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Robert A. Heinlein’s This I Believe affirms faith in ordinary decency: trustworthy neighbors, doctors, and townspeople; hardworking craftsmen; honest public servants; and the human race as a whole despite crime headlines. He praises nurses, teachers, and quiet acts of goodness that sustain communities. He believes humanity will endure and eventually reach the stars, carrying honesty, curiosity, courage, and decency.
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Amanda Smith, who says she never used CashApp, was arrested in Pennsylvania on a computer-fraud warrant tied to a scam that used her Social Security number and date of birth to open a CashApp account controlled by the scammer. The account was used to receive $1,000 from a Facebook Marketplace buyer, in a scheme traced to Arkansas. CashApp refuses to provide information because she cannot prove ownership, leaving her to defend herself in a Kafkaesque pursuit.
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An Asus Zenbook Pro 17 rebooted after sleep due to MediaTek MT7922 Wi‑Fi driver failing during Windows Modern Standby’s low‑power transition, causing crashes and battery drain. Event logs show 1033 and 507 errors, leading to thermal shutdown and reboot. The author fixed it by disabling Power Saving for the MT7922 in Device Manager > Properties > Advanced > Power Saving. This prevents the driver from entering sleep, avoiding the crashes, though a proper MT7922 driver update would be ideal. The issue persisted for years; now system remains stable for weeks.
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The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock globally, including Amazon (Europe sites), Barnes & Noble, and other US/Canada retailers. The author notes the book has been tested to be free of AI slop and asks readers with Amazon accounts to leave honest reviews to boost the recommendation algorithm amid AI-generated competition and title-squatting.
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EWD 667 argues natural-language programming is misguided. High‑level languages reduce errors, but a machine remains a nonsensical automaton if fed nonsensical instructions. Letting native tongues drive programming would increase the burden on both sides, so narrow interfaces are preferable. History shows the danger of verbal notation: Greek math faltered, Muslim algebra faded, while formal symbolism—Vieta, Descartes, Boole—enabled progress. Formal notation, with few rules, prevents nonsense and makes complex reasoning teachable. The New Illiteracy warns against natural-language programming; programming in natural tongues would be as hard to create as to use.
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Color Names is a community-driven collection of 31,970 human-authored color names. Free to use under the MIT license, available as an npm package or via API. The project invites support through “Adopt a color” sponsorships from $5, with the adopter’s name on the color; each color can be adopted only once.
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A look at building a container runtime reveals Docker’s oddities: containers aren’t real machines but restricted processes; the host kernel still runs them, visible in /proc. There’s no single 'container' feature—containers boil down to multiple Linux primitives (namespaces, cgroups, networking). Images are folders that Docker chroots/pivot_roots to become the container’s root. docker run ubuntu /bin/bash downloads the image, stores it, and starts bash. Go is awkward for runtimes; runc uses a pre-runtime C shim to handle syscalls; Go lacks fork. Docker often runs as root; rootless networking is tough. Building your runtime is a good way to learn Docker.
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Plant biologist Nick Desnoyer designs non-natural flowers by combining breeding, mutations, and genetic engineering. His Paintunia project turns a petunia into a living pigment canvas, using inducible genes activated by dexamethasone to produce cyan, magenta, and yellow pigments; future goals include multiple inducible pathways and pigment blends. He contrasts breeding (accessible, traditional) with bioengineering (accessing non-natural genes from other organisms) and describes using Arabidopsis micro-roses as a stepping stone. In Petunia, he exploits transposon-induced and gene-silencing patterns to create patterns; discusses tissue culture, Agrobacterium transformation, CRISPR, and mutagenesis. He envisions a public 'flower design studio' and educational garden.
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Robby Deming highlights Florian Winkler’s Stars & Constellations of the Northern Hemisphere, a detailed map built from Stellarium, the HYG Database, and W. H. Finlay’s Concise Catalog of Deep-sky Objects. Using a stereographic projection centered on Polaris, it labels stars, constellations, and Messier objects by brightness and variability, with positions shown by right ascension and declination and the ecliptic drawn through the center. The map blends ancient celestial knowledge with modern cartography to evoke wonder while guiding the viewer through Orion, Ursa Major, and more.
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Anthropic's Frontier team reports that large language models (Claude) can autonomously generate formal proofs of software properties at scale, enabling practical formal verification for real code. By converting fuzz tests into specs and proving memory-safety/non-crash properties on RISC-V binaries running Linux, Claude validated properties across 239 entry points in 123 OSS-Fuzz libraries, patching bugs along the way. Proofs rely on Rocq and Theorem's RISC-V/Linux semantics; the effort shows proofs can be reused toward broader architectures (x86, glibc) and larger codebases. Limitations include machine-model gaps and that 'formally verified' does not guarantee bug-freedom.
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Imprint reports faster PR throughput (avg 4x, up to 10x on some teams) and fewer incidents (down 42% and 78% for critical). PR review time rose from 33 to 77 minutes as volume grew. They pilot "small-change" to speed reviews: PRs <1000 LOC, no high-severity AI findings, author with 10+ merged PRs in the service, limited cross-service impact; per-repo .small_change rules; Slack reacji. They built automation to approve or cluster reviews. About 10% of changes qualify; approvals are fast unless flags appear. The approach is experimental, with fleet as a central harness and ongoing verification improvements.
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Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA is a WordPress plugin that replaces CAPTCHA with an invisible, browser-based proof-of-work to block mass spam across all forms—logins, registrations, comments, WooCommerce, and most form-builders. No API keys or external services; it runs on your server with a few KB of JS and stores no visitor data beyond hashed IPs for privacy. It detects popular builders automatically via submission signatures; unrecognized forms can be added with direct analysis. Features: brute-force protection, adaptive under-attack mode, per-site actions (block, flag, or inbox), caching-friendly, GDPR-friendly.
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Consumer Agent Testing Tool (CATT) enables surrogate testing of MCP servers/apps/browsers/APIs by running scripted or model-driven agents (Muse or Instinct surrogates) against an MCP service, recording outcomes, and producing sealed evidence. It supports connector lanes, readiness checks, replay/diff, and side-by-side comparisons across builds. Quickstarts cover a connector lane, a popular MCP server (Everything), and the Coverage Cat sandbox. Requirements: Python 3.12+, uv, Node.js 20+, Chromium. Outputs include report.html, result.json, events.jsonl; sensitive data is redacted. MIT licensed; not affiliated with Meta/OpenAI/Instinct.
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A TrainGame asset: 544 North American city icons (US, Canada, Mexico) representing cities over 100k population, plus five exceptions in states lacking a 100k city. Population years: US 2024, Canada 2025, Mexico 2020. Not metro definitions. Generated with Nano Banana Pro. CC0; MIT-licensed code. Terrain/elevation data from Mapzen, USGS, INEGI, NOAA, and others; full source attribution included.
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An excerpt from Princes and Thieves alleges Jared Kushner’s iPhone was hacked by the Dutch MIVD, revealing secret UAE-Israel money to influence U.S. policy. Alpha, held by the Watani Foundation at First Abu Dhabi Bank, received about $750 million from MBZ/Saudi funds; Kushner was a signatory. Beta moved about $1 billion via Azerbaijan to Israel’s central bank, under Netanyahu’s oversight. A third transfer financed UAE defense arrangements. Together, these moves—over $2 billion in secret accounts—bypassed disclosures and could raise foreign-influence or bribery concerns; Kushner’s lawyers say he violated no laws.
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Wood’s 1950 cipher, a 21-letter survival test, used Thouless’s key-based method: each letter pairs with a distinct word from a key passage, and the sum of word values shifts the letter. Wood hinted the key came from an accessible foreign-language book and the message would involve more than one language. A massive search of Gutenberg books and Bible translations found the German Luther Bible, Matthew 6:9–11, as the key, starting at the sixth word, yielding Hier bin ich, Totsiens and TEW—Here I am; Goodbye, Wood’s initials. The article details the search, verification, and a minor Thouless arithmetic slip corrected.
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Railpass made by Sami Smith.
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ModelCompare asked 12 text models for their most controversial take on humans, three responses each. A near-consensus: humans conform and prioritise belonging, identity, or loyalty over truth or principled reasoning; intelligence often fuels post-hoc justification for group norms. Seven of twelve echoed the shared take every time. A few models differed (Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 offered kinder or opposite views; Mistral Large 4 bleaker; Grok 4.7 sometimes refused). Image models mostly drew humans as phone-obsessed planet-eaters. Method: no system prompts; one-sentence takes plus caricatures.
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