The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator

Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a 555, most electronics enthusiasts made do with discrete transistor circuits. The common emitter amplifier and its variants are the most familiar, but the humble 3-legged...

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People who get promoted do these things differently

One of the most common questions I get from young professionals is about promotions. How do you get noticed? What gets you ahead? How do you position yourself for bigger roles? I’ve watched lots of careers develop over the years. Some people rocket up the ladder while...

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Want better outcomes? Start making bigger asks

One big consequence of our fear of embarrassment is that we’re almost all overly sensitive to rejection. We haven’t built up our acceptance-of-rejection muscles, and this is a major impediment to agency. I’ve found that the most efficient way to build these muscles is...

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This habit leads to burnout. Are you at risk?

I used to think burnout was a scheduling problem.If I could just restructure my calendar, protect my mornings, say no to one more meeting—I’d find my way back. I was a VP, then a COO. I knew how to optimize. I was good at it. So when I started feeling hollow despite...

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Big Blue thinks small, again, with 2U POWER tower

IBM has again teased small hardware, this time in the form of an update for its smallest POWER server. The model S1112, teased Tuesday in a customer announcement, is a 2U, single-socket POWER11 server IBM offers in rack-mountable and what the company calls...

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Star Trek Was Right about Prompt Injection, Sorta

This following statement is a lie: “I am telling the truth”. Okay, now that it’s just us meatbags, let’s get down to brass tacks. Captain Kirk’s logic bombs couldn’t possibly work on modern LLMs, right? Surely that was just a bit of 1960s silliness from when computers...

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Agents.md – Dumb Human

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/skorotkiewicz/2d4db4ceaf83aa54eb7f2066fdb961ff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901695 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Our Amish Language

Article URL: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/amish-pennsylvania-dutch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901645 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries

Article URL: https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/building-food-metadata-with-llm-juries-context-optimization-multimodal-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901275 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Can’t Find That ISA Sound Card? No Worries!

Many older hackers will have at some point gotten rid of an old piece of hardware that they later ended up regretting. All those ISA cards were next to useless back in 2006, but now their relative rarity plus the popularity of retrocomputing makes them sought-after....

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