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An AR bus-tour project in Beijing devolved into chaos as a California client and its junior devs mishandled tech, with no version control, poor hardware, and unrealistic deadlines. The author went to China for a month, worked 11-14 hours daily for 24 days, and covered all expenses, hoping to be paid. The client never paid the $35k owed; debt collection failed; the client dissolved. Key lessons: some people won't be helped, contracts are fragile, take progress payments, and trust your gut. The post critiques exploitative dynamics and the cost of overpromising.
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Contrary to Trump’s portrayal, the Atlantic argues the intelligence community’s prewar judgments on Iran were largely correct: Iran did not have an imminent nuclear weapon or ICBMs capable of hitting the United States; if attacked, Iran was likely to retaliate regionally and could threaten Hormuz, risking a global economic crisis. The ensuing war, justified by misstatements and distortions of intelligence, has empowered hard-liners, increased Gulf instability, and strained US ties. The real failure, the piece contends, is political—a president acting on impulse despite accurate intelligence, not an intelligence breakdown.
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The post explains that Unix manual page numbers denote sections grouping document types: section 1 for executable programs, section 2 for system calls, section 3 for library calls (e.g., basename(3) is a libc function, not a syscall). There are other sections and suffix letters like 3p for POSIX and 3x for X docs. You can verify with man(1) or the man man command, and the author notes learning this after years of using man pages.
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Germany's gold reserves have been stored in the United States for decades, with roughly one-third — about €160 billion — kept in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Bundesbank officials say the reserves are well-protected, but some experts worry that a future shift in US leadership (and the Trump-era challenge to the rules-based order) could weaken long‑standing norms and threaten the possibility of seizing the gold in a crisis. The piece frames broader concerns about transatlantic financial stability and the future of global economic rules.
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Leako is a ColecoVision clone; Part 5 documents v7 (and v0.8) aimed at making it buildable, reliable, and reproducible amid shortages. Changes: USB 5V power; improved board support to reduce strain; revised controller ports with proper footprint; silkscreen labeling and color-coded RCA jacks; BOM automation tweaks; procurement challenges push BOM to about $80; salvaged TMS9918, SN76489, and a 27c256 EPROM; assembly issues include tight VRAM latch pads, cartridge clearance, and a problematic -5V supply via ICL7660; fixes included reworking U23 joints and grounding -5V for testing. Tests showed partial success; a museum board shipped; more revisions planned.
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Benchmark shows idiomatic Koru kernels deliver near hand-optimized C performance on a 5-body n-body problem, beating plain C, Zig, and Rust references by about 12–17% and matching a hand-scalarized C variant within ~1%. The gap closes only when C is manually rewritten for a fixed size; Koru preserves optimization-relevant structure so compilers lower high-level kernels effectively. A Lisp kernel DSL confirms portability; LLVM auto-vectorization aids cross-platform performance.
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This is a Wall Street Journal 404 error page indicating the requested page can’t be found, with guidance to check the URL or email support. It also highlights popular articles—such as “More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class” and “Trump Warns Iran He Could Strike Every Power Plant”—and promotes latest podcasts on Zoom, markets, and related topics.
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Euro-Office is an open, sovereign online office component for real-time collaborative editing of documents, designed to be embedded in other platforms (e.g., Nextcloud Hub, Proton Docs, OpenProject, XWiki). It supports DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, ODT/ODS/ODP, PDF, TXT, etc., enabling simultaneous editing and saving back to the host or downloading in multiple formats. It is open source (AGPLv3), developed in public by a community, with contributors like IONOS, Nextcloud, XWiki, OpenProject. It forked from ONLYOFFICE due to collaboration/transparency issues; governance is via a 'who codes, decides' model. Get involved via GitHub; DocumentServer repo has setup guidance. Not currently offering paid support.
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The piece argues that LLM-assisted coding tends toward microservices. Microservices have explicit interfaces, so internal refactors or AI-driven changes can happen inside them without disturbing external contracts. They reduce implicit coupling common in monoliths. Organizational benefits include faster iteration in separate repositories and easier access to production infrastructure, but the downside is a proliferation of services to manage, each with its own billing and resources. To promote good practices, make desired outcomes easier to achieve through those practices.
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Drop, Corsair, and Elgato collaborate on themed hardware across CORSAIR brands, tied to major game franchises like Cyberpunk, Witcher, Fallout, DOOM, Call of Duty, and Starfield. The site promotes limited-edition drops, release announcements, and community-inspired designs, showcasing current and past collaborations (e.g., Cyberpunk: Arasaka; Witcher 3: Wild Hunt; DOOM: The Dark Ages; Warzone; Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L.; Discord Stream Deck). Supported by CORSAIR’s family (Elgato, SCUF, Origin PC, Drop, and more).
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Queen ants from the giant African harvester (Messor cephalotes) fetch up to £170 ($220) on the global black market. In Gilgil and Naivasha, Kenya, seasonal swarms are collected for export to Europe and Asia; last year about 5,000 live queens were seized in Naivasha. A Chinese national was arrested at JKIA with 2,000 more. Scientists warn invasive ants could disrupt ecosystems if released, and only a fraction of trade is detected. No ant species is yet CITES-listed. Kenya backs stronger border controls and cabinet-approved guidelines to commercialise the wildlife economy, with community-benefit sharing.
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SideX is a Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code that preserves VSCode’s architecture but replaces Electron with a Rust backend and native webview, aiming for a lightweight editor (~200MB RAM, much smaller install). It’s an early, actively developed release. Core features include the Monaco editor, file explorer, integrated terminal, basic Git, theming, and Open VSX extensions; many workbench features, extension host, debugging, and settings UI are incomplete. Getting started: clone, install dependencies, and run tauri dev; building from source requires Node.js 20+ and Rust. MIT license; contributions welcome.
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Parlor is an on-device, real-time multimodal AI that runs entirely on the user’s machine, enabling natural voice and vision conversations. It uses Gemma 4 E2B for speech/vision understanding and Kokoro for TTS. Interaction occurs in-browser via mic and camera with a FastAPI server and WebSocket streaming; models are downloaded automatically (~2.6 GB) on first run. Requirements: Python 3.12+, macOS with Apple Silicon or Linux GPU (~3 GB RAM). It’s an early, free, self-hosted project for language learning, with public repo code (server.py, tts.py, index.html) under Apache-2.0.
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Describes implementing the Slug algorithm in HarfBuzz GPU to render color fonts (COLRv0/1) at arbitrary scales. Slug computes glyph coverage per pixel in the fragment shader, using preprocessed outline data uploaded to a texture buffer. For single-color glyphs, color is multiplied by coverage. COLRv0 renders layered colored glyphs by drawing multiple glyphs at the same position; COLRv1 handles a render tree with transforms, clipping, gradients, and layer blending via a command sequence interpreted by the fragment shader. Data such as gradients, transforms, and commands are encoded into the texture buffer, enabling crisp, scalable emoji rendering (including in 3D).
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At the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards, themed “hamon: design that resonates,” about 1,500 uncommercialized entries were narrowed to one Grand Prix and three Merit Awards, with winning concepts potentially becoming real products. Grand Prix: Before Note by Hiroki Kannari. Merit Awards: Gram by Takashi Higashide; Notebooks Identified by Edges by Yuji Tsukamoto; Gradience Diary by Mizuki Igarashi & Rara Takizawa. Finalists included Red and White Packing Paper (Tasuku Denno); AWAI (Ryoichi Nakamura); OVERLAP (Yohei Oki); KASUMIORI (Yoshihiro Matsumura); a glimmer of inspiration (Nao Momoishi).
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Case study of recovering a 12 TB multi-device btrfs pool after a hard power cycle corrupted the extent and free-space trees. Native repair failed; btrfs check --repair looped 46,000 commits and destroyed backup_roots. Recovery succeeded using 14 custom C tools built against the internal btrfs-progs API, with 7.2 MB data loss (0.00016%). The pool is now fully functional. The write‑up analyzes environment, timeline, root causes, and 9 improvement areas (A–I) to prevent similar issues, plus a reference implementation with 14 tools and a patch. Tools are GPL-2.0; author seeks feedback rather than upstream patches.
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Trigger.dev replaced Node.js with Bun for Firestarter, a warm-start broker, achieving ~5x throughput. Phase 1 removed SQLite in favor of a composite-key Map, boosting throughput from 2,099 to 4,534 req/s. Phase 2 used Bun.serve() to cut HTTP overhead, reaching 9,434 req/s. Phase 3 profiled hot paths (Zod, headers, logging) and cut ~40% CPU. Phase 4 compiled to a single binary, ~10,700 req/s and image size from 180MB to 68MB. A Bun memory leak from unresolved Promise<Response> on disconnect was fixed by resolving the promise; production stability improved.
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