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Software development's real work is often mental, with coding the final step. Using AI to write code accelerates delivery but poses challenges in team collaboration and maintenance.
The problem with the sorted files is due to the modern interpretation of alphabetical order in file sorting, where numbers are prioritized over letters. This causes files with a number in their name to be sorted numerically rather than alphabetically.
Researchers release a throughput-optimized megakernel for tensor-parallel inference with Llama-70B on H100s, achieving a 22% increase in end-to-end throughput compared to SGLang. The megakernel uses a pipelined instruction interpreter to overlap compute, memory, and communication operations, and can be used to optimize for both low-latency and high-throughput inference workloads.
A man has passed away due to cancer, leaving behind family, friends and a writing career. He reflects on his life, expressing gratitude for loved ones and meaningful work.
This book is intended for students of statistics and researchers who want to learn Bayesian methods. It provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to Bayesian data analysis, covering topics from the basic concepts to advanced methods.
People are against a UK digital ID card to prevent mass surveillance and control. They oppose any national ID system, citing reasons for its 2010 scrap.
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Tim Berners-Lee shares his vision for a free web, which was compromised by social media and AI. He advocates for a Cern-like, not-for-profit body to govern AI research and restore the web's original purpose.
The writer tried to pursue a music career after school but ended up discovering a passion for programming through a trade school course. Years later, they realized that they'd been too harsh on themselves, writing only 'good' code, and now encourage others to also write 'dumb' code for fun and learning.
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Carl Sagan's book "The Demon-Haunted World" promotes skeptical thinking and the scientific method to distinguish between valid science and pseudoscience. The book aims to encourage people to think critically and question claims without bias, using Sagan's "baloney detection kit" to recognize fallacious arguments.
Alexander Starr et al. found a link between the abundance of neocortical neuron types and their evolutionary rate, suggesting that highly abundant types may be under greater selective constraint. They identified L2/3 IT neurons as evolving exceptionally quickly in the human lineage, potentially related to the high prevalence of autism.
You should not connect four 400w solar panels in series due to voltage exceeding limits at cold temperatures. Instead, put two panels in series as maximum allowed voltage is 136.4v at 0°C.
Linus creates custom guitar pedals as a hobby, using analog circuits and discrete components. He shares his process and invites feedback to improve his designs.
A branch in programming is a control flow decision that disrupts linear execution, forcing the CPU to guess a path. Branchless code avoids this by rewriting conditional logic into arithmetic and bit operations, improving performance in tight loops.
Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, interviews Dan Wang about his book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, which explores China's engineering state and its differences from the US lawyerly society. Wang discusses his experiences living in China, observing the country's Covid lockdowns, and how the US can learn from China's problem-solving approach, despite differences and setbacks.
A long-standing controversy in the Ruby ecosystem has been resurfacing, involving Ruby Central, Ruby Together, and other organizations, with concerns centered on governance, money, and manipulation. A decade-old conflict has simmered beneath the surface, shaping the future of the ecosystem and its key decision-makers.
wkhtmltopdf is considered painful due to page layout, pagination, and styling issues. Other tools like Canva, Puppeteer, and Playwright offer better alternatives for HTML to PDF conversion and are more accessible due to browser-based nature.
People underestimate AI progress, comparing past models' limited abilities to current models' capabilities, leading to overly pessimistic predictions. Research, like METR and OpenAI's studies, show exponential growth in AI abilities, indicating AI will be able to perform human-level tasks in many industries by 2026.
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Field Station: Dinosaurs in New Jersey is liquidating 30 plus dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace for prices ranging $500 to $2,900. The dinosaurs, including Spinosaurus and Parasaurolophus, are available for pick-up after November 9 with buyer-responsible deinstallation and shipping costs.
User is discussing network solutions, specifically mentioning WireGuard, Nebula, and Tinc, and experiencing issues with censorship and geographical blocks. They prefer a self-hosted and open-source solution for p2p networking.
Author aims to create a fast C++ and Rust thread-pool library called Fork Union to improve on classic fork-join workloads, landing near OpenMP performance without advanced NUMA tricks. Library avoids mutexes and Compare-and-Swap.
PostgreSQL 18 features native UUID v7 support and virtual generated columns as improvements for day-to-day work. Enhanced RETURNING clause and new functions like pg_get_acl() and EXPLAIN ANALYZE also streamline development and debugging.
Researchers at ETH Zürich found a new microarchitectural attack called VMScape that exposes data in virtual machines across different CPUs. Xen hypervisor is not vulnerable due to its design, which separates the hypervisor core from user space components, limiting potential damage.
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Tech channel The Serial Port successfully streamed YouTube video via 12 bonded 56K modems at 668.8 kbps, likely a world record. This achievement used Multilink PPP technology on a Windows XP PC with 13 serial ports, defying FCC broadband speed limits for its era.
An Oregon woman received a multimillion dollar settlement from Apple after repair techs exposed her nude photos on Facebook. This case highlights the need for right to repair laws allowing consumers to control their devices and data.
Researchers at Cranfield University reanalyzed a 3000-year-old smelting workshop in southern Georgia, finding that workers were smelting copper using iron oxide as a flux, not iron. This discovery supports the theory that iron was invented by copper smelters through experimentation with iron-bearing materials.
An experiment in East England's Cambridgeshire is growing nine varieties of rice, including risotto and sushi rice, to see how Britain could produce its own food in the future. This trial aims to protect farmer's livelihoods and the environment by cutting greenhouse gas emissions from UK farms, which account for 11.7% of total emissions.
You've been in a tough job market with limited local opportunities, and your efforts to get hired haven't been successful. You're now considering a shift to contract work abroad, or even away from software development entirely.
The J-Link Compact doesn't work with some USB C to C cables due to its design fault with the CC resistors. It connects both CC lines together.
IBM released the IntelliStation POWER 185 in 2006, using PowerPC 970 processors. It supported AIX compatibility, running quieter.
The user has created an extended BASIC interpreter for the Mattel Intellivision ECS console, significantly outperforming the original ECS BASIC and enabling the possibility of developing games and programs that take advantage of the system's capabilities. The user's extended interpreter includes floating-point operations, string handling, and support for various BASIC statements, allowing for ...
A Code Mode workflow for MCP servers uses an LLM to write TypeScript/JavaScript code that calls a simple HTTP proxy to access MCP servers. The proxy provides a single tool called "execute_code" allowing the LLM to write code for complex tool orchestration tasks.
Search gamedev related articles, game engines, frameworks, blog posts and more from a manually curated set of websites. Use it to complement your general purpose search engines to easily find niche resources.
The website offers a pre-configured virtual machine with various vintage operating systems for pure nostalgia. Users can run these systems in the browser with mouse and keyboard support.
A paper was recently posted to the arXiv about QMA limits, specifically black-box amplification in the quantum complexity class QMA. Researchers used complex approximation theory and a technique from AI, GPT5-Thinking, to prove that doubly-exponentially small completeness error is the best you can achieve with black-box techniques.
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Electronic Arts is planning to be taken private in a deal potentially valued at $50 billion, with investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's PIF interested. The move could be worth the largest leveraged buyout ever, boosting EA's stock price by 15 percent.
The author improved their Astro site's accessibility to LLMs by returning Markdown versions of pages with text/plain or text/markdown Accept headers. This reduces token usage by 10x, making content more efficient and accessible for AI systems.
Swiss citizens passed e-ID and abolished rental tax, with e-ID votes going to the last minute and rental tax result far clearer than polls. A new electronic proof of identity and tax reform will be introduced in Switzerland.
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The user developed a C function to clear the screen on a Neo Geo hardware using the ngdevkit development kit and encountered various optimization challenges with the gcc compiler. By using function attributes and selectively disabling counterproductive optimizations, the user was able to generate efficient assembly code for the clear_screen function that rivals what could be produced manually.
DSEG is a free digital font for 7 and 14 segment displays available in ttf, woff, and woff2 formats. It includes various special characters for digital clock expressions and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
The author's daughter Milly was misdiagnosed by the NHS with chronic fatigue syndrome but was actually suffering from Lyme disease caused by a tick bite. After multiple missteps, Milly finally received a correct diagnosis and began treatment, resulting in a significant reduction in her Lyme infection levels.
Denmark bans civilian drone flights after sightings at military facilities and airport closures caused by drones. Russia is suspected of being behind the 'hybrid attack' on Denmark, ahead of an EU summit.
The Fibonacci sequence is related to the golden ratio and can be used to express every positive integer as a unique sum of distinct, non-consecutive numbers. Every positive real number can also be represented as a sum of distinct powers of the golden ratio, leading to new number properties and theorems.
The UK government will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee for Jaguar Land Rover affected by a recent cyber-attack. This move is expected to protect thousands of jobs and support the carmaker's suppliers.
Apple threatens to leave the EU market if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, which Apple claims infringes on its privacy protections but which experts say allows for data sharing and spying. The EU should not give in to Apple's demands and instead call its bluff.
It supports any number of channels (as many as the computer/network can handle) of bidirectional, high quality, uncompressed audio signal streaming. It runs on several platforms, such as Linux, macOS, Windows or FreeBSD. You can use it between any combination of machines e.g., one end using Linux can connect to another using macOS.
James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven is a 180-element artwork made from discarded items, covered in silver and gold foil, with the words "Fear Not" at its center. Hampton, a janitor, spent 14 years assembling the piece based on visions he had, which became an enduring icon at SAAM after its 1970 acquisition.
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Switzerland is introducing a state-issued electronic ID, known as e-ID, for digital identity verification. The e-ID is voluntary and free, issued by the federal government to ensure data security and privacy.
Paleontologists found oldest insect infestation in 295 million year old plant fossils, which are now considered the oldest known insect infestation on Earth. Leaf mine infestations were present in over 80% of these ancient plants, showing how insects exploited plants for food and shelter.
Artist sets $2,455 on fire and issues corresponding tokens, explaining the process and tax concerns. Burning money produced numerous challenges and created a documentation-heavy project involving smart contracts, NFTs, and video recording.
Warren Buffett's indicator of total US stock value vs GDP has reached its highest ever level, sparking fears of market exuberance. The gauge is at 217%, well above its 1999 peak, and raises concern about the stock market's valuation in relation to the US economy.
Utilitarian coding focuses on writing directly useful code that serves human interests. A shift from desktop programming to cloud computing and a rise in tech specialists have led to a decline in utilitarian coding.
A Google engineer's RISC-V code contribution to the Linux kernel was dismissed as garbage code by Linus Torvalds. A C preprocessor macro in the Linux kernel for combining two uint16_t into a uint32_t was discussed with several potential issues with Linus's proposed explicit code.
The code implements the Sigma protocol with Fiat-Shamir transformation for non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs. It generates proofs for knowledge of private keys and encrypted votes.
Chinese scientists have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field, generating 351,000 gauss with a fully superconducting magnet. The breakthrough will advance the commercialization of scientific instruments, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers and fusion magnet systems.
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Danni Ashe, a stripper and softcore porn star, was the first person to crack the code on making money online through subscriptions. In 1995, she launched Danni's Hard Drive, which eventually made over $7 million by 2000 with 27,000 subscribers, pioneering the subscription model now followed by creators and businesses.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia announce a mutual security pact, indicating a shift towards a post-American world. The partnership marks a first concrete step towards an unstable, insecure, and unhappy global landscape.
The user argues that Galileo's inability to solve mathematical problems, like the area of the cycloid, reveals a fundamental flaw in his approach to science, suggesting he relied on trial and error to compensate for his lack of mathematical ability. In contrast, Archimedes' work on floating bodies showcases rigorous mathematical reasoning, demonstrating true mastery of scientific method.
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Federal health officials advise consumers not to eat Walmart's refrigerated heat-and-eat meals due to potential listeria contamination. Products from FreshRealm with specific establishment numbers and Sept 22-October 1 best-by dates should be checked.
A quantum computer's ability to factor numbers has grown exponentially, but it's still far from breaking RSA keys. Extrapolating from current data, it may take 100 years or more for quantum computers to factor 1024-bit RSA keys.
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The Predictive Timeline Simulation framework reframes consciousness as a predictive simulation engine, unifying theories across philosophy, neuroscience, clinical science and AI research. This framework offers a functional and testable account of consciousness, with implications for understanding qualia, Schizophrenia, Artificial General Intelligence and more.