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If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast

In my regular research (behind a paywall), I have been saying for a while that I think the future of AI is not large language models (LLM), but small language models (SLM) run on local desktop computers or even mobile phones.

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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the...

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Parsing IP addresses in C# at crazy speeds

We are all familiar with IP addresses such as 192.168.0.1. They are typically written as four numbers in the range 0 to 255 inclusive, separated by dots. In C#, you can parse them with the standard library using IPAddress.TryParse. Pedantic people are quick...

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Goroutines 101: A basic walkthrough

Go makes concurrency much easier than most other languages. In Java, you decide between platform threads, virtual threads, and the thread pools of the …

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Reclaim the terminal · Nishant Joshi

Your keystrokes never go to stdin. A binary piped into itself four times shows how tools like less and fzf get the keyboard back through /dev/tty.