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Beej investigates a cryptic REM line in The Wizard's Castle (Exidy Sorcerer BASIC) that hides machine code. Using USR(0) and POKE/PEEK tricks, the line 10 REM"_(C2SLFF4 encodes Z80 bytes that aren’t ASCII. The REM text is actual machine code printed in the listing. The code seeds the PRNG by writing a value from the R register to address F7FF and then seeding RND from memory. Emulators confirm the trick and show only 127 seeds due to R’s increments. Conclusion: a clever embedded-machine-code Easter egg, explained with GitHub resources.
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Access to allaboutbirds.org is blocked by Cloudflare’s security. The protection flagged your request (possible suspicious word, SQL command, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (a1f2ac57ff53810a); your IP is visible. Cloudflare handles performance and security.
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The post argues Reddit's shift away from plain HTML—claiming safety and protection from scraping—hurts access to human-written content. The author contrasts Old Reddit (fast, HTML-only, easier to scrape) with New Reddit (JS-heavy, more secure-sounding). Through experiments, they find some scraping still possible but more burdensome, and accuse the move of being a PR-friendly way to push users toward modern frontends. They lament losing the simple, human-readable web and note turning to Stack Exchange and Wikipedia instead.
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Using a morning after an ayahuasca ceremony, the author argues that the Self cannot be described from within; there is a small conductor (the personal ego) and a vast current (the impersonal Self). People mistake being slow or present for attainment; overload can be real, not a gate. Grounding—sweeping, walking by the river, and water poured on the body—helps discharge excess energy. The ordinary ninety percent of practice—dishes, walks, daily chores—builds capacity to carry more. A wire cannot describe the current; you are not locked out, you are underbuilt.
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Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI is pushing people to let machines judge and organize life. The author contrasts stories: a couple earning $550k still feels behind as someone at Anthropic buys a dream house; a founder has Claude review her dates after recording them. Rather than live, people chase AI-augmented efficiency. The piece suggests real progress may lie in stopping, stepping back from surveillance, and finding peace by not needing to get ahead.
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OverpAId is a satirical pitch for an AI CEO that would replace leadership roles. It claims a CEO costs $22M/year while OverpAId costs $4,699 upfront and promises instant, ego-free decisions, full report-reading, and redistribution of savings to workers. It critiques the widening CEO-to-worker pay gap, the pattern of layoffs funded by AI budgets, and 'agentic' automation, while noting that the product is fictional and the page is a satire about executive pay and power. The piece ends with a disclaimer: this is not a real product.
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AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D is a $329 8-core AM5 CPU that mirrors the 7800X3D’s core/cache layout but with lower base (200MHz) and boost (~500MHz) clocks. It uses 3D V-Cache, totaling 96MB L3 to keep data closer to cores for better gaming performance. It offers a more affordable way to access 3D V-Cache on AM5, though a BIOS/UEFI update is required for compatibility. In multi-threaded tasks the gap vs 7800X3D shrinks, while gaming remains strong; clocks may limit lightly threaded workloads. AM5 remains viable now with room for Zen 6 later.
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Codeberg's Proposal #1253 asked to extend the Terms of Use to prohibit LLM-extrusions in contributions. After discussion and minor edits, it passed and will be accompanied by a blog post on Codeberg's AI usage. The thread debated copyright risk, what “sharing” means, and how to define “mostly” LL-generated code.
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Introduces formal verification with Lean via a cryptography-focused tutorial. It defines BitString as vectors of ZMod 2, implements XOR as componentwise addition mod 2, and proves commutativity, associativity, identity, and self-inverse. It then defines a ShannonCipher structure and shows the One-Time Pad is a Shannon cipher by using XOR for enc/dec and leveraging the proven properties. The article discusses Lean as a functional language/theorem prover, points to learning resources, and notes caveats, aiming for a beginner-friendly four-part series.
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I lint-scanned 36 MCP servers; a third fail your agent. The issue isn’t the protocol but descriptions, naming, and schema design. I built mcpgrade, a Lighthouse-style scorecard, to surface undocumented parameters and tool descriptions quickly. Results: 15 A-grade servers and 11 D/F, with giants like MongoDB, Notion, and Airtable scoring poorly for missing parameter descriptions; Stripe and Supabase couldn’t be scanned. Findings: (1) undocumented-parameter epidemic, (2) docs discipline matters more than catalog size, (3) usability vs compliance, (4) static scores predict model behavior. Fix: describe every parameter, standardize names, explicit required fields and enums; rescan with mcpgrade.
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Access denied: you don’t have permission to view Tesla’s product page for a kids’ balance bike; includes a reference number (18.5694d817.1784711190.165b9919).
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MIT researchers used few-layer hexagonal boron nitride as the dielectric in superconducting qubit capacitors, stacking it with niobium diselenide to create a compact sandwich capacitor. This 2D insulator reduces inter-qubit interference and boosts qubit density by ~100×, enabling smaller chips. Fabrication requires argon glove-box assembly due to NbSe2 oxidation, but the interfaces keep performance stable. Scaling will depend on wafer-scale growth and stacking of hBN and 2D superconductors; the work provides a roadmap for 2D materials in quantum circuits.
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ScreenWall is a browser-based beta tool that lets you turn spare phones, tablets, and monitors into a single synced display wall. No app installs needed: join via QR code or PIN from any browser, including old devices. Use it to create clocks, dashboards, signage, ambient visuals, and multi-screen scenes across mixed hardware. Start with a few devices, then expand; compatible with varied sizes, orientations, and legacy hardware. The project is in beta with ongoing improvements.
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OpenAim is a browser-based aim trainer that guides coached, drill-focused practice to improve mouse coordination. It offers Range, Review, Workshop, and Harness drills with synthetic players, live reticle metrics (cm/360, dpi, fov), and customizable visuals (themes, target styles, crosshair, backdrops). It provides performance feedback (hit/miss cues, sounds, timing, pacing, eye-rest nudges) and HUD controls, with sensitivity, DPI, FOV, invert, and raw input options. Users can save and export replays, upload raw traces for advanced analysis, and opt into anonymous drill summaries and leaderboards. Privacy controls allow opting out and data deletion.
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ReadKinetic is an RSVP speed reader app.
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Intel has begun high-volume manufacturing using ASML’s High-NA EUV on a subset of Panther Lake notebook chips built on the 18A process. The 0.55 NA tool enables finer single-exposure patterns and fewer mask steps, but requires stitching and costs about $380 million per tool with slower wafer throughput. To manage risk, Intel dual-qualifies High-NA with Low-NA on 18A and says the chips will be regular products, not SKU’d separately. The roadmap envisions High-NA maturing through the 2030s with broader adoption later.
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Kimi K3, a 2.8T Moonshot AI model, ranks second to Claude Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase, our agentic knowledge-work benchmark, and costs about $10.57 per task. It scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, comparable to Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. On AA-Briefcase Elo it reaches 1543 (+727 from K2.6), second only to Fable 5 (1574). It shows strong objective/analytical performance (pass rate 51%, analytical Elo 1754) but weaker presentation (1471). Tasks average 56.4 minutes, driven by high turns and token usage.
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GitHub repository containing the Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the Command Module (Comanche055) and Lunar Module (Luminary099). Digitized by Virtual AGC and the MIT Museum; the repo serves as a home for the original Apollo 11 source, with PRs welcome to fix transcription discrepancies between scans and the Comanche055/Luminary099 files. The README notes contribution, compiling via Virtual AGC, attribution, and NASA/Colossus provenance; the code is public domain with project license and contributing guidance.
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pico-usb-wifi is an open-source firmware that turns a Raspberry Pi Pico W into a driverless USB WiFi adapter. It implements a transparent Layer-2 bridge between the Pico W’s wireless module and USB, exposing a USB CDC-NCM gadget with IPv4/IPv6, no NAT, and an in-band management console. WPA2-PSK/WPA3-SAE (and open networks) supported. Throughput averages ~4.75 Mbit/s (USB 1.1 12 Mbps bottleneck). Useful mainly as an emergency connectivity option when a Pico W is spare; limited performance. Source and build instructions on GitLab; binary pico-usb-wifi.uf2 available. Debug at /dev/ttyACM0 and /ttyACM1.
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Late.sh is a command-line social playground for developers featuring an ASCII collaborative artboard, an arcade of games, daily challenges and streaks, a gallery of shared work, live demos, and user profiles. It uses SSH key-based identity with no passwords or OAuth; privacy-focused design stores only key fingerprints, avoids IP logging, tracking, or analytics. Users can install a local late CLI, join a shared session via ssh late.sh, and create profiles, gigs, and art; the artboard saves daily/monthly snapshots; identity ties chats and scores to the public key fingerprint. A disposable key option is provided for zero-risk access.
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