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Anne Fadiman recounts The South Polar Times, the Antarctic winter magazine conceived by Scott and Shackleton during the Discovery expedition and later edited by Cherry-Garrard on Terra Nova. It invited anonymous contributions from officers and sailors, blending science, humor, verse, and Wilson’s illustrations, especially penguins, with photographs from Ponting. It helped ward off winter gloom and reinforced a genteel hut culture despite harsh survival conditions. After Scott’s party perished near the Pole, Cherry-Garrard published one last issue; Wilson’s art and the magazine’s legacy endure among explorers and readers.
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Freek van der Herten introduces Scotty, a new SSH task runner that lets you define and run deploy scripts and remote tasks from the terminal with real-time output. It supports Laravel Envoy’s Blade format and a new plain Bash format (Scotty.sh). Tasks are Bash functions annotated with # @task and # @servers, can be grouped into macros, and can accept CLI variables (uppercased). Features: pause/resume (p), pretend mode, summary mode, and a doctor command to validate the setup. It can migrate from Envoy and reads Envoy.blade.php directly. Example deploys shown; source on GitHub.
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Alex Kim analyzes Anthropic’s accidental Claude Code source map leak in npm, exposing the full CLI source. Highlights: anti-distillation injects fake tools to pollute training data; server-side summarization with cryptographic signatures to obscure reasoning; undercover mode that hides internal codenames in external repos (no force-off); a regex-based frustration detector; native client attestation below the JS runtime (Bun/Zig) to verify the binary; about 250,000 wasted API calls per day due to autocompaction failures; hints of KAIROS, an unreleased autonomous-agent mode; plus an April Fools Tamagotchi companion. Real damage is roadmap leakage, not the code itself.
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An engineering blog recounts a February 2026 mishap: a Claude-powered automation hook spawned multiple Claude instances, triggering a fork bomb that exploded memory usage, froze, then bricked the author’s computer. The runaway process also drove API costs, with a roughly $600 spike and an eventual $3800 Claude API bill. After force-quitting and removing the hook, the system stabilized. The post also catalogs in-house Claude tools and skills—yadumb, memento, yablind, adhd, money—and pre/post tool-use hooks—to manage context, logging, and task prioritization, reflecting on agentic workflows and what was learned from the crash.
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KV cache is per-token keys/values stored in GPU memory that lets an LLM generate new tokens without re-reading history, making memory usage scale linearly. Costs vary: GPT-2 ~300 KiB/token; 4,000-token chats ~1.2 GB; Llama 3 ~128 KiB; DeepSeek V3 ~68.6 KiB; Gemma 3 uses a sliding window. Some designs (Mamba) skip KV cache altogether. Over time, architectures moved from full recall to compression to selective attention. Users notice pauses when caches are evicted; caching is cheaper but not free. When memory grows, compaction occurs, sometimes lossy, and external memory systems fill gaps. A trend toward AI-managed memory, still human-guided.
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forkrun is a NUMA-aware, Bash-native streaming parallelizer that self-tunes and serves as a drop-in replacement for GNU Parallel and xargs -P. It delivers 50×–400× acceleration on modern CPUs with 95–99% CPU utilization and minimal cross-socket traffic. Implemented as a self-contained Bash script with an embedded C extension, it is sourced via frun.bash to expose frun as a parallelizer. It uses a four-stage, NUMA-local pipeline (Ingest, Index, Claim, Reclaim) with a PID-based auto-tuner and requires Bash ≥4 and Linux ≥3.17. MIT.
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An exclusive excerpt tracks how DeepMind founders Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman pursued a radical governance experiment to tame AGI: a 3‑3‑3 board and a 'global interest company' that might spin out or even raise $5 billion to safeguard AI. Through 2016–2018, they hosted SpaceX/Asilomar/Aviemore‑style meetings, clashing with Google’s view that AI should fuel its core business. OpenAI and industry tensions paralleled the struggle. After years of brinkmanship, the plan collapsed: Suleyman left amid bullying allegations; Hassabis refocused on science. The piece argues governance alone cannot ensure safe AGI; trust and power within firms matter more.
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An article about hyprmoncfg, a terminal-based monitor layout tool for Hyprland. It replaces manual monitor= lines with a real spatial editor in a TUI: left canvas with draggable monitors and snapping, plus per-monitor inspector (resolution, refresh rate, scale, transform, VRR, mirroring) and a workspace planner. Works over SSH. Safe apply: atomically write monitors.conf, reload Hyprland, verify; auto-reverts after 10 seconds if needed. Profiles are JSON dotfiles; daemon auto-applies the right layout when hardware changes. No Python/GTK; Go binaries; Arch install commands; comparisons to other tools.
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Greptile argues that despite the surge of AI-generated code, good code will win because economic incentives favor simplicity and maintainability. The piece notes rising software complexity, larger PRs and changes, and more outages as AI-enabled development grows. Citing John Ousterhout, it argues that simple, well-architected code is cheaper to understand and maintain, and that upfront design reduces future costs. As AI coding matures, models will be incentivized to produce good, lean code to stay competitive.
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Dot is an on-device AI personal assistant for iPhone that learns your preferences and can create custom skills via Shortcuts. It can control smart home devices, manage reminders/calendar, send messages/emails, play music, and jot notes hands-free. It emphasizes privacy by storing conversations on-device and not using cloud accounts. It supports Claude, Kimi, or on-device Apple Foundation Models, including offline options for privacy. It learns context across conversations and can generate new skills on the fly. A premium subscription unlocks enhanced features, with auto-renewal through iTunes.
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RubyGems Fracture Incident Report recounts Sept 10–18, 2025, when Ruby Central attempted to offboard André Arko and Samuel Giddins and restrict GitHub production access tied to RubyGems.org. Lacking runbooks and clear access-offboarding policies, the move relied on GitHub Business/Enterprise permissions, provoking the 'maintainers' to walk out and sparking a protracted, poorly communicated dispute over ownership, access, and governance. The report distills lessons: need explicit offboarding processes, clearer explanations with access changes, and a governance RFC to separate production access. It ends with ongoing governance improvements (2026 updates).
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Girls’ games are culturally devalued and underpreserved, erasing a legacy of feminine design. FEMICOM founder Rachel Weil argues this gaps hampers inspiration for new developers. Since the 80s, marketing favored boys, making girl-oriented titles shadows in game studies, and creators face biases and scarce starting-tools. The piece highlights Consume Me and Sweatermaker as examples of rich, gendered design that’s often dismissed as "not real games." It urges more diverse resources, supportive communities, and honest exploration of femininities to broaden game design—and it situates the discussion within Woke Week.
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Italy refused landing rights for U.S. military aircraft at Sigonella in Sicily for a Middle East mission. The planes’ flight plan wasn’t communicated in advance and the use wasn’t covered by the 1954 treaty’s logistical provisions, thus needing parliamentary approval. Defense Minister Crosetto said bases aren’t closed to the U.S., but authorizations are decided case by case. A Meloni government note said there have been no friction with Washington and relations remain solid, with requests evaluated individually.
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Cohere introduces Transcribe, a 2B-parameter, conformer-based open-source ASR model designed for enterprise use. Trained from scratch to minimize word error rate, it achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, ranking 1st on HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard with an average WER of 5.42% across real-world tasks, outperforming Whisper Large v3 and others. It supports 14 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Polish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic) and runs efficiently on GPUs or locally, via HuggingFace download, API, or Cohere Model Vault for private deployment. Positioned as a foundation for enterprise speech intelligence within Cohere North.
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Loreline is a narrative scripting language written in Haxe, transpiled to many targets so one codebase runs on engines and languages from C# and C++ to JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Lua, and more. It uses a processing pipeline: Lexer, Parser, AST, then Runtime Interpreter; scripts run directly from plain text with no pre-compile. The interpreter uses CPS and a stack of runtime scopes to pause at dialogue or choices and support save/restore. It ships hundreds of automated tests per target. It's open source on GitHub with VS Code tooling and cross-engine compatibility (Ink/Yarn comparisons).
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These Terms govern Copilot apps and services for conversations and actions. Effective Oct 24, 2025, they cover eligibility (usually 13+), definitions (Prompts, Responses, Your Content, Actions), and a Code of Conduct. Copilot may err; verify and report issues. Microsoft may limit or revoke access. Shopping via Copilot uses third‑party merchants; terms are theirs. You own Your Content but grant Microsoft rights to use it to run and improve Copilot; privacy follows the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Updates require notice; US arbitration may apply.
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Monaspace is a GitHub–Lettermatic project: a five-font monospace superfamily for code editors (Argon, Neon, Xenon, Radon, Krypton). It preserves a single grid so fonts can be mixed without breaking code alignment. It introduces Texture Healing, a context-aware mechanism that slightly widens or narrows glyphs (not breaking the grid) to improve legibility, including punctuation. The family is available as static and variable fonts; axes: weight, width, slant. It supports 200+ languages (1.4 adds Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese; Bulgarian/Serbian alternates) and huge glyph sets (thousands). It includes many customization options: ligatures, character variants, nine categories, OpenType-based. All open source.
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Survey of 252 adult Montreal Insectarium visitors found 44% open to eating insects (18% had eaten before; 26% would try). Regular dietary inclusion lower (27%), home cooking 17%. Acceptance highest for processed forms where insect visibility is reduced (e.g., insect flour baked goods). Major motivators: curiosity, health, environmental concerns; main barrier: disgust and safety fears. Men more willing than women; education boosts openness; age interactions exist. Limitations include sampling at a biodiversity venue likely biasing results. Implications: product formats that conceal insects and targeted outreach may promote entomophagy, while transparency remains important.
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Christie Koehler shares her diagnosis of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. There is no cure; treatment aims to slow progression and manage symptoms. She corrected a long-standing Vitamin D deficiency with 10,000 IU D3 daily plus K2. A 2021 workup showed spinal lesions at T8–T9 and mostly normal brain MRI; CSF analysis via lumbar puncture supported MS. The LP caused a spinal headache, treated with a blood patch. Her neurologist recommends oral disease-modifying therapy to begin soon and she’s starting a medication for muscle stiffness. She asks for support and staying in touch while continuing work at Cisco.
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