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Congrats to Stack OVerflow user David Conrad, who earned a lifeboat badge for answering the question: 

How do I create a map with key and value in one line in Java?

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Congrats to Stack Overflow user Greg Hewgill who earned a Populist badge for his answer to the question: 

What’s a good tool to determine the lowest version of Python required? 

Greg is getting close to the magic one million rep mark!

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Congrats to Stack Overflow users Bobince for earning a Populist badge with their answer to the question: What does sorting mean in non-alphabetic languages?

Jyoti is a cofounder and CEO of Harness, a software delivery platform meant to modernize your DevOps tooling and take the friction out of CI/CD. 

Devs can get started with the developer portal. 

In addition to Harness, Jyoti is a cofounder and entrepreneur partner at Unusual Ventures, which specializes in working with early-stage startups (pre-seed to Series A).

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user kukuh, who won a Lifeboat badge for dishing out some wisdom on Android productFlavors in gradle-kotlin-dsl.

Read the paper Gias coauthored about incorrectness in AI-generated code or explore more of his research. 

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We previously covered research on Stack Overflow code snippets that Gias was involved in and spoke to his team about deriving sentiment from SO comments.  

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Adhi Ardiansyah for an excellent explanation of How to update a GitHub access token via command line.

Multimodal AI combines different modalities—audio, video, text, etc.—to enable more humanlike engagement and higher-quality responses from the AI model. 

WebRTC is a free, open-source project that allows developers to add real-time communication capabilities that work on top of an open standard to their applications. It supports video, voice, and generic data.

LiveKit is an open-source project that provides scalable, multi-user conferencing based on WebRTC. It’s designed to provide everything developers need to build real-time voice and video applications. Check them out on GitHub.

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Stack Overflow user Kristi Jorgji threw inquiring minds a lifejacket (badge) by answering their own question: Error trying to import dump from mysql 5.7 into 8.0.23.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be the world’s largest open-source software business. You can dive into the docs here.

Created by IBM and Red Hat, InstructLab is an open-source project for enhancing LLMs. Learn more here or join the community on GitHub.

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User AffluentOwl earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to force JavaScript to deep copy a string?. 

From her early days coding on a TI-84 calculator, to working as an engineer at IBM, to pivoting over to her new role in DevRel, speaking, and community, Mrina has seen the world of coding from many angles. 

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Congrats to Stack Overflow user NYI for earning a great question badge by asking: 

How do I convert a bare git repository into a normal one (in-place)?

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Shout to Mossmyr for contributing a question that's now part of our CI/CD Collective:  Is there a way to call a Jenkins Shared Library method from another Jenkins Shared Library?

Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out where he thinks the world of cloud computing is headed as GenAI becomes a bigger piece of many company’s tech stack. 

You can find Pradeep on LinkedIn. He also writes a blog and hosts a podcast over at Oracle First Principles. 

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Which shell I am using in mac?

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