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Nick Maggiulli contends the upper middle class is caught in a trap: paying more for smaller gains as prices rise for private schools, premium travel, and housing. Bidding wars reduce long‑term returns by about 6.9% annually, while demand for elite colleges has surged since 2015 with lower acceptance rates, pushing costs up faster than inflation. AI intensifies the race, widening productivity gaps and making it harder to escape. The recommended exit is to opt out: use good public schools, fly economy, buy a smaller house, and resist status spending—data supports better outcomes and more leisure.
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Study shows that in 2D cylinder flow at Re=100 using Lattice Boltzmann (D2Q9), vortex shedding frequency (Strouhal number St) is robust to spatial coarsening: across a 9× grid reduction from 320,000 to 35,511 cells, St changes by only about 0–2.5%, while wall-time speedup is ~37×. The mean drag coefficient Cd remains within literature range at all resolutions. This indicates a resolution-robust coherent wake mode governed by global geometry and Reynolds number, not fine-scale boundary layer resolution. Implications: supports reduced-order modeling, adaptive meshing, and sub-grid models targeting force amplitude.
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A northern Nigeria educational programme for young girls, implemented with local religious leaders, dramatically reduced child marriages, cutting the likelihood of early marriage by about 80%. The findings show engaging religious leaders in schooling can keep girls in school and delay marriages.
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Cloudflare promptly responded to Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) Linux local privilege escalation. They assessed exposure, verified that existing behavioral detections could identify the exploit within minutes, and found no impact on their fleet or customers. The vulnerability exploited the AF_ALG crypto API via an out-of-bounds write in algif_aead, enabling root access to setuid binaries like /usr/bin/su. Their response combined threat hunting, mitigation design, and rollout: first attempted removing algif_aead, then deployed a surgical bpf-lsm mitigation to block AF_ALG usage by non-authorized binaries; used ebpf-exporter for visibility; patched kernels and rebooted fleet. No customer impact.
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Eight days after Burning Man, volunteers scour Black Rock City for MOOP (Matter Out Of Place) debris. The MOOP Map logs debris, color-coded by cleanup effort, guiding teams and helping enforce a strict BLM standard: no more than one square foot of debris per acre (with 12 of 120 tested sites allowed). In 2025, lag bolts were the dominant debris type. The map promotes shared responsibility, informs camp placement, and has shown a long-term trend of increasing Leave No Trace practices since 2006, despite growth. DA, Burning Man's Environmental Restoration Manager, oversees this work.
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Radware Bot Manager CAPTCHA page apologizes for the inconvenience and asks users to verify they are human by ticking a box. If unable, contact support via https://ioppublishing.org/contacts/ and provide a screenshot; Incident ID: 75b1a181-cnvj-4357-9e12-4bec30659e82.
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RaTeX is a Rust-based math layout engine that parses LaTeX math and emits a device-independent display list for raster/vector backends (CoreGraphics, Skia, Canvas 2D). It aims to match KaTeX on golden tests while enabling native apps, servers, and embeds without a WebView. The same engine runs via native FFI or WebAssembly with predictable memory. Packages let you install from npm, Maven, pub.dev, or SPM; includes server/CLI. It also supports mhchem-style chemistry commands (\ce, \pu). It provides a single Rust core with C ABI, WASM FFI, and cross-platform rendering, with demos and golden-suite galleries for comparison.
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Krugman argues insiders repeatedly profit from oil futures before Trump Iran-war announcements, citing Kobeissi: about $920 million in crude shorts placed ~70 minutes before Axios’s report. Prices fell ~12% then rebounded after Iran’s actions. The pattern shows inside information trading persists with impunity, undermining the futures market’s hedging function and risk reduction. Beyond losses, it damages economic efficiency and growth, feeding a “predation economy” under Trump II and eroding the economy’s moral foundations.
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GovernGPT, a YC-backed, profitable Montreal startup building AI agents to automate fundraising in asset management, is hiring a Backend Engineer, Thinking Systems (Old Port Montreal office). 1+ year experience; stack: Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS; Docker, Nginx, NLP, prompt engineering, security. Responsibilities: architect scalable backend pre-processing for documents used by reasoning systems, design data models for advanced reasoning, and maintain production services on Kubernetes. Equity: 0.25–0.75%. Interview: phone screen, show-and-tell, on-site with CTO and CEO.
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Three Indian projects reimagine matchboxes as capsules and design objects. Maachis (Sonal Nagwani) makes wooden, magnet-ended boxes that reinterpret themes like freedom, body positivity, anti-Nazar, and female autonomy, pushing maximalist, collaborative design. Studio Kokaachi’s Matchbox Comix (Tina Thomas, Pratheek Thomas) packs six tiny, accordion-style comics into matchboxes, aiming for giftable accessibility and evolving packaging toward a vintage look in Volume 3. Harshit Agrawal’s Matchbox Momentos is an interactive archive game with Google Arts & Culture and Tasveer Ghar, organized into 19 themes to map India’s visual history, balancing AI imagery with era-appropriate aesthetics. A broader trend of matchbox-driven storytelling.
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Privacy NGO Noyb argues LinkedIn must give users access to data about who viewed their profiles under GDPR Article 15. Premium users can see a list of visitors; non-paying users see only vague notices or are prompted to upgrade. A user asked LinkedIn for a copy of all personal data processed, but LinkedIn refused, claiming privacy protections. Noyb says data subjects have a right of access to data regardless of business model, and the case could clarify how premium data is treated and set a precedent for similar services.
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Escape Camper Van liquidated its fleet; one buyer, Will Angel, bought a 2012 Ford Econoline nicknamed 'Crayola' with about 340,000 miles for roughly $4,300. He and his wife used it for weekend trips and a California Naturalist certification, upgrading the interior (table, curtains, flooring, CarPlay) and adding a raven shrine. After enjoying its vibe, they sold the van as they downsized, though Angel says the next upgrade would have been a new solar panel and inverter.
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A lightweight, fast toolkit for orchestrating AI agents, pitched as the Vite of AI agent orchestration.
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ZAYA1-8B, Zyphra’s 8.4B total-parameter MoE model with 760M active parameters, matches DeepSeek-R1 on math, is competitive with Claude Sonnet 4.5 on reasoning, and nears Gemini 2.5 Pro on coding, all while running on under 1B active parameters. Trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs across a 1,024-node IBM cluster, it proves frontier performance without NVIDIA hardware. The model uses Markovian RSA inference to generate parallel reasoning traces and bound context. Limitations include weaker tool use and instruction following. Available via Zyphra Cloud or Hugging Face (requires Zyphra vLLM fork).
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Beginner-friendly TI-83 Plus BASIC programming guide by Boris Cherny (v2.5). It walks through using PC tools (TI Graph Link, emulators, cables) and then teaches core TI-BASIC commands with examples. Topics cover text output (DISP, OUTPUT, CLRHOME), frame control (LBL/GOTO, END/PAUSE, MENU), input and variables, and loops (FOR, WHILE) with IF/THEN/ELSE/OR. It also covers strings, GETKEY, RAND/RANDINT, lists and matrices, and drawing tools (TEXT, CLRDRAW, LINE, CIRCLE, Pt-On/Pt-Off, SHADE). Includes nested loops, advanced topics, challenges, and historical notes.
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TRUST is an experimental retro TUI IDE for Rust, inspired by 1989 blue-screen DOS environments. It lets you edit files, browse Rust projects, and run Cargo commands from a nostalgia-focused interface. Features include editing, saving (F2/Ctrl+S), opening files, and executing cargo run, build, check, and test via keyboard shortcuts. To use, run cargo run -- /path/to/rust/project (or the current dir). It’s an independent project, not affiliated with classic DOS vendors.
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A piece consisting solely of the phrase 'Single Ride' with no additional details.
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A brand tagline promising to amplify cringe to a professional level.
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Unsloth and NVIDIA boosted LLM fine-tuning speed by ~25% by tackling metadata bottlenecks and data-copy overhead. Key optimizations: 1) cache packed-sequence metadata (lengths, cu_seqlens, max_seqlen, masks) to reuse across layers; forward up to 43.3% (Qwen3-14B QLoRA SFT), backward +5.8%. 2) double-buffered activation checkpoint reloads to overlap copies with backward compute; gains ~8–9% (8B) to ~4–5% (32B) step-time with modest memory cost. 3) a MoE routing improvement for GPT-OSS using a single bincount/grouped tokens; ~10–15% speedups, up to +23% forward and +13% backward. Larger models benefit most; results reflect reduced bookkeeping and overlapped IO/compute.
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Marcin Wichary criticizes Photoshop 2026’s Spectrum UI, insisting the focus problems aren’t just cosmetic: dialogs don’t auto-focus or auto-select, clicking fields may not focus, backspace triggers a focus-stealing error modal, and tabbing disrupts quick width/height entry; other inconsistencies abound (undo broken by UI, hidden shortcuts, poor tooltips). He calls the refresh sloppy and lazy, a failure of imagination, urging fixes (tooltip-like errors, better shortcuts, memory of legacy settings) or a reconsideration of the redesign.
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