Normalise π D&Ds π roles π for π Software π Engineers π
Software Priest: Excels at fixing bugs and recovering lost data from backups
Software Barbarian: Rewrites the whole project while enraged
Software Rogue: Steals the best JIRA tasks
Software Wizard: Conjures the cleverest code on demand
Software Shaman: Installs telemetry and monitoring totems to keep the infrastructure healthy
Software Ranger: Can fix bugs via remote or just from looking at logs
It's done. My longest and most difficult article.
I studied CS for 4 years.
I used Functional Programming in the industry for 10 years.
All, so that the essence of my knowledge manifested itself in The Most Elegant Configuration Language.
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What is the difference between an LLM and an embedding model?
π€ LLMs: take a string as an input and output a string by predicting the next token.
π€ Embedding models:Β take an input andΒ return a list of floats (embeddings),Β which are theΒ numerical representation of the input.
I can't believe I finally get to say this. SDL3 is officially ABI locked!
We will _add_ new things but not _change_ or _remove_ what's there, starting right now. Which means it's safe to start migrating your games to it, starting today!
github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/reβ¦
Crowdstrike Analysis:
It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C language.
Since I am a professional C programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.
GodotOS, an operating system interface created entirely in Godot! Browse folders, edit text files, view images, play games, and more in one cohesive polished interface that can even be used on the web popcar2.itch.io/godotos
Doom in Space
Just in time for its 30th anniversary, on the 28th Doom ran on ESA's OPS-SAT satellite
I'm so grateful I got to help with this experiment and with expertise from Georges Labrèche and great work from Marcin Jasiukowicz this became a reality
github.com/olafurw/opssat-doβ¦
ALT Message from Marcin. "Ladies and Gentelman. We have officially run Doom on OPS-SAT. with a screenshot of the terminal output after the execution.
New MISRA guidelines for C have been released! π
misra.org.uk/misra-cpp2023-rβ¦
The last ones were for C 03, the new ones are for C 17.
It has been an honor to be able to contribute. I hope you like them!
Looking forward to your feedback!
DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt.
github.com/haileys/doslinux
This is one of the most incredible demo of distributed systems you are ever going to see, promise π€―π€―π€―
youtu.be/w3WYdYyjek4?t=3180 (timestamp 53:00)
This is real life sound visualization.
449 Hz, higher frequencies, then some jazz and then some rock are pushed into a Ruben's tube with propane to show standing waves and other configurations.
[πΉ Jared Fikling: buff.ly/3s2kL1r]