Struțocămilă rulez!

Nov 10, 2024 · 1 min read en humor ·

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).

Freedom is like air, you only need it when you don't have it...

Nov 9, 2024 · 4 min read en site · libertà leaving-wordpress ·

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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 Mullenweg, founder of the company that offers services related to the commercial site Wordpress.com.

HP 12C The calculator that wouldn't die

Sep 22, 2024 · 2 min read it lettere-a-mia-figlia · hp42s hp12c ·

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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.

Nissan QASHQAI Review

Sep 22, 2024 · 3 min read it reviews ·

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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.

del C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike\C-00000291*.sys

Aug 1, 2024 · 1 min read en ·

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Aka The CrowdStrike effect

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

TDD Reloaded

Jun 26, 2024 · 4 min read en evergreen lang software · java tdd ·

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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.

Spring Boot and database testing: production defects

Jun 17, 2024 · 1 min read en java knowledgebase · spring-boot sql ·

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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.

FatLama for GenAI

May 7, 2024 · 1 min read en generativeai ·

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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 :)

Repackage! Spring Boot exit strategy to Jigsaw

Apr 22, 2024 · 1 min read uncategorized · java spring spring-boot ·

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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.

How GenAI works & hot news on Gemma

Feb 24, 2024 · 3 min read en generativeai featured knowledgebase · 373 ideas macm1 macos ollama ·

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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.