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Re:Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @11:13AM (#43916778)
Google has 2.8k public repositories on just their main github account (github.com/google).

Even if they're not training on their closed source internal codebases (which they most certainly are, but fair point that they're probably not releasing the models trained on that data), it definitely seems like they have a lot of Go code in the training data.

It's very good at Go, which makes sense because I'm assuming it's trained on a lot of Google's code
Reposting the link here as hyperlinks apparently don't work in text submissions https://kartell.com/mt/en/ktcm/shop/product/bookworm-11-book...

Did Debian bookworm get its name from an actual bookshelf?

My girlfriend (who has never used Linux or even heard of Debian in her life) just sent me this bookshelf[1], and it immediately made me chuckle as it’s called ‘Bookworm’ and shaped exactly like the Debian logo.I assumed this was just a clever joke from a computer nerd who got into furniture design. However, upon further investigation, this bookshelf has been around since 1994. According to...

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Re:Pico.sh (The ultimate SSH powered services for developers) on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @09:35PM (#43563757)
Big fan of pico.sh, been hosting a few small sites on there for a while now, no faster way to get something up and running
Re:Stack Overflow Is Down on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:36AM (#43557895)
btw if any mods wanna delete this post as a duplicate (even if it isn’t one) we can at least make it feel like the site is still up
Re:Stack Overflow Is Down on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:13AM (#43557594)
curious if this is their usual 400 response code or an april fools joke they forgot to change back

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

Re:Stack Overflow Is Down on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:08AM (#43557534)
Is anyone else unable to access stack overflow? I'm getting a black page and an HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" response code
Re:Amazon Nova on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @01:10PM (#42309199)
Re:Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @10:55AM (#42195061)
Can't read the article due to paywall, but potentially ambergris? It's a form of whale excrement that washes up on the shore and can sell for ~$10k USD/pound

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris

Re:X (Twitter) Outages on Thursday August 29, 2024 @04:05PM (#41394770)
May be resolved, or just spotty? I was able to load the page itself but tweets and any trending information were all out, seeing a lot of similar reports