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Explores extending rock–paper–scissors beyond three options by allowing ties (weak tournaments), revealing diverse dynamics. Defines inclusive games where every option has positive probability in a Nash equilibrium, and studies regular, balanced, twin-free structures. Highlights Cops game (Witness–Cop–K-9–Perp) and Elemental game as real examples, showing multiple equilibria and continua of optimal strategies where players mix according to math. Introduces graph-theoretic metrics (orbits, cuts, tie fraction, Gini) to rate games and maps twin-free inclusive games for n=3–5, with counts and notes on higher n.
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Geerling compares Framework 12 to Apple’s MacBook Neo, focusing on value. The Neo is faster, silent, more efficient, has a nicer display, and costs less (base $499 for students). The Framework 12 starts around $749–$799, is slower, louder, and has a poorer display, though it offers upgradeability and repairability with modular ports and user-accessible RAM/SSD/Wi‑Fi. In sustained workloads the Framework’s fan helps maintain speed, but overall the Neo wins on day-to-day performance and value. The nephew chose Neo; Framework isn’t a bad device, just a worse value for most users. Framework’s 13" lineup may improve this.
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Headway, a popular online therapy platform, will require clients and providers to verify identity via biometric facial scanning. In an April 3 notice, Headway said users must upload a government-issued photo ID and take a live photo of their face, moving their head side to side. The company claims the facial image is used only for identity verification, but there is no opt-out aside from leaving the platform, forcing some to choose between data sharing and continued care.
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Chad Whitacre announces retirement from tech to live offline, saying AI drained his enthusiasm for open source; he wishes readers well and discloses he works for Sentry.
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bijou64 is a canonical-by-construction varint for u64, removing the need for separate canonicality checks. It uses two tricks: a first-byte double-duty tag that, with a mode, lets you know how many data bytes follow (O(1) decode); and offsets that shift the next byte by 248 so each value has a single encoding. Benchmarks show decoding 2–10× faster than LEB128 (and much faster for large values); encoding is close. Canonical decoding is just decoding. Published on crates.io (MIT/Apache-2.0); CC BY-SA 4.0 spec; WASM wrapper; bijou32/128 planned.
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EZFurigana is a free online Furigana converter that automatically adds furigana (hiragana, katakana, or romaji) to Japanese text across inputs: paste text, upload PDFs, images, SRT subtitles, EPUBs, or fetch from a webpage URL. It offers OCR for scans, supports JLPT-based filtering, and lets you export results as HTML, TXT, PDF, EPUB, SRT, or Anki flashcards. No signup is required; uploads are deleted within 24 hours. Saved words stay in your browser; you can review definitions, export Anki cards, and choose from multiple display styles.
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Lee argues that in the AI era, only a small fraction of juniors are worth hiring: seniors, boosted by coding agents, outpace new grads who struggle to catch up. The market rewards senior engineers, while many new CS graduates may never reach the needed “coding intuition” within 2–3 years. A second-tier of consultants will grow but with slower salary growth. Everyone should learn coding to leverage AI: 1–2 weeks to grasp basics, 1–2 months to know how to ask, 4–6 months to verify results. Do the work by hand first.
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Shawn Smucker argues for using AI as a tool for planning and creation but warns against outsourcing authentic human experience. He humorously suggests AI could draft wedding toasts, meal plans, and art, then condemns the sterile, impersonal feel that would replace lived memory and emotion. Smucker, in his 50s with a sleeping daughter and aging body, reflects on the beauty of life found in imperfection and the hard, imperfect work of living. The piece champions "the courage to live it"—to craft with flesh-and-blood humanity rather than surrender to easy AI mastery.
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wterm is a web-based terminal emulator that renders in the DOM with native text selection, copy/paste, find, and accessibility. Its Zig core, compiled to WASM, delivers near-native performance (~12 KB .wasm) and VT100/VT220/xterm support. Features include DOM rendering, dirty-row re-rendering with requestAnimationFrame, themes (Default, Solarized, Monokai, Light), alternate screen buffer, scrollback, 24-bit color, auto-resize via ResizeObserver, and WebSocket transport to a reconnecting PTY backend. It supports examples like just-bash, SSH, and local backends, with modular packages for React, Vue, and more.
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Noisy LLM evaluators struggle for per-output judgments but reliably rank agents when averaged over many outputs. Output-level correlations are weaker than agent-level; with enough samples, the chance of picking the better agent approaches 1, especially with a larger true performance gap. Real benchmarks (Gridworld, Wordle, NER, NDA, Business Mgmt) show high agent-level correlations and strong pairwise win rates despite noise. Caveats: region-specific biases, distribution shift, and dependence can break offline-to-online alignment. Use evaluators as offline selection signals to ship better agents.
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Describes setting up a bare git repo on a home server as a remote for a project. Create a bare clone at /home/user/bares/cani.git from /home/user/projects/cani, then add it as a remote (git remote add local /home/user/bares/cani.git). From another machine, use ssh://USER@MACHINE:/home/user/bares/cani.git. Optionally set the default branch to main (git remote set-branches local main). Push and pull via the local remote (git push local, git pull local main) or the SSH URL. This gives a fast, reliable local remote with an offsite copy, avoiding big tech.
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Aislop is a MIT-licensed CLI tool that detects "slop" AI-coding patterns left in code by AI agents. It runs 40+ rules across 7 languages (TS/JS, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Java), scores changes 0–100, runs sub-second, and is deterministic with no LLMs in the runtime. It provides npx aislop scan (and --staged/--changes/--json), npx aislop fix (auto-fix), and CI integration for gates. It flags patterns like narrative comments, swallowed exceptions, unused imports, dead code, TODO stubs, and oversized functions; supports hooks with Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Codex, etc. Also offers badge generation and README integration.
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Norway’s digital identity system—driven by universal eIDs like BankID—has accelerated digitalization but also causes exclusion and risk of misuse. A SODI project report criticizes fragmented governance, lack of oversight, and insufficient legal protection, citing fraud losses (e.g., DNB cases) and exclusion (e.g., Bendik with Down syndrome denied BankID). It advocates a holistic, NOU-like governance framework, with constructive backing from Skatteetaten and academia.
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The piece extols Japanese overdesign, using Pilot’s Kire-Na highlighter as a prime example. Pilot solved uneven highlighting by adding pressure guides on the nib and later a soft nylon tip with plastic guides to control angle and pressure, delivering straight lines no matter how held. The ink dries in a second with no smudging or bleed-through and a clean tip. After six years of development and a restart, Kire-Na shipped over ten million units in its first year; “Kire-Na” means “clean” in Japanese.
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Cedana seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI + HPC) to lead customer engagements and deploy Cedana’s GPU checkpointing and live-migration tech in SLURM, Kubernetes, and NVIDIA Dynamo. Own installs, plugins, networking, observability; drive product feedback; measure reliability and throughput; design policy-based migrations. Requirements: 3–10 years’ software engineering; production SLURM (slurmctld, slurmdbd, cgroups, GPU) and Kubernetes ops; strong Linux; enterprise/research deployment experience; client-facing preferred. Remote US with ~25% travel. Base $140k–$180k + equity. Benefits: full medical, unlimited PTO, 401K. YC-backed, founded 2023.
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Terence Eden argues the RM6237 Low Value Purchase System is a waste. Although meant to simplify small-value government purchases, users must log monthly returns with the Government Commercial Agency, even when no business occurred. An FoI shows nil returns cost small firms substantial time: nil-return rates hover around 95–98% each month, with only about 59 of thousands reporting any sale. Even at 2 minutes per form, that’s over two days of time wasted monthly. He critiques the system for shifting reporting burdens to buyers and for poor data tracking.
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