DevOPS and Cloud Engineer Improving patient journey of people suffering from chronic diseases with AI. Opinions expressed are my own. Retweets != endorsement
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Long in the making ! :D
Reviewing the Pixel 6 Pro after spending almost a year using it daily , and capturing about 10,000 pictures with it.
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Feeling the vibes.
All photos taken with the @nothing Phone (4a) Pro and edited in Snapseed.
#WithNothing #NothingPhone4aPro #ShotOnSnapdragon #JeffreysWorld
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GTA VI is going to test ISP networks everywhere.
Genuinely curious whether our providers have looked at how many consoles are about to start downloading 200+ GB each.
I’d also love to see how they’re preparing. Are they caching locally? upgraded transit?
what's the game plan?
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Happy 20 years of RTM, Windows Vista. Aside from issues it faced during launch (which all got fixed with service packs anyways) it was a great OS. Has the best iteration of Aero imo.
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The easiest way to make power users mad is to reduce density in the UI they have been using for the past decades. It's not rocket science - don't add all that useless padding everywhere. IT pros don't stand in awe at the beauty of the Windows registry, they need to get stuff done
Here's your first look at Microsoft's new WinUI 3 Registry Editor, but it's a developer sample preview, so it may not ship on Windows 11 anytime soon.
Windows Latest found the app inside Microsoft's open-source Reactor repository, and I built it myself on Windows 11.
It keeps the familiar two-pane layout but replaces the cramped Windows 95-era interface with native WinUI 3 controls, a dark-mode-ready design, and smoother animations.
It can read, create, rename, and delete registry keys, edit values, and search the registry. It even uses Mica, with no Electron or WebView2 involved.
There are still unfinished features, and Microsoft hasn't announced plans to replace regedit.exe.
This is a developer sample made by Microsoft, not an official Windows 11 replacement.
ALT Windows Registry Editor
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a backup you never restored is a guess.
restores fail in boring ways. pg_dump skips roles, so the grants break. or the restore takes longer than the outage you promised.
restore one to a scratch db on a schedule and time it.
when did your team last do a real restore?
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CS students in 2026 need to think differently. The old path of starting as a junior doing small tasks and slowly learning on the job is disappearing.
Learn the fundamentals, get really good at using AI, and build real products end to end.
Aim to have the independence of a mid-level engineer before your first job.
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In 2025, I thought of buying a new ThinkPad, and it was €2000 at the time. I didn't buy it then as my XPS was still working well.
In June 2026, I needed a more powerful machine for my PhD testing, so I bought a new ThinkPad, but it was 50% more expensive than in 2025.
Now, during Romanian BlackFriday season (starts earlier to make sure they sell more), the same ThinkPad is €4000, after "heavy" discounts.
Hardware is really expensive today. Performance optimization makes a lot of sense now as we cannot just buy an extra 32 GB RAM just to open 5 more Chrome tabs.
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Windows Vista is 20 years old and two decades old.
ALT Desktop screenshot of Windows Vista RTM (aka no services packs installed), showing the About Windows dialog. The date showing November 8th, 2006 is a reference to when Windows Vista reached RTM status.
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Legitimately never knew we even got VHS + DVD + Blu-Ray Players.
Times were rad when the expectation wasn’t just to ditch your older physical media.
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As long as AI is subsidized, there is this new tendency to reinvent the wheel and avoid using any dependency, even an OSS one.
In the long-run, you risk of ending up with thousands of internal tools that no one knows about or maintains, and the real cost of AI will make it difficult to replace them.
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>AI causing RAM shortages
>Devs start giving a fuck about memory optimization again
>AI starts coding extremely efficient apps across all platforms
This is accelerationism in action
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水嫩的Jaguar也可以了（完全的硬件加速，宿主机是MacBook Pro M2）！
这是我20多年用过的第一个Mac OS X版本，在一台12寸的iBook G3上，非常怀念这个无比通透和多彩的界面。
参考：github.com/linuxkid473/ppc-o…
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King Slide, a Taiwanese maker of kitchen drawer slides, owns 70-90% of the market for high-end AI server rails. On Oct 30 it approved more than $600 million for what it plans as the world’s largest rail factory.
If you were building a King Slide competitor, you could buy the steel and the steel balls. You would have to build the molds, the stamping and plating lines and the assembly machines yourself. You would also have to design around its roughly 3,750 patents.
A server rail works like a drawer slide: three steel strips nest on steel balls. The two rails on either side of an AI server are 6.1 mm thick and hold a chassis of more than 40 kg. Each rail has more than 100 parts, and none can be off by more than 0.02 mm. Pulled all the way out, the rail holds the server from one end, and Nvidia’s next racks are heavier while the rails have to get thinner because liquid-cooling pipes take up the space.
Nan Juen, another Taiwanese furniture-slide maker, had made server rails since 2002. When it went after cloud servers in 2012, it found no major customer for six years because the brands had already picked their rail suppliers. It reached Nvidia’s GB200 rack in 2024.
A rail sells for under $100 and protects a rack that costs millions. In the second quarter King Slide’s gross margin was 87.4%. It still sells kitchen drawer slides.
