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Are you struggling with hiring good programmers? This guide will help you to reliably understand if a candidate is a competent programmer, inspired by Casey Muratori’s interview. With this approach, he claims he can always understand if someone is a competent programmer, and he has never seen it fail. His…

I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in D Utilise metaprogramming so your compiler can stay dumb/poorly made Templates can provide really natural APIs while still catching errors at compile time D Snark: The forever-experimental allocator package I can’t retain all the information I need to…

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In today’s article, I’m hoping to provide an introduction to radio that’s free of ham jargon and advanced math. To do so, I’m leaning on the concepts discussed in three earlier articles on this blog: Electric fields can be visualized by plotting the paths of hypothetical positively-charged particles placed in…

Psychlist1972 October 22, 2025, 2:49am 3 Congratulations! Great to see both MIDI 2.0 and the new MIT license together! Pete Microsoft 1 Like olilarkin October 22, 2025, 9:19am 4 Great news! FYI the SSL cert for https://vstdev.org/ doesn’t seem to be correct. pongasoft October 22, 2025, 1:19pm 6 Thank you…

“You’re not the first candidate to show up here and reinvent programming from first principles using lambda calculus.” “Look,” she says. “We’ve all read Programming with Nothing. We’ve all seen What is PLUS times PLUS. You’re not breaking any new ground here.” You shake your head vigorously. “I would never…

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Hiring – NLP/ML Engineer Oct 22, 2025 | InpharmD Jobs Hiring – NLP/ML Engineer InpharmDTM helps healthcare providers make better clinical decisions by giving them the data behind their questions.  Founded: 2018 Funding stage: Seed ($6.05M) Revenue stage: Series A (~$5M annual run rate) Net gain/loss per month: profitable   Over…

YASA smashes own unofficial power density world record pushing state-of-the-art electric motor to staggering new 59kW/kg benchmark (Yarnton, Oxfordshire, UK) October 22, 2025 – YASA, the global leader in the design and production of axial flux motors, has smashed its own unofficial power density world record with a staggering new…

ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times | Tom’s Hardware Skip to main content Don’t miss these Handheld Gaming Lenovo Legion Go 2 review: AMD’s Ryzen…

Are we creating Trauma for ourselves?Joseph Everett (WIL)·September 17, 2023 Chances are, you’ve heard of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. At 79,898 reviews, the book has more reviews on Amazon than the first book of A Game of Thrones. New York Magazine says Bessel van…

With security startups getting flooded with VC funding in the past few years, some of the biggest networking events have centered themselves around the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Companies like CrowdStrike and Darktrace spend millions of dollars sponsoring teams, while others like Bitdefender have official partnerships to be a racing…

cdb is a fast, reliable, simple package for creating and reading constant databases. The cdb database structure provides several features: More packages saying that they provide tools for you to use cdb format (and in some cases cdb64 format): Fast lookups: A successful lookup in a large database normally takes…

Last year, a group of researchers won the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus. But as with many Ig Nobel awards, there is a serious side to the seeming silliness. The same group has conducted a new study…

Like most tunnels, you can’t really see the extent of the hydro tunnels at Niagara Falls. There are a few conspicuous clues though, like these gigantic buildings. These interesting protrusions from the landscape house enormous steel doors, nearly 60 feet tall, that can drop down into the tunnels and close…

In this post, I cover parlays, zero day options, and perpetuals: seemingly obscure products that have exploded in adoption to reach mainstream people. $150 billion was wagered on sports in 2024. Parlays contribute to two-thirds of sportsbook revenue and to the significant increase in hold, which is sportsbooks’ profit margin…

AI chatbots are “unreliable and clearly biased” when offering voting advice, the Dutch data protection authority (AP) has said, warning of a threat to democracy eight days before national elections.The four chatbots tested by the AP “often end up with the same two parties, regardless of the user’s question or…

6 months ago, in April 2025, Dwarkesh announced the AI 2027 project on his podcast, interviewing authors Daniel Kokatajlo and Scott Alexander. Now, Karpathy justified his much longer timelines to Dwarkesh, on what’s holding back coding agents, the first step in the AI 2027 timeline: For AI experts, Karpathy’s view…

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See the most expensive laptops in 2025, with live prices pulled from Amazon so you can see how these top‑end models stack up. We surface current listings so you can compare the highest‑priced options in real time and decide whether the premium is justified for your workload. This list was…

One of the big ambitions for the search engine this year has been to enable searching in more languages than English, and a pilot project for this has just been completed, allowing experimental support for German, French and Swedish. As the search engine has been up to this point built…