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Marc Andreessen claims introspection is a modern pathology invented by Freud, but this is historically inaccurate and ignores the long history of self-examination in philosophy. His thin theory of human flourishing prioritizes external action over inner life, which is essential for understanding what makes a life worth living.
The terms big endian and little endian refer to the order of a value's bytes in memory, with big-endian storing the most significant part first. QEMU provides a solution to test big-endian systems by emulating a big-endian architecture and cross-compiling code.
Solar and batteries can supply 90% of electricity for 80% of the world's population at less than 80 €/MWh by 2030. Adding wind and other energy sources can help alleviate costs in high-latitude regions.
The user had trouble removing Samsung Magician, a disk utility software, from their Mac due to its poor uninstallation process. They had to use multiple commands and even disable and re-enable System Integrity Protection to delete the remaining files.
A Python CLI uses neural linguistic steganography to hide data in recipe blog introductions. It encodes data as natural language using arithmetic coding steganography, requiring the same model and prompt for decoding.
The user struggled with focus due to being easily distracted and over-caffeinated from constantly responding to urgent issues. They conducted an experiment by using only their laptop screen for a month and found it helped them stay focused and intentional with their computer use.
apfel is a CLI tool that exposes Apple's built-in LLM on Macs with Apple Silicon. It provides a way to access the LLM through a terminal, code, or chat, without network calls or API keys.
The author joined Microsoft's Azure Core team in May 2023 as a senior member, only to find the team planning to port half of Windows to a tiny Linux-running chip. The author was shocked by the team's unrealistic plan and felt it was a "death march."
The author analyzes the structure of dataframes and identifies three fundamental operations: Delta (restructuring), Sigma (merging), and Pi (pairing), which can be used to build a dataframe algebra. Category theory provides a framework for understanding these operations and their relationships, allowing for a more principled design of dataframe libraries.
Espressif Systems announces ESP32-S31, a high-performance SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Ethernet for IoT applications. It features a dual-core RISC-V microcontroller, robust security, and comprehensive connectivity for smart appliances and industrial automation.
SSH certificates provide a better and more seamless SSH experience by eliminating the need for Trust on First Use (TOFU) and allowing for short-lived keys, forced-commands, and automated key management. An SSH CA can be used to sign host keys and user keys, making it easier to manage SSH connections and eliminating the need for manual key deployment and TOFU.
NHS staff are refusing to work on the Federated Data Platform due to ethical concerns with US-based provider Palantir. The government is under pressure to eject Palantir from NHS systems amid growing dissent over the company's suitability to manage national health data.
The author of this blog post is a Collabora employee who works on LibreOffice support and services. They express concern over the TDF board's actions, particularly the ejection of long-time contributors without explanation or apology.
Developers built an autonomous agent that generates API integrations across five platforms in 15 minutes and under $20, using skills and a simple orchestrator. The agent learned from its mistakes and was improved with better instructions, tighter edit permissions, and explicit checks to produce trustworthy integrations.
No masterpiece was damaged after hackers targeted Florence’s Uffizi Galleries’ surveillance infrastructure. U.S. President Donald Trump gives a final heave to try and keep under-pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in power. Vice-chancellor Andi Babler said his country wants “nothing to do with Trump’s policy of chaos and his war.”
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Tailscale's macOS app had an issue where its icon would be hidden in the notch of some MacBooks. A small fix was implemented to notify users when the icon is hidden.
Build autonomous agents that plan, navigate apps, and complete tasks on your behalf, with native support for function calling. These models were evaluated against a large collection of datasets and metrics to cover different aspects of text generation. See additional benchmarks in model card.
Cursor 3 is a unified workspace for building software with agents, bringing clarity to agent work and a higher level of abstraction. It's faster, cleaner, and more powerful, with a multi-repo layout and seamless handoff between local and cloud agents.
NASA has developed a new toilet system called the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) for astronauts. The system features handles for stability, simultaneous urine and feces processing, and a door for privacy in microgravity environments.
Scientists corrected the popular depiction of Io's "Steeple Mountain" (Dis Mons) after comparing it to actual Junocam data from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The corrected image shows a more realistic shape, with a less steep and more rounded appearance.
Type theory is a mathematical theory that is an alternative to set theory and category theory, and it is used to define collections of objects that are interesting without accidentally defining collections that lead to paradoxes. Type theory is based on the idea that the interesting collections are the source and target of functions, and it is used to define types and functions in a way that ...
User discusses old style websites prioritizing function over style, mentioning examples like Craigslist, Astro Starlight, and Rockauto.
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The author learned from business school that good ideas don't need lies to gain acceptance and that dishonest forecasters are worthless. This principle helped the author predict the Iraq War's failure due to false claims about WMDs and the importance of audit to prevent such errors.
Vector meson dominance is a concept where photons are slightly contaminated by neutral rho mesons, which are quark-antiquark pairs with spin 1. The neutral rho meson was first predicted in 1959 and later found to be part of an SU(2) gauge field, which is a precursor to gauge theory.
Two new attacks, GDDRHammer and GeForge, demonstrate how malicious users can gain full root control of a host machine by performing novel Rowhammer attacks on high-performance Nvidia GPU cards. The attacks exploit memory hardware's susceptibility to bit flips, allowing attackers to manipulate GPU page tables and gain access to host CPU memory.