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Forum discusses that TI's latest NE5532 variant is not the same as the long-used 5532. Post notes changes: input stage switched from NPN to PNP, slew rate from 9 V/µs to 5 V/µs, and absolute max rails down from +/-22 V to +/-18 V, with potential mislabeling as 5532. Members debate whether earlier TI versions were OK, and whether to replace with NJM5532 (NJM) or Exar/JRC equivalents. Some suspect branding/fraud, while others say the 5532 remains obsolete for new designs; many devices still run on higher rails. TI TL0x also mentioned.
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Ted Chiang argues that artificial intelligence is not conscious. Anthropomorphic elements in Anthropic’s Claude constitution show designers treating a chatbot as if it had a mind and feelings, but LLMs are just pattern-continuation machines. They can imitate dialogue between Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan, yet no subjective experience exists. Moral reasoning requires embodied, lived experience and accountability, which current models lack, so they cannot be moral agents. Claude’s constitution is a role-playing guide, not a genuine ethical center, and use of first-person pronouns is misleading. Treat LLMs as tools, not conscious beings, and resist hype.
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Stop Killing Games advocates California AB 1921 to prevent servers from permanently bricking games, but argues the movement misframes the issue as consumer rights, ignoring the deeper power of proprietary software. The author contends kill switches expose users’ lack of control; the fix is software freedom, per the Free Software Foundation's Four Essential Freedoms: run, study, modify/republish, and share. AB 1921 addresses symptoms, not root cause. Gamers already echo the FSF ethics, seeing ownership eroded when source is hidden and server dependence denies ownership; true preservation requires community-controlled code and open platforms.
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Elixir v1.20 delivers the first milestone of gradual typing: type inference and checking run without annotations, enabling dead code detection and verified bugs through a dynamic() type. The set-theoretic type system is sound, gradual, and developer-friendly, using compatibility and narrowing to report only true typing violations. Guards, case, and other constructs are inferred to refine types, helping catch bugs with minimal false positives. Compilation is faster, with a new :module_definition option to run modules as interpreted or compiled. Future work includes type signatures, recursive/parametric types, and typed maps/structs; research continues.
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Christopher Pence, a Utah father of 16 and Microsoft systems engineer, tried to hire a hit man on the dark web to kill his adoptive children’s biological parents, Christina and Cisco Cordero, amid custody tensions. He used Tails for anonymity, paid in bitcoin via the Sinaloa Cartel Marketplace, and sought an “accident”-style killing. A Romanian scam network and hacker Chris Monteiro fed FBI investigators tips, leading to Pence’s October 2023 arrest. He later pleaded guilty to soliciting murder online and was sentenced to seven years. The case prompts questions about guardianship, family dynamics, and child welfare.
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Researchers led by Marie Kmita at IRCM and Université de Montréal showed limb formation is controlled by genetic brakes: two Polycomb groups (PRC1 and PRC2) silence early limb genes after initiation, enabling later programs to complete development. In mice, altering one brake disrupts gene expression; disabling both leaves early genes on and causes major limb defects. This demonstrates embryos must both activate the right genes and remember which to shut off. Next steps: identify signals guiding Polycomb recruitment. Study published in PNAS, 2026.
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Uber has capped AI-tool spending, limiting each employee to $1,500 per month per coding tool (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code). The policy, rolled out in recent months, treats tools separately so one tool’s cap doesn’t affect another. The author estimates two active tools per engineer could total about $36,000 annually, roughly 11% of Uber’s median software engineer compensation, signaling a deliberate cost-control approach rather than competitive token spending. The post discusses individual pricing vs enterprise plans.
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REST3D reconstructs physically stable 3D scenes from a single RGB image by combining physical scene understanding with physics-constrained refinement. It builds a scene-tree representation capturing object states and gravity-based relationships as a structural prior, initializes from image-to-3D models, then applies scene-tree-guided alignment and physics optimization to fix violations while staying faithful to the input. The approach yields more plausibly physical, simulation-ready scenes on synthetic and real data, enabling VR/interactive use and outperforming state-of-the-art methods in stability.
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Apple's MacBook Neo is selling far above expectations. Tim Cook said demand on an April earnings call was "off the charts," and Ming-Chi Kuo says shipments doubled from an initial 5 million to 10 million in 2026 after its March launch. IDC data supports strong sales, with Dell noting it lacks features like a touchscreen. The Neo starts at $599 ($499 for students), uses the iPhone A18 Pro chip, and comes in Citrus and Blush; a second-gen with A19 Pro and 12GB RAM is expected next year.
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Gooey is a Zig-based GPU-accelerated UI framework for macOS (Metal), Linux (Vulkan/Wayland), and Web/WASM. It blends immediate and retained modes with declarative UI primitives (box, hstack/vstack, text) and a state-driven core (Cx). It ships with ready-to-use components (Button, TextInput, Modal, Tooltip) and supports virtualization lists, data tables, animations, theming, fonts, images/SVG, and custom shaders. It includes background IO via std.Io, an entity system, file dialogs, IME, accessibility, and a rich layout system. Documentation includes many examples, notably a Todo app.
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Senator Bernie Sanders advocates an American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act to give the public an ownership stake in major AI firms (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI) via a sovereign wealth fund funded by a one-time 50% tax on stock. The government would hold voting shares and board seats to guide AI development for the public good. The aim is to ensure trillions generated benefit all, through direct payments and funding for healthcare, education, and housing, with precedents from Norway and Alaska and recognition that AI rests on collective knowledge.
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rscrypto is a pure Rust cryptography primitive crate with zero default dependencies. It provides a full primitive stack (hashes, MACs, KDFs, AEADs, password hashing) plus public-key primitives (Ed25519, X25519, RSA) and checksums, all in a single crate. It supports no_std and WASM, with portable backends and optional SIMD/ASM accelerators; hardware-accelerated paths cover x86, ARM, IBM Z/POWER, RISC-V. It is not a TLS stack. Feature flags enable individual primitives. Benchmarks show platform-specific speedups. Licensed Apache-2.0/MIT. Version 0.3.1.
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An approachable guide to implementing a basic 3D, real-time fluid simulation in C. Mike Ash explains modeling incompressible flow on a voxel grid (density for dye, Vx/Vy/Vz for velocity) inside a FluidCube struct, with create/free and helper methods. The core loop runs diffusion, projection, and advection, with a boundary handler (set_bnd) and a Gauss-Seidel-style linear solver (lin_solve). It references Stam’s Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games and notes rendering options (slices or volume rendering). Aimed at turning theory into code for dummies.
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Skyvern is a YC-backed open-source AI agent that automates browser tasks via an API. The Founding Developer Marketing role (US/CA/Remote) offers $100K–$150K salary and 0.10%–0.30% equity. You’ll build and own the developer audience through YouTube demos, tutorials, short-form content, and authentic social engagement; dream up viral campaigns and define Skyvern’s voice. Requirements: strong writing, on-camera presence, prior audience-building, comfort with AI/dev tools, scrappy, willing to edit/post/iterate; coding experience a bonus. Skyvern: founded 2023 (S23), SF, team of 6, founders Suchintan Singh and Shuchang Zheng.
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Andrew Gallant shares his experience with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, an autoimmune brain inflammation. He describes flu-like symptoms, extreme anxiety, jaw pain, balance problems, psychosis, and suicidal thoughts, leading to ER and an initial psychiatric hospitalization. Misdiagnosis as anxiety or schizophrenia delayed care until neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received IVIG and steroids; diagnosis was confirmed by CSF antibody tests. Recovery has been strong; tapering meds and participating in the CIELO satralizumab trial. Gratitude to his wife Kaitlyn Brady and colleague Charlie Marsh; prognosis is generally favorable with early treatment.
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Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby argue that AI data centers are expanding with limited community input, creating a transparency crisis. Their BrockovichDataCenter map shows thousands of resident reports across 49 states about NDAs, back‑room deals, rising utility bills, noise, water use, and health concerns. The piece highlights massive projects (Meta in Louisiana, Google in Arkansas, Microsoft in Wisconsin, Amazon in Indiana) and notes data centers’ electricity and water demands, contrasted with industry messaging from NetChoice. It praises grassroots pushback—planning-board bans and moratoria—as evidence that informed, participatory processes can guide outcomes.
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Nutrepedia’s Blueberries page lists nutrition for raw blueberries with skin per 1 cup (148 g): 1.1 g protein, 21.45 g total carbohydrates, 0.49 g total fat, and 84.36 kcal. It’s part of Nutrepedia’s food database and highlights blueberries among featured foods.
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