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Making Investing Fit for a Sci-Fi World
An underestimated but fundamental fact in financial markets is the huge and mostly unmet demand for insurance against sci-fi futures. The spell that kept large scale capital thinking that dramatic innovation would be contained at the level of retail devices and services while preserving basic economic and sociopolitical structures has broken. There’s a clear sense that the world will become stranger faster and in less controlled ways than previously expected and, like Treasuries during more trad...
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March 17, 2026
journalctl: The Complete Guide to Reading Linux System Logs
A practical, complete guide to journalctl for reading, filtering, and managing systemd journal logs on Linux. Covers time filters, boot sessions, service logs, priority levels, output formats, and journal size management.Continue reading......
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March 17, 2026
Chunking Strategies for RAG with Semantic Kernel in C#: Fixed-Size, Sentence, and Semantic Chunking
When I first built my RAG pipeline with Semantic Kernel, I was disappointed with the retrieval quality. My embeddings were solid, my vector store was configured correctly, and my prompts were well-crafted. The problem? My chunking strategy was naive. I was splitting documents arbitrarily, cutting sentences in half, and losing critical context. Once I implemented proper chunking strategies for RAG with Semantic Kernel in C#, my retrieval accuracy jumped dramatically. Chunking is the often-overloo...
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March 16, 2026
C# Source Generators: A Complete Guide to Compile-Time Code Generation
C# Source Generators: A Complete Guide to Compile-Time Code Generation
If you've spent any time writing .NET code, you've felt the pain. Repetitive boilerplate, copy-pasted patterns, fragile reflection calls at runtime. Every new service needs the same structural scaffolding. Every new DTO demands the same mapping logic. It's mechanical work -- and mechanical work is exactly what computers are supposed to do for us.
That's where C# source generators come in. They let you automate code generation...
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March 16, 2026
Smarch
It’s mid-March and the weather has been vacillating between balmy sweater weather and the frozen tundra that need hollowed out tauntauns to stay warm. I’ve chosen to sequester myself indoors until some semblance of summer remains with relative consistency.
Estate
I’ve been using some of that time to review all things financial. With both my kids now in adulthood, I’ve been reviewing my estate plans. Welcome to my life.
My bank, as you might imagine, wants to sell me on trusts and estate man...
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March 16, 2026
Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC
Doing the math backwards.
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March 16, 2026
Jonas Reymondin’s Portfolio: Reclaiming the UI Eye Through Systems, Code, and Pixel Motion
A candid journey through the challenging process of defining my narrative as a creative who cares deeply about both design and engineering....
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March 16, 2026
As Presaged in March 1993
Whereby I read the March 1993 issue of Byte and talk about it......
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March 16, 2026
How to Implement Decorator Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide
How to Implement Decorator Pattern in C#: Step-by-Step Guide
Adding behavior to existing objects without cracking open their source code is one of the most practical skills you can develop as a C# developer. The decorator pattern makes this possible by wrapping objects with layers of functionality -- and the best part is that each layer is independent, testable, and composable. If you want to implement decorator pattern C# style, this guide will walk you through it from scratch.
Whether you're a...
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March 16, 2026
systemd-analyze: Debug and Optimize Your Linux Boot Time
If your Linux system takes longer to boot than you think it should, the answer is almost certainly hiding in your systemd startup chain. The good news: systemd already ships with everything you need to find the problem and fix it.Continue reading......
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March 16, 2026
CodeSOD: A Little Twisted
Dana sends us a WTF that'll turn your head. She was shopping for new hard drives, and was doing it from her phone, a fairly reasonable tool to use for online shopping these days. She opened the website of one vendor, and it was rotated 90 degrees. Or half-pi radians, for those of us that are more used to sensible units.
This was irrespective of any rotation settings on her phone, the website insisted on showing itself in landscape mode. This created quite the unusual appearance when she held her...
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March 16, 2026
Command Check in Bash
Command Check in Bash...
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March 16, 2026
A Week of AI Maxxing
A Week of AI Maxxing...
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March 16, 2026
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