We used to use software; now software started to use us

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The more time you spend designing systems, the more paranoid you get about things going wrong

Instead of trying to shorten the time that our builds take, we order and chain them by complexity, thus gradually reducing the risk.

Applying The Blue Angel Criteria To Free Software

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

It is very important to conduct regular code reviews within every software team, but it is not so easy to do them right; here are a few typical pitfalls.

Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use

version: '3'

tasks:
  hello:
    cmds:
      - echo 'Hello World from Task!'
    silent: true

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Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn't that it's difficult to do,

Пришло время рассказать о том, как устроена геополитика. Как и почему страны конкурируют между собой, строят и разрушают союзы, захватывают соседей или сами исчезают с карты. Для удобства и наглядности объяснять будем на простейших примерах — на кружочках.

Иллюстратор, художник из России Ольга Шевченко

Переосмысление дорожных знаков от Ильи Бирмана