The user is learning Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program from the 1980s, to understand its superiority over VisiCalc and is impressed by its features such as minimal recalculation, improved usability, and robust macro capabilities. The user is also exploring the program's limitations, including its graphing tool, and is trying to create a pie chart of game software genres using the program's ...
The author of Emacs Solo, a self-contained Emacs configuration, shares their two-year journey of building a daily-driver Emacs setup without external packages, focusing on understanding Emacs core features and writing custom Elisp code. The project, which includes 35 self-contained modules, aims to demonstrate what Emacs can do on its own and provide a learning experience for others ...
LoGeR scales 3D reconstruction to extremely long videos by processing chunks with a hybrid memory module and combining Sliding Window Attention and Test-Time Training. It achieves strong geometric coherence and reduces drift over massive sequences up to 19,000 frames.
The user built a procedural map generator using Wave Function Collapse (WFC) algorithm, creating a medieval island world with roads, rivers, coastlines, and villages, and overcame challenges such as hex grid geometry and elevation constraints. The generator uses a combination of WFC, Perlin noise, and custom visual effects to create a realistic and immersive environment, and can be interacted ...
Postgres' Top K optimizations shine with sorted structures like B-trees but falter with complex queries and filters. Search libraries like Lucene/Tantivy or databases like ParadeDB take a fundamentally different approach with compound indexes and inverted structures.
A website critiques endless scrolling by measuring distance traveled on mobile devices. It's an absurd experiment where the void always wins, with a serious study proving it improves mood.
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User is frustrated with macOS 26 Tahoe's inconsistent window corner radiuses, which change based on app and window elements. This inconsistency is causing UI issues and bugs, such as cutoff scroll bars.
The debate over whether Dan Blanchard's reimplementation of the chardet library using AI is legitimate raises questions about the relationship between legality and social legitimacy, with some arguing that legality is a sufficient condition for legitimacy. However, the author argues that legality is only a necessary condition and that the social norms of open source communities, which ...
The author is concerned about the compile-time impact of C++26 reflection, which can significantly slow down compilation times due to Standard Library dependencies. Precompiled Headers (PCHs) are recommended to mitigate this issue, potentially reducing compile times to around 180ms.
The Office is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of business section books, based on the Gervais Principle, which supersedes the Peter Principle and Dilbert Principle, and is consistent with The Organization Man and Images of Organization. The Gervais Principle states that Sociopaths promote over-performing Losers to middle management, groom under-performing Losers ...
A Forbes article claims Anthropic's $200/month Claude Code Max plan can consume $5,000 in compute, but this is likely due to confusion between retail API prices and actual costs. Actual compute costs are estimated to be around 10% of API prices.
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A paper claiming a massive improvement over Shor's factoring algorithm, called the JVG algorithm, was found to be flawed due to its inability to handle exponentially many computations. The paper's authors precomputing xr mod N's on a classical computer and loading them into a quantum state was deemed impractical and not a significant improvement.
Tess.Design was a marketplace where artists earned 50% royalties for AI-generated images in their style, but it shut down after 20 months due to lack of traction and unresolved copyright issues. The experience highlights the challenges of building an AI licensing business on top of creative talent, including ideological opposition, brand dilution, and timing.
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A force-directed graph showing how words are defined by one another. The words are a subset of the 10,000 most common words from Google's Trillion Word Corpus, with definitions sourced from Open English Wordnet.
DARPA's SPRINT program aims to develop a runway-independent aircraft with high-speed capabilities. The X-76, built by Bell Textron, will test technologies for vertical-lift and jet-like cruise performance.
Terminal Use is a platform that simplifies deploying agents in a sandboxed environment with filesystems. It provides a simple way to package and serve agent code, communicate with agents, and manage files and resources.
A developer created ls-dev-image, a 'batteries included' OCI image for Common Lisp development. It includes emacs, slime, quicklisp, and lisp-stat for a smooth user experience.
Developing good research taste and collaborating with others are key to producing high-impact research. Focus on solving important problems, learn from others, and execute your ideas flawlessly to achieve success.
The author traveled to the South Pole as a baker, arriving at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in November 2023. She found the landscape beautiful and felt a sense of connection to the early explorers who had visited the continent.
A Broward County judge dismissed a red-light camera ticket, ruling the state law improperly shifts the burden of proof onto vehicle owners. The decision could lead to challenges in other counties and potentially make the ruling statewide.
No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026. UTC and TAI will remain 37 seconds apart.
OpenAI is abandoning its expansion plans with Oracle due to a desire for newer Nvidia chips. This highlights a risk in the AI trade where data centers take too long to build and chips improve too quickly.
Ireland has become the 15th coal-free country in Europe after shutting down its last coal plant at Moneypoint. The country now relies heavily on renewable energy, particularly wind, which generated 37% of its electricity in 2024.
The Baochip-1x is a custom silicon chip with a 350MHz CPU and various security features, designed for high assurance applications and open-source development. It's a partially-open chip, with some closed-source components, but still allows for inspection and simulation of its open-source parts.