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DeskPad creates a virtual display for sharing workspaces, mirroring the screen within its app window. It behaves like a monitor, adjusting windows and resolution according to system preferences.

Asahi Linux releases an alpha version of its game playing toolkit, allowing M1 users to play games like Control and Fallout 4. The toolkit integrates Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility.

The Copenhagen Book provides a general guideline on implementing auth in web applications. It is free, open-source, and community-maintained. It may be opinionated or incomplete at times but we hope this fills a certain void in online resources. We recommend using this alongside the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series.

Blake Watson teaches HTML to anyone, not just tech professionals, in a friendly and approachable way. This book covers everything needed to start making websites with no prior experience.

Tenno is an app combining Word, Excel, and Javascript for interactive dynamic documents. It allows users to build formulas, create charts, and call APIs with live updates.

Ratan Tata was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who served as chairman of Tata Group from 1990 to 2012. He received the Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan, India's second and third highest civilian honours.

The user created a Minecraft demo of the video game "Bad Apple!!" using structure blocks and redstone, overcoming technical challenges and limitations. The project involved collaboration, innovation, and experimentation with various techniques to achieve a smooth 20 fps playback.

The user explores unconventional programming paradigms, specifically LISP and Prolog, to exercise their brain and develop complex systems. They demonstrate how to use Prolog to define game mechanics, including actor characteristics and relationships, and plan to discuss dynamic game loops in the next part.

The user discusses the evolution of web application models, from CGI to serverless, and how WebAssembly (Wasm) is poised to bring the next major shift, enabling high-performance applications with easier maintenance and lower costs. Wasm's ability to run untrusted code in a lightweight, isolated environment, combined with its performance and security benefits, makes it a promising technology ...

A blogger's kid had their Alien movie experience ruined by a pre-show featurette with spoilers. The solution is to show it after the movie to preserve the wonder for first-time viewers.

The user discusses the importance of high-quality animation data and the challenges of achieving it, citing the need for high temporal resolution (at least 60 Hz) and numerical accuracy (at least 5-6 decimal places) in local joint rotations. The user also highlights the limitations of publicly available datasets, such as AMASS, which contain systematic errors, noise, and artefacts, and argues ...

Hello I created an iso of windows pro 24h2 with microwin and I notused that it changed the look of explorer . How do i revert it back to the default windows 11 explorer look?

Mozilla has released an emergency update for Firefox to fix a critical use-after-free vulnerability, CVE-2024-9680, which allows code execution. Users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version immediately to prevent exploitation.

Papaya is a fast and feature-complete concurrent hash table for Rust that prioritizes read-heavy workloads and predictable latency, making it suitable for applications with high read traffic. It uses a combination of sharding, lock-free design, and atomic operations to achieve high performance and scalability, with features like async support and incremental resizing.

As a software engineer, you should negotiate with product on the scope and time of a project by breaking down the work into line items and estimating the effort required, just like a plumber would estimate the cost of repairs. By doing so, you can ensure that product understands the value of investing in quality and that you can deliver the best possible outcome within the given constraints.

John Maynard Keynes popularized the expression "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem; if you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." However, the originator remains anonymous and Keynes called it an "old saying."

Researchers have shown that wearables can measure blood pressure using pulse wave velocity and shape, which can be used to infer blood pressure. This technology could provide real-time feedback on dietary choices and help manage hypertension.

Open TV is a free and open-source IPTV project that needs donations to continue development. Donations will help add new features and keep the app free and clean.

Cryptographic vulnerabilities were found in five major end-to-end encrypted cloud storage providers, including Sync, pCloud, Seafile, Icedrive, and Tresorit, allowing malicious servers to inject files, tamper with content, and break confidentiality. The vulnerabilities were discovered in a malicious server setting, which is a realistic adversary model for E2EE cloud storage, and the findings ...

The user discusses the advantages of using TypedDict over dataclasses or Pydantic models for representing record-type data, particularly in cases where some fields may be missing or optional. They highlight the flexibility and expressiveness of TypedDict, including its ability to handle missing fields and support for PEP-655, PEP-692, and other features.

Nixiesearch is a new stateless search engine that uses Lucene and S3 to provide fast and scalable search capabilities, but it still has limitations such as no sharding support. The project aims to improve its performance and features, including adding GPU support for indexing and introducing a multi-modal search with CLIP-like models and an LLM-driven DSL for text transformation.

Fisker's bankruptcy led American Lease to purchase 3,300 cars for $46.3 million, but Fisker now claims the cars cannot be transferred to American Lease's server. This highlights the auto industry's reliance on cloud connectivity and server maintenance for vehicle functionality.

The FBI created an Ethereum-based token, NexFundAI, to investigate price manipulation in crypto markets and charged 31 people and entities for widespread fraud and manipulation. The investigation led to the recovery of $25 million in fraudulent proceeds that will be returned to investors.

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A West Virginia University researcher found that heart rate variability data from wearables differs from clinical settings due to different measurement methods. The study suggests using the standard deviation of normal-to-normal (SDNN) calculation for more accurate results.

The article discusses Python error handling, focusing on the "Easier to Ask for Forgiveness than Permission" (EAFP) approach, which involves performing an action and dealing with errors afterwards, rather than checking for conditions before performing the action. The article also introduces a new way of categorizing errors based on their origin and recoverability, resulting in four different ...

AmpereOne A192-32X trailed EPYC 9965 in most HPC benchmarks due to EPYC's greater memory bandwidth and Zen 5 advantages. EPYC 9965 dominated in LULESH hydrodynamics and most HPC benchmarks despite subpar DDR5 memory throttling.

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Engineers should make product decisions, not just follow orders from Product Owners. They are software architects who provide expertise in efficiency, helping customers save time and money.

Fossils of a saber-toothed salmon and a megalodon were discovered at a Los Angeles high school dating back 8.7m years and 120,000 years. The fossils provide clues to a rich marine ecosystem from the Miocene and Pleistocene eras.

Text editors interpret and display file data differently, causing inconsistencies in file appearance. Understanding these differences is crucial for working with plain text, especially in collaboration and coding projects.

I'm leaving the WordPress open source project due to worsening anxiety symptoms from constant project worries and news. I'm stepping away from the Incident Response Team, a role I've cherished, to focus on my mental health and personal projects.

The automation of industrial processes can create new problems for human operators, including the need for manual takeover and monitoring, which requires specific skills and knowledge. Designing effective human-computer collaboration systems is a multidimensional problem that requires careful consideration of factors such as process complexity, operator workload, and the integration of person ...

Meteorologists are facing increasing threats and misinformation while trying to provide vital information during the hurricane season. They are overwhelmed with conspiracy theories and false information that is making their job more difficult and affecting public trust.

A coworker Vinay sparked a conversation about why Americans can't disagree on politics without losing friendships, pointing out that in his hometown in India, people often discuss politics without it affecting friendships. The group discussed how population density in the US may contribute to this cultural norm, making it easier to avoid people with whom we disagree.

Lumina is a search engine 5x more relevant than Google Scholar using state of the art search technology. Chunkr is a self-hostable solution for extracting data from PDFs at high speed and accuracy.

OS/2 systems using NetBIOS over TCP/IP (TCPBEUI) can communicate with SMB servers on different subnets by setting up NetBIOS name to TCP/IP address mappings or using unencoded DNS name lookup. The IBM TCPBEUI implementation on OS/2 has various configuration options and limitations, including the need to manually add machine names to RFCNAMES.LST or set the NetBIOS Domain Scope String.

Thunderbird's Android app, a reborn K-9 Mail project, is in beta with features like automatic account setup and syncing. It's expected to be fully released in October with a release candidate in the third week.

South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature for her poetic prose confronting historical traumas. She is the first South Korean writer and 18th woman to receive the prize.

The user has issues with Next.js, specifically with its inconsistent APIs and limitations in accessing request objects and setting cookies, which makes it frustrating to work with. They believe the root cause of these issues is a rushed release and the overlap between React and Next.js APIs, and they hope for acknowledgment and improvement from the Next.js team.

A colleague lost her father, but after a couple of days, work resumed as usual, highlighting how people quickly move on from others' grief. The writer feels life is about more than just work and material success, and they're struggling with the daily routine and feeling lonely.

A new news media powerhouse called FreeWP is being launched to empower the WordPress community and challenge current leaders in the space. The initiative includes WP Class Action and WP2, aiming to reclaim wordpress.org and establish a community-owned WordPress that is free, open, and genuinely community-centric.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is forcing corporate employees to work in the office five days a week, citing better teamwork and innovation. However, many employees and experts argue this policy is outdated and will lead to decreased productivity and employee satisfaction.

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Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 update has caused issues including blue screen crashes and a large cache folder that can't be deleted. A patch is being prepared to fix the problem, until then users should leave the cache untouched.

Meta's moderation system is deleting or restricting user accounts on Instagram and Threads for linking to articles or using certain keywords, with Adam Mosseri saying he's "looking into it." Users are complaining about overly restrictive moderation, including being flagged for joking or sharing factual information.

The Geysers geothermal field in California produces 700 megawatts of power, with new development potentially adding 600 megawatts. This new development is equivalent to 2/3 of a nuclear power plant or 4/5 of a coal-fired power plant.

Andrew Whatson has made significant progress on the Pre-Scheme Restoration project, completing 75% of the codebase port to R7RS and implementing a compatibility layer for Scheme 48. The next focus is integrating Unsyntax as the portable expander for Pre-Scheme, replacing the current integration with Scheme 48's expander.

Bluesky is facing challenges in moderating child sexual abuse content in Portuguese, with 125 profiles identified sharing or selling explicit materials. The platform uses automated systems and human moderators to remove CSAM, but a gap in moderating basic terms allows posts to remain active.

Researchers studied 67 patients who received elivaldogene autotemcel (eli-cel) therapy for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy and found 7 patients developed hematologic cancer. The cancer cases were associated with clonal vector insertions and somatic genetic defects.

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The user is working on a screenshot tool for older Windows versions, requiring a TLS library to connect to modern systems, and has successfully modified WolfSSL to work with Windows 95 and 98. They have also made cURL compatible with these older Windows versions by modifying its build files and adding support for WolfSSL.

X is changing its revenue sharing model to pay creators based on engagement from Premium users. This change may lead to more Premium users artificially inflating views to earn more.

The world is entering a new era of depopulation, where the global population will decline due to low birth rates and aging populations, with many countries already experiencing net mortality and shrinking workforces. Despite the challenges this will bring, humanity can still adapt and thrive, leveraging technological advancements, education, and innovation to ensure continued economic growth ...

WordPress started as a fork of b2/cafelog and has had several forks, including b2++ and ClassicPress. A new fork, FreeWP, has been started by Vinny Green due to disagreements over WordPress's direction.

Texas A&M researchers warn that electric vehicles may pose a safety risk due to their weight and design. They suggest updating roadside infrastructure to protect occupants in crashes.

Ratan Tata death reactions: Tata Group former chairman Ratan Tata dies at Mumbai Hospital; condolences pour in. Follow The Hindu for updates.

To run and test In "works on my Macbook" state of maturity, report any bugs on Github, or better fork and modify on your own.

Researchers demonstrated a classically intractable computation using random circuit sampling on a 67-qubit quantum processor. They observed two phase transitions, one due to the number of cycles and the other due to the error rate per cycle, and established the existence of a stable, computationally complex phase reachable with current quantum processors.

James Salter, a US Air Force pilot turned writer, received a letter from critic Robert Phelps praising his novel A Sport and a Pastime. This marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship and mutual admiration between the two writers.

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Gene Amdahl founded Trilogy Systems in 1979 to create a more powerful and efficient mainframe computer using Wafer-Scale Integration (WSI). Trilogy's innovative technology, developed in the 1980s, aimed to overcome obstacles in traditional VLSI and achieve a significant performance improvement.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered unexpectedly large and luminous galaxies from the universe's first billion years. These findings have raised questions about the evolution of the young cosmos and are challenging current theories about galaxy formation.

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Web Components offer a simpler alternative to frontend frameworks like Svelte and Vue, running natively in the browser without Node.js. They provide a future-proof, modular, and performant way to build web applications, reducing complexity and improving maintainability.

The author shares his experience and advice on becoming a general manager, emphasizing the importance of patience, being excellent in one's core discipline, gaining adjacent experience, respecting and understanding other disciplines, working on multiple product lines, and finding a mentor. He also addresses common questions and concerns from readers, including the underrepresentation of test ...

Dietary restriction, including caloric restriction and intermittent fasting, extended the lifespan of genetically diverse female mice, with the strongest effect seen in mice that experienced 40% caloric restriction. However, the effects of dietary restriction on lifespan were largely independent of its effects on metabolic traits, and genetic background played a more significant role in ...

Researchers found that valproate, a drug that inhibits histone-deacetylase, enabled adult men to learn absolute pitch significantly better than those taking a placebo. This suggests that valproate may reopen critical-period learning in the adult human brain.

Large language models are vulnerable to attacks, with 90% of successful attacks resulting in sensitive data leakage. Attacks on LLMs can be completed in under a minute and often involve jailbreaks and prompt injection techniques.

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Economists once imagined a world with less work, but a shift in economic frameworks made scarcity a permanent feature of the human condition. Now, the idea of post-scarcity is returning, with some focusing on technology and others on unconditionally meeting everyone's basic needs.

Claude's tech stack appears to be a webview app built with NextJS, based on BuiltWith analysis. The app feels like a Chrome/browser due to its web-based architecture.

The Imperial Palace in Tokyo is a park-like space with modest buildings, exerting a power beyond its functional insignificance. Emperor Akihito's reign transformed the imperial institution, promoting pacifism, democracy, and middle-class decency, but failed to reconcile Japan with its wartime victims.

User created a .Net MAUI project with .Net 7 and added a Lottie animation from LottieFiles to display a 3-star rating system. The animation is shown in a Community Toolkit popup with a SKLottieView and activated on a button click event in the main page.

New research reveals that hurricanes and tropical storms in the US indirectly cause 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths for up to 15 years after the event. The study estimates tropical storms since 1930 have contributed to 3.6 to 5.2 million deaths in the US, exceeding deaths from motor vehicle accidents and wars.

BBC Weather website and app displayed incorrect forecasts of extremely high wind speeds and temperatures due to a data issue with a third-party supplier. The issue has been acknowledged and is being fixed, with accurate forecasts expected to reappear within several hours.

Designers use color to convey emotions and guide user interactions, requiring a well-crafted palette for consistency. A natural-looking palette involves harmonious transitions between shades and tints, avoiding washed-out or overly intense colors.