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Upgrade to USB-C

22 years into 21st century but new products still feature connectors from previous century. Precisely 1996, when this very old USB connector was released. Product designers, please upgrade to USB-C,...

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Biometria facial nos aeroportos

Por que o Serpro e os Aeroportos do Brasil adotaram biometria facial ao invés de leitor de dedo? Porque o leitor de dedo, como sabemos, é anti-higiênico, dissemina doenças e fluidos indesejados. E...

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Sequestro digital

Isso é desesperador Pedido de ajuda de uma pessoa vítima de sequestro digital

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Ad Guard bloqueador de propaganda

Em todos os meus navegadores, celular e laptop, eu uso o Ad Guard para me livrar de propagandas e rastreadores indesejados. Ele também elimina popups e paywalls de vários sites. Já usei diversos...

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Data Scientist × Data Analyst

Analysts inform, explain and visualize DATA THAT EXISTS in order to help business executives make strategic decisions. Thus, data analysts live in business meetings, talk to a lot of people and create...

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Command Line in Windows

Command line on Windows (10+) nowadays doesn’t have to be only PuTTY to a remote Linux machine. In fact many Linux concepts were incorporated on Windows. Windows Subsystem for Linux First, activate...

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Filtre propagandas do Uber

Na app do Uber, vá em Conta ➔ Ajustes ➔ Privacidade ➔ Notificações e deixe só o último ligado. Assim você pára de receber as propagandas irritantes deles, só recebe as notificações de suas corridas....

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Wonders of NextCloud

CIOs must pay attention to NextCloud. It is an open source solution that kinda let you run your own Google Drive, own Google Apps, own Dropbox, own iCloud on your own servers and storage. Has an App...

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Jardins de São José dos Campos viram um acervo botânico digital e acessível

Todas as árvores de São José dos Campos têm uma plaquinha com QR que leva para uma página na internet com informações como esta. É o sistema de inventário da prefeitura sendo usado também como guia de...

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Clouds are super expensive

While clouds are the natural go-to choice for an early-stage startup, staying 100% in clouds with substantial infrastructure may sink a company as it and its infrastructure grow. This study shows that...

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iPadOS external display support

With the release of iPadOS 16.2 last December, M1-powered devices can now be used as more beefed up terminals, complete with external physical keyboard, mouse/trackpad and extended screen that can...

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New products featuring old USB connectors

22 years into 21st century but new products still feature connectors from previous century. Precisely 1996, when this very old USB connector was released.Product designers, please upgrade to USB-C,...

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Isto é Desesperador 😱

Também no meu LinkedIn em 2022-09-16 18:52:18

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5G Download Speed

5G download speed at home in São Paulo today. 420 megabits per second (mbps), equivalent to 52 megabytes per second. It means that it takes about 10 seconds to download 1 hour of hi-fi music without...

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GPT me

This is what GPT “knows” about me. More precisely, this is the sequence of words GPT generates when asked with that specific prompt. First paragraph is 100% correct. Second is kind of 50% (in)correct...

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Melhorias para o Pix do BaCen

O Banco Central do Brasil acertou em cheio com o Pix, inovação bancária digna de ser copiada por qualquer BC do mundo. Mas ainda acho o Pix bem burocrático de ser usado. Vejo que ele é um sucesso...

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Data Scientists should develop their software engineering skills

Yes, Data Scientists should develop their software engineering skills. Let me react to a LinkedIn post by Neil Leiser. But Data Scientists can’t do it alone, or by themselves. Read on. I see that...

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Importance of Machine Learning Engineering

This diagram highlights the importance of Machine Learning Engineering for Data/AI projects and the community. And it doesn’t even show one of my favorite topics: software design patterns, an...

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LinkedIn Inferences About You

Export all your LinkedIn data (on computer, select Me ➔ Settings & Privacy ➔ Data Privacy ➔ Get a copy of your data ➔ Larger data archive) and then check the Inferences_about_you.csv file. As the...

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Hybrid cloud is the way to go

It is about time for companies that consume these public cloud services to use them in a way that they can exit/leave/migrate easily. It is the job of the CTO to put in place a strategy to use public...

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Importância de regular as Redes Sociais

Tem gente achando que a PL das Fake News (péssimo apelido para projeto que debate liberdade, responsabilidade e transparência na Internet) vai restringir liberdades, como se hoje posts e opiniões...

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Boicote aos cardápios digitais?

Parece haver um movimento de boicote a cardápios digitais em restaurantes, divulgados por código QR. Eu não sou tão contra assim; a tela permite mais dinamismo que o papel. Mas aí seria bom os...

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Chatbots de auto-atendimento 🥱

O dilema dos chatbots que empresas disponibilizam em seus canais de atendimento é que eles são só mais uma UI (user interface). Como é o app. Como é o site da empresa. Se o usuário não encontrou a...

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MariaDB backups in one line

First allow the Unix user that will make backups (root, in my case) to access MariaDB without a password (works only if accessing from same host that the server is running): GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON...

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Framework ↔︎ Arcabouço

Colegas programadores, arquitetos e companheiros da TI, podemos retornar à Língua Mãe porque uma palavra que usamos muito no nosso dia a dia — FRAMEWORK — já tem popularizada a sua tradução para...

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Web scraping and site mirroring

Need to mirror an entire website? Use the httrack command, available in all Linux distributions. If site requires authentication, provide to httrack a cookies.txt file exported from your browser. A...

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Story of the first digital computers

The story of the first digital computers, since a phenomenon observed in Edison’s light bulb, through 2 bit logic operations, through triodes and vacuum tubes, up to the ENIAC, capable of doing...

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Música Digital × Analógica

Sobre essa guerra entre CD × LP, digital × analógico, da gravação até a reprodução de música, o músico veterano Ulisses Rocha escreve isto em seu blog: É sabido que o sistema digital não consegue...

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Apple did it again with Vision Pro

Apple has once again made waves with their latest release, the Vision Pro. The mere fact that this new device ensures legible text for its users sets it years ahead of competitors like HTC and Meta....

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Laptop para não comprar

Para quem leu aquele meu post sobre como escolher um bom laptop, eis exemplo de laptop para não comprar. Como eu sei? Porque a tela é só full HD, que é OK mas já obsoleto. Prefira tela de alta...

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Importance of Machine Learning Engineers, again

This is often the outcome when AI projects lack Machine Learning Engineers and rely solely on Data Scientists. Machine Learning Engineers play a crucial role in handling the technical aspects of AI...

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“Qual é a sua pretensão salarial?”

Esta pergunta, emitida pelos Recursos Humanos da empresa nos primeiros minutos de um processo seletivo, é um tanto desumana. Por favor parem. Se o candidato dá um valor baixo, para facilitar sua...

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My time on the IBM Linux Impact Team, and legacy

In this extensive article, Jon “MadDog” delves into the behind-the-scenes narrative of how Linux and Open Source gained acceptance within the corporate sphere, eventually establishing itself as the...

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Industrializing Machine Learning

I’m doing Machine Learning Industrialization for more than 2 years and I’m thrilled to see it featured by McKinsey as top 2 in its 2023 tech trends! Industrializing ML is about applying Software...

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Handling Inbox spam

I’m a serial unsubscriber — absolutely ruthless when it comes to keeping my inbox in order. If I get a new ad or newsletter on my inbox I immediately scroll to the end of it to click on the tiny...

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Os 10 trabalhos com maior potencial de crescimento

Os 10 trabalhos com maior potencial de crescimento, segundo o Fórum Econômico Mundial: 1⃣ Especialista em inteligência artificial e em aprendizado de máquina2⃣ Especialista em sustentabilidade...

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Semana de Trabalho de 4 Dias

Semana de 4 dias é o primeríssimo item numa lista de benefícios que empresas prontas para isso lançam mão para atrair profissionais. E eu acho curioso e muito pertinente que no mercado de trabalho...

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O pior dos dois mundos

Na década de 2010 o mundo corporativo começou a fazer um tradeoff. Agora que todos os clientes e funcionários tinham um smartphone nas mãos, tornou-se imperativo uma transformação digital. A troca...

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ChatGPT × Stack Overflow as coding assistant

There is this study (arXiv:2308.02312v3) about ChatGPT as a software coding assistant when compared to Stack Overflow. I write code every day and although I have used ChatGPT in the past for this...

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Nascimento da Internet

No dia de hoje, mas em 1969, nasceu a Internet. Criada por desejo e necessidade de pesquisadores americanos trocarem mensagens, dados e recursos computacionais para suas pesquisas, foi viabilizada...

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