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The HP-12C is the only HP RPN calculator which is still produced and sold, despite is was designed in 1980. The calculator is produced by a subsidary licensed by HP, and you can find it around 40$ in US and around 70€ in Europe/UK. There was designed more than 14 diferent revisions by HP.
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After years, I decided to try a FreeBSD fresh install, to revive a old MacBookPro: the results was great and impressive, also if you think the hardware is over 15 years old. I want to share with you my success.
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Sometimes you need to create a lot of CronJobs in k8s. In particular, in my last project I need to create a lot of stupid “web hooks” to fire complex job execution. K8s is well suited for this task because it take care of launching a single job instance, and relaunch them in case of error.
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Struțocămilă: This term denotes a hybrid composition, from two incompatible elements, an Ostrich and a Camel The term comes from Dimitrie Cantemir’s Hieroglyphic History, where it is used allegorically to designate Mihai Racoviță, elected lord of Moldavia (see Struțocămilă - Wikipedia).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 characteristics. This similarity is probability-based.
At low level, these systems are based on Transformer deep-learning architecture and are called generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) first defined in 2018 (for a complete description refer to Wikipedia)
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