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  1. This is seriously cool. It’s still pretty low bandwidth at 8-16 bytes per second but if the community got involved to the same extent that they did for GGML/GGUF we’ll have 56kbps modem screeching by the end of the week

    I can see this being really useful for loads of cool stuff. I can also imagine hackers setting up loudspeakers playing data noises all over the place and having to buy my phone tiny earmuffs

    https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave

    #softeng #iot
  2. Spent more time than I’d have liked trying to work out how to get docker builds working inside Forgejo actions. I’ve added my notes to my digital garden. https://notes.jamesravey.me/Software/Forgejo#docker-in-docker

    #docker #softeng #gitea #forgejo
  3. New post alert! In this post I investigate how many keys you can store inside of an @awscloud #S3 bucket. Fair warning the answer is more complicated (and bigger) than you think! #math #compsci #softeng #cloud

    blog.kochie.io/articles/08-s3-

  4. CW: The purpose of Software Engineering

    Hey ChatGPT, what's the purpose of software engineering?
    #SoftEng

  5. “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

    In memoriam, Fred Brooks (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022)

    #SoftEng

  6. “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

    In memoriam, Fred Brooks (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022)

    #SoftEng

  7. My intro would have been back in time on my old instance home but here is one. I'm a living in mostly since the mid 90s. I undergraduate . I have been a user and promoter of and since the early 90s, big believer in , , and
    Fan of the Edmonton , , am with ancestry. Husband and proud father of three.

  8. "If medical treatments, say, were
    decided on the spot by practitioners with no systematic evaluations,
    no controlled experimentation, no
    sampling to learn about populations, and no attempt at quality
    control, we as statisticians would
    consider this an ethical failing, or
    at the very least a level of public
    health malpractice revealing serious
    ignorance of research design."

    this is what I see EVERY GODDAMN DAY in the CS/IT world
    http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/ChanceEthics2.pdf #unsafesoftware #proprietarysoftware #softeng