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Humans misread probabilities, which creates stress from low odds in college admissions, sports, investments, and more. Yet probability isn’t the whole story: passion and purpose often drive humanity’s greatest achievements, even when odds look irrational. The piece argues we should understand probabilities to keep perspective, but not let them derail pursuits we love. If the pursuit matters as much as the outcome, chase it; if it’s only for status or promised results, disappointment follows. Celebrate those who pursue dreams despite the odds.
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Tech CEOs chase friction-free experiences, guided by Tesler’s Law that effort must reside in the system or the user. Generative AI tempts founders to ‘one-click’ their companies by automating away the workforce. But this misframes the problem: solving human needs is the hardest software task, and complexity can’t be eliminated—only conserved—so outsourcing to large language models creates an endless regress. A business cannot optimize away its internal people while serving external users; tech workers are costly and contentious, so the socio-technical system requires real human design and deliberation.
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RTK promises huge token savings with the same AI at a fraction of the cost, but the article says this is a vanity metric and risky. The claimed 60–90% savings cover only stripped terminal output, ignoring heavy costs like file reads, repository contexts, system prompts, and the model’s internal reasoning. Silent failures can occur: compression may mangle output and the agent won’t know. There are no task-success benchmarks; token cuts may degrade accuracy. It’s a fragile feature, not a product, dependent on brittle parsing and ongoing tool churn. Native solutions could erase its advantage. Verdict: high risk until reliability and benchmarks are proven.
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An HTTP 405 Not Allowed error from a Varnish cache server, with internal cache identifiers.
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Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi, the author moves from symlinks across Macs to a tracked source of truth at ~/.local/share/chezmoi. Stow caused drift and bootstrapping headaches; chezmoi mirrors real paths as dot_ prefixed files (with .tmpl and private_ prefixes) and applies them to home directory, keeping repo the truth. Edits stay in the source and are pushed. Use via chezmoi edit/--apply and chezmoi add to import changes. Bootstrapping installs chezmoi, runs init --apply with machineName, and uses .chezmoiscripts for pre/post steps and Brewfile checks. Agent skills live under dot_agents/skills and symlink to ~/.agents/skills for consistency.
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Google DeepMind outlines AI Control Roadmap to secure internal AI agents, using defense-in-depth combining sandboxing, endpoint security, and prompt-injection resistance, with model alignment as primary defense. Treat unaligned agents as insider threats using MITRE ATT&CK for threat modelling. Use monitoring by trusted supervisors to detect and block misaligned actions, with metrics coverage, recall, and time-to-response. Scale defenses as capabilities grow, with D1-D4 detection and R1-R3 prevention levels. They piloted asynchronous monitoring on a million agent trajectories; most flags due to misinterpretation or eagerness. They publish Three Layers of Agent Security for policymakers and call for industry collaboration.
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An informal history of how the author ended up using Emacs as their main editor. Starting in 2008 with PHP, they wrote with Word, then Notepad, Notepad++, and later SciTE, Eclipse, and Sublime Text. A detour through Le Site du Zéro opened many languages, inspiring experimentation with Brainfuck interpreters. Emacs on Windows offered broad language modes and solid support, though PATH confusion delayed setup. Moving to Linux in 2014, the author settled into a long Emacs habit, built a personal configuration and package, and occasional forays into other editors, but always returns to Emacs. Pragmatic, not political.
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Ferriss argues most people ignore advice because they lack a Harajuku Moment—an epiphany that makes change non-negotiable. He cites Chad Fowler’s 70-pound weight loss, showing how a powerful motive, rough but directional data, and simple, repeatable steps can beat perfection. Key tactics: early breakfast, multiple small meals, a weekly meal plan instead of counting every calorie, use of a heart-rate monitor and a desk bike to stay in the fat-burning zone, and a trainer for guidance. The takeaway: you don’t need more how-to info; you need a painful reckoning and small, compounding actions that lock in behavior.
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Gerrymandle is a daily puzzle in which you draw equal-sized, connected districts by selecting adjacent map tiles; every tile with a house must be assigned and you win districts by having more houses than opponents. If tied, no one wins. A hint feature helps. The game explains gerrymandering—packing opponents into few districts and cracking their voters across many—to convert votes into seats. It traces the term to Elbridge Gerry (1812), notes harms, court rulings, and ongoing mid-decade redistricting (e.g., Texas 2025, California).
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LLM Wiki is an MIT-licensed framework that turns any LLM agent into a parallel, thesis-driven research engine and knowledge base. It ingests URLs/files, runs agents in parallel, and compiles sources into topic wikis (concepts, topics, references) with cross-links and confidence scores. It preserves provenance, archives topics, tracks inventory, datasets, and outputs; stores redacted session memory under HUB/.sessions/ for rehydration without transcripts. Data lives at ~/wiki (hub-path configurable); Obsidian-compatible structure and cross-wiki links. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, and other agents via a wiki-manager skill and AGENTS.md. Commands: /wiki and subcommands for ingest, research, query, audit, output, plan, lint.
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TerraPower and Meta signed a deal to build up to eight Natrium 345 MW fast reactors with integrated energy storage to power Meta data centers, delivering up to 2.8 GW baseload (4 GW with storage) at twin-reactor sites. Initial dual units could come online by 2032; eight reactors would cost about $17 billion. Meta funds deployment; sites and grid-connection details pending. The program relies on secure HALEU fuel, with TerraPower/DOE planning a Natrium Fuel Facility in Wilmington and related HALEU supply agreements. The post also notes concurrent nuclear projects (Oklo, Terrestrial Energy, ZettaJoule) and Vistra PPAs with Meta.
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remote-df is a GitHub project that runs Dwarf Fortress inside a Docker container on a remote x86-64 Linux host and streams the game to a web browser via noVNC, with audio through Icecast. It supports Classic and Steam editions, saves/backups mounted on the host, auto-pause when idle, health checks, and resource limits. Deployment uses Docker Compose and SSH tunneling; you deploy on the remote, then connect from your browser to http://localhost:6080. Configuration is via environment variables (DF_VERSION, GEOM, WEB_PORT, DF_SAVES_DIR, etc.).
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A hand-picked directory of website submission sites to help startups, products, and businesses gain backlinks and improve visibility across search engines and AI systems. The page groups sites by categories such as Launch Platforms, Startup Directories, SaaS and AI Tool Directories, design galleries, and more, and lists each entry with its domain rating (DR), submission type (dofollow/nofollow), and pricing (free/freemium/paid). Notable entries include Medium, Crunchbase, Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Slashdot, G2, Awwwards, Capterra, Dev.to, AlternativeTo, and many niche tooling directories.
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The post praises Windows 2000 UI for clarity and consistency: a clean background, clearly labeled icons, a sunken Start button with tooltips, persistent scrollbars, and a tree-based Explorer. It highlights WordPad’s distinct colors, consistent frames and tabs in settings, and reliable performance on very old hardware with offline activation. It contrasts this with later “New Style” UIs that strip interactive cues, arguing for retaining tangible visual hints, 3D relief, and real-world metaphors in UI design.
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Switzerland’s 2026 summer session saw Parliament approve a counterproposal to lift the ban on constructing new nuclear power plants, effectively allowing new reactors. The National Council voted 100–98; the final decision will rest with voters in a referendum, after the Council of States rejected sending the issue back for financing clarification. The session also debated financing the 13th AHV pension (VAT increase vs mixed funding), the Mercosur trade pact, Sunday sales expansion, and other items, with debates continuing through June 19.
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Image Toolbox by T8RIN is an open-source Android image-editing app built in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose. It offers 310+ filters and tools: crop, draw, color adjustments, HDR/tonemapping, background removal, OCR, document scanning, image stitching/stacking, collages, GIF/JPEG/JXL/AVIF/HEIF support, batch processing, and AI-based enhancements (upsampling, denoising, colorization, inpainting) using MLKit, ONNX, U2Net, etc. It includes extensive export options, EXIF editing, PDF tools, and a large filter/LUT ecosystem; configurable UI themes, custom fonts, and modular architecture. Licensed Apache-2.0, open-source with architecture docs and wiki.
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Alberta remains rat-free for over seven decades, achieved by a targeted, persistent program rather than broad eradication. In 1950, after Norway rats reached the eastern border, Alberta created a Rat Control Zone—a 600×29 km buffer along Saskatchewan—to intercept incursions before they could spread. A surveillance state followed: border inspections, pest officers in border municipalities, public reporting campaigns, and aggressive enforcement. Initial arsenic-based poisoning gave way to warfarin baits in the 1950s, paired with oats and sugar for palatability. Ongoing cross-border coordination with Saskatchewan and regular monitoring keep rat populations from establishing, with annual costs modest.
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TesterArmy is an AI-powered QA service that runs real-browser end-to-end tests for web and mobile apps. Users describe what to test in plain English, and an AI agent navigates, fills forms, handles OAuth/OTP, and verifies results without any test code or SDKs. It integrates with GitHub, CI/CD, and webhooks for PR checks and production monitoring. It delivers screenshots, recordings, and actionable bug reports via dashboard, CLI, or PR, and supports free trials. It emphasizes visual checks, persistent memory, and encrypted credentials.
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ENAS is a license-free, ZFS-based Enterprise NAS that pairs high-performance hardware (8 Arm Neoverse N2 cores, 64 GB ECC, dual NVMe cache) with ZFS, delivering scalable storage and reliability. It features 16 drive bays expandable beyond 1 PB raw storage, open-drive compatibility, and dual 25 GbE ports with redundant PSU. Integrated with UniFi for centralized file/backup management, identity-based access, RBAC, and seamless access via UniFi Endpoint. Native iSCSI shared storage for virtualization (Proxmox/VMware/Hyper-V). Multi-site backup orchestration and offsite/cloud backups coming soon.
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