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Galena, Kansas, earned its name from galena lead ore, sparking a mining boom after lead was found in 1877. It formed part of the tri-state mining area (MO-KS-OK) and at its peak boasted 30,000 residents. The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (The Katy) carried workers and ore, but mining faded by the 1970s and closures followed; freight service ended by the mid-1980s. The decommissioned depot was moved to Route 66 in 1983 and reopened as the Galena Mining & Historical Museum in 1984, preserving mining life, photos, and ephemera. Today the town has under 3,000 residents along Kansas' 13.2-mile Route 66.
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AccessLumens’ July 2026 study scanned 221 large US city sites post-ADA Title II deadline. Of 158 scored cities, 42% had a critical barrier; average 93/100; 11 perfect; 58% with no critical barrier; 23% blocked automated audits. Platform mattered: CivicPlus 72% barrier vs Granicus/Vision/OpenCities 24%; WordPress 38%; Drupal 45%; Municode 47%. Most common failures: 4.1.2 Name/Role/Value (45%), 1.4.3 Contrast (28%), 1.1.1 Alt text (22%), 2.1.1 Keyboard (11%). Action: audit now; fix CMS/templates; test critical transaction pages; run free WCAG 2.2 + keyboard scan.
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Git will endure but must evolve to support AI agents as primary coders. Repositories should store session logs—prompts, tool calls, checkpoints, decisions—as a semantic memory layer that preserves intent, provenance, and context, boosting accuracy and review speed. To scale with fleets of agents, hosting must be decentralized, avoiding single-server bottlenecks and enabling in-region data residency. The “orchestra of agents” will keep Git as the truth, coordinating human and agent work across a distributed network. New offerings like Entire aim to mirror repos, support session-based tracing (entire blame), and accelerate agent-enabled development.
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Promotion and UI text for “18 Words - Daily Word Challenge,” inviting players to play, reveal letters, pause/resume/restart, share scores, challenge friends, practice again, view archives, and provide feedback.
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Five interlinked systems—climate computer, building management, heat pump, gas boiler, and sensors—don’t talk to each other, so the boiler ran when the heat pump failed offline. The deeper issue is building data is owned by vendors, siloed, and hard for non-engineers to access. Three shifts make it solvable: EU Data Act (since 2025) gives rights to machine-readable data; equipment must expose data by default (2026); open platforms like Home Assistant let you own and use your data, with plain-language AI interfaces (Model Context Protocol) to query it. Start by inventorying systems and requesting access.
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Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer Gaynor Hopkins of Skewen, rose after talent scout Roger Bell discovered her. RCA urged a name change from Sherene Davies. Her UK hit 'Lost in France' (1976) led to fame, and 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' (1983) became a smash, making her the first Welsh artist to top the US chart. Her career included 'Holding Out for a Hero' and 'It's a Heartache.' She represented the UK at Eurovision 2013, received an MBE in 2023, published an autobiography, and died aged 75 after emergency surgery in Portugal; she and husband Robert Sullivan had no children.
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Overview of The Field Equation, a living shader geometry project with 310+ Three.js scenes. The single field wanders between geometries, with interactive controls (drag to pan, scroll zoom, animate palette, symmetry) and landmarks such as Discs, Truchet, Capsules, Corridor, and more. Includes works like Argent Leviathan, Quiet Scales, Babel Basilica, Clockwork Mosaic, Monoliths, Verdant City, and Organism, all exploring geometric variation.
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EU Parliament approves Chat Control 1.0, allowing suspicionless mass scanning of private chats until 2028 after 314 opposed, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions; the motion to reject failed to reach the absolute majority (361). Encryption exemption adopted symbolically, though providers rarely scan encrypted messages. Negotiations for a permanent CSAM rule (Chat Control 2.0) resume in September; core dispute remains indiscriminate vs targeted scanning. Changes: US platforms may scan direct messages without warrants; end-to-end encrypted chats remain exempt; public posts and cloud storage scanned; user reports and court-ordered taps stay. Breyer calls it undemocratic and harmful to children.
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Andrew Kelley critiques Bun's Rust rewrite and Jarred’s shift from open-source collaboration to VC-backed startup management. He alleges Bun's Zig-era code suffered hacks, poor testing, and weak communication, making Bun a net liability for Zig Software Foundation as Anthropic’s acquisition dissolved donations. He praises the Rust rewrite but questions the blog’s marketing claims, noting the team did not fuzz Zig code and citing concerns about comptime abuse and missing compile-time measurements. He is grateful for Zig donations and dismisses personal animus, only glad their business ties are over.
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Meta reuses decommissioned RAM in new servers by using a custom CXL chip, Vistara, and software to detach older DIMMs from memory channels so they can run alongside new memory. This mitigates rising RAM costs and shortages, with about 40% of Meta’s servers memory-limited and a surplus of older DIMMs. Performance remains acceptable compared to directly inserting old RAM into new servers, and the approach is detailed in the paper "Vistara: Making CXL Real."
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Bittle X robot project interface with navigation and file options, compile and asset-loading status, reset, mode and keyboard hints (WASD), recovery/stand commands, and a real-time rate display at 1.0.
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Even as GitHub remains dominant, a growing number of developers are migrating to Codeberg or self-hosted options due to outages, concerns over Microsoft's ownership, and debates over AI like Copilot and politics. High-profile exits include Ghostty and Zig; others (Tenacity, Dillo, Hare) moved or mirror on GitHub. Some projects and groups, including GNOME and Apache, already host themselves. Alternatives include Codeberg, GitLab (self-hosting), Bitbucket, Sourcehut, Gitea/Forgejo, and movements like the Software Freedom Conservancy advocating leaving GitHub.
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David Tracy chronicles building the world’s first brand-new WWII Willys MB in his LA driveway, using mostly eBay-sourced parts for a 900‑mile Moab road trip. The Autopian partnered with eBay Motors, sourcing a Manila-made body and frame from MD Juan and a Go-Devil engine from France, aiming for 75% new parts and 90% from eBay. He recruited three wizkids—Brandon Girmus, Étienne Boisseau—and later Laurence for 20 days. After months of wrenching, setbacks (lifters, vapor lock, brakes, cooling), the Jeep finally ran and conquered off-road trails, proving The Autopian’s community-driven mission.
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Vanguard-Map is a real-time 3D browser map of global moving assets—live ships (AIS), aircraft, satellites, submarine cables, and space weather—plus terrain and ocean simulation. It offers time scrubbing, scenario replay, and physics-based anomaly detection via invariants, rendered on a 1.5M-point terrain cloud. Built with Three.js as plain ES modules (no build step). Run by cloning the repo, serving the folder (npx serve . or python -m http.server 3000), then loading a local or live AIS key (aisstream.io); optional Cesium ion token for high-res terrain and a local flight proxy for flights. Architecture uses per-domain managers and vg1:* events.
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CollectWise, a YC-backed startup using AI to automate debt collection, is hiring a Founding Account Executive (NYC/remote) with $300k-$375k OTE and 0.10%-0.50% equity. You’ll own the sales funnel, run 8–12 demos per day, build pipeline, and close large ARR deals while shaping a repeatable sales playbook. Requirements: 3+ years frontline enterprise B2B sales with a history of consistently exceeding quota, experience scaling from ~$1M to $10M+ in revenue, startup/high-growth background, and ROI-driven, consultative selling. Bonus for ARM/debt-collection or selling to banks/collections. Benefits include leadership access, equity, and direct influence as CollectWise targets $10M ARR; founded 2024, team of 8, NYC.
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pgrust is a Postgres rewrite in Rust that now passes 100% of Postgres’s regression tests, targeting Postgres 18.3 and booting from a 18.3 data directory. It aims to keep Postgres behavior while exploring deeper server changes with Rust and AI-assisted development. It’s not production-ready or optimized yet; some extensions (e.g., PL/Python, PL/Perl, PL/Tcl) aren’t fully compatible. The repo includes Docker and build-from-source instructions, a regression runner, and a roadmap for multithreaded internals, connection pooling, JSON workloads, and faster forking. License: AGPL-3.0.
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AI slop starts with the codebase itself. AI code quality depends on the model’s training data and the codebase context. Common tech stacks give the model leverage; proprietary or inconsistent code requires extra teaching within a limited context window, increasing cost and lowering quality. Compare: (1) clear specs and a consistent codebase → fast, accurate implementation; (2) inconsistent, legacy code with extra docs → more inference, slower, pricier results. A rewrite to establish clear, consistent patterns can amplify AI’s strengths, changing rewrite economics by reducing teaching time and boosting output quality.
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AI’s data-center boom hinges on delivering electricity, not just generating it. Stargate campuses demand about 1.2 GW peak, and worldwide AI compute could reach 100 GW by 2030 if growth stays strong. The bottleneck is grid interconnection: backlogs, rigid first-come, first-served rules, and costly restudies. Median interconnection time rose from under 20 months in 2005 to about 55 months in 2023. Reforms: cluster studies, cost-sharing for backbone upgrades, and auction-based fast-tracks; encourage energy-only service (connect-and-manage) and demand response; plus on-site batteries to ease grid strain. Flexibility in grid design, not just generation, powers the AI era.
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