If you’ve got local source code you want to add to a new remote new git repository without ‘cloning’ the remote first, do the following (I often do this – you create your remote empty repository in bitbucket/github, then push up your source) https://stackoverflow.com/a/8012698/61902
Author Archives: Bojan Bjelić
Encounter: untools – Tools for better thinking
https://untools.co/ Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Encounter: I’m a very slow thinker
Original post: https://sive.rs/slow Quotes: I’m a disappointing person to try to debate or attack. I just have nothing to say in the moment, except maybe, “Good point.” Then a few days later, after thinking about it a lot, I have a response. People say that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. …
Encounter: Monocle
“a pocket sized AR device for the imaginative hacker” A new packaging for AR et.al. Source: https://www.brilliantmonocle.com/
Encounter (again): This Person Does Not Exist
With the flood of AI generated imagery, can we still distinguish what is real and what is “fake”? Is it really fake if it was generated by an algorithm? This website shows a new face every time it is loaded, and that person does not actually exist. It’s using StyleGAN2 and was created in 2019, …
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Breaking credVv22
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Book review: Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 2 of 5 stars It’s an interesting idea, and some intriguing concepts on the abilities of understanding very different beings and civilisations. I was very much put off by prejudices towards women, even some misogyny. View all my reviews
Normal Accident
The term “Normal accident” really caught my attention – how can an accident be normal? Are complex software systems, especially ones with technical debt and many knowledge transfers, destined to have (catastrophic) failures? Find below some quotes from the related Wikipedia articles (emphasis mine) and the reference. —- A system accident (or normal accident) is an “unanticipated interaction …
