MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access

Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h15md8/goodbye_rust_i_wish_you_success_but_im_back_to_c/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h15md8/goodbye_rust_i_wish_you_success_but_im_back_to_c/

#cpp #programming #rustlang

🎙️ I've never conducted interviews before, so please don't judge too hard.

🐙 But this year at @balticruby I had a chance to talk to @matz about #Ruby, his work-life balance and his hobbies.

🙏 It was a real honour and you can check it out here:
https://youtu.be/iwDJ6zmuI_w?si=j1a-fQpFI9MKZRJR

Handling Cookies is a Minefield:

inconsistencies in the HTTP cookie specification and its implementations have caused a situation where countless websites (including Facebook, Netflix, Okta, WhatsApp, Apple, etc.) are one small mistake away from locking their users out.

https://grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/handling-cookies-is-a-minefield/

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

I’m working on a blog post about Mastodon’s weaknesses and what is being done to fix them. During my research I was delighted by how much interesting work is happening in the Fediverse space—e.g.:

* Live Fediverse analytics: https://fedidb.org
* Fediverse info and directory (crawled automatically): https://fediverse.info
* List of Fediverse platforms: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/
* Interviews with people who work on the Fediverse (and other decentralized networks): https://dot-social.simplecast.com/

From file creation to data retrieval, the file system you choose has a big impact on performance and reliability in @couchdb 📁

We have a new article that explores key file system functions and helps you navigate the trade-offs among different options. Take a look: https://dev.to/neighbourhoodie/couchdbs-favourite-file-systems-2pa7

Ship of Theseus Trolley Problem

If you do not pull the lever, one person will be crushed to death instantly. If you do pull the lever, the trolley will divert onto a thousand-mile stretch of track with one person tied down at the end of it. If as the trolley rolls down this thousand-mile track, a crew systematicaly switches out every piece of the original trolley with a replacement part, did the trolley which you diverted kill the man?

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.

A thread, with links:

Chirag Shah and I wrote about this in two academic papers:
2022: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816
2024: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

We also have an op-ed from Dec 2022:
https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334

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