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Your whole repo fits in the context window
March 15, 2024 Your whole repo fits in the context window The home team discusses the challenges (hardware and otherwise) of building AI models at scale, why major players like Meta are open-sourcing their AI projects, what Apple’s recent changes mean for developers in the EU, and Perplexity AI’s new approach to search. Credit: Alexandra Francis
Exactly what color was the text on monochrome terminals with green-on-black and amber-on-black screens?
If your aim is to recreate more closely the effect of an old CRT (at the expense of readability), whatever color you choose based on the previous answer, you should consider using a very bright (almost white) color for the text itself, and then using the chosen color as a glowing neon-like effect around the outline of the text.
LocalDate to java.util.Date and vice versa simplest conversion?
Is there a simple way to convert a LocalDate (introduced with Java 8) to java.util.Date object? By 'simple', I mean simpler than this Nope. You did it properly, and as concisely as possible. java.util.Date.from( // Convert from modern java.time class to troublesome old legacy class. DO NOT DO THIS unless you must, to inter operate with old code not yet updated for java.time. myLocalDate // `LocalDate` class represents a date-only, without time-of-day and without time zone nor offset-from-UTC.
Change default shell from bash to zsh
Surprisingly this doesn't work with the command line tools as one would expect. This needs to be done with the System Preferences app. The following steps work with multiple versions of Mac OS X through at least 10.10 (Yosemite). Open up the "User's & Groups" panel in the "System Preferences" app. Make sure the panel is unlocked (bottom left) Control click on your username (top left) and select "Advanced Options..." This is only available if you are an Administrator. 4.
Does Fusion (VMware) support 2D graphics hardware acceleration for Yosemite guest OS?
I am disappointed to learn that the Parallels 10 (and earlier) does not support hardware accelerated 2D (nor 3D) graphics when Mac OS X is the guest OS. This means Yosemite inside Parallels runs noticeably slowly in its screen rendering. Menus are delayed when dropping down. Highlighting menu items cannot keep up with the mouse movement. The Dock magnification appears chunky and delayed as you move the mouse across app icons.
Set Print Range in Numbers.app
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