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AI is approaching code-writing mastery, but the real ladder—design, context, and judgment engineers build—has a missing rung. Data from METR, Anthropic, and Faros show AI can speed routine tasks yet erode learning and long-term skills; experienced developers slow down; juniors’ skills atrophy. Incidents at AWS/Amazon reveal that failures arise from lacking institutional memory and misjudged context, not just buggy code. The path forward isn’t just better prompts but treating context as infrastructure: deliberate training, architecture, tests, and supervision to ensure novices grow into capable supervisors of AI.
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Coasts (Containerized Hosts) is a CLI tool plus a local UI to run multiple isolated development environments on one machine using a Coastfile; it can boot from an existing docker-compose.yml and supports arbitrary numbers of instances with configurable ports. It remains agnostic to AI providers and runs offline without a hosted service. It requires Rust, Docker, Node.js, and socat (macOS-first). The project includes a web UI (coast-guard), a daemon, CLI, and core libs; provides development workflows, Makefile tasks, and docs. It is MIT-licensed and modular across several crates.
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Landolfi argues that blogging proactively builds parasocial relationships—one-sided connections with people we know of but rarely meet. Drawing on Horton and Wohl, parasocial ties arise from media, language, and storytelling that simulate face-to-face relations. The internet, especially social media, expands this reach via comments, likes, and shares. While such bonds can seem evasive or unhealthy, they can be productive: connecting with authors, heroes, ancestors, and collaborators, and informing his work in tech and business.
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Karl Bode argues that much U.S. journalism has become "CEO said a thing!" reporting: parroting statements from business leaders with little context, correction, or scrutiny, aided by media consolidation. He points to Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, Tim Sweeney, Gerry Cardinale, and outlets like Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes, which repeat CEO claims (on funding, AI, etc.) without verification. He outlines rules of this practice: never challenge the CEO, ignore historical context, skip expert input, and avoid revisiting truth. He contends it serves wealth accumulation and harms public interest, a problem deepened by mergers and a wealth-driven press.
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Christian Heilmann laments social media’s shift from human connection to automation and growth-at-any-cost tactics. He built a career on regular, authentic posting and meaningful discussion, but resents AI writing assistants that imitate voices, write posts and comments, and chase engagement. He urges people to resist being replaced by machines, to stay human and transparent, and to publish for information and insight rather than algorithm-driven interaction. He recalls early, more human practices (like Foursquare) and argues for authentic engagement, even at the expense of reach, acknowledging mental health and responsibility in online discourse.
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Marginalia Search is adding an NSFW filter focused on API consumers. Since domain-based filtering is incomplete and NSFW content is rare, development uses a fast, single hidden layer neural network trained from scratch, avoiding transformers. After fasttext proved weak due to data skew, the team adopts hand-picked features with disambiguation terms guided by chi-squared scoring, and labels data using open-source LLMs (ollama/qwen3.5) for scalable supervision. On ~3.8k labeled samples, the model hit ~90% accuracy with some false positives; it’s live via API now, with a UI forthcoming.
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CloudFront 403 error blocks access to the site, citing a server connection issue possibly due to traffic or misconfiguration. Retry later or contact the site owner; consult CloudFront troubleshooting docs. Includes Request ID: QuBIERXV6KiZeaYH1Gt6aRyRZeHMyN9SPHb28Go4-TjhkOlUO8BStQ==.
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Cherri is a macOS Siri Shortcuts programming language that compiles to runnable Shortcuts, aiming for large projects with long-term maintenance and efficiency. It offers a CLI, VSCode extension, and macOS app, with features like type-checked actions, enums, optionals, type inference, top-level functions, includes, and a built-in Git-based package manager. It omits magic variables, emphasizes small runtime memory, supports imports, VCards, base64 embedding, iCloud link conversion, and macOS signing. Install via Homebrew or Nix. Open-source under GPL-2.0; 516 stars, 39 forks.
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AnchorGrid's door-detection API detects doors in architectural floor-plan PDFs. Upload a PDF (document_id) and call POST /v1/drawings/detection/doors with optional page_numbers; you receive a job_id to poll /v1/jobs/{job_id}. Results return doors as bounding boxes in PDF coordinates, with per-door fields and processingTime. Free-tier ~2–4 minutes per job; Pro/Enterprise use GPU for speed. Billing is 2 credits per billed page; quotas and rate limits apply. Requires X-API-Key; errors include 401, 404, 422, 429. Webhook delivery supported on dev/pro/enterprise.
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Access blocked by Cloudflare on aawsat.com; the page requires cookies and flagged the request as potentially malicious (specific word/phrase, SQL command, or malformed data). To fix, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID: 9e48e4131d0949d2.
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An office lab shifted from Proxmox to FreeBSD with Sylve to reduce infrastructure overhead and better fit repetitive, day-to-day tasks. Early adopters, they found FreeBSD primitives (ZFS, bhyve, jails, pf, VNET) paired with Sylve offered a lightweight, predictable stack that supports their workflow: provisioning VMs, tweaking storage, device passthrough, dataset replication, file sharing, image testing, and disposable machines. Benefits include native ZFS integration, UI-based hardware passthrough, cloud-init, Samba, torrent-based image downloads, on-the-fly VM image conversion, and a fast web terminal. They seek quieter mental load and anticipate live migration; demos available.
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Bitwarden launches its Agent Access SDK, enabling AI agents to request credentials from Bitwarden’s vault via human-in-the-loop approval. OneCLI sits between the agent and external APIs, injecting approved credentials into requests at the network layer so the agent never sees plaintext keys. It enforces policies and rate limits with an auditable trail for both approval and usage. The alpha, open-source integration works with any HTTP-based agent framework.
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An assortment of code editor themes and color schemes. Notable names include Solarized (Dark/Light), Monokai, Tomorrow Night variants, Nord, Dracula, Twilight, Zenburnesque, Oceanic Next, Space Cadet, Pastels on Dark, Night Owl, Sunburst, GitHub, TextMate, Dreamweaver, Xcode, Active4D, All Hallows Eve, Black Chrome, Clouds (Midnight), Cobalt Dawn, Espresso Libre, Idle Fingers, Birds of Paradise, and many others.
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Eco3min's US CPI history dataset (1913–present) shows the dollar’s purchasing power has fallen 96.9% since 1914, and the erosion has been episodic, not gradual. Four inflationary episodes—WWI and aftermath (1916–1920), WWII and post-war (1941–1951), the Great Inflation (1968–1982), and the post-COVID surge (2021–2023)—account for 72% of total CPI increase despite 29% of the time. The Great Inflation alone explains 30.2% of losses, more than WWI and WWII combined. Deflation occurred in 13% of months (last in 2009). As of Feb 2026, YoY inflation is 2.4% (Moderate regime). Dataset is CC BY 4.0 and open.
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build123d is a Python-based, parametric BREP CAD framework for 2D/3D modeling, built on Open Cascade. It provides a clean Pythonic interface and CAD-as-code workflow, with both a stateless Algebra Mode and a Builder Mode that tracks design history. It supports explicit 1D/2D/3D geometry, selectors, and composition, and exports/imports to common formats (SVG, STEP, STL). Aimed at 3D printing, CNC, and laser cutting, it’s installable via pip and licensed Apache-2.0.
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