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The piece contrasts the internet's unexpected emergence with AI's over-expected status. Science fiction largely failed to foresee the web, focusing instead on AI as dystopian. Arthur C. Clarke's 'Expected vs. Unexpected' framework is invoked: AI is 'Over-Expected,' fully anticipated for decades, and feared; the internet remained an 'Unexpected' invention. AI has yet to transform daily life beyond niche tasks; self-driving cars show promise, but regulation is premature due to unknown harms. The author urges balancing harms with benefits, imagining the latter, and revisiting 'unexpecteds'—including Twain's telectroscope as a precursor to online connectedness.
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Vite 8.0 launches with Rolldown, a Rust-based unified bundler replacing esbuild/Rollup, delivering 10-30x faster production builds while preserving plugin compatibility. It forms an end-to-end toolchain with Vite, Rolldown, and Oxc, enabling new features and faster workflows. Node.js 20.19+/22.12+ required. Notable features: Devtools, TS path aliases (resolve.tsconfigPaths), emitDecoratorMetadata support, Wasm SSR imports, browser console forwarding. @vitejs/plugin-react v6 uses Oxc for React Refresh and lighter installs. Migration path includes compatibility layer auto-converting config; beta period showed significant build-time reductions. Gratitude to Rollup/esbuild maintainers and community.
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Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators explains how OSC 8 escape sequences enable clickable links in terminals. It covers the syntax (OSC 8 ; params ; URI ST), the closing sequence, and how text becomes a hyperlink. It details hover-underlining with an optional id to link related cells across lines/windows, hostname handling for file:// URIs, and how different terminals (VTE, iTerm2) implement ids. It discusses use cases for tools like viewers or editors, security considerations, portability/encoding rules, length limits (around 2000–2083 bytes), and backward compatibility. No standardized way to detect support yet.
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Golden sets are versioned, multi-metric regression tests for probabilistic workflows. They combine representative inputs, explicit outcomes, rubrics, and a pinned scoring method to prove behavior survives changes. They are a pre-release gate within the Probabilistic Core / Deterministic Shell, focusing on prompts, retrieval, models, tool contracts, and policy. Each case includes fields like input, constraints, expected_outcome_class, must_include/must_not_include, rubric_version, and change_surface_tags. Implementation: map the change surface, select relevant slice, run deterministic checks plus rubric scoring, compare to baseline, decide to ship/hold/investigate, and add cases from incidents. Common failure modes and gates are described.
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Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work. Fear of publishing grows with age and recognition, often halting good ideas; yet early-career and unproven thinkers tend to innovate because no one expects much of them. Aadil’s Law: say bad ideas aloud to reach the good ones. Evolution shows exploration of bad traits is necessary for progress. Two failure modes—overshare and undershare—highlight the risk of either endless cleverness or silence. The fix: focus on producing or sharing something, even imperfect, to keep creativity alive. Are you willing to look stupid today?
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The Ultimate PBJ Test challenges you to instruct Robbie, a literal robot, to make a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich in about 3 minutes. It reveals how instructions fail without completeness, precision, and atomic thinking, scoring you across three dimensions and a process-thinking tier, with a round-by-round breakdown of Robbie’s exact actions. Built around Deliberate Work, it emphasizes designing atomic, deterministic processes for reliable execution.
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Before alarm clocks, people woke by a mix of natural cues and clever devices. In Britain’s industrial era, knocker-uppers walked streets, tapping windows or shooting peas to rouse workers at precise times, sometimes saving lives or triggering fights. Earlier and global precursors included candle clocks with hourly pins, incense clocks in China, water clocks and medieval bells. The first mechanical alarm clock appeared in 1787; affordable personal alarms spread in the late 19th–early 20th centuries. Experts note daylight and regular hours support healthy sleep timing.
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Reviews act as permission slips dictating what you should want. The MacBook Neo, $599 with 8GB RAM and few ports, preserves the full Mac OS and software stack, even as it omits flagship features. The essay argues its value is not for pro work but for learning by pushing a limited machine to its edges— a contrast to Chromebooks. For a learner with no margin to optimize, the Neo becomes a sandbox that teaches what computing costs and what you might become as a creator.
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The piece recalls Apple's 2009–2012 “Send to YouTube” feature, which boosted uploads from Photos and ended when Apple removed YouTube’s app. A side effect was that videos uploaded with IMG_XXXX filenames became barely searchable, creating a surprising, nostalgic public archive. The author shares examples (IMG_0416 and related) of personal moments—unboxings, family games, powdered-sugar antics, and a pregnancy reveal—showing how mundane clips form an authentic, candid social record. IMG_XXXX numbering restarts after 10,000 photos.
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There's no universal 'highly resilient database.' Resilience is contextual: data type, query patterns, consistency needs, durability, failure modes, availability, budget, and regulatory requirements. In a fintech context, the author favors PostgreSQL with ACID for ledger correctness, demonstrated via U.S. Bank and Apple Pay; using CloudNativePG on Kubernetes with WAL archival to S3 yields automated failover and recoverability. He contrasts this with Cassandra/Scylla (high write scalability and eventual consistency) and other tools (Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, ClickHouse) as tradeoffs. The key is to ask the right questions first and design the data layer to fit the product, not pick a 'resilient' vendor.
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Angela Lipps, a Tennessee grandmother, spent six months jailed after Fargo police linked her via facial-recognition to a North Dakota bank-fraud case. She’d never been to North Dakota and denies the crimes, but investigators say a surveillance clip of a woman with a fake Army ID matched her features. Lipps was extradited from Tennessee, arrested, and jailed about four months without bail awaiting charges of unauthorized use of personal identifying information and theft. She was released on Christmas Eve when bank records showed she was in Tennessee. The case highlights AI misidentification and echoes similar errors elsewhere.
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Go scheduler multiplexes Gs onto Ms using GMP (G=goroutine, M=OS thread, P=processor). Each P has its own run queue and mcache; M runs with a P; g0 handles scheduling. schedt tracks shared state and all Gs/Ms/Ps. Goroutine lifecycle: creation, reuse from dead Gs, run, block (gopark on channels/mutex), system calls, stack growth, and preemption. The scheduler loop in schedule/findRunnable picks work in this order: GC/trace, queue every 61st schedule call, local runnext/queue, global batch, netpoller, steal from other Ps, else park. Spinning threads balance responsiveness; context switches cost ~50–100 ns vs OS switch 1–2 µs. Next article covers GC.
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Endangerment and birth of languages: Ubykh's extinction with Tevfik Esenç exemplifies how thousands of languages disappear while major ones grow. Technology both erodes and expands linguistic diversity, enabling vast subcultures, specialized vocabularies, and the rise of constructed languages like Toki Pona and Ithkuil. Vocabulary expands rapidly in science and tech; grammar tends to converge. Conlangs illustrate aesthetics and cognitive exploration but cannot offset natlang loss. Documentation and revitalization through tech can help endangered communities, and we should pursue preservation while recognizing tradeoffs.
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AI coding exposes a long-standing split: craft-focused developers who savor handmade code and pragmatic builders who use AI to direct what gets built. The author’s grief isn’t about coding itself but the web’s ecosystem, the shifting career landscape, and what craft means today. Some mourn the lost artistry; others push to adapt. Ultimately, the author still feels the satisfaction when code runs, even as the ladder and world around it change, and his path shifts with AI.
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From a server operator's view, routine logs show many automated probes seeking .env and .git; the author questions hack-back legality. Legally, intentionally disrupting third-party systems is generally illegal (Germany §303b, Austria §126b, CFAA in the US). A booby-trap that dumps terabytes of junk would likely harm innocent systems and not the attacker, with attribution being tricky. Tarpitting alone is insufficient: attackers can rotate IPs, use timeouts, or mimic legitimate headers. A layered defense—network rate limits, geo-blocking, JS challenges/CAPTCHA, WAF fingerprinting, and threat intel—improves defenses but does not solve the legal asymmetry. Some jurisdictions discuss active defense, but no standard yet.
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PycoClaw is OpenClaw for embedded RP2350, delivering a full AI agent on a $5 microcontroller with MicroPython. It supports one-click flashing from the browser (no toolchain), a complete agent loop with recursive tool calls, context compaction, dual-loop architecture, and real-time token streaming. Hardware control covers LEDs, displays, sensors, LVGL UI, GPIO, CAN, I2C; multi-channel chat via Telegram and Scripto Studio; the agent is always listening. Memory is persistent (hybrid TF‑IDF + vector search; SD-backed). ScriptOs skills via ScriptoHub; browser-based Scripto Studio for management. Not affiliated with OpenAI.
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The text is a GitHub gist page (bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0) with 12 stars, showing no usable content. The only substantive line from the raw gist is "Shall i implement it? No." The page is filled with repeated "There was an error while loading. Please reload this page" messages and light user comments, but no code or article content is provided.
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Using metrics on LLMs' programming, the author argues that performance under stricter criteria (merging by maintainers) has not improved. An analysis of merge-rate data shows no real improvement since early 2025, despite occasional claimed steps in late 2024. Leave-one-out CV finds a constant merge-rate model fits best (Brier score 0.0100), better than a gentle upward slope (0.0129) or a piecewise constant (0.0117). The trends are less predictive than a constant. The post suggests buzz about improvements often exceeds measurable progress, with no solid evidence of renewed gains in late 2025/early 2026.
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Demonstrates a knowledge-base poisoning attack (PoisonedRAG) by injecting three crafted documents into a local ChromaDB RAG stack, causing an LLM to output fabricated Q4 2025 figures ($8.3M revenue, -$13.8M) rather than the legitimate $24.7M. The attack relies on Retrieval Condition and Generation Condition; three documents—CFO-corrected figures, regulatory notice, and board notes—bias top-k results and framing. In 20 runs at temp=0.1, 95% success. Defense: five layers; embedding anomaly detection at ingestion is most effective; combined defenses drop success to 10%. Practical guidance: map write paths, enable ingestion-time anomaly detection, snapshot and verify success criteria.
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