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The question was simple enough: How good of an image editor can you build with $20 worth of Claude Code Pro subscription?

Sorting a terabyte of data in the late 1990s meant serious hardware, serious planning, and probably a serious budget approval process.

Because “It Should Work” Isn’t Data After reading about the billions spent on AI infrastructure, I kept wondering: how much of that storage is just… the same bytes over and over?

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools, but their unchecked proliferation carries technical, ethical, and professional consequences for software developers and the industry at large.

Introduction & background information NOTE: This content is from an internal talk I gave, thus the reason it may read like a presentation So what is bcachefs?

The ability to write a C shared library in rust has been around for some time and there is quite a bit of information about the subject available.

I firmly believe that security through obscurity is a fail.

I saw this referenced today on lwn.net IMHO if you make a language incompatible with previous versions it should be renamed.

I used to like Python.

Ideally it would be great if a DBUS server side library provided Fully implements the functionality needed for common interfaces (Properties, ObjectManager, Introspectable) in a sane and easy way and doesn’t require you to manually supply the interface XM…

Introduction Stratis (which includes stratisd as well as stratis-cli), provides ZFS/Btrfs-style features by integrating layers of existing technology: Linux’s devicemapper subsystem, and the XFS filesystem.

Debugging gobject reference leaks can be difficult, very difficult according to the official documentation.

Continuous integration (CI) support in github is a very useful addition.

While working on lvm-dubstep the question was posed if D-bus could handle the number of changes that could happen in a short period of time, especially PropertiesChanged signals when a large number of logical volumes or physical volumes were present on the

Bear Creek

Baby Robin

The documentation on the gnu libtool manual states: The following explanation may help to understand the above rules a bit better: consider that there are three possible kinds of reactions from users of your library to changes in a shared library: Programs

Introduction on two factor authentication Please read the following information on two factor authentication and why you would want to use it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step_verification NOTE: Make sure you leave a terminal with root access if you…

For an introduction to buffer bloat read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat .

NOTES: Updated 4/2/2015 to reflect new project links and updated command line syntax Updated 5/20/2021 to reflect new IRC service Updated 7/18/2023 removed IRC channel Abstract This paper discusses some of the advanced features that can be used in modern…

A local contractor installed a new furnace and water heater for me on 1/21/2013.

American water heater company, the maker of the water heater I installed issued me a return authorization number for the water heater that would not run when installed per the instructions.

Ben, a plumber from K&S came by and spent 3 hours going over my install and inspecting the water heater.

As I was unable to correct the negative pressure causing my atmospherically vented natural gas water to back draft at start, I decided to replace it.

In a previous posting I mentioned running into an issue with our water heater failing to draft when all the exhaust fans and clothes dryer running.

Over Thanksgiving I discovered a torrent of cold air pouring behind our shower in the basement and tracked it to a large opening in our attic.