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1. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years Total comment counts : 78 Summary In this article, the author shares their personal opinion and experiences with using the Rust programming language for game development. They discuss the common argument that once you gain enough experience with Rust, everything will make sense, and explain that their extensive experience and effort in using Rust for game development has not dispelled their reservations. The author clarifies that their perspective is focused on creating commercially viable games in a relatively short time frame, rather than using game development as a means of learning Rust....

1. You are what you read, even if you don’t always remember it Total comment counts : 73 Summary The article discusses the idea that the value of books and online content is not necessarily tied to the ability to remember every detail, but rather the impact they have on expanding thinking. The author shares quotes from Dave Rupert and Ralph Waldo Emerson that convey this sentiment. They also mention the importance of being mindful of the content one consumes, as it shapes one’s beliefs and perspectives....

1. CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks Total comment counts : 19 Summary The article introduces CoreNet, a deep neural network toolkit developed by Apple. CoreNet allows researchers and engineers to train various types of models for tasks like object classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. The article also provides instructions for installing and using CoreNet, as well as information on its publication and development team. It mentions that CoreNet evolved from CVNets and mentions the importance of citing their work....

1. Krazam OS Total comment counts : 51 Summary The article appears to be a combination of various text fragments that are unrelated and do not form a coherent article or message. It mentions a variety of topics such as videos, gallery, merchandise, copyright, security, safe space, and recycling, but there is no clear narrative or summary to provide. Top 1 Comment Summary The article discusses how a certain merch store is missing out on potential revenue because it does not reference their most popular videos....

1. Equinox.space Total comment counts : 202 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary The author of the article provides background information on a project called “Equinox.” The author also offers to answer any questions. For more details, the author includes a link to the project. Top 2 Comment Summary The article discusses a game with visually stunning graphics that has a premise of players maintaining a ship during a long journey, facing various problems and making sacrifices along the way....

1. Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) Total comment counts : 65 Summary This person is expressing agreement with a blog post about Tim Ottinger’s thoughts on software development. They mention that there are various things and artifacts that can be produced to ensure quality, such as literate coding, commenting code before writing, and using data modeling and UML diagrams. Top 1 Comment Summary The author of the article disagrees with the quote that says “Really good developers do 90% or more of the work before they ever touch the keyboard....

1. Ceefax Simulator Total comment counts : 30 Summary The article is about an interactive teletext viewer called Interactive Viewer. It assigns a three digit number to each page and allows users to navigate through pages using number keys or channel buttons. It also features live pages from Ceefax and provides information about the creator and how to get in touch. Top 1 Comment Summary The article discusses the author’s experience with VCR programming in the past, where a VCR could access TV listings and allow the user to select programs for recording....

1. Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol Total comment counts : 31 Summary The article announces that Supabase Storage is now an officially recognized S3-Compatible Storage Provider, a highly requested feature. Resumable Uploads also transitioned from Beta to Generally Available. The Supabase Storage Engine is open source and offers three interoperable protocols for file management. The S3 API is now accessible for developers of various experience levels, providing compatibility with other APIs....

1. Meta Llama 3 Total comment counts : 87 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary The article contains multiple links to different sources, but it does not provide any text for me to summarize. Top 2 Comment Summary The article discusses a comparison between the performance of different versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, specifically GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. The author mentions evaluation scores such as MMLU, GPQA, MATH, HumanEval, and DROP, indicating that GPT-4 outperforms GPT-3....

1. Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL’s optimizer Total comment counts : 10 Summary The article discusses the author’s investigation into the performance improvements of PostgreSQL’s query optimizer over the last 10 years. The author ran the join order benchmark on PostgreSQL versions 8 through 16 and recorded the 90th percentile query latency for each version. The author found that PostgreSQL’s tail performance has improved significantly, with the optimizer reducing tail latency by nearly half between version 8 and version 16....