Former President Trump secured a second term with 270 electoral votes, flipping Georgia and shattering the "blue wall." He won a convincing victory despite a criminal trial, assassination attempts, and a change in the Democratic ticket.

The series "Passport Photos" challenges official rules by taking unconventional photos of people in passport poses. It tests various actions while taking official document photos, defying the usual straight-faced requirement.

The user shares interesting macOS Bash commands for accessing secrets, opening files, copying text, and more. Commands include security, open, pbcopy, pbpaste, caffeinate, uuidgen, mdfind, screencapture, and networksetup.

The Canadian government has ordered TikTok to close its offices due to national security concerns, but users can still access the app. The decision was made after a national security review found that TikTok's activities in Canada posed a risk to national security.

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A study analyzed 73,921 movies for title drops, finding that 36.5% of movies have at least one title drop during their runtime, with an average of 10.3 title drops per movie. The study also found that movies named after their protagonists have a higher title drop rate, and that the use of title drops has increased over the decades, particularly in multi-drop films.

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98.css is a CSS library that styles HTML to resemble Windows 98 interfaces. It's compatible with frontend frameworks and prioritizes accessibility.

The author, a non-expert, disputed a claim from the All-In podcast that 85% of Q3 GDP growth came from government spending, finding it to be a misreading of data from the Department of Commerce's website. The actual figure was 30.1%, consistent with post-Great Recession era trends.

Private Cloud Compute provides secure cloud processing for Apple Intelligence tasks with strict data protection and transparency. It enforces stateless computation, non-targetability, and verifiable guarantees to ensure user data privacy and security.

User created a video showing trackers sending data to Google and Facebook without permission, which gained a million views. They plan to add support for more trackers and create a live demo using a Raspberry Pi and speakers.

Nintendo Switch successor will be backward compatible with Switch and have Switch Online. Further details on the successor, including its release date, will be announced later.

We optimized Recall.ai's IPC to reduce CPU usage by up to 50% and AWS bill by over $1M/year. We replaced WebSockets with a custom ring buffer for efficient data transfer.

Dragon performs a series of burns to position itself near the International Space Station. It then docks, pressurizes, and opens the hatch for crew entry.

Fei-Fei Li's massive ImageNet dataset, created in 2009, played a crucial role in the resurgence of neural networks, which were previously considered a backwater in AI research. The dataset, combined with Nvidia's CUDA platform and Geoffrey Hinton's backpropagation algorithm, enabled the development of deep learning models like AlexNet, which achieved unprecedented performance in image ...

A full professor at Iowa State University learned welding and now works at a fabrication shop, facing sexism and physical challenges. Tradeswomen must find workarounds for these obstacles, but their numbers are increasing, with a 47% rise in US women in trades from 2017 to 2022.

You're a caregiver for a loved one and need to prioritize your own health to provide the best care. Taking care of yourself through self-care, support, and respite care can help you manage stress and maintain your well-being.

SuperSplat is an advanced browser-based editor for manipulating and optimizing 3D Gaussian Splats. It is open source and engine agnostic.

Developers can use AI to make large code changes with Aide, a tool that proposes fixes and iterates on linter errors. Aide aims to make AI-edits seamless and maintainable.

The user's team switched to a monorepo setup after experiencing both setups and found minor positive changes, including reduced grunt work and increased sense of connectedness among team members. The move was easy and didn't impact development velocity, with the team appreciating the benefits of a shared digital space and increased awareness of each other's work.

The user is trying to quickly view data in a custom binary file. They used ImHex, a hex editor with advanced features, specifically its pattern language to parse the file format.

The Unicode Standard includes characters with case distinction that are not uppercase or lowercase, such as the Latin Small Letter DZ. This character is special because it's used in Serbo-Croatian for one-to-one transliteration between Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

Llama 3.2 Vision is now available to run in Ollama, in both 11B and 90B sizes. To add an image to the prompt, drag and drop it into the terminal, or add a path to the image to the prompt on Linux. Note: Llama 3.2 Vision 11B requires least 8GB of VRAM, and the 90B model requires at least 64 GB of VRAM.

Install Pulumi following the official guide and verify installation. Run commands to create a DigitalOcean cluster and verify its creation.

Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency with a capped supply of 21 million, stored and exchanged securely through a digital ledger called a blockchain. Its value has risen due to its divisibility, security, and growing demand, making it a popular store of value and medium of exchange.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor features 8 cores, 64MB 3D V-Cache, and boosts up to 5.2GHz. It works with existing AM5 motherboards after a BIOS update and costs $479 USD.

Users expect to spin 3D models on a 2D screen from all angles. Current rotation systems have flaws, including unintuitive turntable rotation and limited trackball rotation.

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The ping clock is a device that displays internet connection status and health through a ping time measurement, helping to determine if connection issues are on the user's or the other party's side. It consists of an ESP32-controlled e-paper display, motor-controlled clock hands, and optical reflection sensors, with a custom PCB and 3D printed hubs.

ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration and be more productive. It is free to use and easy to try. Just ask and ChatGPT can help with writing, learning, brainstorming and more.

Max, Kieran, and Aahel from Midship created a tool to extract data from unstructured documents like PDFs and images. Midship uses OCR and language models to provide clean, structured data and has two user types: non-technical users and developers.

Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have captured images of quantum-scale vortices in a supersolid, a paradoxical phase of matter that's simultaneously solid and fluid. The discovery could help explain properties in extreme systems, including pulsars and high-temperature superconductors.

Researchers found a new method for ultra-low-energy defibrillation that uses 1,000 times less electricity than current techniques. This method exploits the heart's vulnerable window to block rotating excitation waves and terminate irregular electric activity.

The European Commission is investigating Corning for potentially abusing its dominant position in the market for a special type of glass used in handheld electronic devices. The Commission has concerns that Corning's agreements with manufacturers may have excluded rival producers and stifled innovation.

IANA is adding a new DNSSEC trust anchor, KSK-2024, to the root zone on January 11, 2025. Affected software and tools must be updated to handle the changes and new trust anchor file format.

The author discusses powering a Mars base with extremely large quantities of cheap energy, considering options like nuclear, solar, and batteries, and concludes that nuclear power is the most feasible. The author also explores various chemical fuels for Mars, including methane, carbon monoxide, and paraffin, and suggests a combination of these fuels for a Mars city.

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The user is a PhD student who uses reMarkable tablets for reading and note-taking, employing a setup with two tablets to enhance productivity and minimize distractions. They use one tablet for reading and the other for note-taking, which has allowed them to leave their laptop at home and stay focused on their work.

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar's work was saved after a contract was agreed upon through the Linux Foundation, securing funding for at least the next year. Awareness for technical documentation and secure funding can be raised through reporting and open communication among maintainers and users.

Microsoft mistakenly labeled Windows Server 2025 as a security update, causing unexpected upgrades to 7% of customers. Heimdal discovered the error in the Windows Update API, where KB5044284 was incorrectly associated with Windows Server 2025.

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BYD is rapidly expanding its production capacity and sales, becoming the world's #1 plugin vehicle producer and potentially the #1 automaker. It added 200,000 vehicles per month capacity and 200,000 employees, outpacing Tesla's growth.

term-lisp is a language for term list processing with first-class pattern matching, inspired by functional programming languages. It supports lazy evaluation and does not support variables, instead using rules to replace terms.

Optimizing database performance is crucial for Rails projects, and strategies include eager loading, indexing, and using tools like Bullet and prosopite to detect and resolve N+1 problems. Additionally, techniques like database sharding, read replicas, and background jobs can help improve performance, but it's essential to use them judiciously and monitor the impact on the site using ...

The user encountered issues with memory management in Rust when using a C API that allocates memory dynamically, and they found that Rust's Vec does not automatically free the memory when it goes out of scope. The user suggests that Rust should have a defer statement to handle memory deallocation and proposes several workarounds, including using handles instead of pointers and refactoring ...

Japan's birth rate continues to decline with 329,998 babies born in the first half of 2024, a 6.3 percent drop from last year. This downward trend may lead to the country's annual birth count falling below 700,000 for the first time since 1947.

User started using GoToSocial on OpenBSD in 2022 but stopped due to incompatibilities. They switched to Mastodon but tried GoToSocial again with pkgsrc.

On May 3, 2006, Armavia Flight 967, an Airbus A320, crashed into the Black Sea while attempting to land at Sochi International Airport, killing all 113 people on board. The crash was caused by a combination of factors, including inadequate training, conflicting air traffic control procedures, and fatigue, which led to a loss of situational awareness by the pilots.

The author argues that the US faces a threat to liberal democracy from tech monopolies like Google, which wield arbitrary power over individuals and businesses. This echoes the absolutism of James I and Louis XIV, but with a private state controlling online communications and commerce.

Ruby 3.3 introduces significant concurrency improvements, particularly crucial for modern applications demanding efficient handling of multiple tasks. The language now offers various concurrency models, including Threads, Fibers, and Ractors, each suitable for different use cases.

User is creating a desktop application using C/C++ backend and wants a proper frontend. They're choosing GTK3 over Electron.js for a native UI.

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California faces a budget deficit due to declining tax revenues from fuel, cigarettes, and alcohol.

The user discusses the importance of individual differences and diversity in society, but also acknowledges the existence of authoritarians who prioritize oneness and sameness, and how they can be activated by perceived threats to the normative order. The user suggests that deactivating authoritarians can be achieved through normative reassurance, expanding the in-group to include the ...

The halting problem is undecidable, meaning no algorithm can determine if an arbitrary program with input will halt or not. This has significant implications for programming, making it impossible to create perfect optimization tools, bug finders, or backwards-compatibility checkers.

Christina Pazsitsky jokes about Gen X's wild childhoods and latchkey experiences in her 2017 Netflix special. Many Gen Xers, like Bridget Phetasy, share bitter stories of parental neglect and divorce.

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PostPocket is a content keeper that helps you save, organize, and access your favorite content with ease. It offers features like social bookmarking, custom categories, and a secure storage system.

The author discusses a paper called Iterative α-(de)blending that proposes a simple method for diffusion models, but finds it partially fulfilling its promise, and then explores another paper on stochastic interpolants that provides a better motivation for the method. The stochastic interpolant paper introduces a time-dependent function that maps samples between two distributions, and derives ...

Political power is not solid, but flows like water, influencing our collective imagination through allegorical presence and symbolic language. True change occurs in the minds of individuals, where the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we might become shape our reality.

Flattening nested JSON data is a common challenge in data processing and various methods can be used to extract data from semi-structured JSON into a SQL readable table format including techniques that use Spark, pandas, and other tools. The best method depends on the data's structure and what is needed with it, and popular tools like PySpark, pandas, and Hevo offer different approaches to ...