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Org-Mode: Ditch Messy Notes, Embrace Structured Text

2025-02-28

This is a deep dive into the author's experience with Org-Mode, a powerful note-taking system. The author details its use for note-taking, presentations, blogging, and more, highlighting its structured text format and extensibility. Common questions are addressed, such as comparisons to Markdown, Emacs dependency, and application scenarios, along with recommendations for various Org-Mode apps. The author concludes by emphasizing Org-Mode's efficiency and convenience, encouraging readers to try this powerful tool.

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(www.evalapply.org)
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Modularizing a Monolith with Elixir's Hot Code Reloading

2025-07-12

Alzo, an Elixir monolith deployed as one instance per client, leverages Elixir and Erlang VM's hot code loading for client-specific features. This avoids microservices' cascading failures and complex testing. Client-specific LiveView apps reside in `/alzo/lib/clients/apps`, dynamically loaded at startup. Client code is removed during the build process, preventing the main app from depending on runtime apps. Hot code upgrades are avoided for simplicity. This approach provides efficient development, maintainability, scalability, and the ability to easily refactor common functionalities from dynamic apps into the main codebase.

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(lucassifoni.info)
Development Hot Code Loading Monolithic Application

Valhalla: Java's Epic Refactor Nears Completion

2024-12-17

After a decade-long journey, Project Valhalla, Java's ambitious refactor, is nearing completion. Aiming to bridge the gap between classes and primitives, Valhalla introduces value classes that offer the coding convenience of classes with the performance of primitives, resulting in a flat and compact memory layout. At Devoxx 2024, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz provided a comprehensive update, highlighting key features such as value classes, null-restricted types, enhanced definite assignment analysis, and strict initialization.

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(inside.java)
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The Golden Age of Antibiotics and How to Reignite It

2024-12-25
The Golden Age of Antibiotics and How to Reignite It

This article explores the "Golden Age of Antibiotics" (early 1940s-mid 1960s), a period of rapid antibiotic discovery. It explains the decline in antibiotic development since the 1970s due to pharmaceutical companies shifting focus to more profitable areas and the rise of antibiotic resistance. The article proposes strategies to revive antibiotic discovery, such as genome mining, exploring novel bacteria, and combination therapies. It highlights the crucial role of government and organizational funding and innovative collaborative models to incentivize the development of new antibiotics, crucial in the fight against drug-resistant infections.

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(ourworldindata.org)
Tech antibiotics antibiotic resistance drug discovery

AI Scraping Arms Race: A Tar Pit of Troubles

2025-03-25
AI Scraping Arms Race: A Tar Pit of Troubles

To combat the excessive scraping of online resources by AI companies, a technique called "tarpit" has emerged. It works by consuming AI crawler resources, thus increasing their costs and posing a significant challenge to these yet-unprofitable companies. Cloudflare's "AI Labyrinth" employs a similar strategy but with a more commercially polished approach, aiming to protect websites from unauthorized scraping. However, AI crawlers generate over 50 billion requests daily, putting immense pressure on online resources and threatening the sustainability of open-source projects. Communities are also developing collaborative tools, such as the "ai.robots.txt" project, to help defend against these crawlers. Unless AI companies cooperate with affected communities or regulations are introduced, this data grab will likely escalate, jeopardizing the entire digital ecosystem.

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(arstechnica.com)
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MacBook Air with M4: Multitasking Redefined

2025-03-05
MacBook Air with M4: Multitasking Redefined

The new MacBook Air, powered by the M4 chip, delivers a significant performance boost. Multitasking is smoother than ever, effortlessly handling video editing, demanding games like Sid Meier's Civilization VII, and numerous apps and tabs simultaneously. Its silent, fanless design enhances the user experience. The faster Neural Engine in the M4 chip brings powerful AI capabilities to the MacBook Air, enhancing everything from auto-framing in video calls to AI image upscaling and running the latest large language models, boosting productivity and creativity. With up to 18 hours of battery life and fast charging (50% in 30 minutes), you can power through your work without battery anxiety.

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(www.apple.com)
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Subway Stories: Fleeting Encounters, Enduring Impressions

2025-01-13
Subway Stories: Fleeting Encounters, Enduring Impressions

This piece weaves together a tapestry of brief, poignant encounters unfolding within the confines of a subway car. From harried commuters to relaxed retirees, each individual contributes a microcosm of life's experiences. The author captures the subtle emotions of joy, sorrow, and indifference, painting a vivid picture of urban existence. These seemingly insignificant moments reveal profound truths about human connection and the complexities of city life, leaving a lasting impression on the reader.

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(subwaystories.nyc)
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Windows Update Bricking USB Printers: Random Text Mayhem

2025-03-13
Windows Update Bricking USB Printers: Random Text Mayhem

Microsoft has acknowledged that recent Windows updates (KB5050092 and later, released since January 29th, 2025) are causing some dual-mode USB printers (supporting both USB Print and IPP over USB) to print random gibberish. This includes network commands and unusual characters. Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11 22H2/23H2 are affected; Windows 11 24H2 is not. Microsoft has fixed this via Known Issue Rollback (KIR), and the fix will also automatically roll out in a future update. For enterprise environments, IT admins need to install and configure specific group policies to resolve the issue on affected devices.

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(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Hardware Windows Update USB Printer

Autism and Object Personification: A Puzzling Correlation

2025-06-16
Autism and Object Personification: A Puzzling Correlation

An online survey of 87 autistic adults and 263 non-autistic adults reveals a prevalent tendency towards object personification among autistic individuals. This contrasts with the common difficulty autistic people face in identifying their own emotions, prompting questions about the underlying mechanisms. The study suggests that object personification may be more frequent and occur later in life among autistic individuals. Given that many report these experiences as distressing, further research into the causes and the development of support structures is crucial.

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(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
AI personification

Disruptive Electronics: Competitive Pricing, Fast Time-to-Market, and Sustainability

2025-06-24
Disruptive Electronics: Competitive Pricing, Fast Time-to-Market, and Sustainability

This electronic product stands out with its unique performance-to-cost ratio, undercutting conventional solutions while offering performance on par with brand-new mid-range electronics. Leveraging standardized hardware interfaces and popular open-source software frameworks enables rapid development, deployment, and iterative assessment. Critically, it avoids reliance on Asian suppliers, mitigating risks of shortages and long lead times. Furthermore, it positions your product as a market sustainability leader, allowing you to be the 'World's First' circular smart device and significantly reduce your carbon footprint.

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(citronics.eu)
Hardware cost-effective

Oracle Refuses to Surrender JavaScript Trademark, Deno Land Fights Back

2025-01-13
Oracle Refuses to Surrender JavaScript Trademark, Deno Land Fights Back

Deno Land has filed a lawsuit against Oracle over the ownership of the JavaScript trademark. Oracle acquired the trademark in 2009 with the purchase of Sun Microsystems. Deno Land argues that Oracle has abandoned the trademark and that its 2019 trademark renewal was fraudulent. Both sides will submit their responses before February 3rd, followed by evidence gathering. This legal battle is expected to last for quite some time.

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(www.infoworld.com)
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Control Your Android Phone with AI: Code Your Commands

2025-04-01
Control Your Android Phone with AI: Code Your Commands

The open-source project `mobile-use` lets you control your Android phone using AI. Simply write commands like "Open Instagram and send a message," and the project executes them using your locally installed Android SDK tools (adb). It supports custom LLM models and offers both command-line and file input methods, allowing you to easily send instructions from the terminal or a file. The project is licensed under the MIT License.

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(github.com)
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Atuin Desktop: Executable Runbooks That End Copy-Pasting

2025-04-22
Atuin Desktop: Executable Runbooks That End Copy-Pasting

Atuin Desktop is a local-first, executable runbook editor that looks like a doc but runs like your terminal. It combines script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients, and Prometheus charts, solving the problem of teams relying on individual memory and outdated documentation for workflows. With repeatable, shareable, and reliable workflows, Atuin Desktop helps teams escape the struggle of searching Slack and Notion for answers and digging through shell history, ultimately enabling efficient collaboration and automated operations.

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(blog.atuin.sh)
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Learning Lens Blur Fields: Unveiling Subtle Optical Differences in Smartphones

2025-09-15

Researchers introduce a novel method for representing lens blur using a multilayer perceptron (MLP), accurately capturing variations in the 2D point spread function (PSF) across image-plane location, focus setting, and depth. By modeling smartphones and DSLRs, they've created the first dataset of 5D blur fields, revealing—for the first time—subtle optical differences between seemingly identical phone models. This technology enables differentiating phone optics, image deblurring, and rendering more realistic blur effects, opening exciting applications.

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(blur-fields.github.io)
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Beyond OCR: Morphik's Visual Document Retrieval Revolution

2025-07-22

Morphik revolutionizes document retrieval by abandoning traditional OCR and parsing, opting for a visual understanding approach. They found that conventional text extraction struggles with complex documents containing charts, tables, and diagrams, often losing crucial information. Morphik utilizes Vision Transformers and language models to directly process document images, understanding the contextual relationship between textual and visual elements for more accurate and efficient retrieval. Benchmark tests show Morphik significantly outperforms other solutions in accuracy, while optimizations drastically reduce query latency. This technology excels with financial documents, technical manuals, and other contexts heavily reliant on visual information.

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(www.morphik.ai)
AI document retrieval visual understanding

Killing Creativity: Why Good People Get Weeded Out

2025-07-22
Killing Creativity: Why Good People Get Weeded Out

Through personal anecdotes and the example of a BBC WWII special forces training program, the author reveals a harsh truth: in many organizations, truly efficient and innovative individuals are often sidelined because they don't conform to established processes or lack a 'leadership aura'. Instead, those who are adept at controlling situations and demonstrating leadership, but are less practically efficient, are promoted. The article explores the mechanisms behind this phenomenon and how to build a system that better motivates talent and encourages innovation.

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(blog.outlandish.claims)
Startup organizational culture

Apple's AI: More Hype Than Substance?

2025-01-07
Apple's AI: More Hype Than Substance?

Apple's much-hyped AI features are facing significant criticism due to a string of embarrassing errors. From misrepresenting news headlines to producing nonsensical summaries in everyday applications, the AI's performance falls far short of expectations. This recalls Apple's previous Maps debacle, highlighting a potential flaw in the company's technology readiness assessment. While Apple claims to be working on improvements, the reliability of its AI remains questionable, potentially damaging its brand image and user trust.

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(www.ndtvprofit.com)
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PhD Enrollment Plummets Globally Amidst Financial Hardship and Bleak Job Prospects

2025-02-13
PhD Enrollment Plummets Globally Amidst Financial Hardship and Bleak Job Prospects

A worrying trend is emerging: PhD enrollment is declining in several countries, including Australia, Japan, Brazil, and the UK. High living costs, meager stipends, and limited post-graduation job prospects are deterring prospective students. The OECD urges reforms to improve working conditions and diversify career paths to prevent a talent drain and hinder scientific progress. In Australia, PhD stipends are below minimum wage, creating financial insecurity. Japan's PhD enrollment has fallen since the early 2000s, prompting government intervention. Brazil saw its lowest PhD enrollment in a decade due to economic crisis and underfunding of science. While Canada hasn't seen a decline yet, funding concerns remain. Increased scholarships are a positive step, but only benefit top students. Furthermore, restrictions on international students in countries like the UK impact universities' ability to support early-career researchers.

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(www.nature.com)
Tech PhD education talent drain

Revamping the ACM Student Research Competition: A Focus on Feedback

2025-01-22
Revamping the ACM Student Research Competition: A Focus on Feedback

While the programming languages community boasts mentoring initiatives like PLMW, SIGPLAN-M, and PLTea, a crucial piece is missing: guidance on presenting research. The authors argue that the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), while intending to help, suffers from a competition-focused approach that overshadows its feedback mechanisms. This leaves junior researchers lacking the crucial skills of presenting their work effectively. The proposed solution is to refocus the SRC on providing high-quality feedback from experts, including increased expert reviewers, detailed feedback, and archiving extended abstracts. This aims to improve student presentation skills and increase the visibility of their research.

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(blog.sigplan.org)
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VP Vance's Apple Watch: A National Security Risk?

2025-02-09
VP Vance's Apple Watch: A National Security Risk?

An open letter from a former CIA case officer warns Vice President Vance about the significant national security risks posed by his Apple Watch. The letter highlights how the watch's microphone, GPS tracking, and biometric data collection features could be exploited by hostile intelligence agencies to steal secrets and even manipulate him. The author recommends safer alternatives such as the Sangin Instruments Neptune, Marathon 41mm Diver's Automatic (GSAR), or a Breitling “White House” Aerospace. This article offers a unique perspective on the potential national security implications of seemingly innocuous tech devices, prompting reflection on personal privacy and information security.

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(www.watchesofespionage.com)
Tech intelligence smartwatch

Ricochet: Anonymous Messaging You Can Trust

2025-02-14
Ricochet: Anonymous Messaging You Can Trust

Ricochet is an experimental peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on the Tor Network. It protects your identity, contact list, and communications without relying on any central servers or operators. Your login is your hidden service address, and contacts connect directly to you via Tor. This makes it extremely difficult to trace your identity. Available for Windows, OS X, and Linux, Ricochet is open-source and user-friendly, but users should carefully assess their risks.

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(github.com)
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Beyond Boring MFA: Hilariously Absurd Authentication Ideas

2025-07-30

Tired of tedious multi-factor authentication? This author shares a series of wildly creative alternatives, ranging from poker hand comparisons to Rubik's Cube puzzles, even chess matches and karaoke performances! Each idea has its quirks, some boasting high security, others prioritizing ease of use, while others are simply hilariously absurd. The author ultimately cautions that finding the balance between security and user experience is key, warning against reinventing the wheel.

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(tesseral.com)
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Harvard Makes Tuition Free for Families Earning $200K or Less

2025-03-17
Harvard Makes Tuition Free for Families Earning $200K or Less

Harvard University announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less, starting in the 2025-26 academic year. This expansion of financial aid will cover approximately 86% of US families, ensuring access for a broader range of students. Students from families earning $100,000 or less will also receive free room, board, and other student services. This initiative builds on Harvard's long-standing commitment to affordability, having invested over $3.6 billion in undergraduate financial aid since 2004. The move aims to create a more diverse student body, enriching the learning environment for all.

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(abcnews.go.com)
Startup Harvard Tuition Financial Aid

Amazon Kills Local Alexa Processing: Privacy Concerns Rise with AI Push

2025-03-18
Amazon Kills Local Alexa Processing: Privacy Concerns Rise with AI Push

Starting March 28, 2025, Amazon will eliminate the local voice processing option for some Echo devices, sending all voice requests to the cloud for analysis. Amazon claims this is necessary for new generative AI features, but the move has sparked privacy concerns. While users previously could choose not to send voice recordings, transcripts were still sent to Amazon's cloud even with this option enabled. This change forces users to choose between privacy and full Alexa functionality, as disabling recording storage disables many personalized features. Amazon assures users this doesn't compromise privacy, but its past record, including using voice data for targeted ads and security breaches, raises doubts.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Google AI Product Usage Survey Embedded Multiple Times

2025-07-04
Google AI Product Usage Survey Embedded Multiple Times

A blog post contains multiple embedded instances of the same Google AI product usage survey. The survey aims to understand how frequently users utilize Google AI tools like Gemini and NotebookLM, and also gathers feedback on article improvements. The survey includes a question about usage frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, hardly ever, unsure) and an open-ended question asking for suggestions on improving the article (make it more concise, add more detail, make it easier to understand, include more images or videos, it's fine as is).

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(blog.google)
AI Product Usage

VW Backtracks on Touchscreens: Physical Controls Are Back

2025-03-08
VW Backtracks on Touchscreens: Physical Controls Are Back

Volkswagen is reversing course on its touchscreen-heavy approach to car controls. Design chief Andreas Mindt announced that all future VW models will feature physical buttons for key functions. This follows criticism of the company's previous move to replace many physical controls with touchscreens. Starting with the production version of the ID.2all next year, vital controls like volume, heating, fan speed, and hazard lights will get dedicated physical buttons. Mindt stated that this change reflects a commitment to prioritizing driver safety and usability, acknowledging past mistakes and ensuring a more intuitive driving experience.

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(www.autocar.co.uk)
Tech Physical Buttons User Interface

AI in Education: A Century-Old Prediction?

2025-08-16
AI in Education: A Century-Old Prediction?

Over a century ago, Edison predicted that motion pictures would replace books and revolutionize education within a decade. Today, a similar narrative surrounds AI, with claims that it will obsolete books and transform education in ten years. However, history shows that new technologies aren't a panacea. Using Edison's prediction about film as a parallel, the author cautions against AI hype, urging a rational assessment of its role in education – potentially as a supplementary tool, not a sole one.

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(shkspr.mobi)
AI technological predictions
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