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Ancient Kanesh tablets show a sophisticated 4000-year-old market system: a twelve-partner trading firm with defined capital, profit shares, and penalties; long-distance trade from Assur to Kanesh; thousands of records showing loans, collateral, courts, and price signals. Harvard/ScPo/Chicago/UVA gravity-model analysis of Kanesh data yields modern trade patterns, suggesting the fundamental structure of commerce is constant, not invented. The article argues that markets arose from spontaneous order and individual decisions, not policy design, aligning with Hayek's knowledge problem. Thus Kanesh disproves the notion that markets require central planners; commerce existed long before theory.
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Wayfinder Router is a simple CLI tool that deterministically routes prompts between local and hosted LLMs without any model calls to decide. It analyzes prompt structure and optional lexical cues to score routing and sends the prompt to local (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp) or cloud/OpenAI-compatible endpoints based on a threshold or tiered classifier. It runs entirely offline, with keys read from the environment at request time and never stored. It provides a gateway and optional UI, supports calibrate/onboard/recalibrate workflows, and integrates with any OpenAI-compatible client by pointing base_url at the gateway.
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Edge AI applied to a local network security appliance.
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An 2017 YouTube clip shot by Mohammed Almuntasir in south-west Libya provided the first evidence that the sand cat (Felis margarita) exists there, despite initial disbelief. Over eight years, he and zoologist Firas Hayder—joined by Tuareg guides and hunters—documented 13 sand-cat sites across the Libyan Sahara, notably in Wadi Armet. A February 2026 study in the Journal of Arid Environments suggests Libya hosts a broader desert-mammal refuge, though threats include smuggling and hunting for the pet trade. The work underscores local collaboration for conservation in a dangerous, understudied landscape.
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The Drive reports the U.S. Department of Commerce denied Polestar, a Geely-owned subsidiary, authorization to sell new cars in the United States from model year 2027 under the Connected Vehicle Rule, effectively ending Polestar’s US sales. Volvo, also Geely-owned, was granted authorization; the reason for the discrepancy isn’t explained. Polestar had moved Polestar 3 production to Volvo’s Charleston plant to dodge tariffs, but its US future is now uncertain. The piece frames this as a troubling blow to free markets amid broader friction with Chinese automakers and tariffs.
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ClickHouse Cloud rewrote WAL-G in Rust as WAL-RUS to achieve predictable memory usage for Postgres backups in resource-constrained environments. Go-based WAL-G had memory footprint volatility due to garbage collection; WAL-RUS uses Rust, bounded worker pools, persistent storage connections, and streaming to minimize buffering. It remains compatible with WAL-G archives and interoperable. Benchmark results: WAL-RUS peak memory under 1 GB vs WAL-G around 2.8 GB; throughput similar; pgBackRest lagged under heavy WAL. It also supports Postgres 17 wal summaries; planned as the default backup/archival for ClickHouse Cloud and is open source.
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HTTP 405 Not Allowed error from a Varnish cache server, with repeated 'Not allowed' messages and a details line.
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Could not summarize article.
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Access to californiasciencecenter.org is blocked by Cloudflare’s security, likely triggered by certain inputs or malformed data. To resolve, email the site owner, explain what you were doing, and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (and your IP address).
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Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep is a fall membership-drive sleep podcast hosted by Zoe Kurland and Christopher Dyer, where they read dry, essential documents—FCC compliance, ethics codes, regulations—to lull listeners into sleep while encouraging donations to keep the station awake. Latest episodes include The Rescissions Act of 2025, NPR Style Guide, The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, and more. The station operates 24/7 (except during lightning) and funds itself through memberships and donations at marfapublicradio.org/donate. The feed also features Nature Notes on Tuesdays/Thursdays and local news updates.
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Regex implementations vary across tools. The author defines a portable subset that works in sed, awk, grep, and Emacs. Portable features include literals, ., ^, $, character classes […] and [^…], *, \w, \W, \s, \S, backreferences \1–\9, \b/\B (awk uses \< and \>), ?, +, |, {n,m}, and (...) capturing. Caveats: awk’s word boundaries differ; Emacs requires escaping for + ? ( ) { } | and uses \s and \S with special classes. Perl-like advanced features aren’t universally supported.
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Two-node AMD Strix Halo RDMA cluster (RoCE v2) for distributed vLLM with Tensor Parallelism. Prereqs: Fedora 43 on both nodes, 2x Strix Halo, 128 GB RAM, Intel E810 NICs with direct DAC, no switch. BIOS: iGPU 512MB; Kernel params: iommu=pt, pci=realloc, pcie_aspm=off, amdgpu.gttsize=126976, ttm.pages_limit=32505856. Networking: static IPs 192.168.100.1/30 and 192.168.100.2/30, MTU 9000, trusted firewall. Install toolbox: ./refresh_toolbox.sh (librccl patch). Passwordless SSH. Verify RDMA: /opt/compare_eth_vs_rdma.sh. Run start-vllm-cluster; start Ray; launch VLLM (TP=2, ctx=131072, Force Eager Mode). HF_TOKEN for gated models.
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Decomp Academy is an online curriculum teaching GameCube PowerPC decompilation by byte-matching to the MWCC GC/2.0 compiler. It guides learners from reading assembly to writing C that the live compiler grades byte-for-byte. The curriculum spans 18+ modules (about 258 lessons) covering arithmetic, bitwise ops, control flow, pointers, structs, floating point, ABI, optimization, and advanced idioms, building toward whole-function decompilations. Real Star Fox Adventures functions serve as capstones. Source on GitHub; not affiliated with Nintendo.
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Codeberg’s Mastodon status update says all services are available; it points to social.anoxinon.de and notes that JavaScript must be enabled to use the Mastodon web interface, offering native Mastodon apps as an alternative.
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Could not summarize article.
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Wizards of the Coast mourn the death of Ron Spears, a pivotal Magic artist who contributed over 100 artworks and served as art director from 1998–2001. His vivid traditional style defined early Magic imagery—Akroma, Angel of Wrath; Atogatog; Phage, the Untouchable booster art—and staples like Mystical Teachings, Dark Confidant, Engineered Explosives. He continued shaping Magic across years, including 2022 borderless Ravnican lands, Modern Horizons 3 (2024), and Lorwyn Eclipsed (2026). The piece invites fans to celebrate his legacy and view his art on Gatherer.
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This guide helps you pick a public DNS resolver with an interactive finder that narrows 29 global resolvers to match priorities such as privacy, malware/child-blocking, speed, IPv6, and jurisdiction. It includes a full comparison with filters for DNSSEC, transports (DoH/DoT/DoQ/DNSCrypt), logging, ECS, and blocklists. Research-backed findings cover trade-offs: encrypted DNS adds latency but page loads are often close to plain DNS; DoQ can be fastest; encryption resists tampering but doesn’t hide queries; DNSSEC validation matters; jurisdiction and centralization affect control. Check current addresses before deployment.
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Shows securing X11 apps by running them in an unprivileged LXC container on Arch Linux. Steps: install lxc/lxcfs, enable lxc-net, and create a container (www) with user mappings from /etc/subuid/subgid; use a Debian image, add a www user, and configure X11 access by mounting /tmp/.X11-unix and a container-specific .Xauthority while exporting DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY. Optional GPU and PulseAudio through /dev/dri and a PulseAudio socket. Start the container and run Firefox inside. Result: GUI app is sandboxed; blast radius limited, but sockets/holes remain; tighten with seccomp/AppArmor if desired.
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Web MIDI meets 8-bit vintage synths: modern browsers and CPUs outpace 1983 gear, causing buffer overflow when sending SysEx data. The fix is software flow control, chunking SysEx messages with delays to let the DX7's 2 MHz CPU write blocks to RAM. Data formats vary by vendor—DX7 uses 4104-byte SysEx blocks, Juno-106 requires manual prompts, Korg M1 uses 7-bit packed data—necessitating custom parsers. Browser security requires user permission; some browsers block Web MIDI entirely. knob.monster positions as a browser-based SysEx librarian and cloud backup for vintage hardware, supporting many models.
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Europe faces housing shortages that are worse than America’s, driven largely by land-use restrictions and suburban zoning. The essay argues Europe has little YIMBY-style debate, though Americans have a large movement with advocacy groups and research. Zoning was invented in Europe and has long protected suburban villa-style districts, as seen in Berlin’s 1905 plan and Britain’s enduring green belts. Densification is constrained, but outward expansion alone cannot close the gap. NIMBY resistance in Europe is latent, partly due to cultural emphasis on cities and less racialized zoning history. To solve shortages, Europe should reexamine zoning and consider American ideas.
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