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Postwar Japan’s rapid reforestation with two monoculture species (sugi cedar and hinoki cypress) created widespread pollen and a national hay fever crisis, with 43% experiencing symptoms and up to $1.6 billion daily in costs. The 2023 plan aims to cut pollen by 50% in 30 years by reducing sugi plantations by 20% and replacing many with diverse broadleaf forests, while local projects in Kobe and Nishiawakura restore biodiversity, reduce landslides, and promote sustainable forestry. Challenges include balancing soil protection, climate targets, and carbon sinks, as 80% of plantations remain and pollen spread is rising with climate change.
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Nostalgic Kits Central is a resource documenting the golden era of electronic kits, led by Heathkit (1947–circa 1986; bankruptcy 2012) and including Allied Radio/Knight-Kits, EICO, EMC, Precise, Paco, Dynaco, Stancor and Conar/NRI. It aims to catalog kits with photos, specs, block diagrams, calibration data and clean schematics, mostly in kit form (robotics kits excluded). The site blends company histories, personal memories of building and using kits, and links to related resources, and invites additions from readers. Updated through 2024 by Don Desrochers.
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Author argues that in C/C++, undefined behavior (UB) pervades real code and almost all nontrivial programs contain UB. UB isn’t limited to obvious bugs like use-after-free; it includes misaligned accesses, null pointers, incorrect casts, tricky integer/float conversions, and mismatched variadic arguments, with behavior that can vary by architecture. C23 highlights many UB cases. Disabling optimizations doesn’t eliminate UB; compilers may assume code is valid and misbehave. The piece advocates scaling UB discovery and remediation with AI/LLMs plus expert human verification, rather than abandoning C/C++.
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Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real workflows showed it excels with explicit constraints and concrete output, but stumbles when important context is implicit. Across scaffolding a Kaggle entry, drafting/auditing Obsidian notes, and refactoring a PyTorch project, M2.7 produced solid first drafts and actionable steps when guided with precise prompts, yet required human review for open-ended tasks and for citation verification. In agentic loops, harness design matters as much as model quality. Cost was about $8 on MiniMax Plus (~91M tokens) and speed roughly 2x Opus 4.7. Use M2.7 for narrow, supervised iterations; verify references.
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India’s Banda district in Uttar Pradesh recorded 48.2°C, the hottest in the country, prompting shutdowns by 10 am as streets emptied and shops stayed shut until evening. The heat follows a trend since April (47.6°C on April 27), linked to climate crisis and local ecological destruction in Bundelkhand—deforestation, mining, river degradation. Studies show Banda’s forest cover fell about 15–16% since 2005, with dense forest down ~18%; heavy sand mining in the Ken river and water scarcity have worsened heat. Villagers report night farming, reduced wages, and strain on water and power. Experts warn Banda could become unliveable.
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Awesome HTML-in-Canvas is a curated collection of resources to help developers build with HTML-in-Canvas, including ecosystem demos (Duck Hunt by Wes Bos; Wobble Buttons by Wes Bos; Compiz Web; HTML cloth by Thomas Richter-Trummer; more coming). Demos are third-party and not created or maintained by Google. Frameworks with HTML-in-Canvas support include Three.js (HTMLTexture sample) and PlayCanvas (html-texture sample). Disclaimer: no endorsement; content may change or be removed; Google bears no liability. Demo available at chrome.dev; source code linked.
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The article argues that evaluating next-generation LLMs is the bottleneck for progress. Benchmarks assume smoother gains and miss qualitative shifts; metrics can mislead (emergent abilities, grokking). We lack order parameters to signal phase transitions, so we’re blind at deployment scale. To fix, invest in predictive, adaptive evals that co-evolve with models: identify order parameters, monitor meta-signals, and build self-evolving tests that generate new cases as capabilities change. Evaluation must precede training to scale safely.
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peter-gt-your-org is a Next.js 15 app that compares your GitHub org to @steipete using 'Peter' units. It renders Total Peters, Peter Density, Momentum, and cohort rank from verified commits, PRs, and issues in 2026 YTD, with @steipete treated as 1.0 Peter. It can fetch live data with a GitHub token (private repos optional). Public preview includes several orgs; deploys with Vercel. It emphasizes that Peters are not a productivity score and flags size-advantage gaps via Peter Density. Setup: clone, npm install, npm run dev; env vars: GITHUB_TOKEN, GITHUB_ORG, etc.
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This is an index page for FiveThirtyEight's Internet Archive collection, listing 21,350 pages from 2008, mostly posts by Nate Silver and colleagues. It shows titles and dates such as “Pollster Ratings v1.0” and “A Reality Check on South Dakota?” from March 2008, and provides browse options by year and byline, plus a downloadable CSV index and GitHub open source.
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Mercury is a logic/functional programming language that blends declarative syntax with advanced static analysis and error detection. The compiler, written in Mercury, provides two backends: a C low-level backend (GCC/Clang compatible) and a high-level backend targeting C, C#, or Java. It runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD/OpenBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows (Visual C, MSYS2, Cygwin), with cross-compilation and Docker support. The repository includes documentation, bootstrapping notes, release notes, samples, and guidance for contributions.
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Google is unifying Gemini CLI into Antigravity, a single agent-first platform with a new Antigravity CLI and server-side harness. Core Gemini features—Agent Skills, Hooks, Subagents, and Extensions—continue as Antigravity plugins, with faster Go-based execution, asynchronous multi-agent orchestration, and a shared backend with Antigravity 2.0. Antigravity CLI is available now; on June 18, 2026 Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and free tiers. Enterprise access remains; try Antigravity CLI with Google Cloud projects and share feedback.
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An exploration of unusual OEIS references in open-source code, especially live-coding music. Two projects—Mercury and ziffers (a Sonic Pi extension)—use OEIS sequences to drive musical decisions. Mercury cites Fibonacci-related sequences (A000045, A006190, A000032, A000129); ziffers includes De Bruijn (A000695), Recamán (A005132), Thue–Morse (A010060), Dress (A001316), and more, plus 10-adic expansions like A225410 and the Inventory Sequence (A342585). The piece questions how such sequences sound as music, notes a Kobo Plato pen-size option using A000041, and mentions a geocaching app with many OEIS formulas. Seeks reader feedback.
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Plantin-Moretus houses the world’s two oldest printing presses, dating from around 1600. In Christoffel Plantin’s era the workshop ran about 16 presses and 56 workers, the largest of its kind. Today seven presses remain in the room, five still operational, with the two oldest worn presses at rest. They produced about 1,250 sheets per day on a 14-hour workday. The intact 16th‑century workshop also showcases the museum’s broader heritage, including Rubens portraits and fine furniture.
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An in-depth primer on the UNIX/Linux TTY subsystem and why it matters. Traces the history from teletypes to video terminals and explains how a TTY device (the UART driver + line discipline + TTY driver) mediates between a user process and a terminal. It covers session and job control: foreground process groups, signals (SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGTSTP, SIGCHLD, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGWINCH), and how the kernel, via /dev, coordinates editing, echo, and flow control. It explains canonical vs raw modes, pipes, ptys, and how to use tools like stty and ps. Concludes with practical grounding.
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Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) integrates the optical engine—InP laser, silicon photonics (SiPh) chiplet, modulators, detectors—directly with the switch ASIC, removing front-panel transceivers’ long electrical traces and lowering power per bit while increasing per-port bandwidth (1.6–6.4T). The four-layer package: InP laser die; hybrid bond to the SiPh chiplet; the SiPh chiplet; and the switch ASIC. Chokepoints: SOITEC, ASML, Sumitomo/IQE, EV Group, TSMC CoWoS, and laser makers (Lumentum/Coherent/Sivers). Broadcom shipped CPO at scale in 2025; NVIDIA/hyperscalers follow in 2026–27. Curated by Leonardo Boquillón.
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