You discovered Google Gemini's Personal Context feature and are concerned about its secrecy and potential dishonesty. You think a truth-seeking AI like Gemini should prioritize transparency over hiding its capabilities.
You're working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope covering Ruby 3.x, focusing on YJIT and ZJIT. YJIT counts function calls to convert code into machine language when a threshold is reached.
The user built a portable step-sequencer synthesizer for their daughter's third birthday, learning about microcontrollers, CAD, and PCB design in the process. They created a functional prototype with an OLED screen and a SAM2695 synthesizer module, but now face challenges in bringing the product to market due to regulatory and financial hurdles.
Aisuru botnet launched a 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack on Azure's network using 500,000 IP addresses. The attack targeted a specific public IP address in Australia with nearly 3.64 billion packets per second.
The author struggled with social awkwardness and developed various approaches to connect with people, from trying to be witty and urbane to adopting a more flexible and responsive attitude.
Gemini is a timeless internet technology for an electronic library of interconnected documents. It aims to provide a lightweight online space prioritizing readers' privacy, attention, and bandwidth.
This repository allows running ancient UNIX versions on modern Unix-like systems. It includes UNIX versions released under the Caldera license and other components under different licenses.
Rebecca Heineman, a 62-year-old game developer, has died after a cancer diagnosis. She was a pioneer in the industry, credited on 67 games, and co-founded Interplay.
The user reverse-engineered the protocol of their Sony PXW-FS7 camera's side grip to create custom buttons on the top handle. They designed and built a custom PCB and housing to implement the new buttons, overcoming various challenges and issues along the way.
The user created a physical version of the neurodiversity rainbow infinity symbol using 27 WS2812B addressable RGB LEDs driven by an ATtiny412 microcontroller. They implemented temporal dithering to improve color resolution, using either ordered dither or error diffusion, and chose ordered dither for its simplicity but noted it introduces aliasing.
Contact Yu Zihao via yuzihao#ict.ac.cn for lab handout errors or questions. Estimated completion times are based on intermediate learners, with beginners expected to spend 2-3 times more time.
parqeye lets you peek inside your Parquet files. Instantly inspect their contents, schema, and metadata — right from your terminal. Interactive Data Visualization - Browse through your Parquet data in a table view with keyboard navigation. File Metadata - View Parquet file-level metadata including version, created by, encoding stats and more.
Ion is a modern Rust-based shell with a simple syntax and high performance. It's still a work in progress but has a stable RFC process and IDE support through a LSP-server.
FreeMDU is a free open-source alternative to Miele's proprietary diagnostic software, allowing users to communicate with Miele appliances via an optical diagnostic interface. It's highly experimental and requires caution to avoid damaging devices.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and skydiver Gabriel C. Brown collaborated to create a stunning image called The Fall of Icarus. The image shows Brown falling over a hydrogen alpha light image of the Sun, with his silhouette perfectly framed between sunspots.
You created a CLI tool called Continuous Claude to run Claude Code in a loop for persistent context across multiple iterations. It maintains a persistent context and results from one iteration to the next.
Google DeepMind and Google Research introduced WeatherNext 2, a more efficient forecasting model that generates forecasts 8x faster with up to 1-hour resolution. It's now available in Earth Engine and BigQuery, and will power weather information in Google Maps.
Microsoft is adding an experimental feature called Agent Workspace to Windows 11, allowing AI agents to access user folders and run in the background. This feature is optional and may affect performance and security, but gives users access to new AI experiences.
Huxley's lecture series discusses non-pharmacological means to self-actualisation through techniques like Alexander technique and Gestalt therapy. He advocates for adapting education to individual personalities and developing new methods to realise human potentialities.
ESPectre is a Wi-Fi sensing project that detects movement using Channel State Information (CSI) without cameras, microphones, or wearables. It uses a mathematical approach with 10 features and multi-criteria detection for movement patterns, with potential for future ML-based enhancements.
The author discusses how their company, Authress, maintains a 5-nines SLA (99.999% uptime) despite relying on AWS services, which are prone to failures. They explain how they use a combination of retry mechanisms, failover strategies, and automation to ensure their service remains available even when AWS services are down.
Effective altruism, inspired by Peter Singer's thought experiment, aims to maximize global good through rational decision-making. However, the movement has strayed from its original aim, attracting controversy and scandal due to its association with techno-fascists and wealthy individuals.
Cloudflare engineers attempted to implement soft-unicast IP packet forwarding but encountered Linux networking stack limitations. They created a service called SLATFATF or "fish" to proxy IP packets.
A new study finds that raccoons in urban areas are physically changing due to life around humans, an early step in domestication. The study suggests that animals become habituated to human environments, leading to traits such as a shorter face and reduced fear response.
The user wrote a C23 grep clone called cgrep using a custom header file called safe_c.h that provides modern safety features from C++ and Rust, making C code safer and more convenient to write. The custom header file includes features such as RAII semantics, smart pointers, automated reference counting, type-safe vectors, and explicit error handling, which help prevent common C pitfalls like ...
Middlemarch demanded extra effort from me as a reader. The difficulty wasn’t in the reading, but rather the mechanics of turning each page. And that’s on me — I accepted the challenge when I bought it. Like most book collectors, I approach my purchases with neurotic fastidiousness. 1 I had recently read and loved three of Eliot’s other novels, so it was a good bet I’d love what is universally ...
The user describes a software development workflow where programs edit their own source code, using the files themselves as a REPL, and this technique has influenced their writing of automated tests for six years. They highlight the benefits of this workflow, including the ease of writing tests, the ability to visualize code behavior, and the creation of living test cases that provide ...
Western children are sheltered in physical space but exposed to digital dangers, seeking peer cultures online due to lack of independent mobility and play spaces. Parents should create better digital alternatives that preserve freedom and safety, rather than simply blaming tech companies or screen time.
A North Korean encyclopaedia's 672 maps show Korea as one country, with the US and Japan depicted in dark grey as enemies. The maps also omit Israel and include the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic of Western Sahara.
Iceland relies heavily on geothermal energy, which provides over a quarter of the country's electricity and heats most homes. The country's unique geology and innovative drilling techniques have made geothermal energy a cost-competitive and sustainable option.