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Google says “bite-sized” content for LLMs is not a viable SEO strategy. In the Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan explain that Google doesn’t use chunking signals to improve rankings; the long-term ranking signal is content created for humans. While edge cases may exist, optimizing for LLMs can backfire as systems evolve. Publishers should focus on human-centered content, since human behavior signals drive lasting search exposure, not machine-focused, fragmented content.
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Robbins asks if LLMs can reach poetry’s ‘greatness,’ defined as a poem that is both particular (rooted in a specific life and culture) and universal (resonant beyond it). She contrasts Gwern’s artisanal approach—multi-model prompting, staged analysis, critique, and revision with living culture as a goal—with Mercor’s RLHF-style strategy: hire expert poets to design rubrics and evaluate AI output to train models across domains. She argues LLMs mirror training data and lack culture, hindering true greatness. Yeats’s 'For Anne Gregory' illustrates the danger of losing local particularity. Gwern may reach it; Mercor seeks scalable impact.
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Treat every interaction as a conditioning event. People treat conversations as repeat games, shaping how they approach you and which problems they bring. Your tone, timing, and consistency train others on how to feel about working with you; you become Pavlov, signaling what feedback you reward or discourage. Hard feedback can motivate if well delivered, but always solving for others or always critiquing leads to disengagement. Over time, your reputation and progress depend on these feedback loops.
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The post catalogs the recurring billboarded food art in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Ride from Melee (2001) to Kirby Air Riders (2025), tracing how stock images are reused and subtly altered across titles. It cites sources from Sozaijiten, Spriters Resource, and Material Dictionary CDs, notes color/outline shifts, and chronicles item-count growth from 28 foods in Melee to 38 in Ultimate, with Kirby Air Riders’ 45 foods using all-new models. It highlights unique foods per title, art-direction changes, and a new Gourmet Race mode with Large Foods, plus the author’s wiki contributions.
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Against anti-AI hype: AI will reshape programming soon. The author left work to study AI’s social and coding impact and now sees LLMs completing large subtasks with strong prompts. Four Claude Code wins: UTF-8 support for linenoise with terminal testing; fixing Redis tests; a 700-line pure C BERT-like embedding library; and rapid Redis Streams changes reproduced by AI. They praise AI-driven democratization of code, warn against centralization, and urge open source efforts, proactive adaptation, and government support for workers displaced by automation.
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Sam Medley chronicles his switch from Windows 11 to Linux (Artix/Arch-based) on desktop and laptop after Windows instability and telemetry concerns, trying Mint, Debian, Fedora, and Void before settling on Artix for speed and control. He details hurdles: Wi‑Fi drivers on an older MacBook Air, KDE artifacts, Steam compatibility gaps, and iPhone integration issues. Yet he praises Linux for speed, stability, customization, and learning, saying the system restores computing joy and is worth the effort despite the learning curve.
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Max Payne (2001) pushed graphics within DirectX 8 constraints (450 MHz CPU, ~16 MB GPU) through clever tricks: prebaked lightmaps, texture-based detail textures, fake geometry and baked reflections, and standout particle effects (bullets, smoke, glass, sparks). Surfaces lack dynamic shadows, environment maps, and normal maps; lighting leaks and soft shadows persist; particles don’t interact with the world; occasional timing/clip issues and potential improvements like simple LOD and better decals. The result was ahead of its time and a milestone in realtime rendering.
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Screenie Project Part 1 outlines a hardware–software solution to unify and measure kids’ screen time. Fragmented controls across iOS, Family Link, Nintendo, and PS5 impede accurate usage and syncing. The insight: measurement, not trust; automatic shutdown is unreliable. The plan: a dedicated physical device (Screenie) with a single start/stop button, plus a parental web app as the single source of truth for weekly limits and bedtimes. The device syncs with the app, and kids can see usage and request more time. Why a device: visibility and simplicity without a smartphone. Next: Part 2.
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HTML5 allows omitting end tags for many elements (p, li, img, br); such elements can be void (no end tag). The /> self-closing syntax comes from XML and is not required in HTML5, though common for migration from XHTML. Non-void elements behave differently in HTML vs XHTML when self-closed. Best practice: be consistent—either omit optional end tags or close non-void tags; for migration, simply switch to <!DOCTYPE html>. This article defends that omitting end tags is not invalid in HTML5, and offers guidance for authors and teams.
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std::move doesn’t move anything; it simply converts an lvalue to an xvalue (rvalue), signaling the compiler to perform a move via a Move Constructor/Move Assignment. Value categories (lvalue, prvalue, xvalue) determine what can be moved. Common mistakes: return std::move(local) disables NRVO; std::move on const objects copies instead of moves; moved-from objects are valid but unspecified. Best practice: implement Rule of Five with noexcept move ops; use std::exchange to transfer ownership; don’t use moved-from objects; reserve std::forward for templates. Benchmarks show moves can be ~7× faster than copies; proper use matters.
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A Japan-based developer-entrepreneur who recently sold his startup after eight years. He learned hard lessons: he worked extremely hard in the wrong direction, chased too many ideas, and isn’t great at managing people. He loves focusing on work he truly enjoys and is endlessly curious across fields. He believes technology should free us to enjoy the real world. His current goal is to get unplugged from the digital world by using tech to boost output with less effort. He stays focused on a few projects, blogs infrequently, invests, reads, and values family and friends.
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Vojtux is an unofficial Fedora-based live distro designed for visually impaired users. It provides Kickstart-based live images (English and Czech) and packages most customizations as RPMs, aiming to stay close to upstream Fedora to ease maintenance. The project adds accessibility-focused tweaks (Orca at login, QT accessibility, screen reader support) but delegates fixes upstream. Building requires Fedora, livemedia-creator, and related tools; a Docker build path exists but not maintained. The live media is based on Fedora 43; contributors are welcomed.
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Iran cut internet and phone services during nationwide protests, isolating 85 million people and hindering documentation of the crackdown. Starlink receivers, increasingly common in Iran, face disruption as authorities allegedly jam GPS signals and possibly use mobile jammers. Experts report about 30% packet loss overall, up to 80% in some areas, suggesting activity beyond simple GPS jamming. Starlink has become a key conduit for protest videos, despite its illegality. The regime warns protesters could face the death penalty and diaspora rushes to learn any news.
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Bandersnatch, Black Mirror's interactive film, draws on a century-and-a-half of influences. Its title comes from Lewis Carroll's Bandersnatch and nods to The Jabberwocky; the story centers on a 1980s video-game programmer whose choose-your-own-adventure game is shaped by brutal industry realities. Real Megagame attempts by Imagine Software (1982–84) inspired Bandersnatch; literary influences include Orwell (agency), Philip K. Dick (paranoia, The Exegesis, Ubik), William S. Burroughs, and Jeff Minter. Studio echoes include Sierra adventure games and Edward Packard's CYOA. The piece frames Bandersnatch as a meta, nostalgia-infused reflection on creation and control.
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Free, open-source guide to TypeScript: The Concise TypeScript Book by gibbok. A comprehensive, accessible resource covering TypeScript basics (types, interfaces, classes, generics) through advanced topics (mapped/conditional types, utility types, type inference, narrowing, decorators, JSX, ES modules, module resolution, tsconfig, downleveling, and runtime interop). Includes explanations, examples, translations, and downloadable EPUB; hosted at gibbok.github.io/typescript-book and repository gibbok/typescript-book. Suitable for beginners and experienced developers; donations suggested.
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PrintReadyBook is an AI-powered book generator that lets you create a complete manuscript in minutes. Enter a concept and settings, and AI writes a full, professionally formatted manuscript with chapters, a title page, and copyright. It also generates an AI cover art image tailored to your genre and concept, plus a print-ready wraparound cover with spine. Deliverables include a print-ready PDF and an editable DOCX file. Editing the manuscript requires reformatting for print (auto-reformat coming soon).
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Visual regression tests for marending.dev use Playwright to compare screenshots of multiple routes against golden snapshots stored in Git. If a snapshot is missing, tests require running with --update-snapshots. To handle lazy-loaded images, the test scrolls the page in steps to ensure all images load before capture. Routes are currently a static list; dynamic discovery was considered but complicates per-test granularity. The workflow favors a simple, manual approach—run tests when changes might affect visuals rather than on every commit.
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Ripple is a compiler-first TypeScript UI framework designed for fast, clean, reactive apps with minimal boilerplate. It uses track() and @ for reactive variables, avoids useState/ref/.value, and relies on fine-grained DOM updates with inline control flow and scoped CSS. Its design goals emphasize compiler-driven optimization, low cognitive load, and a small runtime. A Todo List demo showcases components (TodoInput, TodoItem, App) and core syntax, while a framework comparison positions Ripple as simpler, more granular than React/Vue/Svelte. Ideal for AI-assisted codebases and maintainable dashboards.
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BBC reports on New Brunswick's 'mystery brain disease' saga. What began in 2019 as a few CJD-like cases grew to hundreds, with Dr. Alier Marrero diagnosing a 'New Brunswick Neurological Syndrome of Unknown Cause' at the Mind Clinic. Officials backed an environmental-toxin search, but the province cut ties and funding in 2021. Marrero was dismissed in 2022; many patients faced ongoing testing, some pursuing assisted dying. In 2025, a JAMA study led by Anthony Lang found no unknown disease, attributing cases to known conditions and misdiagnosis, fueling anger from patients and advocates and a review of glyphosate exposure.
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