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The author met Jack Kerouac on a blind date in 1957 and they had a romantic relationship. The author kept Kerouac's red-and-black-checked shirt, which he had given her, and it started her own Kerouac collection.
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Researchers studied how polite or impolite language affects large language model accuracy, finding impolite prompts outperformed polite ones. Impolite prompts achieved higher accuracy, contradicting earlier studies that associated rudeness with poorer outcomes.
Cate is a spatial desktop IDE with an infinite canvas for code, terminals, and tools. It allows users to arrange development tools in freeform space and sync workspaces across sessions.
Designers created pixel fonts like Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Two Slice to evoke nostalgia and visual interest. Geist Pixel is a functional pixel font designed for real usage, solving problems like scaling and typographic rigor.
The writer had a bad job interview experience at a mental health startup where they were asked invasive personal questions, making them feel emotionally drained and judged. The writer suggests reconsidering the approach to evaluating cultural fit to avoid making candidates feel vulnerable.
The author discusses the importance of story and writing quality in fiction, then shares their process for formatting and publishing their Christian historical novels. They use Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, and Calibre to create print and electronic versions of their books.
Claude Code is a programmable agent that needs guardrails to produce high-quality output, and its workflow shifts when treated as an autonomous agent with verification. The key to Claude's success lies in setting up a CLAUDE.md file, skills, subagents, and plugins to create a compounding infrastructure that improves over time.
TSDuck is a digital television and video streaming tool for test, monitoring, and integration, supporting various standards and formats. It is an open-source, cross-platform C++ library and command-line tool with a modular architecture and plugin system.
Obituaries have evolved from short death notices to detailed records of a person's life, reflecting changing societal values and technological advancements. Their history spans over two millennia, influenced by factors like printing technology, social class, and war, ultimately becoming a personal remembrance of the deceased.
The author attended their 30th college reunion and noticed a trend of anxiety about AI's impact on the future. They reminisced about their old game BattleTris, which they created in college, and with the help of AI, they were able to revive it and play it again after 20 years.
Posthorn is a unified outbound mail layer for self-hosted projects, simplifying mail integration with transactional providers like Postmark, Resend, Mailgun, and AWS SES. It acts as a bridge between apps and providers, reducing duplication and complexity.
Unicode 18.0 adds 13,047 characters, superseding all previous versions, with 4 new scripts and updated Unicode Technical Standards.
Minicor builds and maintains desktop automations for teams to focus on deals and product shipping. It adapts to UI changes and edge cases with 93-96% click accuracy.
Rosalind is a Rust genomics engine with a compact memory footprint, running whole-genome workloads in under 100 MB RAM. It achieves deterministic replay and O(√t) working memory, ideal for clinical diagnostics, outbreak monitoring, and education.
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There is a demo instance serving Classical Music Mix (CC Public Domain Mark 1.0) for #chat on a very chaotic IRC network. Consider openssl req -x509 -new -newkey ed25519 -sha256 -nodes -out tunecat.pem -keyout tunecat.pem and registering a NickServ account with CertFP. Use the provided opusify script to pre-transcode all your songs to Opus 128 kbps.
The author discusses how arrays in C decay to pointers, which can be confusing, and proposes a strict separation of arrays and pointers to make the language easier to learn. They also explore how arrays can be treated as pointers and propose a new operator, @, to create an array from a pointer, and discuss the implications of this on the language.
The legal profession is slow to adopt AI due to structural barriers, including data problems, governance issues, and risk aversion, but some firms are innovating and adopting AI to improve efficiency and capture value. The industry is shifting towards value-based billing and AI is being used to automate routine tasks, but the profession still faces challenges such as hallucination problems ...
Bruce Marsden Scope Cuthbert Tunstall, later Bishop of London and then Durham, published the first book on mathematics conceived and printed in England in 1523; it was a commercial arithmetic written in Latin. By the time of Thomas Digges's publication of his book on geometry in 1571, the use of English in mathematical publications and the practical arts' had become established, but ...
The user discusses their social arcade project Migo Games built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Swift, leveraging AI for development. They praise Elixir's scalability and fault tolerance, and appreciate AI's ability to reduce bloat in software.
Drew Houston is stepping down as Dropbox CEO, transitioning to executive chairman role, while Ashraf Alkarmi will take over as co-CEO. Houston will focus on AI entrepreneurship after nearly two decades at Dropbox.
The Steinwinter Supercargo is a retro-futuristic truck designed by Manfred Steinwinter in 1983 with a modular platform and low profile for efficiency. It was a flop due to handling issues and reliability problems, but appeared in several films and TV shows before disappearing from public view.
In 2001, a group of friends fit three computers and a network switch into a 1984 Ford Laser for a LAN party at a friend's house. LAN parties allowed for low latency gaming and social interaction, but their popularity declined with the rise of high-speed internet and online gaming platforms.
Celebrated game designer Clint Hocking says realistic modern lighting makes stealth games harder due to harder to read lighting conditions. He suggests developers need to think deeply about using modern lighting techniques for a pure stealth experience.