Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 | All Things Distributed
Seth is one of S3’s early engineers, and he took me into a little room with a whiteboard and then spent six hours explaining how S3 worked. Source: Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 | All Things Distributed
What I Want to Do in Apple Vision Pro — Prolost
I’m a VR skeptic in many ways. I don’t want anything to do with “the metaverse,” and I’m beyond annoyed by fake demos of people pretending to do creative work by waving their hands around like a wannabe Tony Stark. But I’ve owned several Oculus/Meta headsets, and I’ve had some experiences in VR that keep […]
The Story of Titanium – by Brian Potter
But despite its abundance, it’s only recently that civilization has been able to use titanium as a metal (titanium dioxide has been in use somewhat longer as a paint pigment). Because titanium so readily bonds with oxygen and other elements, it doesn’t occur at all in metallic form in nature. One engineer described titanium as […]
英伟达中国特供芯片遇冷，中国云计算大客户「看不上」性能降级版芯片，如何看待此事？ – 知乎
因为需要几千个分支机构统一部署，首先排除了英伟达，原因很简单，三家厂商都保证不了售后，以及将来是否断供，会不会提价。所以，英伟达的一切型号都不考虑。 三家厂商拿出的方案，软件不尽相同，核心算力方面，不约而同的选择了华为昇腾。 Source: 英伟达中国特供芯片遇冷，中国云计算大客户「看不上」性能降级版芯片，如何看待此事？ – 知乎
Ben Shneiderman
Design dialogs to yield closure. Sequences of actions should be organized into groups with a beginning, middle, and end. Source: Ben Shneiderman
Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation | Hacker News
Valetudo and https://dontvacuum.me/ are wonderful resources (for researching vacuum robots) Source: Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation | Hacker News
Costs of running a macOS app studio business — Alin Panaitiu
So what are the largest costs of running such a business? Well to be honest, that is time. Time I could have spent with my wife, my brother, my dog, instead of answering support emails from my first waking moment to right before sleeping. Time I could have walked outside, do some handy work in […]
Database Fundamentals
About a year ago, I tried thinking which database I should choose for my next project, and came to the realization that I don’t really know the differences of databases enough. I went to different database websites and saw mostly marketing and words I don’t understand. Source: Database Fundamentals
Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023? | Hacker News
You don’t train on documents. There are many startups claiming that but they are deliberately using a misleading term because they know that’s what people are searching for. You still do RAG. Llamaindex is still the best option that I know of. Most of the startups that have working products are likely using llamaindex. All […]
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
It contains the wifi credentials to the wifi that was used to set the device up (or to test it). Definitely not the wifi of the company. And what do we do, when we want to find out a location associated with a wifi name? We go to wigle.net, enter the SSID (=wifi name) and […]