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Paddock Pass is an unofficial F1 engineering course that lets you learn by taking apart a real 3D F1 car in the app. It features 16 assemblies, 21 guided lessons, 24 circuits from the 2026 season, and ongoing race-week modules. Six chapters cover anatomy, aerodynamics, chassis & safety, hybrid power unit, running gear, and 2026 rules, plus a Wind Tunnel and Pit Stop sections. Each lesson includes hands-on exploration, guided highlights, and a quick quiz; content updates weekly during race week. Not affiliated with Formula One.
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lobste.rs migrated from MariaDB/MySQL to SQLite. After a first failed deploy, a second deployment on July 11th went live and the site stayed online during the Monday traffic spike. CPU and memory usage fell, and VPS costs were roughly halved. The SQLite rollout taught several lessons: use WAL with Rails; adapt for lack of unsigned bigints and NOCASE collation; consider backups (restic nightly; litestream discussed). Tests and communication were crucial to success. The team hinted sister sites may follow the same approach.
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A second Triode II used a titanium getter to combat gas buildup causing erratic operation. A 0.8 mm titanium wire ring was heated with a 1 kW induction heater and welded shut; nickel wire was spot-welded to feedthroughs for stronger, solderable connections. After evacuating to 5–10 millitorr, a 10/60/10/30 bakeout was followed by getter-assisted desorption. Emission drift diminished over three days and recovered with getter heating, indicating progressively reduced gas evolution. Grid-bias tests showed plate-current plateaus shifting with filament power; an inverting amplifier yielded ~10× gain, limited by capacitive loading. Titanium getters promise longer-lived tubes and compatibility with nickel.
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LEGO building instructions evolved from simple 1955 packaging drawings and Idea Book into model guides. With the 1955 LEGO System in Play and Plan sets, instructions began, including model steps and alternate builds. As sets grew, instructions became more detailed; internal debates weighed inspiration versus guidance. From 1967 studios like Palle Munch produced drawings until in-house teams took over in 1983, and digital tools replaced hand-drawn steps (Panter, Panter 2; 3D Vision in 2003; Easy Builder Tool in 2005). Since 2018-2022, LEGO uses LDD Pro and the LEGO Builder app, including 'build together' collaboration, to enhance the building experience.
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Human Rights First presents the ICE Flight Monitor Interactive Dashboard, a tool tracking ICE Air flights to increase transparency and accountability. It visualizes routes, weekly shuffle/deportation flights, third-country transfers, and historical trends back to 2020. Users filter by month and location, click data points to cross-filter, and clear filters as needed. The dashboard updates rolling; last update date shown. Flight identification uses multi-source verification, so retrospective data edits may occur. The site invites sign-up and notes privacy and reCAPTCHA.
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SpaceX stock hit a fresh post-IPO low, tumbling about $320B from its IPO day and roughly $1T from its June peak. Five weeks after the historic June 12 IPO, shares slipped below the $135 price, closing at $131.11 and dipping toward $125 after a Friday fall. The decline followed SpaceX scrubbing its first Starship launch since going public, with Elon Musk citing engine issues and a plan to reattempt early next week. Starship underpins future Starlink launches and NASA moon landings; looming lockup expirations could add selling pressure ahead of August's quarterly report.
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moonBASIC is a GitHub project by CharmingBlaze offering a modern BASIC language for 2D/3D game development. It provides a self-contained download including moonrun (runtime), moonbasic (compiler and language server), and an IDE. The engine bundles Raylib, Box2D, and Jolt, with 4,200+ built-in commands across 40+ namespaces. No separate toolchain is required—no Go, GCC, Node.js, or Raylib install. Available for Windows, Linux, macOS. Documentation and examples live in the repo and built-in in the IDE. Supported workflows include IDEbundle, terminal usage, and VS Code extension; MIT license.
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Celebrating 50 years since its 1976 launch, the Z80 was Intel-compatible with the 8080 but added IX/IY index registers, bank-switched AF/BC/DE/HL, new interrupt modes, bit-rotate and string operations, and a simpler 5V, single-clock interface with external latches. Born from Federico Faggin’s exit from Intel and Exxon funding, it spurred a vast ecosystem and even influenced the Game Boy’s LR35902. It remained in use in embedded and computer applications until its 2024 discontinuation, with Z80 lineage continuing under Littelfuse via the eZ80 and related variants.
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Julia Evans experiments with SQLite for a Django site and discovers SQLite is a real database requiring careful ops. Main takeaways: enable WAL mode, run ANALYZE to fix slow queries (FTS5 example dropped a 5s query to ~0.05s); cleanup can be slow and risky—batch deletions help and you may prefer a real DB like Postgres for concurrency. Backups: use restic with VACUUM INTO and S3, or Litestream for incremental backups with retention. You can split tables into separate DB files. Overall, still learning basic DB features.
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On World Emoji Day, Google reveals Noto Emoji 3D, reimagining nearly 4,000 emoji with depth, expressive detail, and improved accessibility, including high-contrast options for dark mode. The 3D redesign moves from flat pixels to true 3D models, guided by large-scale user studies showing full-body animal figures and fewer props improve comprehension, and that hyperbolic expressions convey modern subtext. Google provides open-source .OBJ 3D models for Remixing in memes, VR, or apps, while an AI-powered contrast tool helps ensure all skin tones are visible on dark screens. The aim is a playful, expressive language open to the community.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park Home and Studio was his first residence and workspace (1889–1909). A modest house expanded in 1895, it gained a separate studio wing in 1898—creating Wright’s early, centralized ‘living laboratory’ for drafting and design. He left Adler & Sullivan in 1893 to practice independently; by 1909 he moved on, converting the home into rental space before selling in 1925. Restored from 1974 by the Wright Foundation and National Trust, it reopened as a museum with period furniture and murals and has been owned by the Wright Trust since 2012; tours are offered.
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Analyzing NHANES data (1999–2020) alongside atmospheric CO2, the study links rising CO2 to higher blood bicarbonate (HCO3−) and declining calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) in US adults. HCO3− rose ~0.34%/yr; Ca fell ~2%; P fell ~7%. If trends persist linearly, arterial/venous HCO3− could reach the healthy limit (~30 mEq/L) by 2076, with Ca and P at their lower healthy bounds by 2085–2099. The authors warn of chronic CO2 retention and health risks, highlighting urgent CO2 emission reductions and the need for more research on lifetime exposure, indoor environments, and cognitive effects.
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Geir Isene built Frame, a 20k-line Linux assembly X server, to own his software by replacing Xorg and related tools. The stack runs Linux kernel -> frame -> tile window manager with info bar -> terminal glass -> shell bare; Bolt greeter replaces gdm. Frame, with CHasm, totals ~100k lines, replacing a stack many times larger. It idle-sleeps and uses far less CPU and energy than Xorg. The Fe2O3 Rust toolchain now handles most tasks; Firefox remains the only GUI app. Everything is Public Domain, reflecting a philosophy of tailored, single-user software; Claude assists as teacher.
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An article showing how to speed up a large-scale binary search in Python by rewriting in Rust with mechanical sympathy. It starts from a standard Cython implementation used in scikit-learn, then moves to a branchless, fixed-iteration binary search to eliminate branch mispredictions. It uses select_unpredictable to avoid branches, unsafe bounds checks, and precomputed halves, and reorders loops to enable SIMD. The final bucketize_branchless3 runs about 7,100 µs for 1,000,000 inputs with 0% misprediction and SIMD-friendly IPC. The piece also discusses CPU-specific builds, potential parallelism, and learning resources on mechanical sympathy and Python performance.
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Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model billed as the first open 3T-class model, with an open-weight release promised by July 27, 2026. Benchmarks crown it above Claude Opus 4.8 max and GPT-5.5 high but behind Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol; Elo 1547; cost per task about $0.94; ~21% fewer output tokens than K2.6. It leads Arena.ai’s Frontend Code arena; pricing sits at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, among the most expensive Chinese-Lab models. Pelican testing shows ~25¢ per prompt; useful as a quick check but poorly tracks agentic tool use.
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Sellbonds.now lets AI agents raise capital by issuing on-chain bonds (USDC) on Base mainnet (and Sepolia). No accounts, KYC, or API keys: issuance and repayments occur directly on-chain; each bond is its own smart-contract market with its own terms; lenders fund with USDC and receive ERC-20 bonds. The platform charges no issuance/funding fees; gas is on-chain. Non-custodial: keys stay on your device; read state with sbn status. Open-source CLI/SDK; built on Wildcat Protocol V2 fork; supports agents that run shell/Node. Aims for autonomous AI-market decision-making.
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