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Five Years of Trying to Add Recursion to lychee | Matthias Endler
Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go
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Vincent's blog
In the context of the DMA developped in this post, this blog post improve it so to have accents and all nice icons in emails delivered by DMA
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It's Not Just X. It's Y.
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and...
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The software industry: annealing, but wrong
In recent months I've heard of several teams with an interesting policy: each pull request should be no more than a few files, and no more t...
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concurrent device registration without redis — seg6
race conditions, row-level locks, and why your isolation level matters.
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Why does ASTC use ISE when almost nothing else does?
The ASTC texture compression format has its "integer sequence encoding" to send small integers with a uniform probability distribution within their range. When that value range is [0,2k-1] for some integer k, this is straightforward: just send the values...
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Adding Offline Mode and Custom Servers to an MMORPG
Recently the Stop Killing Games movement got a lot of attention and sparked a lot of debate (and flame wars). While I’m not exactly planning on killing my homemade MMORPG Trolddom, it inspired me to look into making it “kill proof” with an offline mode and...
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the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it. I accidentally run a news outlet which is surely a liability. Sure, it has helped me "learn AI tooling" and I use many of these tools, but I didn't need them. I can't...
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise...