The Daily Index — Wednesday, September 4, 2024 · TLDR Index

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GREPPABILITY IS AN UNDERRATED CODE METRIC

Making a codebase searchable can make functions, error messages, class names, and other components easier to find. Splitting up identifiers is a bad idea because while it looks nice, it makes it easier to miss specific occurrences. Use the same names for things across the stack, otherwise, you'll have to make multiple queries to find all occurrences. Flat-named structures are mostly better than nested ones.

morizbuesing.com · 5 min

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TESLA WILL NEED SOME HOLLYWOOD MAGIC FOR ITS ROBOTAXI REVEAL

Tesla will likely reveal its long-awaited autonomous robotaxi at the Warner Bros. movie studio in Los Angeles at an event on October 10. The 110-acre lot contains fake suburban towns, which could be an ideal location to test the technology. The company has been collecting data in the area to help its demonstration perform flawlessly. This approach suggests that the technology is still far away from true Level 5 autonomy and restrained by geographic limitations.

theverge.com · 7 min

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INTEL REVEALS FIRST LUNAR LAKE LAPTOP CPUS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Intel's new Core Ultra 200V lineup, formerly known as Lunar Lake, claims to beat Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and AMD Strix Point laptop chips in almost every way. The first wave of laptops is set to ship on September 24. They will feature a significantly increased battery life and increased performance. Despite improvements, the laptops in the new lineup will be limited to 32GB of RAM - users who want more cores, threads, and RAM will have to wait for Intel's Arrow Lake, which may be coming as soon as October 10.

theverge.com · 9 min

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THE 2034 WEBSITE

MIT's 6.UAT class had a website that lasted 15 years - this post discusses how it was redesigned to last another 15 years.

kennethfriedman.org · 9 min

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OPENAI, STILL HAUNTED BY ITS CHAOTIC PAST, IS TRYING TO GROW UP

OpenAI is struggling to transform itself into a profit-driven company while satisfying worries about the safety of artificial intelligence.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 9 min

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MICROSOFT ROLLED OUT AI PCS THAT CAN'T PLAY TOP GAMES—AND THERE'S NO QUICK FIX

The Copilot+ PCs that Microsoft and its partners rolled out this Spring use Qualcomm's Arm-based chips, which aren't compatible with many leading video games.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

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WHY YOU SHOULDN'T STORE LARGE FILES IN GIT

When you add a large file to git, it creates a new entry in the object database, and since there's no real way to isolate the change, everyone who ever uses the repository will need to download the file change.

blog.moonglow.ai · 6 min

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YUBIKEYS ARE VULNERABLE TO CLONING ATTACKS THANKS TO NEWLY DISCOVERED SIDE CHANNEL

The YubiKey 5 contains an unpatchable cryptographic flaw that makes it vulnerable to cloning if an attacker gains temporary physical access to it - all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7 are permanently vulnerable.

arstechnica.com · 9 min