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Installing packages globally isn’t always a good idea. Different tools inside an application can require specific versions of features, functions,

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In the late 1990s, Olympics officials were suddenly eager to exit the business of testing women’s DNA. After three decades of requiring all women athletes to sit for chromosome tests in order to compete, the International Olympic Committee, in a daze, seemed to realize it wa...

I work as an Imagineer at The Hall of Presidents in Walt Disney World Resort. It’s a fine attraction that features our state-of-the-art Audio-Animatronics and realistic robots that embody the 45 men who have held America’s highest office. Shows have been running smoothly for...

A few days ago I asked Manton Reece, the developer of micro.blog, if he could add a feature that gave me a feed of replies to all my posts on his service. I post a lot of stuff to micro.blog via my linkblog RSS feed. Every one of those items can be commented on. But unless I...

The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let people find a model's presence on other streaming platforms. The creator says “If that is a problem for you then the sad reality is this job is not for you.”

Less, but better? Not this week.

The post The salad bar theory of UX professionalism appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

In Drummer, when I get too many tabs open from things I haven't looked at in a while, this is what I do.

1. I choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu
2. The menu opens with the new bookmark at the top of the list
3. If it's the first time I press Return and enter "Tabs I Closed Recently"
4. Then I drag the new bookmark under that headline.
5. Close the Bookmarks tab.
6. Remove the tab I just bookmarked.
7. Voila! Clutter Reduced.

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The Saatva Memory Foam Hybrid has been chosen for Olympians. Could it be the one for you, too?

I review laptops for a living, and it kills me when I see the PCs that Amazon and other retailers filter to the top.

In light of Zoom crackdowns and Skype shutting down, Batemates has emerged as an alternative for “bators” who like masturbating together online.

Fears over a drug cartel drone over Texas sparked a recent airspace shutdown in El Paso and New Mexico, highlighting just how tricky it can be to deploy anti-drone weapons near cities.

Sony’s new LinkBuds Clip serve up solid performance, but I’d wait until they’re on sale.

In hacker spaces and at their homes, creative protesters are laser-cutting and 3D-printing tools to resist an occupation.

Tech companies are racing to build thousands of huge data centers to power the artificial intelligence revolution. To find the land they need, they are barreling into rural communities across the United States with the promise of good jobs. But not everyone is buying that pi...

Our founder Bob shares his tech stack for podcasting, detailing essential tools and gear used for production, scheduling, and organization.

Joe Heck writes, in Navigation Notes – Agentic coding:

The latest “frontier” models are north of 1.2 trillion parameters today, maybe bigger… Even with the breadth of data, it can only predict patterns that it’s seen before. The generalization jump at 100 billion parameters means that it can start to apply patterns it’s seen in one place to another, but it still has to have seen it somewhere.

Joe’s explanations and details are good and helpful to me — there’s so much I don’t know. But I think we all need to know and understand this stuff, whether we’re LLM users or not.

It is deeply annoying that this is such a huge topic right now. There’s a ton of other stuff going on and I don’t want to have to deal with this too. But we don’t have a choice.

Sure, it’s been a while, but why not bring back the ol’ linkblog. 🐣🐥

I gave it a design very much inspired by what it used to look like in the mid-2000s — the idea was to make it look like I just started posting to it again. Easy as that.

The new/old design uses gradients. And Verdana! Love Verdana.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 59: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Just because we're paranoid, that doesn't mean Trump isn't out to get us. Trump has just accidentally revealed crucial details of his conspiracy to steal the midterms. It starts with the...