&list=PLtsknc8NVn...

brakmicon Dada, an experimental new programming language

Dada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

brakmicon Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

How to circumvent youtube's anti-adblock mechanism: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtu...

brakmicon Intro to Semantic Kernel – Part Two

Hi, article author here,

Semantic Kernel and LangChain are both geared towards NLP but they have different takes on it. While LangChain revolves around creating sequences of calls known as "Chains", SK employs a "Kernel" to manage these sequences and has a "Planner" to auto-create chains for new user needs.

SK steps up the game with plugins supporting both semantic and native functions, which isn't a feature in LangChain. Also, SK has a memory feature to store context and embeddings, broadening its use case.

Moreover, SK is more welcoming to C# integration alongside Python, and has a knack for blending AI services like OpenAI with conventional coding, which LangChain doesn't offer.

So, in a nutshell, while there are similarities, SK packs more features and a bit of a different approach compared to LangChain.

Hope this clears things up!

brakmicon Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations

Goes in a similar direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell

brakmicon DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing

Paper:

"Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9

brakmicon Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

Hi,

Many thanks for the hint. It must have been a leftover setting from one of the other variants I am using locally.

Yes, postgres doesn't need to run as privileged. I changed it to "false" and updated the github repo.

Regards,

brakmicon Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

Hi,

I don't think you're wrong. StatefulSets are simply on a "higher level" than raw Deployments and manually provided PersistentVolumes/Claims. I am thinking about writing another article that shows how to use StatefulSets in similar scenarios.

Regards,

brakmicon Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

Hi, OP here.

Thanks for the hint.

I just disabled smooth scrolling. Sorry, not a sophisticated designer guy, using wordpress plus some UI themes.

Regards,

brakmicon Webhooks with message brokers and Convoy

looks like an ordinary advertisement

brakmicon Introduction to FPGAs

Check out https://nandland.com

brakmicon Introduction to FPGAs

Free Range VHDL book: https://github.com/fabriziotappero/Free-Range-VHDL-book

brakmicon FTX pre-mortem overview

Why is this guy still talking in public?

brakmicon The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)

Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter: https://youtu.be/G0R09YzyuCI

Joseph Tainter on The Dynamics of the Collapse of Human Civilization: https://youtu.be/JsT9V3WQiNA

brakmicon If only Borland had stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (2013)

Even better, imo: Modula-3

https://github.com/modula3/cm3

There are binaries for various architectures.

https://github.com/modula3/cm3/releases/tag/d5.11.4

brakmicon Behind the Celsius Sales Pitch Was a Crypto Firm Built on Risk

Archived: https://archive.ph/K1l0F

brakmicon Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL?

Start from here: http://www.hercules-390.org/

This is Hercules, an emulator for old mainframes. They also have COBOL and other important languages like JCL, the job control language.

Here the "turnkey" distribution that installs everything for you: https://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/

A mainframe community from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/moshix

Have fun.

brakmicon Wasting time in tech interviews

Gatekeeping ceremony is strong with the IT.

brakmicon Walmart Amps Up Cloud Capabilities, Reducing Reliance on Tech Giants

Archive: https://archive.ph/afJye

brakmicon Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google

Archived:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220519020040/https://addyosman...

brakmicon Why Web3 won't make the world more equal

paywalled

brakmicon [dead]

Me? Not my repo. :)

brakmicon [dead]

This entry is from November 2020. Yes, it's sad that big corps are reaping benefits from open source without giving anything back (in far too many cases), but completely removing the repo? A year later.

brakmicon [dead]

Archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20220105164221/https://github.co...

brakmicon You Shouldn't Become a Programmer

We're all programmers, but some don't know it yet.

brakmicon Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion

The problem was described more formally as "Dark Agile" some time ago.

http://darkagilemanifesto.org/dark-side-of-agile-janes-succi...

brakmicon Stabel: A pure, concatenative and statically typed programming language

LOL, Burn! :D