There has been a series of unfortunate events involving Wordpress recently, and a Company that offers hosting on Wordpress software called WPEngine. Although Wordpress has always defined itself as open source software, it has come to light that the trademark "Wordpress" is the exclusive property of Matt …
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Ho scritto parecchi articoli sulle calcolatrici HP Saturn in logica RPN, con un misto di nostalgia e amarezza. Scopro oggi che in realtà c'è ancora una calcolatrice in produzione, grazie a questo articolo di TheRegister che documenta un problema di calcolo dell'interesse composto, che affligge alcuni modelli.

La …

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Sono appena entrato in possesso di una Nissan QASHQAI Xtronic Mild Hybrid, e ne sono rimasto favorevolmente colpito, tanto da volervi fare una piccola review spontanea.

In passato ho avuto la ventura di poter usare per un periodo piuttosto lungo (3 anni) un Toyota CHR, che grazie al motore ibrido ha sempre raggiunto …

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Aka The CrowdStrike effect

Maximum respect for a company able to hangs 8 millions of Windows PC.

Ah Gioorgi.com runs on Debian Linux, sorry.

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Test driven development is a beast to tame. I like TDD but in the past it was quite difficult to achive, at least in a pure-consultant approach with a "turn key" framework behind.

There are two major concept often not grasped correctly.

First: What is the reason to use TDD?

TDD main purpose is to increase code …

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Sometimes you need to fix a production defect. To do it, you need to mirror a specific set of data, and do a test to proof the bug and then fix it.

Luckily, SpringBoot provide the @Sql annotation to easily "pump" data.

The tools provided are quite deep, and you can read about them in the full manual

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https://fatlama.substack.com is my cool newsletter about GenAI. It is in Italian, but easy to translate with your ChatGPT4 :)

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With new JDK, when you compile a spring-boot application you get a big jar which cannot be included as utility jar anymore.

The reason are a lot but, simply put, the new packaging system introduced with JDK9 require a strong separation.

To solve this problem you can "repackage" your jar in two forms: the …

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This week was very hot because Google published Gemma, a smal-size LLM, and also Nvidia has a rush on stock market, with a evaluation around 2000 BILLIONS dollars. Last but not least, Mistral.ai published a service for its more advanced model, which can also run on-prem.

So we was forced to prepare this small …

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.

Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar …

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