Netflix is making it easier to rate its movies and shows on mobile
Netflix updated its “Thumbs Up” feature to allow subscribers using the mobile app to like or dislike shows/movies in the middle of watching them. Instead of having to go back to a TV show or movie’s page to give it a thumbs rating, now users can tap the screen at
Read moreEffective Staff Meetings for Engineering Managers of Managers
A critical milestone in the ever-evolving engineering management career is the transition to managing managers. This milestone often…Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreSort and remove duplicates
A common idiom in command line processing of text files is ... | sort | uniq | ... Some process produces lines of text. You want to pipe that text through sort to sort the lines in alphabetical order, then pass it to uniq to filter out all but the
Read moreBeing quiet in tech (when you’re not usually quiet)
Photo by Jessica Favaro on UnsplashSilencing myself was an interesting phenomenon that happened when I entered the tech world. Previously, I was in the art community in San Francisco, where people from all cultures congregated and expressed their ideas. It was a hodgepodge of different styles, languages, clothes, and food.I spoke freely
Read moreUsing Amazon Alexa To Run AWS CLI Commands via Large Language Models (LLMs)
And you don’t even need to know the command syntaxYELL ALL THE (AWS CLI) THINGS! Image generated by NightCafe CreatorThe ideaThe other night I had a fleeting idea that turned into a fun technical challenge. I have them all the time.The fleeting ideas, that is.They rarely turn into actual technical challenges that I
Read moreBuilding Python Distributed Machine Learning Models for Derivatives on Homelab Cluster
Using affordable homelab equipment we set up ourselves, it is easy to set up parallelized and distributed machine learning toolsContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreScientists repeat breakthrough fusion experiment, netting more power than before
It wasn’t a fluke: Researchers at a Department of Energy (DOE) lab have repeated their breakthrough fusion power experiment. Only this time, the results are even better. On July 30, lasers once again converged on a tiny gold cylinder containing a diamond-coated, deuterium-tritium fuel pellet. When the beams — as
Read moreChinese luxury EV brand Zeekr continues global push into Kazakhstan
Zeekr, the luxury electric vehicle brand under China’s Geely Automobile Holdings, says it will launch its Zeekr 001 shooting brake and Zeekr X SUV in Kazakhstan by the fourth quarter of 2023. Kazakhstan, a key market in Central Asia, marks Zeekr’s third geographic expansion announcement in recent months. The two-year-old
Read moreTriller’s upcoming listing likely won’t resurrect the US IPO market
Short-form video platform Triller filed to go public last week while your humble scribe was on vacation to visit family. The lesson? Never take time off. A privately backed tech company going public on the U.S. markets is welcome news. Sadly, while Triller is an interesting business, it may prove
Read moreCruise begins testing self-driving vehicles in Atlanta
Cruise said Monday it has started testing its self-driving vehicles in Atlanta as the company continues its ambitious plan to launch its robotaxi service in multiple cities. The announcement confirms previous reporting by TechCrunch that Atlanta would be the next city to see Cruise vehicles on public roads. The company
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