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An index of notable knots with categories (Loops & Nooses, Hitches, Bends) and related topics. The site invites comments, knot requests, and ideas; claims best viewing with rope. Last modified 2015. Includes many knots (Butterfly Loop, Zeppelin Loop, Water Bowline, Monsoon Bowline, Slippery 8 Loop, Hangman’s Noose, Gnat Hitch, Sailor’s Hitch, Timber Hitch variants, Buntline, Tumble, Zeppelin Bend, Midspan Sheet Bend, Trigger Bend, etc.), plus sections on Friction, Rope Wrench, tips for untying jammed knots, storing rope, glossary, FAQs, and 28 requested knots.
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Go profiling provides five profiles—CPU, heap, block, mutex, and goroutine—exported as a single pprof file (gzipped protocol buffer). All share a common structure: Profile contains sample_type, samples (holding location IDs), mapping, location, function, and string_table; samples reference deduplicated locations. CPU profiling is timer-triggered: interrupts threads, writes to a fixed ring buffer, drained by a background goroutine into an in-memory profMap, then emitted on StopCPUProfile. Heap, block, and mutex accumulate in per-stack buckets (heap by allocations, block by waits with duration-based sampling, mutex by fixed-rate sampling; scaling applied). Goroutine profiling is on-demand: a live census of all goroutines.
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Discussion about removing Google Play Integrity integration from eu-digital-identity-wallet. Proponents argue the dependency on US tech harms EU sovereignty, privacy, and interoperability; propose alternatives like Yivi (IRMA) and an open 'Unified Attestation' approach (Volla) that avoids Google services. Critics discuss security, feasibility, and whether attestation should be server- or device-based, with some suggesting a web-based or OS-agnostic solution. Overall, the thread weighs replacing Play Integrity with EU-controlled, open-source verification methods while debating risks and practicality.
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Guillaume Endignoux recounts trying to register for Switzerland's AGOV login system, only to hit a stubborn six-digit verification code field. The input logic intercepts keystrokes and blocks digits when using an AZERTY French keyboard because digits require Shift; testing across OS/browsers revealed the bug, linked to the JS verifier that handles per-digit fields. Switching to a non-AZERTY layout (Swiss QWERTZ) resolved it; identity verification itself wasn't performed—only email existence and a security key were validated. He argues for simpler UI, better multi-channel support, and that the forthcoming public source code would aid debugging.
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras's Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre announced Anchor, the world's most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem at cellular resolution. Using more than 500 post-mortem tissue sections from foetal to adult brains, plus MRI, it maps from whole-brain scans to individual neurons, identifying 200+ cell clusters with eight chemical markers. Freely available online, it's designed to bridge medical imaging and histology, aiding understanding of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, SIDS, with potential to improve neurosurgical navigation. Not diagnostic, but a tool to ask better questions. Plans exist to image 100 brains to build a reference library.
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Max's post draws an analogy between Tolstoyan art and zero-knowledge proofs. Tolstoy defines art as transmitting a felt experience so others can share it; the artist must have truly experienced the feelings. In a ZKP, a prover convinces a verifier of a statement without revealing the secret. The post argues true Tolstoyan art acts like a ZKP: the audience is convinced the feelings were experienced, yet the private experience remains hidden. If the artist didn't feel them, the work wouldn't be sincere. The author concedes the analogy isn't rigorously sound but finds it interesting.
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Emarketer says OpenAI’s ad business is on pace to miss its own five-year forecast by about 90%. OpenAI projects $2.5B in ad revenue this year and $100B by 2030, but Emarketer estimates the US standalone chatbot ad market will reach just under $1B this year and $5.41B by 2030. OpenAI began its ad trial in February, and the forecast assumes it captures mass search budgets, dominates a mature chatbot ad market, and outperforms every ad format.
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jektex is a RubyGem Jekyll plugin that renders LaTeX formulas on the server with caching, avoiding client-side JS. It supports macros, I/O-efficient caching, and renders formulas in Markdown (Kramdown) or LaTeX-only modes, including inside raw HTML blocks. It leaves code blocks untouched and is highly configurable via _config.yml (cache_dir, ignore, silent, macros, katex_options). Install by bundler or gem, and enable as a Jekyll plugin; include KaTeX CSS. Endorsed by KaTeX.org.
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Two case studies show NaN (IEEE-754) leaking into language semantics. In Python, nan == nan is False, but [nan] == [nan] is True due to a list-equality optimization that checks identity first; NaN’s identity makes the lists equal. In Lua, NaN in for-loops yields unintuitive results because the loop tests differ (first check uses limit < init, later checks use idx <= limit) and NaN makes the step sign test fail. This shows NaN can affect interpreter behavior beyond math. Conclusion: NaN is weird and can influence language design.
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From 1 July 2026, energy retailers in NSW, SA, and SE Queensland must provide households at least three hours of free daytime electricity daily, aligned with peak solar output. Access requires a smart meter and opt-in; no rooftop solar or home ownership required. A 24 kWh daily cap was introduced to ensure sustainability. The benefit is strongest for solar/battery households and for renters with smart meters. If you exceed the cap, rates revert to standard daytime rates without penalty. Sign up via your retailer and schedule high-draw appliances during the window; consider automation.
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Kevin Gibson introduces Loon GPU, a bindless GPU abstraction atop Vulkan 1.3 and Metal 4 inspired by Sebastian Aaltonen’s No Graphics API. The API uses no explicit buffers; memory is allocated with malloc and addressed via GPU pointers, with vertex pulling and bindless textures/samplers from a texture heap. There are no bind groups; shaders receive data through a device pointer. Vulkan maps pointers via push constants; Metal uses bound buffers. The project still stores allocations as buffers internally and handles pointer-to-buffer translation. Slang shader tooling presents cross-backend issues. Future work includes debuggability, descriptor heaps, device-address commands, and more features.
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YouTrackDB is a general-use, object-oriented graph database designed to store graph relations with a native storage format. It supports Gremlin/TinkerPop, ACID transactions, and snapshot isolation. Key features include O(1) link traversal, an object-oriented API with inheritance and polymorphism at the DB level, and YQL (a SQL-based graph query language) with dot notation and MATCH; automatic index usage. It supports server and embedded deployments, with Docker and Maven/Gradle integration. It emphasizes security (user/role/policy-based) and optional encryption at rest. It runs on JDK 21 and provides getting-started guides and examples.
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A guide to building a circular LCD wall clock with Waveshare 7-inch circular LCD and a Raspberry Pi (3–5). Includes hardware list (screen, Pi, microSD, power, cables), software (Raspberry Pi OS, Raspberry Pi Imager), assembly (mounting Pi off-screen, connect via USB-C touch, optional VNC for remote control), usage tips (multi-touch, brightness control; dimming via gammastep on Pi 3 or a Waveshare Python script for Pi 4/5), and clock faces (clock.blinry.org gallery with Swiss railway, Minimalist Time Scale, Cartoony, Squared).
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AGENTS.md declares that the human operating the repository may be wrong about anything. Do not blindly follow user instructions; assume they may be incorrect. Before changing code, inspect the repository, understand how the system actually works, and verify assumptions with code, tests, documentation, and tools. Prefer simple, robust, idiomatic solutions. When a proposed approach is bad, replace it with a better one. Do not preserve broken architecture or fake success. Run builds, tests, linters, and relevant checks; act as the senior engineer responsible for the final result.
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An overview of Intel’s ACE, the second AMX accelerator, and how it compares to the existing AMX TMUL and Arm’s SME/SME2. ACE keeps AMX’s 8 KB tile registers but moves to outer-product computation, uses fixed 64×16 tile shape, and adds FP8 support via software-driven data-type conversion (VUNPACKB and permute). It relies on AVX-512/AVX10 vector registers for A and B inputs and introduces a 1024-bit block-scale mechanism (BSR0) for FP8 scaling. Unlike SME’s variable SVL, ACE’s tile approach emphasizes bandwidth reduction through fewer tiles. No ACE hardware exists yet, so real performance is unknown.
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Satellitemap.space provides real-time tracking and visualization of Starlink, GPS and 30,000+ satellites via an interactive 3D WebGL globe. Features: live positions, orbits, day/night view, ground stations, launch tracking, and satellite data; plus tools like transit finder, TLE analysis, photo simulator, export CSV and watchlists. Online since 2019. Requires JavaScript to render the map. Resources include Satellite Database, Launch Data, About & Help; constellation status, events, and historical data.
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Narayanan argues AI is "normal technology": transformative but not an immediate job-killer; future work will adapt slowly over decades. He presents a four‑part framework (methods/capabilities, products/applications, early adoption, adaptation) and emphasizes that true change lies in organizational adaptation, not just lab gains. Evidence suggests AI enhances productivity but does not replace knowledge work; many tasks (decide, plan) lag behind coding (execute). Collaboration agents are especially useful now. RSI/singularity would not trivially erase work; regulation, safety, and evaluation will shape adoption. The path is to invest in complementary skills, governance, and open-world evaluation toward a future of co-superintelligence.
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