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Molly guard is a term for safety covers or design elements that prevent pressing a significant button. Named after Molly, who pressed a big red button in a datacenter, they appear in hardware (recessed buttons, ridges, SIM eject holes) and software (Are you sure? dialogs; Ctrl+Alt+Del as guards). The piece also notes reverse molly guards—auto-presses after inactivity. It ends with a programmer’s lament about machines that wait for hours for a decision.
AI won’t eliminate work, Kellogg argues. Through auto-industry disruption analogies and Luddite history, he says knowledge workers are easier to redeploy than factory workers, and, due to Jevons paradox, there will always be more work to do. Focus and prudent prioritization are key. The future will spawn roles around using AI to automate and manage work, not just create content. His guidance: aggressively learn AI, understand business outcomes, and steer projects. Copywriters, for example, should master AI to generate, manage, and personalize content at scale.
Dr. Drang investigates coincidences among Lent, Ramadan, Ash Wednesday, and Chinese New Year. He ports Calendrical Calculations from Emacs Lisp to Common Lisp, fixes a packaging issue in calendar.lisp, and writes two scripts (ramadan-lent and ramadan-lent-new-year) to find dates when Ramadan 1 aligns with Ash Wednesday (and with Chinese New Year) over 500 Islamic years. Results include dates such as 1799-02-06, 1830-02-24, 1928-02-22, 2026-02-18, 2124-02-16, 2222-02-13. A triple coincidence hadn’t occurred in 227 years; next in 98 years. More calendar explorations planned.
GitHub repo for LinuxByExample-2e contains the code from "Linux Application Development By Example – The Fundamental APIs" by Arnold Robbins (copyright 2004, 2026). The Documents directory holds licenses and errata; other directories store the chapter-by-chapter example programs. Issues or mistakes can be reported by opening an issue. Last updated: Oct 10, 2025. The page also shows standard GitHub UI elements and lacks a separate project description.
RedGridLink is an open-source offline MGRS navigation app for 2–8 people with no cell service, using BLE/WiFi Direct for zero-config team syncing. It offers MGRS-native navigation with a Kalman-filtered position, offline maps, 11 tools, AAR export, ghost markers, and auto-reconnect across four modes. Security: AES-256-GCM with ephemeral keys; no servers or accounts. Free features; paid Pro, Pro+Link, Team, and Lifetime plans. Roadmap covers V1.0–V4.0. Build from source with Flutter; MIT + Commons Clause license.
Epoch AI’s FAQ surveys 18 RL-environment startups, neolabs, and frontier labs to map the emerging market for environments and tasks used to train frontier models. Key trends: RL environments are central to training progress; enterprise workflows (e.g., navigating CRM, filing reports, spreadsheets) are expanding beyond math/code; reward hacking and grading robustness are top quality concerns; scaling task creation while preserving quality is the main bottleneck. Costs vary widely (roughly $200–$2,000 per task; exclusive deals cost 4–5x more). Domains spotlight coding and enterprise tasks, with growing interest in longer-horizon, multi-turn tasks.
Ghostling is a minimal, single-file demo terminal emulator built on libghostty’s C API (Raylib for windowing) to showcase core terminal emulation. It provides resize with text reflow, 24‑bit color and 256‑color palettes, bold/italic/inverse styles, Unicode handling, keyboard and mouse input, scrolling, and focus reporting. It uses libghostty-vt for VT parsing and terminal state; the consumer supplies rendering. Not a full-featured terminal: no tabs, multiple windows, or GUI. Coming: Kitty Graphics Protocol, OSC clipboard, and title support; build with CMake, Zig, and Raylib fetch.
Shadow Fleet Tracker Light is an open-source Baltic Sea shadow fleet tracker that monitors 1200+ vessels via live AIS without cloud or subscriptions. It correlates data against the Ukrainian GUR War&Sanctions catalogue, plots positions on a local map, flags cable proximity (10 km), loitering, and Russia↔West transshipment patterns. It runs locally (Python), logs to SQLite, and serves a FastAPI dashboard. Requires AISStream API key (and optional OpenSanctions). No external server; supports GPX export and deep links to MarineTraffic/VesselFinder.
Fortransky is a terminal Bluesky/AT Protocol client built in Fortran, with a Rust-native firehose decoder for the relay-raw stream. It uses a Fortran TUI backed by a C shim and a Rust staticlib to decode envelope data (CAR → DAG-CBOR → JSONL). Features include login with an app password, multiple views (home, author feed, notifications, profile), compose, search, and threads; two stream modes (jetstream and relay-raw). Build requires gfortran, cmake, libcurl, and Rust; Python deps required for relay-raw fixtures. Session saved at ~/.fortransky/session.json.
OpenUI rewrote their Rust WASM parser in TypeScript after finding WASM-JS boundary overhead dominated performance. They first tried returning a JS object via serde-wasm-bindgen (slower than a JSON round-trip) and then ported full six-stage pipeline to TS, removing the boundary but facing O(N²) streaming. Their fix: statement-level incremental caching to avoid re-parsing completed statements across chunks. Results: TS one-shot parses ~9–19 µs; full-stream total parse cost drops from 316–840 µs (naïve) to 122–255 µs with incremental parsing, yielding 2.6x–3.3x streaming savings. Conclusion: boundary overhead, not language, limits parsing; algorithmic optimizations matter more; WASM is best for compute-bound tasks.
Researchers analyzed 333,000 US veterans with type 2 diabetes and found stopping GLP-1 drugs raises heart attack and stroke risk, increasing the longer users are off—up to 22% after two years. Stopping triggers rebound in inflammation, blood pressure, and cholesterol; restarting offers only partial protection (12% reduction) versus continuous use (18%). GLP-1 benefits accumulate but fade quickly without ongoing treatment. About half quit early; experts urge prioritizing adherence and long-term plans.
Postgres memory is surprising: work_mem is memory per hash/sort operation, not per backend, and memory is freed only when the executor context ends. In a reproduced case, 524,059 chunks allocated inside one ExecutorState caused ~557 MB per backend with work_mem=2MB; in production a single query could hit 2 TB RAM and trigger OOM. The root cause: a long-lived context created by a plpgsql function used in a join kept allocations alive. No hard per-backend cap exists. Mitigations: run ANALYZE and CREATE STATISTICS for correlations, fix the query, set statement_timeout, and monitor with pg_log_backend_memory_contexts to diagnose before OOM.
NumKong is Ash Vardanian’s open‑source release of 2,000+ SIMD kernels for mixed‑precision numerics, across 7 languages and architectures (RISC‑V RVV; Intel AMX; x86 AVX‑512/AVX2; Arm SME/SVE; WebAssembly Relaxed SIMD (5 MB bundle)). It spans from Float118 to Float4, including native int4/int8 nibble types, and Zero‑copy tensor buffers. Built to accelerate USearch/Unum’s vector search with tiled multiply‑accumulate, packed GEMMs, and epilogue fusion (norms, distances, maxsim, ColBERT‑style scoring). It emphasizes correctness, portability, and UX, supports browser WASM, and includes benchmarks and kernel design patterns across backends.
A desktop-optimized demo (1000px+) inviting users to request early access for a modern work email designed for the new generation.
An overview of chopstick gaffes in Japan (kiraibashi), presented as a glossary arranged by Japanese syllabary. It lists dozens of taboos with brief explanations, such as raising chopsticks above the mouth, cleaning them in soup, passing food between chopsticks (serious), standing chopsticks upright in rice (serious funeral cue), pointing or poking with chopsticks, stabbing, biting, or licking them, and using them as a knife or spoon. The piece highlights etiquette to avoid when dining in Japan.
Jason Fried argues there isn’t a coming bespoke software revolution—custom software already exists and is often bloated and misaligned with clients' needs. Most firms want to remove pain and save time, not design and maintain new systems. AI will help automate and optimize, but few will become long-term builders; having tools doesn't make everyone a developer. Only those already inclined to software will create deep custom solutions.
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