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IEA's 2025 analysis declares the world in the Age of Electricity, driven by solar. Solar PV had the largest annual increase ever for any source, accounting for about a quarter of all energy-demand growth and over two-thirds of electricity demand growth, totaling around 2,700 TWh and rising to 8% of global electricity. Battery capacity grew 40% to ~110 GW, enabling solar to cut fossil-fuel backups. Carbon emissions rose ~0.4% in 2025, with green tech displacing ~7% of fossil fuel use and reducing emissions by ~8%. The shift accelerated, aided by ongoing renewables expansion and nuclear growth, especially in China.
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Drunk veteran data engineer lays out blunt lessons: career growth comes from moving between companies; core software patterns matter more than any stack; know when to hunt for a new job; be honest with your manager; if on-call nights happen more than rarely, fix or quit; good leadership mirrors good engineering and should defend you while considering other views; documentation and clear change proposals are vital; SQL rules data engineering; Airflow and ML projects are often overrated; remote work requires true parity; legacy is people, not code; invest in yourself and kindness.
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Explores how acetaminophen and ibuprofen work and their risks. Ibuprofen, an NSAID, can irritate the stomach, raise heart attack risk, and harm kidneys, with risk depending on hydration and health. Acetaminophen is generally safer but can cause fatal liver failure if you overdose, via NAPQI accumulation when glutathione is depleted; liver disease can shift risk toward acetaminophen, though doses must be limited (often 2 g/day for liver disease, up to 4 g/day otherwise). Labels rarely say "safer" explicitly; the FDA label process is praised. Acute overdose is treated with NAC. Don’t self-medicate.
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San Diego rents fell more than 19 of the nation’s top 20 markets as new housing supply rose, according to a Zumper report. The median 1-bedroom declined 5.6% and 2-bedroom 7.5% year over year, with active listings up about 15%. City officials credit pro-housing policies and plan updates for the supply, giving renters more leverage. San Diego remains pricey: 1-bedroom median $2,200; 2-bedroom $2,950; national rents edged down slightly.
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Anthropic appears to have removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month Pro plan for new users. Current Pro subscribers reportedly still access Claude Code via the web app, but support docs now say Claude Code is accessed with a Max plan, and pricing pages show its removal for mobile/desktop. Anthropic says a small test is rolling out to ~2% of new prosumer signups; existing Pro and Max subscribers aren’t affected. The change may be a cost-cutting move amid a shift to per‑million‑token billing, potentially pushing Pro users toward API access.
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Jason Eckert tests Windows Server 2025 on ARM64 (Snapdragon X Elite) vs x64 Intel in Hyper-V VMs. ARM64 showed steadier, lower-latency performance due to sustained clocks and reduced scheduling variability; x64 had boost/throttle variability. In tests of CPU usage, processor queue length, and services (IIS, DNS, AD, domain auth, file I/O), ARM64 was more consistent; x64 sometimes faster at peak but less predictable. Conclusion: latency-sensitive workloads may benefit from ARM64; Windows Server on ARM64 not yet fully supported, though Azure uses ARM64. For teaching, x64 remains practical due to nested virtualization not yet supported on ARM64 in Hyper-V.
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Maher traces Rennes-le-Château from Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982) through its media and gaming afterlives, showing how speculative history fed a broader conspiracy culture. The book’s success spurred sequels, media hype, and a cascade of imitators (The Tomb of God, Graham Hancock), while Eco and Timewatch debunked the theories. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code turbocharged the phenomenon, turning fiction into quasi-history and driving a vast legal dispute over originality. The essay uses the craze to reflect on hyperreality and the uneasy boundary between fact and fiction.
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Ed Zitron posts on Bluesky about a JavaScript-heavy, interactive app (Bluesky info at bsky.social and atproto.com). A note claims Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its $20/month pro subscription; the author asks who still offers a $20 plan (as of 2026-04-21T21:55:23.549Z).
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The Simons Foundation features a Fields Medal video of Maryna Viazovska (EPFL), proving the E8 lattice yields the densest eight-dimensional sphere packing and solving Fourier-analysis problems. Shown at the ICM opening in Helsinki on July 5, 2022, it directs readers to Quanta Magazine coverage. The 2022 Fields Medal winners are Hugo Duminil-Copin, June Huh, James Maynard, and Maryna Viazovska.
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GitHub is revamping Copilot Individual plans to protect existing users: new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student are paused; usage limits tightened and now shown in VS Code and Copilot CLI. Opus models are removed from Pro; Opus 4.7 remains in Pro+. Pro+ offers over 5x higher weekly limits. If limits hit, you can cancel Pro/Pro+ for a refund before May 20. Copilot uses session and weekly token-based limits; premium entitlements are separate. The changes address higher compute from agentic workflows to keep service reliable while a sustainable model is developed.
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CrabTrap is an open-source LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy that intercepts every AI agent request, evaluates it against a policy, and allows or blocks in real time. It logs whether decisions are based on static rules or LLM judgment, and lets users edit or add rules. Setup is quick (30 seconds) with copyable commands; resources include Github, blog posts, and demos. The page also includes Brex corporate and product information, including pricing: plans start at $0 per user per month, with advanced features at $12 per user per month.
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Backlit-kbd is a beginner-friendly Python package to control keyboard backlight brightness on Linux. It auto-discovers real sysfs devices and offers a mock backend for safe testing. Install via pip install backlit-kbd; optionally install -e . for development. Quick start: import NotificationBlinker and create_controller with fallback_to_mock; turn_on brightness (e.g., 60%), blink patterns, and async notifications. CLI supports info, set/percent/inc/dec/on/off/blink/notify, with --mock for safe mode. Documentation includes tests (pytest), troubleshooting, MIT license, authored by Adarsh Gourab Mahalik (itsmeadarsh2008).
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Zindex provides a diagram infrastructure where agents create, edit, validate, and render diagrams as durable state via the Diagram Scene Protocol (DSP). Agents describe nodes/edges; layout is computed by a Sugiyama-style pipeline. Patchable stable IDs enable incremental updates. Deterministic, inspectable pipeline: validate → normalize → layout → render. Supports SVG and PNG outputs with multiple themes. A multi-agent, production-grade system with 17 operation types and 40+ validation rules, durable history, PostgreSQL storage. Domain-aware for architectures, BPMN, ER diagrams, etc.; acts as the middle layer between agent reasoning and visuals.
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Anthropic's Claude pricing spans Free, Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise, and Education (self-serve and sales-assisted). Pro starts around $17–20/month with annual discounts; Max from about $100/month. Team seats are $20 per seat/month (annual) or $25 monthly; Premium seats offer higher usage. Enterprise is seat-plus-API pricing with admin controls (SSO, SCIM, audit logs) and HIPAA-ready options. Education plans cover university use. Features across plans include Claude chat, Claude Code, Cowork, web search, memory, file/code execution, and connectors (Slack, Google Docs). Optional batch processing offers substantial savings.
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California officials found two CalPERS-related accounting errors totaling about $2 billion in the January budget, reducing the projected $2.9 billion shortfall and possibly making it much smaller. A memo leaked to KCRA 3 cited a $1.6 billion double-count of CalPERS contributions and about $450 million in future-contribution errors. Newsom’s administration says it’s a revision, not an error, to be reflected in the May Revision. Lawmakers and critics complain the public wasn’t notified, raising transparency concerns as budget negotiations continue.
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Why I don’t want your PRs anymore: with LLMs, external code changes aren’t worth the review overhead. I prefer to write changes myself with an LLM and focus on understanding, design, and reviews. Software development is shifting from source code to code as an intermediate layer; coding agents exist, and I’m in-between. So, contribute by giving feedback, discussing ideas, reporting and investigating bugs (with clear repro steps), prototyping by sharing prompts or reference code, reviewing and pointing out problems, or forking the code and customizing your own version.
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UK EVs are cheaper upfront than petrol cars by about £785 on average, with petrol at £43,405 and EVs at £42,620 after discounts (Autotrader via The Guardian). This is driven by affordable Chinese EVs in the UK, where there are no tariffs on Chinese imports, unlike the US and EU. A £3,750 UK EV grant helps, and many sub-£15k EVs exist from Chinese and European brands. The trend supports decarbonization targets, though the all-EV deadline was weakened; running costs remain lower due to cheaper electricity and maintenance.
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