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Si sono verificate di recente una serie di spiacievoli eventi che investono Wordpress, e una società che offre hosting su wordpress chiamata WPEngine. IlPost.it ha riassunto la situazione in un ottimo articolo. Benche’ Wordpress si sia sempre definito come un software open source, è saltato fuori che il trademark “Wordpress” sia di esclusiva propietà di Matt Mullenweg, fondatore dell`azienda che offre i servizi collegati al sito commerciale Wordpress.com.
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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.
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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 senza troppe difficoltà prestazioni di oltre i 16 km al litro, con punte intorno ai 20 per il ciclo urbano. Come vedremo la Nissan che non è ibrida non riesce a raggiungere queste performance, ma ci si avvicina.
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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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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.
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How GenAI works & hot news on Gemma
Feb 24, 2024 · 3 min read ·
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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Exploring Generative AI: LLama2 on MacM1 Take 1
Feb 17, 2024 · 10 min read ·
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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Mi e' tornato in mano un bel libro di Piergiorgio Odifreddi, intitolato C'e' spazio per tutti che tratta di geometria, e mi ha ispirato alcune riflessioni.
La prima, e' che benche' il liceo classico sia intriso di cultura greca, c'e' una grave mancanza, poiche' viene insegnata poco la genesi della geometria e della matematica, fortemente connesse nel mondo greco. Cosi' tanto connesse che gli Elementi di Euclide trattano non solo di Geometria, ma anche di Algebra e Aritmetica.
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On the current project, I had the need to extract the cpu limits from the deployment descriptor, sum them to check resource usage and print a report.
I need to do it on a lot of microservices, and also it can change in respect of the target environment.
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Today I have an hard time using the @Profile directive for enable feature toggle on Spring, so I decided to write a small guide on it.
Introduction
Feature toggle is a way to write your code to be able to 'turn' on/off specific modules of your (micro) service. Because Spring Autowiring can 'discover' the right service for the right need, you can easily introduce feature toggle in an Inversion of Control engine like Spring.
I am not a super fan of feature toggle, but it helped me on more than one project. Also sometimes on production delivery you have some legal constraints (like enable a service not before a specifica date) and so a dynamic, parametrized run become a must.
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Nel modo della IT, possiamo oramai dire che l'Open Source e' una pietra angolare dello sviluppo software. Non tutto il software e' in standard GPLv3, ma in ogni caso molto di esso e' in licenza MIT/BSD-3 super open (forse troppo).
Read MoreI have one shiny mechanical keyboard I use on my daily job, under Windoooze and Linux bash
When I switch to my super-powered Mac on weekend, my muscle memory gets hurt because I need to switch sequence for Copy/Past keybindings, and also other minor shortcuts.
Read MoreIn the last year I did a lot of job interviews for frontend developers. Normally I ask to write a some codes, using some site like https://codesandbox.io or site with limited functionalities like https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_java_compiler
Because I am a Java hard-core sw-architect, my ReactJS questions are rather easy.
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