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What Project Hail Mary Can Teach IT Professionals (Part 3)

Outer Solar System

Entering the area of gas and ice giants

What follows is part 3 of my ongoing observations and ideas inspired by “Project Hail Mary”. You can find part 1 and part 2 linked here. Once again, I will warn those wary of spoilers to maybe stop reading, NOT click those links, bookmark this, and come back later.

Culture is one thing. Boundaries are another

If you’ve been out in the workforce for any amount of time you’ve probably run into this situation: A coworker has a habit that is… let’s just call it “challenging”. You struggle to deal with it and remain focused on your work. And you can’t ask them to stop or change because it’s rooted in the other person’s culture. It’s not just a bad (or annoying) habit, or behavior, or belief. It’s a core part of who they are.

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Open-weight AI won’t crimp demand for picks and shovels

Some of the artificial intelligence boom’s biggest beneficiaries can cash in whether open models proliferate or not. A wave of cheap and powerful Chinese open-weight AI models is causing a scare among investors in the AI boom. For a decent chunk of the tech universe, however, there is less

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The TerraMow V1000 Shows Just How Far Robot Mowers Have Come

As with most robot mowers, the power adapter is large and may not fit your outdoor socket, so you’ll likely need an outdoor box and extension lead. The TerraMow V100 also comes with a covered charging base to shield it from bad weather, something many manufacturers will charge you

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Someone Finally Fixed Installing Apps on a Mac

One of the oddest things about macOS is the installation dance. Dealing with disk images, dragging and dropping—it's the main way of installing software from outside the Mac App Store, and it's annoying. You download a DMG file, open it to mount a virtual disk,

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It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for the Next Two Solar Eclipses

The total solar eclipse on August 12 produced some of the most spectacular images of this phenomenon in recent years. But the mini golden age of eclipses in Europe is just beginning. The so-called “Iberian eclipse trio” still has two events to go—and both promise to be even more