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AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged.

the top post on my Bluesky feed was something along these lines: "ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information. You cannot use it as a search engine. LLMs only generate statistically likely sentences." The thing is… ChatGPT was over there, in the other tab, searching the web. And the answer I got was pretty good.

over 37% improvement on a large sequential I/O workload.

Washington is joining a growing list of states trying to tear down barriers for consumers who want to repair their electronics rather than buy new ones.

It looks like a 13-inch laptop on the outside, until you open it to reveal an 18-inch foldable screen that's just 7.3 mm thick.

This screenshot was recently released by the Digg team.

Digg was the predecessor to reddit, which destroyed itself with a catastrophically bad redesign, pushing everyone to move to reddit. Now, they're attempting a re-launch.

Looks like they're going all-in on gamification, which doesn't inspire much hope from me. It'll be interesting to see what eventually arrives.

UPDATE: My source for this was here which is supposedly a screenshot of a tweet by https://x.com/avstorm

But there is no tweet about digg by that account. Also the tweet doesn't fit the style of his other tweets.

So yeah. The whole thing is likely to be fake.

UPDATE 2: original tweet https://x.com/avstorm/status/1924956444673106374. But it has no attribution and afaik 'avstorm' is not affiliated with Digg. I still think it's fake.

I built a programmable 8-bit computer from scratch on breadboards using only simple logic gates. I documented the whole project in a series of YouTube videos and on this web site.

a few-kilobyte storage device that only unlocks if the owner’s Bluetooth device is in the vicinity.

Unlike OpenAI's video generator Sora, released more widely last December, Google DeepMind's Veo 3 can include dialogue, soundtracks and sound effects. The model excels at following complex prompts and translating detailed descriptions into realistic videos. The AI engine abides by real-world physics, offers accurate lip-syncing, rarely breaks continuity and generates people with lifelike human features, including five fingers per hand. According to examples shared by Google and from users online, the telltale signs of synthetic content are mostly absent.

Firefox’s address bar just got an upgrade, and it’s all about putting you in control.

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