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An essay on Command K bars (command palettes) as a UI pattern that lets users search and execute any app action from the keyboard, reducing menu clutter while enabling universal search across content. It contrasts GUIs with CLIs, noting GUIs ease learning but don’t scale for hundreds of commands. The piece surveys examples (Todoist, Framer, Tana, Raycast, Lazy) and libraries (cmdk, kbar) that pack advanced features. Tracing back to Apple Spotlight, it explains why this pattern is proliferating and how it reshapes exploration and workflows.
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Urges setting a user-agent and honoring the site’s robots policy; offers links for more details and related discussion.
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New US drone rules ban all foreign-made consumer drones by adding them to the FCC’s Covered List, effective December 21–23, 2025. The FCC will not authorize new models manufactured outside the U.S.; existing, FCC-authorized drones may continue to operate. Even domestically assembled drones could be banned if they contain certain foreign-made components. The expansion hits nearly every brand beyond DJI and Autel, forcing most hobby drones out of the US market; American brands have largely exited consumer drones. For now, only current stock remains, so buy now if you need a drone, as future availability is unclear.
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Scott Helme analyzes a year living with 14 solar panels (4.2 kWp), 3 Tesla Powerwalls, and Octopus Smart tariff in the UK. For 2025: import 20.1 MWh, export 6.0 MWh, solar production 3.2 MWh. Batteries enable off-peak shift and exports, giving net usage of 17.3 MWh and costs of £557.37 (£0.03/kWh). Installation cost £39,360. Projected payback ~11 years; ROI starts around 9% and grows to ~231% over 25 years, with 2026 expanding exports.
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Anthropic donated $1.5 million over two years to the Python Software Foundation, aimed at security work. The gift will advance the PSF’s security roadmap, help protect millions of PyPI users from supply-chain attacks, and support core PSF activities such as CPython development, grants, community support, and PyPI infrastructure, including the Developer in Residence program.
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Tarvydas argues that deeper type systems and functional programming hinder true composability. He advocates building software from LEGO-like parts defined as five primitives: a simple transport mechanism; recursive container/leaf part definitions; parts that aren’t just filters; pure, asynchronous, fire‑and‑forget message passing; and strict port/gate boundaries. He envisions extended pipelines with fan-out and arbitrary connections to enable black-box composition and timing-aware design. FP’s synchronous control and OS-driven workarounds obstruct real modularity; the future lies in simple, timing-aware, plug‑in primitives rather than richer type theories.
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The page is blocked by a 403 Forbidden error, meaning access is not allowed.
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Google/YouTube blocked access after detecting unusual traffic from the user’s network, likely automated requests or malware. The page requires solving a CAPTCHA to continue and warns that shared networks or browser plug-ins can trigger blocks; it ends when traffic stops. It notes requests may be robotic or rapid and provides the visitor’s IP, timestamp, and the target URL. It also instructs users to enable JavaScript to proceed.
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NASA demolished two historic test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center—the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility (the 175‑ft “T-tower,” built in 1957) and the Dynamic Test Stand (1964)—as part of modernizing infrastructure. Together they helped develop the Saturn V and the space shuttle. The NBS was also dismantled. The sites, listed as National Landmarks, were archived by the Library of Congress and Auburn University, with artifacts moved to the US Space & Rocket Center. NASA says the demolitions save maintenance costs and clear way for future exploration, honoring the structures’ history.
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Freedom News argues the UK is moving toward “precrime” policing: predictive risk assessments, murder-prevention systems, and biometric surveillance framed as safety but enabling early intervention and control of dissent. Despite falling crime, budget pressures push data-driven policing, with the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 expanding DVLA-record access for law enforcement and potential facial-recognition use, especially in marked communities. Protest laws criminalize disruption, enabling state surveillance to target activists. The result is an anticipatory security regime treating people as data profiles to suppress unrest before it arises.
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Falls deaths have tripled 2000–2023, even as heart disease and cancer decline. In 2023, 47,026 Americans died from falls vs 44,762 from motor-vehicle crashes, reversing 2000’s MVA lead. Aging explains part of the rise, but age-adjusted fall deaths rose about 2.4-fold. Wisconsin has the highest state rate, with winter weather and older populations as predictors. Potential reasons include more fall-risk medications (antidepressants, psychotropics), increased alcohol use, rising obesity, and changes in death reporting. No single cause; multiple factors together outpaced prevention gains.
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Contrary to popular caricature as grim endurance, the essay argues Stoicism offers lasting transcendence and imperturbable tranquility grounded in gratitude and disciplined choice. Indifference is presented as a power that tempers joy and grief, enabling freedom to convert hardship into opportunity. The piece links Stoic practice to cognitive-behavioral therapy, highlighting Epictetus’s motto that it's not events but our views that disturb us, and concepts like negative visualization. It traces the tradition from Zeno to Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, through Stockdale’s Vietnam captivity, and notes Stoicism’s pragmatic, accessible, activist bent that informs modern self-help.
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SnackBase is an open-source Python backend offering immutable audit logs, GxP compliance, row-level security, and built-in multi-tenancy. It provides instant CRUD REST APIs from defined schemas, RBAC with field-level permissions, OAuth (Google, GitHub, Microsoft, Apple) and SAML, and extensible logic via Python hooks. It targets SaaS with an admin UI featuring multi-tenancy and audit logs, plus a complete backend foundation. Quick-start: install locally or in the cloud, define data with a simple schema, and use auto-generated APIs or the React Admin UI.
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Local journalism is essential for democracy because it makes public life legible, links distant power to everyday people, and prevents civic life from shrinking into spectatorism. When local reporting weakens, people lose orientation and accountability; national news is distant while decisions in schools, budgets, and courts affect daily life. Protecting local journalism is civic participation, not charity, and readers should subscribe, donate, and engage thoughtfully. Local outlets are public infrastructure that sustains democratic functioning, helping maintain an informed, engaged community, especially in Bucks County.
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Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a subscription bundle of pro creative apps and premium content across Mac, iPad, and iPhone. It combines Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage, plus premium content for Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform. Highlights include Final Cut Pro’s Transcript and Visual Search, Beat Detection, and Montage Maker for iPad; Pixelmator Pro on iPad with touch-optimized workspace and Warp tool; Logic Pro's Synth Player, Chord ID, Sound Library, and Music Understanding. Price: $12.99/mo or $129/yr; student/education options. Availability Jan 28.
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Art TVs are expanding beyond function to aesthetics: matte, anti-glare screens and frame-like bezels let TVs display art when off, ideal for small city spaces. Samsung's Frame pioneered the look; now Hisense, TCL, LG, and Amazon are releasing similar models. Amazon’s Ember Artline (CES 2026) starts at $899 and offers 2,000 artworks plus Alexa-based art recommendations. Advances in matte panels and backlighting improve art realism. The category remains niche and pricey, but affordable art-vibe workarounds exist, and premium Art Mode is coming to OLEDs.
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Primoco Budget Book, a German web app derived from MoneyControl, provides online personal budgeting across devices. It isn’t free but offers a free test. Features: income/expense tracking, current-month view, quick-entry shortcuts, recurring transfers, categories/accounts/people/groups, notes, receipt photos, built-in calculator, month switching, diagrams/charts, PDF reports, and CSV export. Apps for iOS, Android, macOS; offline use with later synchronization. Data is stored on German/European servers with encrypted transfers; privacy policy applies. By Priotecs IT GmbH (2000–2026).
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A network of fake Scottish X accounts linked to Iran went quiet after Iran's internet blackout amid protests. Accounts such as 'Fiona', 'Jake' and 'Lucy' claimed to support Scottish independence and posted extreme content before disappearing, likely VPN-based. The report cites prior research: Cyabra found about 26% of Scotland-related profiles were fake in 2025, and a Clemson study linked an Iranian-backed bot network to UK-pretending accounts promoting pro-independence and anti-Israel messaging.
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OpenResty/OpenResty XRay article argues that long-running LuaJIT apps often show rising RSS despite healthy GC, not a true leak but a memory fragmentation issue. LuaJIT's allocator keeps freed pages, creating a 'memory hole' and inflated RSS. Traditional fixes fail; LuaJIT-plus rethinks memory management to move from passive retention to proactive reclamation, with real-time fragmentation assessment and OS signaling to reclaim idle pages. This 'memory breathing' yields predictable memory curves, lowers OOM risk and TCO, and shifts memory management to a resource-aware runtime. OpenResty XRay is introduced as dynamic tracing tool.
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