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Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers Working on an international tech team comes with communication challenges that go beyond just language. Here’s some practical advice I’ve gathered in my ten years of working in Japan.

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers | Discussion

Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces The kernel's unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple r [...]

Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces | Discussion

Former leader Ardern has left New Zealand. She’s not the only one | CNN Twenty years of memories spilled across Jacinda Thorn’s yard. Teddy bears and textbooks, a jumble of whisks and frying pans catching the morning sun.

Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s | Discussion

German police probe student poster slur (Lick my balls Merz) against Merz | Discussion

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran | Discussion

Helix: A post-modern text editor | Discussion

The Longing (1999) | Discussion

Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu | Discussion

Querying 3 billion vectors Requirements are hard

Querying 3B Vectors | Discussion

Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease? | Discussion

proposal: crypto/uuid: add API to generate and parse UUID · Issue #62026 · golang/go I would like to suggest the addition to the standard library of a package to generate and parse UUID identifiers, specifically versions 3, 4 and 5. The main reason I see to include it is that the m...

UUID package coming to Go standard library | Discussion

Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with | Discussion

Maybe there’s a pattern here? Inventors and impacts

Maybe There's a Pattern Here? | Discussion

What canceled my Go context? How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path.

What canceled my Go context? | Discussion

Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code. One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:

LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code | Discussion

GitHub - c0m4r/kula: Lightweight, self-contained Linux® server monitoring tool Lightweight, self-contained Linux® server monitoring tool - c0m4r/kula

Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool | Discussion

I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again | Discussion

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text | Discussion

Math Notepad | Discussion

Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2) | Discussion

How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper If you're using Dapper with anonymous objects to query varchar columns, you're probably sending nvarchar(4000) parameters — causing CONVERT_IMPLICIT on every row and defeating your indexes. Here's the fix.

C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper | Discussion

The Shady World of IP Leasing | Discussion

Wild crows in Sweden help clean up cigarette butts | Discussion

CSS Proves Me Human | Discussion

The Worst Acquisition in History, Again Warner Bros.

The Worst Acquisition in History, Again | Discussion

TSA Leaves Passenger Needing Surgery After Illegally Forcing Her Through Scanner The TSA has allegedly violated its own rules by forcing a passenger to go through an AIT device, causing a severe injury. 

TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner | Discussion

Anthropic, please make a new Slack | Blog | Fivetran Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data.

Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack | Discussion

Welcome | Apache Otava

Apache Otava | Discussion

Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop Defecation duration is surprisingly similar throughout the mammal world. The average mammal defecates for 12 seconds, even though volume varies greatly between species.

Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop | Discussion

Ada 2022 Documents - Ada Resource Association

Ada 2022 | Discussion