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Kubuntu 26.04 installation and customization

Recently I installed Kubuntu 26.04, and there were a number of installation steps and customizations that may apply to you too. A new computer The root account KDE KDE Plasma KDE konsole KDE kate Get the headphones working Prefer GNU coreutils No snaps! An /etc/fstab for developers firefox chromium vlc ssh emacs

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I'm Building a Hiring Platform That Starts With People, Not Job Descriptions

A Disconnect I've always felt misunderstood. My career path doesn't help. Game development, accounting, logistics, legal, real estate and even (shoe) sales, management, and warehousing on the…

  • Author, a software engineer, seeks alternative to traditional resumes
  • Platform focuses on candidates' capabilities with provided receipts
  • Pilot invites senior software engineers, no personal info shared

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A canary you keep is a canary you start trusting

A reader named Zhang Enquan came back to a thing I wrote about green builds. He had run 10,000 real prompts through a tokenizer, and the first thing he checked was not the output.

  • 40.5% of samples deviated by more than 20% from the pipeline
  • A canary, a single known prompt, verifies pipeline integrity
  • Trust in canary check is crucial for green builds

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