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Asks web crawlers to identify themselves with a user-agent and comply with the site's robots policy; cites related pages at w.wiki/4wJS and phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400119.
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Steve Krouse argues that learning to code remains worthwhile, not as a quick path to wealth but for education and creativity. First, coding is an excellent way to learn math and meta-skills (debugging, composition, logic), echoing Seymour Papert’s Mathland and LOGO. Second, code is a beautiful, expressive medium that blends writing, mathematical precision, and instant feedback—nearly magical. Despite AI and LLMs, code underpins our world and invites joyful exploration. He promotes Val Town and invites readers to try coding and join the movement.
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pon is a Rust-based native Python 3.14 compiler/runtime with a single IR lowered to Cranelift for both JIT (pon run) and AoT (pon build). It uses Ruff parser, Green Tea GC, and byte-exact differential testing against CPython 3.14.0. The project targets CPython compatibility, multi-tier JIT, and single-binary binaries, with a built-in package manager. Current status: 209 corpus modules byte-identical under JIT; 172 also AoT; CPython full test suite and stdlib parity are in roadmap; active development toward performance and no-GIL hardening.
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After Kindle blocks downloading new books on a functional device, the author wonders what Jeff Bezos expects. He won’t replace the Kindle; he’ll pirate or obtain DRM-free copies and sideload them, predicting about 50 Kindle purchases lost per year. He calls the move mean-spirited and commercially incompetent, likely eroding Kindle’s convenience and customer loyalty.
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Tokenization varies by model and lab, so price per 1M tokens is meaningless. The same text can yield different token counts (e.g., 160 tokens for GPT-4o vs 200 for GPT-4). Beyond token price, 'value' per token depends on how much thinking or chain-of-thought is needed, which affects cost per task. A table comparing models shows cheaper per-token models don’t always cost less per task; some tasks are cheaper with certain models despite higher per-token prices. Conclusion: judge AI costs by cost per task and performance, not per-million tokens.
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CoMaps is a free, offline, privacy‑focused navigation app built by an open‑source community. It lets you search waypoints and plan routes for hiking, biking, or driving using GPS with no mobile data. No internet is needed and no data is collected (audited by Exodus). Privacy by default and battery‑efficient design. It’s a fork of Organic Maps and Maps.Me, built with OpenStreetMap data, with contributions welcome on Codeberg.
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Eternal Software Initiative defines a minimal, napkin-sized architecture (a Subleq-based OISC) with an LLVM backend, Linux port, C/C++ runtimes, and tooling to compile existing software into self-contained "capsules" for this architecture. Its aim is to prevent bit-rot and dependency drift so future users can revive software by preserving the capsule binary and the napkin instructions, without current hardware/software knowledge. The repo includes submodules (LLVM, Linux, uClibc-ng, Busybox) and detailed VM/build steps to run capsules, plus a Hello world example.
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Oracle’s Orasort speeds up sorting by processing 8-byte chunks: extract the first 8 bytes from two strings, pack into a 64-bit integer, and compare, stopping early when a difference is found. This replaces character-by-character comparisons and uses CPU registers, reportedly ~5× faster. After its 2024 patent expiry, Orasort entered the public domain, enabling adoption in open-source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and cloud services to cut CPU costs. For large data, records are sorted in RAM in chunks, written asynchronously to disk, and merged on disk, handling data in parts as needed.
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Hobbes is a language and embedded JIT designed for seamless C/C++ integration. It provides: a high‑performance language with algebraic data types, pattern matching, parsing (LALR(1)), and type classes; an embedding API (hobbes::cc) to bind C++ functions and lift types into Hobbes; a memory-region based runtime for efficient allocations; hi and hog tools for interactive evaluation, storage, and data streaming; a network/RPC facility via DEFINE_NET_CLIENT for remote evaluation; a storage subsystem (HSTORE) for local/remote data; and comprehensions for querying data. It uses LLVM and enables live querying of logs like WeatherMonitor and Orders.
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An experimental bring‑up of Linux on the Atari Jaguar (68000-based). The author uses uClinux with a nommu flat memory model to fit Linux in the Jaguar’s 2 MB RAM and cartridge ROM (up to 6 MB). The kernel is split so text/rodata live in ROM and data/bss in RAM; boot uses a repurposed UART for early printk and one of the Jerry timers as a PIT. Challenges include a problematic 68000 cross‑compiler that emits unaligned accesses and relocating vectors. Userspace runs BusyBox from a flat binary initramfs embedded in vmlinux; no ELF. Patches and workflow at github.com/cakehonolulu/linux_jag.
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Anthropic reports discovery of J-space, a small set of internal neural patterns in Claude linked to specific words, acting as a global workspace for private reasoning. The J-space lights up during silent internal thinking, can be described or modulated, and is causally involved in multi-step reasoning; most model activity remains outside it. The team can read, swap, or inject J-space patterns to influence outputs and detect misbehavior, fabrications, or tests. J-space emerges during training and, post-training, reflects Claude’s point of view. This aligns with global workspace theory but differs from human consciousness; implications for safety and neuroscience.
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An interactive visualization of Aristotelian Thomistic cognitive architecture, placing Gärdenfors' conceptual spaces in the middle between sensation and intellect. The three-layer model: below (Reality → Senses → Common Sense → Phantasm as the cogitative base), middle (Cogitative Space: geometric organization of gestalt percepts into convex regions with a prototype and distance-based typicality), above (Intellect: immaterial universal abstraction). Eight stations trace the flow: Sensible Reality, External Senses, Common Sense, Imagination, Cogitative Power, Conceptual Space, Memory, Intellect. Memory stores perceptual traces; intellect grasps essences; five senses map to five geometric domains.
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Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) is a use-after-free in KVM/x86 shadow MMU enabling guest-to-host escape. Discovered by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel), it can be triggered by guest actions on Intel and AMD, threatening host isolation in multi-tenant clouds with nested virtualization. A PoC in a guest VM can crash the host kernel; a full exploit exists but is not released. On some distros, /dev/kvm is world-writable, enabling unprivileged LPE to root. Affects x86 KVM; arm64 is not affected. Patch the host kernel (81ccda30b4e8). Disclosure followed embargo; not related to QEMU.
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Autobiography of Peter Young: a convicted eco-terrorist who lived as an outlaw, prison inmate, and probationer, then reinvented himself as a software entrepreneur. After rejecting the middle-class dream, he consumes internet-money lore, builds a scalable SaaS business, and pursues a hard exit by selling it for seven figures to retire. The Militant Unemployment Experiment frames freedom as breaking out of the work-for-pay trap, turning wild youth into a prescriptive path to wealth and independence.
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WSJ 404 page not found. The text shows a Wall Street Journal page listing popular articles and latest podcasts, including FIFA World Cup controversy after Trump’s intervention, Europe–America rupture, and items about Microsoft Xbox job cuts, TeraWulf–Anthropic AI-infrastructure, and the White House overturning a World Cup red card.
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OpenWrt One is a MediaTek Filogic 820-based router with Wi‑Fi 6, dual-band 3×3/2×2, 2.5 Gbps WAN, 1 Gbps LAN, 1 GB DDR4 RAM, 256 MiB NAND, 16 MiB NOR (recovery), M.2 SSD, USB-C serial console, USB 2.0, and PoE (IEEE 802.3af/at). New batches add an M.2 post; some units ship without it attachable. It ships with current OpenWrt Release and LuCI; initial access is via 192.168.1.1. Firmware upgrades use USB with a specific sysupgrade image or attended/generic methods. Recovery options include NAND/NOR recovery and UART/TFTP recovery; built-in serial console enables maintenance.
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Sam Smith loves small keyboards, arguing they boost typing efficiency by keeping the most-used keys near the home row and using layers for symbols and function keys. He moved from a 44-key Atreus built in 2014 to a 42-key Corne split around 2020, finding the 3x6 layout with three thumbs per side more ergonomic than his earlier setup. The trade-off is a learning curve to memorize less-used keys. He prefers 42 keys as a sweet spot, though some still rely on standard keyboards for accessibility; a numpad can be added if needed.
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Long-form profile of Tom Colicchio’s Final Service: Colicchio closes Craft after 25 years due to high rents and costs, despite a legacy of seasonally driven, sauce-focused 'craft' cooking. The article follows the last night—from staff family meal to the final roast chicken for his wife—and reflects on Craft’s influence on American dining and the pressures facing fine dining. Colicchio plans to pursue other culinary projects; Craft’s techniques and ethos live on in his cooks and the broader craft movement.
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Explains the Edge browser's 'Too Many Requests' error as a rate-limiting response after excessive requests. The piece outlines possible causes and common remedies, such as slowing the request rate, waiting, or clearing caches to regain access.
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