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Using the bread paradox, the author shows people buy pre-made bread for convenience, reliability, and time saved, despite cheap ingredients. Translating to SaaS: AI lowers the cost of building, but durable SaaS wins by selling convenience, accountability, and a proven ecosystem (not just code). If you DIY with AI, you inherit maintenance, security gaps, and a fragile supply chain. Expect SaaS pricing to move toward usage/outcome models; many single-feature products will die. The core idea: rent a solution, not own the problem; trust and scale keep SaaS thriving.
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Request to set a user-agent and respect the robot policy; see https://w.wiki/4wJS and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400119.
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Demand sustains the illicit trade in looted antiquities. The Koh Ker case shows a global network—looters, restorers, brokers, forgers—moving stolen artifacts from conflict zones to Western buyers, with pieces ending up in private collections or major museums. Despite repatriations and prosecutions (Latchford case; U.S. DOJ/Homeland Security efforts; Manhattan DA Antiquities Trafficking Unit; Met provenance work), looting continues in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Ukraine. Only reducing demand—through tougher enforcement and international cooperation that raises costs—will shrink the market.
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Fabien Sanglard re-watches Jurassic Park to catalogue onscreen computers and software. He maps Nedry and Arnold’s desks, the control room’s real hardware, and props like an Apple Powerbook 100, Motorola Envoy, PLI Mini Arrays, SGI Indigo/Crimson, CM-5 supercomputers, SuperMatch 20‑T monitors, SGI Granite keyboard, and Macintosh Quadra 700. The set used authentic gear loaned by Apple and SGI—about $875k + $350k in 1993, roughly $4 million today. He also notes QuickTime fakery, Nedryland screens, and nods to The Making Of Jurassic Park.
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background-clouds adds a lightweight, animated low-poly cloud background for websites. It uses a single canvas, has no dependencies, and pauses motion for users who prefer reduced motion. It provides SPA-friendly lifecycle methods (start, stop, resize, setSeed, destroy). Install with npm install background-clouds and initialize with createCloudBackground({ canvas, seed, speed, opacity }). Seed is deterministic. Defaults: speed and opacity to 1; pixelRatio default 2; supports reducedMotion. The package handles the canvas pixels; CSS controls positioning. MIT license.
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Rising AI-driven data-center electricity demand has pushed U.S. prices up by about $23 billion through 2028; ratepayers bear most grid-infrastructure costs because regulators allocate costs across customer groups. Data centers can sometimes avoid coincident-peak charges via flexible workloads, potentially shifting more expense onto residential and small businesses. Public-regulator processes involve utility proposals, industry input, and consumer advocates who may struggle to represent residents. Long-term costs may persist even if data centers underperform; advocates urge public comment to ensure consumer interests are protected.
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Collection of Erdős problems (broadly additive, geometric, Ramsey-type) with formal machine-checked proofs. Each entry states the problem, its resolution (often with explicit constants or asymptotics), and a Lean 4 + Mathlib verification note. Examples include proved/disproved results such as Erdős 123, 129, 130, 254, 267, 320, 321, 336, 394, 450, 489, 521, 522, 538, 584, 638, 662, 709, 769, 793, 796, 959, 1183, 1186, 1188, 1189. The text also details verification workflows, downloadable proof bundles, and axiom-free kernels.
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A security-bulletin hub detailing numerous Tailscale vulnerabilities disclosed 2022–2026 across components (Serve, Funnel, SSH, DERP, ACLs, admin console, Tailnet Lock, shared domains, etc.). Each advisory notes impact and required actions, with fixes released in patched versions (commonly 1.98.9+; Tailnet Lock fixes in 1.90.8+; other fixes around 1.68.0–1.66.0). Some advisories require no action; most urge upgrading to a secured release. The page also credits reporters and summarizes the disclosure process and remediation guidance.
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Vancouver Police Department’s site provides victim services and safety guidance (IPV, human trafficking, fraud prevention), community initiatives (Community Policing Centres, SisterWatch, youth outreach, mental health partnerships), and access to reports, policies, crime statistics, and strategic planning. It covers agency history, leadership, and honors, recruitment and civilian careers, and contact options (emergency 911, non-emergency reporting, missing persons, police checks, fingerprinting). The page also highlights World Cup 2026 policing, VPD Connect app, crime mapping, and complaint/compliments processes.
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TL;DR: your smart appliances may be the source of global scraping. Using Anubis’ honeypot and Sourceware data, the author finds 2,678,193 unique IPs, with 10.7% flagged (abuse/datacenter/proxy) and 89.3% clean. Notably, 80–90% of honeypot hits come from IPs not on threat lists, signaling widespread, unmanaged scraper traffic likely from compromised devices. The honeypot serves invalid HTML to trap scrapers, illustrating a global problem that requires coordinated action; web application firewalls like Anubis can help.
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Microsoft released July Patch Tuesday patches for at least 570 vulnerabilities across Windows and other software—nearly three times last month—driven by AI-assisted discovery. Roughly 60 are critical; three zero-days are being exploited in the wild. Notable fixes include CVE-2026-56155 (Active Directory Federation Services), CVE-2026-56164 (SharePoint), and CVE-2026-50661 (Windows BitLocker feature bypass). CVE-2026-48561 is a Copilot remote-code-execution flaw. Experts warn AI speeds exploit development; Microsoft notes patch volume will rise. Guidance: back up, consider delaying updates to avoid stability issues; patch cadence is rising industry-wide.
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Shows how C++20's range-based for with initializer lets you get an index and element in one loop: for (int i = 0; auto&& it : vec) { ... } This mirrors Python/Lua examples and avoids manual indexing unlike C++17 code. The feature, similar to if-with-initializer, simplifies for-loops by furnishing both index and value in the loop scope. The author praises it, plans to use it going forward, and asks readers for other small QoL features.
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Switzerland largely restricts fixed air-conditioning installations, with cantons like Geneva and Zurich imposing permits, energy-efficiency, noise, and building-façade considerations. Vaud has eased rules for reversible heat pumps. The federal structure means rules vary, with French-speaking cantons typically stricter. Historically, homes were built to retain heat, but climate change is making summers hotter, increasing demand for cooling. While portable units and fans remain common, there’s rising debate about relaxing restrictions on fixed systems to adapt to heat, despite concerns about energy use and emissions.
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LeMario reproduces LeWorldModel (JEPA) on Super Mario Bros, training from pixels and actions. The model encodes each frame to a 192-d latent and encodes 5×6 actions to another 192-d vector; a transformer predicts next latents. Actions inject via AdaLN‑Zero with shift, scale, and gate controls for attention and MLP. A projection head predicts future latents; loss L_pred + 0.1 L_SIGReg prevents collapse. Trained on 737k frames, it learns dynamics and beats baselines, but cannot plan long-horizon progress. Probing shows horizontal position is captured; vertical is weak. Lessons: predictive state ≠ controllable state; evaluation must reflect desired behavior; data matters.
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FX-870P Emulator is a browser-based Casio FX-870P/VX-4 emulator implemented in TypeScript and Vue 3. It's a web port of the Delphi-based reference emulator, with credits to the original authors. It faithfully emulates the FX-870P hardware (Hitachi HD61700 at 921 kHz, 96×64 LCD, 83-key keyboard, serial, optional MD-120 floppy) and includes ROM banking, OPFS-based floppy storage, a BASIC program library, RS-232C, a DEFCHR$ editor, a character-set viewer, and a CPU debugger. Features also include a responsive face, full keyboard mapping, turbo mode, and fullscreen. Requires Node.js 22, ROMs in public/roms, and a dev/build workflow.
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The piece argues that linear and other issue-tracking tools are lagging visibility indicators. Using them for management fosters a focus on tickets rather than engineering, since final steps like coding and deployment are often automated. Much work is spent figuring out what the organization is doing, including writing prompts for tickets. The author estimates about 50% of work is internal coordination. He suggests using an LLM to synthesize status from Slack, docs, PRs, and reviews, and urges dropping rigid linear constraints to reclaim ticketing as a true engineering tool.
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The PSP has a dual-core architecture: the main MIPS core plus a second core called ME (Media Engine), with a co-processor VME (Virtual Mobile Engine) for real-time multimedia decoding. Sony hid ME in user mode, exposing only kernel interfaces; Vita lacks ME, breaking PSP homebrew compatibility. Developers like m-cid and PSP True Overclocking are creating libraries to access ME/VME, enabling easier homebrew and potential speedups (e.g., emulators, Perfect Dark port). The article links GitHub repos for deeper exploration.
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Researchers analyzing Text 19 on the wall of a mid-8th‑century Maya chamber at Xultun, Guatemala, identified a complex calendar math that links a 2,920‑day cycle with Maya units (Uinal, Tzolkin, Tun) and with Venus and solar calendars. The inscription demonstrates how these cycles interrelate and was likely created as a "mathematical flex" by a named mathematician-astronomer, Sak Tahn Waax ("White-Chested Fox"), indicating mathematicians held recognition in Maya society. The chamber probably served as a scribal workspace for codices.
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