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The Makefile Effect: Why We Copy-Paste Config Files

2025-01-11

This post explores the common "Makefile effect" in software engineering: engineers tend to copy-paste and tweak existing configuration files (like Makefiles, CI/CD configurations, etc.) instead of writing them from scratch. The author argues this isn't inherently bad, but suggests it indicates that tools might be overly complex, lacking good diagnostics and debugging support, making them inefficient and insecure to use. The post concludes with design recommendations to minimize this effect, improving development efficiency and security.

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(blog.yossarian.net)
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Experiences vs. Stability: A New Dilemma for Gen Z Women

2025-03-19
Experiences vs. Stability: A New Dilemma for Gen Z Women

This essay explores the conflicting feelings of contemporary young women regarding the choice between "experiences" and a stable life. From "Girls" to "Beautiful World, Where Are You," the article analyzes two contrasting female images: the former pursues extreme experiences, while the latter yearns for stable love and family. The author argues that in the post-pandemic era, under the impact of social media, the value of pursuing "experiences" is gradually fading, and more and more women are beginning to reflect on the cost of independent life and re-examine the meaning of marriage and family.

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(www.metropolitanreview.org)
Misc feminine perspective

Restore Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe

2025-06-15
Restore Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe

macOS 26 Tahoe replaces the unique, oddly shaped app icons in the Dock with iOS-style squarcles, a change many users dislike. This article provides a solution for both users and developers to restore custom icon shapes. Users can replace the .icns file within the application package; developers can use NSApplication.shared.dockTile.contentView to change the icon at runtime. Get your Dock back to its former glory!

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(simonbs.dev)
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Bayesian Epistemology 101: Credences, Evidence, and Rationality

2025-02-03

This tutorial introduces Bayesian epistemology, focusing on its core norms: probabilism and the principle of conditionalization. Using Eddington's solar eclipse observation as a case study, it illustrates how Bayesian methods update belief in hypotheses. The tutorial then explores disagreements within Bayesianism regarding prior probabilities, coherence, and the scope of conditionalization, presenting foundational arguments like Dutch book arguments, accuracy-dominance arguments, and arguments from comparative probability. Finally, it addresses the idealization problem and the application of Bayesian methods in science.

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(plato.stanford.edu)
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Netflix's Brief Apple TV Integration: A Bug, Not a Feature

2025-02-16
Netflix's Brief Apple TV Integration: A Bug, Not a Feature

Netflix's temporary appearance in the Apple TV app, including watchlist and 'continue watching' features, caused brief excitement. However, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed it was a mistake, and the functionality has been reverted. Netflix has consistently refused to integrate its content with Apple's or Google's aggregation efforts, highlighting its independent approach. While the temporary integration showed potential, Netflix remains committed to users accessing its content solely through its own app.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Real Genius vs. Revenge of the Nerds: A Re-evaluation of 80s College Comedies

2025-04-02
Real Genius vs. Revenge of the Nerds: A Re-evaluation of 80s College Comedies

This article contrasts the 1980s college comedies *Real Genius* and *Revenge of the Nerds*. The author argues that while *Revenge of the Nerds* is nostalgic, its portrayal of nerdy revenge is rife with racism and misogyny, ultimately harming the image of geek culture. *Real Genius*, however, presents a more nuanced and positive depiction of genius, exploring the isolation of high intelligence and the potential for mistakes in the pursuit of goals. The film features well-developed characters, realistic portrayals of college life, and avoids typical college movie tropes. The author ultimately recommends *Real Genius* as a superior and more insightful film.

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(reactormag.com)
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Texas Sues Allstate for Secretly Collecting Driver Data

2025-01-14
Texas Sues Allstate for Secretly Collecting Driver Data

Texas has sued Allstate, alleging the insurance giant violated state privacy laws by secretly collecting detailed location data from millions of drivers to justify premium hikes. The lawsuit claims Allstate paid app developers to embed tracking code in their apps (including GasBuddy, Fuel Rewards, and Life360), sending sensitive data back to Allstate. This marks the first enforcement action by a state Attorney General under a data privacy law. Allstate failed to properly inform users about data collection and use in its privacy policies, and didn't utilize a 30-day cure period to avoid the lawsuit. Texas is seeking hefty fines, data deletion, and restitution for affected consumers.

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(gizmodo.com)
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Rust Prototyping: Debunking the Myths

2025-01-17
Rust Prototyping: Debunking the Myths

This article challenges the common belief that Rust is unsuitable for rapid prototyping. The author argues that Rust's strong type system and tooling actually help developers catch design flaws early, reducing rework later. The article details several Rust prototyping techniques, such as using simple types, leveraging type inference, judiciously using `unwrap`, and utilizing IDE features effectively. Real-world examples illustrate how Rust's type system aids design, leading to robust production-ready code. The author also emphasizes avoiding premature optimization and recommends the `dbg!` macro for debugging. In short, this article provides a practical guide to Rust prototyping, enabling developers to efficiently translate ideas into working code.

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(corrode.dev)
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Apple Fitness VP Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture

2025-08-22
Apple Fitness VP Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture

Jay Blahnik, Apple's VP of Fitness Technologies, is facing accusations of fostering a toxic work environment. Multiple current and former employees allege verbal abuse, manipulation, and inappropriate behavior, leading over ten employees to take extended medical or mental health leaves since 2022. Despite an internal investigation, Blahnik remains employed and faces multiple lawsuits, including one alleging sexual harassment. The situation raises concerns about Apple's corporate culture.

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(macdailynews.com)
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Gemini 2.0 Family Gets a Major Update: Enhanced Performance and Multimodal Capabilities

2025-02-05
Gemini 2.0 Family Gets a Major Update: Enhanced Performance and Multimodal Capabilities

Google has significantly updated its Gemini 2.0 family of models! The 2.0 Flash model is now generally available via API, enabling developers to build production applications. An experimental version of 2.0 Pro, boasting superior coding performance and complex prompt handling with a 2 million token context window, has also been released. A cost-effective 2.0 Flash-Lite model is now in public preview. All models currently feature multimodal input with text output, with more modalities coming in the following months. This update significantly boosts performance and expands applicability, marking a major step forward for Gemini in the AI landscape.

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(blog.google)
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MessagePack: A Faster, Smaller Alternative to JSON

2025-01-11

MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format enabling data exchange across multiple languages, similar to JSON but faster and smaller. It's used by projects like Redis, Fluentd, and Pinterest for performance gains. Supported by over 50 programming languages and environments, its simple specification makes it an easy-to-implement, fast replacement for JSON.

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(msgpack.org)
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Ketamine's Neurotoxicity: The Dark Side of Recreational Use

2025-02-24
Ketamine's Neurotoxicity: The Dark Side of Recreational Use

This article explores the neurotoxic effects of ketamine, particularly from recreational use. High-dose ketamine use leads to significant brain damage, resembling multiple sclerosis (white matter lesions) and Alzheimer's disease (grey matter atrophy) after prolonged use. Even therapeutic doses show tolerance and potential neurotoxicity. The author shares personal experiences highlighting the risks of ketamine abuse, emphasizing the need to weigh risks and benefits when considering it for treating treatment-resistant depression, acknowledging the damaging effects of untreated depression itself.

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(desmolysium.com)
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Hacking OpenAI Transcription: Speed Up Your Audio, Slash Your Costs

2025-06-25
Hacking OpenAI Transcription: Speed Up Your Audio, Slash Your Costs

Want cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions? Speed up your audio! This surprisingly effective hack involves using ffmpeg to double or triple the speed of your audio before transcription. The author shares a script combining yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and an LLM, showcasing how speeding up a 40-minute talk significantly reduced both processing time and cost, with minimal impact on transcription accuracy. While exploring alternatives to YouTube's auto-captioning, this unexpected discovery revealed cost savings of up to 67%, making it a worthwhile optimization for anyone working with long-form audio transcriptions.

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(george.mand.is)
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Quick Texture Generation: An XOR Texture Tutorial

2024-12-18

This tutorial explains how to generate an XOR texture, a simple texture created by XORing the x and y coordinates of each pixel. While not ideal for games or art, it's perfect for testing texture mappers. The article details the XOR operation, discusses the effect of texture size on color brightness, and shows how to generate similar textures using AND and OR operators. A 3D texture example using XOR is also presented.

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(lodev.org)
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Shanghai's Dual Faces: A Tale of Two Sides of the Huangpu River

2024-12-17
Shanghai's Dual Faces: A Tale of Two Sides of the Huangpu River

This article recounts the author's observations of Shanghai's architecture, focusing on the contrast between Puxi and Pudong. Starting with a 2005 visit, the author describes being captivated by Pudong's rapidly rising skyscrapers. Today, Pudong boasts the Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Shanghai Tower, forming a stark contrast to the historical European-style buildings of Puxi. The author argues these structures are not just feats of engineering, but also symbols of China's economic development and cultural transformation, reflecting Shanghai's unique duality: a blend of historical heritage and modern dynamism.

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(arun.is)
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LHC Unveils 23 Exotic Hadrons, Challenging Strong Interaction Theories

2024-12-20
LHC Unveils 23 Exotic Hadrons, Challenging Strong Interaction Theories

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has yielded a surprising discovery: 23 exotic hadrons, including pentaquarks and tetraquarks, whose structures defy explanation by current theories. This discovery, akin to a fascinating detective story, is driving theorists to develop new models, such as hadronic molecule models and compact tetraquark models. Future experiments at the High-Luminosity LHC, Belle II, and BESIII will provide more data, offering further clues to unraveling the mysteries of the strong interaction.

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(cerncourier.com)
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Reverse-Engineering a Sony PS1 Motherboard: The nsOne Project

2025-06-12
Reverse-Engineering a Sony PS1 Motherboard: The nsOne Project

Lorentio Brodesco reverse-engineered an original PlayStation 1 motherboard, painstakingly recreating its complete schematic. This wasn't just a repair job; it's a preservation effort to save the PS1's hardware architecture and ultimately produce a functional motherboard, nsOne. He's open-sourcing the design files, a tribute to the PS1 and a testament to the power of retro hardware preservation.

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(arstechnica.com)
Hardware

Pure JS CSV to Searchable HTML Table

2025-05-22
Pure JS CSV to Searchable HTML Table

Tired of wrestling with CSV data? This pure JavaScript project transforms your CSV files into beautiful, searchable, and filterable HTML tables. With minimal code, visualize your data, customize formatting, enable downloads, and embed the table seamlessly. Check out the demo and simplify your data handling today!

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(github.com)
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Open WebUI Adds Branding Protection to License

2025-05-06

Open WebUI, an independent open-source AI project, has added a branding protection clause to its BSD-3 license starting with version 0.6.6. This follows a surge in bad actors taking the project, removing branding, and selling it commercially. The new clause doesn't affect legitimate users but prevents those who misrepresent the project and profit without contributing. It allows for modifications and redistribution but mandates clear attribution unless specific conditions are met (e.g., under 50 users, contributor with permission, or enterprise license). Open WebUI remains largely open-source, aiming to balance community spirit with project sustainability.

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(docs.openwebui.com)
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Reverse-Engineering a Pentium's Clever BiCMOS Circuits

2025-01-21
Reverse-Engineering a Pentium's Clever BiCMOS Circuits

This post details the reverse engineering of interesting BiCMOS circuits within Intel's Pentium processor, focusing on the output circuitry of the constant ROM in the floating-point unit. The author meticulously explains the layered structure, the use of MOS transistors, and the unique aspects of the BiCMOS driver. A deep dive into the multiplexers, latches, and driver design reveals the intricate design of the Pentium and highlights the role of BiCMOS technology in enhancing performance. The article ultimately illustrates the remarkable growth in processor complexity as described by Moore's Law.

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(www.righto.com)
Hardware BiCMOS circuits

Convenient Homelab LLMs with NixOS and WSL

2025-04-11

This post details a setup for running LLMs conveniently on a homelab using NixOS within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). The author overcame challenges like VRAM locking, WSL auto-shutdown, and Nvidia driver issues. By leveraging Ollama, the Nvidia Container Toolkit, and NixOS's configuration management, they achieved automated updates and easy system rebuilding. The guide covers keeping WSL running, NixOS installation, Nvidia driver configuration, setting up an Ollama container, and optional Tailscale networking, ultimately providing a readily accessible local LLM environment.

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(yomaq.github.io)
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Mastodon Goes Nonprofit: Decentralization Takes Center Stage

2025-01-13
Mastodon Goes Nonprofit: Decentralization Takes Center Stage

Decentralized social network Mastodon announced its transition to a European nonprofit organization. Founder Eugen Rochko will hand over management of key platform components to this new entity, preventing single-person control. This move distinguishes Mastodon from centralized networks controlled by CEOs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Mastodon will continue operating mastodon.social and mastodon.online, remaining open-source and free. The shift reflects Mastodon's commitment to decentralization and community governance, addressing recent concerns about ownership in open-source projects.

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(techcrunch.com)
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The Gap Between Strong and Weak Engineers

2024-12-27

This article explores the capabilities that differentiate strong engineers from average ones. Strong engineers can accomplish tasks that weaker engineers cannot, such as resolving complex bugs, improving legacy code, and undertaking significant architectural overhauls. Weaker engineers struggle with these tasks even with ample time. The article highlights that strong engineers are not simply more efficient but possess the ability to solve complex problems, while weaker engineers are virtually incapable of completing most engineering tasks. The article also offers advice on collaborating with weaker senior engineers, emphasizing the need to be kind but protective of one's time, avoiding excessive demands.

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(www.seangoedecke.com)
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Briar: Decentralized Messaging App for Activists and Journalists

2025-03-14

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone needing secure communication. Unlike traditional apps, Briar doesn't rely on central servers; messages sync directly between devices. Offline, it uses Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or memory cards. Online, it leverages Tor for enhanced privacy. Briar resists surveillance and censorship by employing end-to-end encryption and a decentralized architecture. It offers private messaging, public forums, and blogs, protecting against metadata surveillance, content filtering, takedown orders, and denial-of-service attacks. Briar's long-term vision extends beyond messaging, aiming to support secure, distributed applications for crisis mapping and collaborative work, fostering safe spaces for communication and organization globally.

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(briarproject.org)
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GitHub Copilot: Your AI Pair Programmer

2024-12-18
GitHub Copilot: Your AI Pair Programmer

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered pair programmer that provides real-time code suggestions based on your code and natural language prompts. It supports multiple programming languages and IDEs, offering free and paid plans to suit various needs. Copilot boasts powerful debugging and security vulnerability fixing capabilities, along with multi-file editing and cross-platform support. While trained on public code repositories, it doesn't copy-paste code but generates suggestions probabilistically, offering an optional code referencing filter to mitigate copyright concerns.

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(github.com)
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mbake: A Makefile Formatter and Linter After 50 Years!

2025-06-22
mbake: A Makefile Formatter and Linter After 50 Years!

After a 50-year wait (referencing the long history of Makefiles), mbake is finally here! This Makefile formatter and linter not only automatically fixes formatting issues such as indentation, spacing, and line breaks but also intelligently detects `.PHONY` targets and supports custom rules and plugin extensions. It offers a rich command-line interface for formatting, validation, and version management, seamlessly integrating into CI/CD workflows. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, mbake significantly improves Makefile writing efficiency and readability.

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(github.com)
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OpenAPI: Revolutionizing API Development

2025-06-19
OpenAPI: Revolutionizing API Development

In software development, efficient application building, maintenance, and integration are paramount. The OpenAPI Specification (OAS), a universal language for describing RESTful APIs, is key to achieving this efficiency. It provides a detailed blueprint for your API, encompassing endpoints, request and response formats, and authentication methods. Benefits of OAS include: improved team collaboration, automation (e.g., auto-generating client SDKs and server stubs, interactive documentation, and automated testing), enhanced developer experience, fostering a thriving partner ecosystem, and driving an API-first development culture. Creating an OAS can be done manually, via code-first generation, or with AI assistance, each with its own pros and cons. OpenAPI and Swagger are distinct: OpenAPI is the specification itself, while Swagger is a toolset built around the OpenAPI Specification. Adopting OpenAPI is a strategic imperative for any organization building robust, scalable applications.

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(www.deployhq.com)
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Solar Power's Explosive Growth: Deregulation as the Key?

2025-03-24
Solar Power's Explosive Growth: Deregulation as the Key?

Solar power has become the cheapest new electricity source in many US regions, but adoption hinges on market structure. Deregulated markets, where entrepreneurs can readily pursue profits, have rapidly embraced solar. Conversely, regulated utilities lag due to legacy investments and bureaucracy. To accelerate the renewable energy transition, the US needs greater deregulation, enabling private capital to build a cleaner, larger grid. This is crucial to meet surging energy demands from emerging technologies and maintain global competitiveness. The article highlights the dramatic cost reduction of solar and contrasts the rapid adoption in deregulated states like Texas with the slower progress in regulated ones like Tennessee.

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(seanobannon.substack.com)
Tech energy deregulation

Go 1.24 Cryptography Overhaul: Achieving FIPS 140-3 Compliance

2025-02-06

Go 1.24 significantly refactored its cryptography packages to achieve FIPS 140-3 compliance. This is a major step forward, featuring a pure Go (and Go assembly) implementation of a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module, eliminating reliance on cgo or syscalls. Microsoft Go 1.24 also updated, adding macOS preview support and enhanced Azure Linux support, but maintains its use of system libraries for cryptography, diverging from the official Go approach. New environment variables like GODEBUG=fips140=on and GOFIPS140=latest control FIPS mode; the runtime automatically enables it on FIPS-compliant systems (Azure Linux, Windows).

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(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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