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Memoir of a Toronto summer when Felix and I built a cloned-e-commerce network from datafeeds, dreaming of millionaire status by 30. We crawled, coded, and grew to 100 sites, chasing passive income and higher rankings. Interwoven are romances (A, then M) and an internship with D who pushes us to scale via volume and ads. Later life brings marriage, children, and a steady career; Felix stays carefree, a shadow of our younger selves. Now a midlife writer, I recall that Forever Summer—the memory of youth that refuses to fade.
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GitHub experienced an incident impacting Pull Requests, Issues, and related search on GitHub.com. Beginning with reports of 500 errors, engineers investigated a database infrastructure issue. Updates through 16:24–16:38 UTC indicated PR/Issue loading errors and ongoing root-cause analysis. At 16:38 UTC monitoring and mitigation were deployed; 16:41 UTC the incident was resolved after disabling a problematic database index hint introduced by a migration. Recovery was underway with monitoring to ensure stability. A detailed root-cause analysis will be shared when available.
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Pixel 11 Pro Fold is Google's most advanced foldable: thinner, lighter, and three times more durable thanks to a gearless hinge and a new glass-fiber‑composite back plus a ceramic outer display. It debuts a HiLight camera bar for glanceable notifications and is powered by a Tensor G6 with 16GB RAM and Gemini AI. It offers real-time sign-to-text translation on the dual screens, improved multitasking, and a 48MP main camera with up to 30x zoom. Charges fast (50% in 30 minutes, 30W wired; 25W wireless), IP68, pre-orders open today; in stores August 20.
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is the GA release of DeepSeek’s large-scale mixture-of-experts model, available on OpenRouter. It supports in/out modalities and uses a 1M token context. Released August 12, 2026. Pricing lists $0.435 / $0.87 per 1M tokens; actual prices may be lower due to caching/discounts. Hosted by a single provider with OpenRouter forwarding requests. Performance metrics tracked include throughput, latency, TTFT, and 30‑day uptime. A quick-start API is OpenAI-compatible; FAQs cover cost, context length, tool calling, and other DeepSeek models.
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Two web-based tools accompany a rewritten PET 2001 emulator: Commodore 8-Bit Disk Image Utilities, including Side A Disk Image Inspector (browse/export D64/D80/D82 files) and Side B D64 Composer (build/download 35/77/154-track images by assembling PRG/SEQ/REL data). The post details Commodore disk formats—BAMs, header blocks, track interleaves, and directory entries—plus file types PRG/SEQ/USR/REL and REL side sectors. All processing is local in the browser; no AI is involved. The piece also covers the emulator’s IEEE-488/GPIB rewrite and broader context.
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hax is a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C. A single binary with a tiny RAM footprint. Local models are first-class; auto-discovers capabilities and needs no provider config. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Codex, OpenRouter, llama.cpp. Respects the terminal: streaming Markdown reflows, redraws only the current line, preserves scrollback; transcripts inspectable (Ctrl+T) with optional wire traces. Clean Unix tool: XDG paths, plain config, subprocess-based, no plugins. For terminal developers using local models in tight environments. Install: Linux/macOS; Windows via WSL; Homebrew; prebuilt binaries or source. Basic usage: hax; hax -p; printf 'explain x' | hax -p; hax -c; --resume; /provider.
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Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is a text-only open-release LLM (2.4T total, 95B active) with an extremely long native context (262k tokens, extensible to ~1M). It requires thinking mode; multimodal inputs are not supported and thinking cannot be disabled. Each response starts with reasoning in a <think>...</think> block before the final answer. It supports reasoning_effort and preserve_thinking; recommended sampling: temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20. It can be served via vLLM, SGLang, TokenSpeed, or Qwen Cloud/OpenAI-style chat completions; quickstart via Hugging Face Transformers is provided. The official Qwen3.8-Max offers more features.
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GiveCampus is a remote-first fundraising platform for education with 130+ staff across the US. They seek a Senior Engineering Manager to lead 2+ pods (Tech Lead + 2–5 engineers) within a 30+-person engineering org, partnering with PMs to deliver the product roadmap. Responsibilities: pod and people management, feature delivery end-to-end, architecture input, agile practices, mentoring, hiring/onboarding, and on-call support; report to VP of Engineering. Requirements: proven multi-team leadership in agile environments, strong system design, hands-on coding in Ruby/Python/JS, Rails/Django, React/Vue, SQL (Postgres/MySQL). 3+ years as manager, 10+ years dev experience. Bonus for fintech/fundraising experience.
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Andrew Wheeler argues that license plate reader (ALPR) data should be subject to warrants, especially for historical searches. Citing Norfolk v. City of Norfolk and Carpenter v. US, he foresees a future where ubiquitous cameras will demand a warrant for reconstructing a person’s movements. He differentiates active flags from historical searches, critiques data-retention rules as insufficient to curb abuse, and calls for state statutes mandating warrants for historical ALPR searches, third‑party audits of police and vendors, and meaningful penalties for misuse. He supports ALPR for crime control if paired with robust privacy safeguards.
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bb is an open-source, MIT-licensed IDE that builds itself and can be customized via plugins. It runs locally, on your machine, and integrates task management, agents, and orchestration through a unified CLI. You can spawn worker threads and deploy tasks across your agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor, Pi, Hermes, and more) using local plugins or external provider subscriptions. Install with a one-click macOS download or npx bb-app@latest, fork the repo, and tailor the tools, UI, and workflow for your organization—the system is designed as a self-contained, local-first software factory.
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KidScreen provides a free, parent-curated video shelf for kids. Parents select exact YouTube videos, with no scrolling, no search, and no algorithmic feed. It aims to keep families in control over what children watch. Learn more in your parent account.
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ArenaAllocators only free memory back to the arena if the freed block was the last allocation and from the arena's current node. When an ArrayList grows, it may allocate a new block, copy, and free the old one, so the old block isn’t the last allocation, breaking the free-to-arena guarantee. Solutions: 1) pre-size the ArrayList (initCapacity/ensureTotalCapacityPrecise), 2) avoid interleaving allocations during growth so remap grows in place. In practice, with ArenaAllocators the worst-case memory overhead can reach about 3x.
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From Hyracotherium to today’s thoroughbreds, the article traces how millennia of human selection shaped horses—speed, stamina, and docility—while narrowing genetic diversity. It covers equine evolution, the Botai–Przewalski tale, the DOM2 domesticated lineage, medieval and early-modern racing, and the General Stud Book. Genetics shows how MSTN variants link to sprint vs. endurance; intensive breeding concentrates paternal lines and elevates inbreeding risk. Cloning and CRISPR edits loom as future tools, but Secretariat’s Belmont record remains the benchmark of speed and the paradox of the ultimate horse.
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ValidateHTML evaluated 2,655 home pages from the Tranco top 5,000 (Aug 2026). Key results: 90.5% have HTML violations; 2,402 sites violate the HTML standard; 69 sites have zero errors/warnings. Median HTML errors: 12; mean 37.8; worst 2,209. 65.1% show CSS errors; median 1; mean 7.1. Findings span 220 HTML message families (187 spec violations) and 15 CSS patterns; most issues are structural, not typos. Accessibility failures are widespread. Limitations: only home pages; many domains unreachable; 2,345 of 5,000 had no measurement. Conclusion: clean HTML is rare; validation matters.
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ShadeMap is an online tool to simulate sun shadows for any time and place on Earth. It provides an online shadow map and sun finder, allowing shadow calculations for houses, gardens, buildings, trees, and terrain in 3D. Features include sun position and path, sun exposure, sunrise/sunset shading, and generating shadow study, analysis, or solar analysis. No installation or Google Earth Pro needed; works online and can generate shadow accumulation maps. Requires JavaScript to run.
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Fifth major heat dome expands across Western and Central Europe, driven by a persistent upper-level ridge. Highs reach 40–43°C in France and the UK, 42–44°C in the Iberian Peninsula, and around 38–40°C in Italy and the Balkans; Central Europe nears 40°C by weekend. Nighttime cooling is limited (lows 22–26°C), raising heat stress, health and energy risks, with tropical nights common. The heat dome shifts east over the weekend toward Germany, the Alpine region, Poland and the Czech Republic, while Atlantic air gradually brings relief to western parts of Europe.
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Tailscale tracked a 16-year-old SQLite bug causing database corruption on its control-plane shards after 19 incidents in six months. By deploying forensic telemetry and collaborating with SQLite, they built a transaction-logging pipeline and a tmstmpvfs shim to observe checkpoints. They uncovered a data race between a checkpoint and a write transaction in WAL mode, later named the WAL-Reset bug. SQLite fixed it in 3.52.0, but false corruption warnings led Tailscale to roll back to 3.51.3; 3.53.0 added self-healing indexes. The incident prompted stronger backups, automated recovery, and open-source contributions, and reinforced avoiding nonstandard configurations.
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