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The author argues that social groups don’t form automatically; the fastest way to join or strengthen a community is to organize its core activities. There’s high demand for events and limited supply, so organizing or helping with events makes forming friendships easier than just showing up. Many people expect social fabrics to appear on their own, but it takes legwork, and true community leaders are those who organize. To reduce social alienation, focus on creating and sustaining local events rather than waiting for others to do it.
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Q3Edit is a browser-based editor to create, edit, compile, and run Quake 3 maps. It edits real .map files (brushes, patches, entities, terrain) in a TypeScript + WebGL2 UI, with BSP compilation via q3map compiled to WebAssembly. A single click launches the map in browser-native ioquake3. It ships with OpenArena assets, requires WebGL2, and features a Radiant-style four-view interface. It’s an independent GPL-2.0 project (not affiliated with id Software).
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Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs describe a bioresilience program to prevent misuse, detect outbreaks, and enable rapid AI-driven response. They cite 15+ partnerships with governments and biosafety organizations, using AlphaFold, IsoDDE, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and Gemini for trusted collaborators. Prevention follows a four-step safety process (threat modeling, evaluations, mitigations, monitoring) plus biology-adapted SynthID. Detection enhances pathogen surveillance via AlphaEvolve for metagenomics and AlphaGenome/Protein Function annotation. In response, trusted researchers gain access to latest AI systems to accelerate vaccines and countermeasures; Isomorphic deploys drug-design tools for novel threats. All align with the Frontier Safety Framework and public collaboration.
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Elixir v1.20 builds scalable, reliable systems on the Erlang VM, from solo projects to large teams. It emphasizes immutability, fault tolerance, and a rich ecosystem: Phoenix for web and LiveView for real-time UI; Ecto for data; IEx and Livebook for prototyping; Nx and Bumblebee for GPU-accelerated ML; Broadway and Membrane for backpressure-aware pipelines; Nerves and AtomVM for embedded devices. The platform supports IoT, distributed systems, and data/ML workloads, with Hex as package manager and strong community/trust via the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.
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Guide to turning a spare Mac into Claude Code agent you can control from your phone. Wipe the target and create a fresh admin user with no Apple ID; enable SSH and passwordless sudo; assign a unique hostname; set up SSH key-based login from the source Mac; keep the machine awake; enable SSH clipboard over the network; install Claude Code on the target; log in to Claude and GitHub; optional computer use over SSH via a LaunchAgent/tmux setup and the ic CLI to spawn sessions; enable remote control from mobile; optional VPN (Tailscale) for remote access; test across networks.
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Gleam is an open-source, friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems. The repository shows active development with a Rust-heavy codebase and multiple components (Gleam, compiler, docs, tests), guided by a community-driven approach rather than corporate ownership and supported by sponsors. The project invites contributions and sponsorship, echoing the description: “Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale.”
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War isn’t inevitable. The development field must treat peace as an engineering problem—using data, scalable trials, and cost transparency to prevent violence. A new wave of conflict research links incident-level data with randomized experiments, but translating individual interventions into reduced large-scale war remains uncertain. Some gains exist, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy plus cash transfers reducing violence among high-risk youths in Liberia; but many studies measure intermediate outcomes. Peace Per Dollar at UC Berkeley aims to prove cost-effective, scalable approaches and fuel large field trials to avert war—like bed nets do for malaria.
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From 19 July, large EU companies are banned from destroying unsold clothing, accessories and footwear under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR); medium-sized firms follow from 2030. The aim is to curb waste and save resources by prioritising reuse, repair, resale or donation; destruction is allowed only in limited cases (unsafe/damaged items, counterfeits, IP-infringing items, or charity rejections) and must follow the waste hierarchy with recycling prioritized. Firms must prove exemptions, publish annual discard reports, and keep five years of records; fines for non-compliance. Small firms are exempt.
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lcamtuf explains how to produce real V–I plots at home for diodes and MOSFETs, arguing textbooks’ curves are often fake. To avoid heating and drift, he uses a benchtop DMM, pulsed power, and oil cooling, with SCPI interfacing for automation. A Rohde & Schwarz NGU401 SMU, used in FastLog data streaming (100–500k samples/s), captures voltage–current data; he averages microamp readings and pulses for higher currents, stitching spans as needed. Examples include the 1N4148 diode and BS170 MOSFET; real curves diverge from ideal models, and SMUs replace old curve tracers.
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GoPro is in trouble in 2026. Founder Nicholas Woodman has extended a $20 million loan at 6.5% to keep it afloat while a buyer is sought. Q1 2026 revenue fell 26% and units sold dropped 29% to 313,000. The company has hired a financial adviser to review strategic options. Despite launching the Mission 1, Pro and Pro ILS, the line may be too late. GoPro is exploring aerospace/defense opportunities and supplied images for Artemis II, but faces competition from Insta360 and a lost patent case. A 23% staff cut precedes a possible takeover, with debts to be paid.
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Red Blob Games recounts moving from fixed 450–600px layouts to a single responsive design using breakpoints. After noticing a tiny font-size drift (1.25rem vs 1.249…rem), he explored how sites adapt to width, then migrated pages over time. In 2020 he switched from px to rem, found a rounding error in conversion, and automated calculations. He turned his diagrams into a CSS-based calculator using min(), clamp(), and round(), and derived formulas (e.g., slope 1/3) to map browser width to margins and content. An interactive visualization is provided for future projects.
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Revisiting Yliluoma’s ordered dither algorithm surveys his 2011 method (and Yliluoma-2), and introduces three EMA-based variants (EMA-Sweep, EMA-Exact, EMA-Constant) for color-palette selection, comparing them with Knoll’s algorithm. The EMA approach tests palette colors by updating an EMA running mean; each candidate is found by lines from the current mean to a palette color, with the closest point determining t, which updates the mean. The piece discusses solving for t, fixed-t simplifications, and shows EMA variants often match Knoll in quality and have similar complexity; optimal N ≈ 2K; results depend on dither strength and palette.
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Valve does not publish hardware sales; this analysis uses Steam’s revenue-based Global Top Sellers chart to estimate Steam Machine sales. It projects about 12,000–15,000 units per week during the July 2026 launch window. With two configurations priced $1,049 and $1,349 (avg ≈$1,150; 65/35 split), weekly revenue is roughly $10–18M, just behind CS2, placing the Steam Machine in 2nd. Extrapolated to a year, ~600k–750k units. It’s a niche, not mass-market device. Caveats: 24-hour weighting, timing, promotions, and price changes can shift the estimate.
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