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For the past 2 weeks I started experiencing reliability issues with AWS (especially SQS) in eu-north-1: Messages are disappearing, being processed twice increased failures when sending new message. Does anyone else…

So I got lazy today and asked the AI to sort alphabetically a list of names I got from the internet. I hope someone can do the math and tell me how much more power it required to sort the 11 items in that list? how much…

So this week, I was teaching a new employee about the system. He is 30 years old and has been in the industry for six years now. At one point, I described an external tool that we use, which produces an XML file.…

I was tasked with building a "native language interface" to our database. After developing it for a month, it seems to me that I hit a wall with the correctness of the resulting SQL. 80-20 would be a good estimate. My…

It seems that the next sprint will include an effort to connect our database with LLM. while researching this, I noticed there was a lot of buzz last year. but now it is more quiet on that front. Can you share how it…

I do a lot of video conferencing, mostly with screen sharing. I thought I had a good audio setup until I took a call from my car, and it was so much better. I don't have anything fancy installed in my car (just the…

I'm teaching my child to develop software with Python, And I would like for him to work on robotics projects. I saw the Ryze Tech Tello from DJI that looks cool and lego's mindstorm. Are there any other recommendations…

I acquired the Google Pixel tablet for the new year, intending to replace my aging Lenovo Smart Screen Display 10, mainly due to its inability to play Netflix. However, the experience as a smart screen is atrocious. In…

2 weeks ago, I got charged with 179$ for a yearly subscription from a website called Scalefast.com Charging took place while I was far far away from my desktop (I only use paypal on my desktop), I checked and double…

Out of curiosity, other than the trivial use cases of smartphone (digital swiss army knife as my FIL calls it) what else are you using it for? My examples: Sky Map - Point your phone at the sky and it will show you the…

I've bunch of books that I cannot find in PDF/EPUB format (books from the 80s and the 90s that are not in English). So I wish to scan them and later use an OCR to convert them. So I'm looking for recommendations about…

I came across ArsTechnica article [0] while researching for a new laptop. And it shows a huge difference in battery life time for the same configuration (CPU, Screen brightness, the same workload) What is causing such a…

I wonder how well go interfaces are working for you in regards to the fact that a type doesn't declare the interface it implements (like in many other languages). 8 years a ago I worked on a 50kloc project and it…