Mental health in software engineering | Hacker News
In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn’t going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably not the fault of engineering unless its so dysfunctional as to repeatably blow […]
A Visual Guide to Quantization – by Maarten Grootendorst
Demystifying the Compression of Large Language Models Source: A Visual Guide to Quantization – by Maarten Grootendorst
jrieke/best-of-streamlit: 🏆 A ranked gallery of awesome streamlit apps built by the community
🏆 A ranked gallery of awesome streamlit apps built by the community. Source: jrieke/best-of-streamlit: 🏆 A ranked gallery of awesome streamlit apps built by the community
Elegantly using Cloudflare WARP to deal with the anti-crawling challenge of RSSHub – DIYgod
Source: Elegantly using Cloudflare WARP to deal with the anti-crawling challenge of RSSHub – DIYgod With latest version of warp-socks, there’s no need for any of the special flags and elevated access. See https://github.com/Mon-ius/Docker-Warp-Socks
Diagrams · Diagram as Code
Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code. Source: Diagrams · Diagram as Code
Character Amnesia in China
I happened to have a cold that day and was trying to write a brief note to a friend to cancel an appointment that afternoon. I found that I could not recall how to write the Chinese characters for the word ‘sneeze’. I asked my three friends to write the characters for me and, to […]
B-trees and database indexes
The way your table’s data is arranged in a B+tree depends on the key you choose. This means your choice of PRIMARY KEY will impact the layout on disk of all of the data in the table, and in turn performance. Choose your PRIMARY KEY wisely! Source: B-trees and database indexes
Good stories are universal
他中文极好，所以，全过程我们是中文交流。当然，为了方便理解，我把其中人物也都改成了他能懂的形式。 Source: 如果潘金莲有点耐心，是不是就把武松勾搭到手了？ – 知乎 Good stories are universal, because they are structurally sound.
Actually Portable Executable
It’ll be nice to know that any normal PC program we write will “just work” on Raspberry Pi and Apple ARM. All we have to do embed an ARM build of the emulator above within our x86 executables, and have them morph and re-exec appropriately, similar to how Cosmopolitan is already doing doing with qemu-x86_64, […]
Turning a conference talk into an annotated presentation – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
some notes on my tools and workflow that I used to produce the writeup of my DjangoCon US 2024 talk Source: Turning a conference talk into an annotated presentation – Jacob Kaplan-Moss