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Tokyo Xtreme Racer: A Technical Deep Dive into the UE5 Powered Reboot

2025-01-23
Tokyo Xtreme Racer: A Technical Deep Dive into the UE5 Powered Reboot

After an 18-year hiatus, the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series roars back with a new entry in Steam Early Access. This technical review delves into the game's Unreal Engine 5.4 implementation. Surprisingly, even a GTX 1070 can run the game smoothly at 1080p with high settings. The author provides detailed comparisons of visual quality and performance across different presets, exploring the impact of Lumen lighting technology. Steam Deck performance and future update expectations are also discussed. The game proves surprisingly scalable and visually appealing, even on older hardware.

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(cookieplmonster.github.io)
Game Unreal Engine 5

Absurd Math Error: Earth's Radius Only 4333 Feet?

2025-01-11
Absurd Math Error: Earth's Radius Only 4333 Feet?

A blogger discovered an unbelievable mathematical error in an image posted by a design and construction company. The image incorrectly calculated the Earth's radius when computing the lengths of two circular arcs at different altitudes, resulting in a radius of only 4333 feet, far less than the actual value. The blogger detailed the error in the calculation and pointed out the huge discrepancy between the actual Earth's radius and the calculated result. This erroneous calculation raises questions about the authenticity of information and highlights the importance of carefully verifying information in the information age.

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(www.charlespetzold.com)
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Study: TikTok Likely a Vehicle for Chinese Propaganda

2025-01-06
Study: TikTok Likely a Vehicle for Chinese Propaganda

A new study suggests TikTok's algorithm may favor content supporting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over critical viewpoints. Researchers found TikTok surfaces more pro-CCP content than competing platforms, even when anti-CCP content garners higher user engagement. The study also reveals that frequent TikTok users hold more favorable views of China. This comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on a potential TikTok ban in the US, fueling concerns about the platform's role in Chinese propaganda.

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(gizmodo.com)
Tech Chinese Propaganda Algorithmic Bias

Argentine President's Memecoin Endorsement Leads to Wild Price Swing, Millions Lost

2025-02-17
Argentine President's Memecoin Endorsement Leads to Wild Price Swing, Millions Lost

Argentine President Javier Milei's tweet endorsing a memecoin called Libra sent its market cap soaring to $4.4 billion before a dramatic 95%+ crash. Milei deleted the tweet, claiming unawareness of the project's details. Analysis suggests early investors manipulated liquidity pools to profit, resulting in $1.1 billion in trading volume but a heavily skewed buy/sell ratio. The incident also impacted other memecoins, with TRUMP losing $500 million in market cap in a short period.

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(www.coindesk.com)
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TypeScript Enums: Use Cases and Alternatives

2025-01-20

This blog post takes a closer look at TypeScript enums: How do they work? What are their use cases? What are the alternatives if we don’t want to use them? The post concludes with recommendations for when to use which approach. It covers enum basics, use cases (e.g., namespace for constants with primitive values, custom type with unique values, namespace for constants with object values), alternatives (e.g., object literals, union of string literal types), and how to perform exhaustiveness checks and enumerate members.

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(2ality.com)
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Reverse Engineering Call of Duty's User-Mode Anti-Cheat

2025-01-21
Reverse Engineering Call of Duty's User-Mode Anti-Cheat

This post details a deep dive into TAC, the user-mode anti-cheat in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The author meticulously reverse-engineered TAC, revealing its sophisticated techniques. These include runtime API lookups, anti-debugging measures (detecting debug registers and test signing mode), API hook detection, external overlay detection, and innovative encrypted custom syscall stubs. The analysis covers TAC's process termination methods, anti-signature scanning, and other anti-debugging tricks. The integration with Arxan code protection further enhances TAC's robustness. This research provides valuable insights into anti-cheat mechanisms and reverse engineering.

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(ssno.cc)
Game anti-cheat game security

The Unfathomable Complexity of Playing Cards

2025-01-17
The Unfathomable Complexity of Playing Cards

The seemingly simple act of playing cards hides an incredible mathematical complexity. From the randomness of shuffling to the 'aha' moments in card games, the topic has fascinated mathematicians and game designers alike. This article explores the origins and evolution of playing cards, their use in modern game design, and the captivating allure that keeps us hooked, highlighting the challenges they present in mathematics and game development.

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(www.polygon.com)
Game playing cards

The Non-Deterministic Nightmare of React UI Testing

2025-01-31

Testing React UIs presents a unique challenge due to its asynchronous update mechanism. Unlike direct DOM manipulation, React's renderer updates the UI asynchronously, making it difficult for tests to precisely capture the timing of UI state updates. Testing utilities like `act` and `waitFor` offer workarounds, but essentially boil down to 'eventually, something will happen'. Minor UI changes (like animation delays, state update order) can easily break tests, requiring extensive modifications to existing test suites. This results in high maintenance costs for React UI testing, a common pain point for many development teams.

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(blog.bennett.ink)
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Test-Driven Development with LLMs: Fun and Profit

2025-01-16

This blog post explores a novel approach to Test-Driven Development (TDD) leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). The author demonstrates how LLMs significantly enhance TDD efficiency by generating unit tests and code implementations based on specifications, iteratively refining the code and reducing debugging overhead. An automated workflow integrating IDE, terminal, and chat interface is also presented to further boost productivity. While acknowledging the inherent unreliability of LLMs, the author emphasizes the importance of human review and supplementary test cases to mitigate risks. The approach is best suited for well-structured projects, prioritizing low cognitive load to promote maintainable code.

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(blog.yfzhou.fyi)
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Misty Programming Language: A Novel Approach

2025-01-14

The Misty programming language, developed by Douglas Crockford, aims for conciseness and efficiency. It features a unique type system, operators, statements, functions, pattern matching, and intrinsic constants and functions. Misty prioritizes performance with built-in support for math, Blob, JSON, Parseq, and system security. Its parse tree structure and unique Wota message format are also noteworthy aspects.

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(mistysystem.com)
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South Korea Plane Crash Kills 179, Prompts Nationwide Mourning and Safety Review

2024-12-30
South Korea Plane Crash Kills 179, Prompts Nationwide Mourning and Safety Review

A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 passengers crashed at Muan Airport in South Korea, killing 179 people, marking the country's worst aviation disaster in decades. The accident occurred amidst political turmoil following the impeachment of both the president and prime minister, raising concerns about the government's ability to effectively respond to the crisis. South Korea has ordered safety inspections of all 737-800 aircraft and a comprehensive review of Jeju Air's safety standards. Investigators are examining factors such as a possible landing gear malfunction, potential hydraulic failure, and the safety design of the airport's runway barriers. The tragedy has prompted a seven-day national mourning period and highlighted the need for enhanced aviation safety and improved disaster response capabilities.

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(apnews.com)
Tech South Korea plane crash Aviation safety

Running DeepSeek R1 on Your Own Hardware: A Quick and Easy Guide

2025-02-01

This article provides a straightforward guide on running the large language model DeepSeek R1 on your own hardware. Using Arch Linux and the Ollama tool, the author walks the reader through installing, configuring, and running DeepSeek R1. The process requires a computer or VM with a dedicated GPU and some basic Linux knowledge. Security is emphasized; it's recommended not to run this on your main system. Ultimately, the reader can run DeepSeek R1 locally, enjoying a cloud-free, subscription-free, and data leak-free AI experience.

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(linux-howto.org)
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Eight Years at Palantir: Inside the Data Giant's Rise

2025-02-01
Eight Years at Palantir: Inside the Data Giant's Rise

A former Palantir engineer recounts their eight-year journey at the now near-$100 billion data analytics firm. The author details their reasons for joining—challenging industries, top-tier talent, and a unique corporate culture—and their experiences as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), including working at an Airbus factory to improve aircraft manufacturing. They highlight Palantir's unique FDE model, where engineers embed themselves in client sites to understand business processes and develop solutions. The author also discusses the challenges and importance of data integration, Palantir's unique approach to data security and company culture, and finally explores Palantir's ethical considerations and future prospects.

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(nabeelqu.co)
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My Experience with Claude 3.6: A Quantum Leap in AI Assistance

2025-01-02

Since Anthropic released Claude 3.6, my usage has skyrocketed. It's a significant improvement across the board, particularly in accuracy and reliability. I analyzed my usage data, showing a multi-hundred percent increase in conversations, messages, and words inputted. Claude helps me solve problems, from overcoming anxiety and decision paralysis to sparking creativity in exploring ideas, coding, and writing. It's even fun to interact with, like conversing with a brilliant scholar. Claude 3.6 is more than a tool; it's a highly capable partner that boosts productivity and expands horizons.

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(borretti.me)
AI Productivity Tool

Philosophical Dead Ends in Evolutionary Theory

2024-12-15
Philosophical Dead Ends in Evolutionary Theory

This review examines Richard Dawkins's "The Genetic Book of the Dead" and Sara Imari Walker's "Life as No One Knows It." Dawkins continues his "selfish gene" theory, arguing that genes are the central driving force of evolution. However, the review points out that this view is outdated and fails to adequately consider factors such as development, epigenetics, and niche construction. Walker's book attempts to explain the origin of life from the perspective of assembly theory, but the review argues that it is overly simplistic and fails to fully clarify the essence of life. The article concludes that popular science books often tend towards simplistic narratives, ignoring the complexity and diversity of the field of biology.

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(lareviewofbooks.org)
AI evolution genes origin of life

UK Shifts AI Regulation: Risk Mitigation Trumps Mandatory Testing

2025-02-20
UK Shifts AI Regulation: Risk Mitigation Trumps Mandatory Testing

The UK government has quietly shifted its approach to AI legislation, dropping plans to force AI companies to provide pre-release access to the AI Safety Institute (AISI) for testing. This move, met with industry resistance, has raised concerns. Michael Birtwistle, associate director at the AISI, warned that it risks leaving various societal harms unaddressed, such as algorithmic bias. The shift comes amid escalating trade tensions with the US, with the UK's Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, largely focusing on Ukraine and tariffs in media appearances, offering little comment on the AI policy change.

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(www.politico.eu)
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Meta's Byte Latent Transformer (BLT): Outperforming Tokenization-Based LLMs

2024-12-14

Meta AI researchers introduced the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a novel large language model architecture that processes bytes directly, rather than tokens. BLT dynamically allocates computational resources based on byte entropy, resulting in significant improvements in inference efficiency and robustness compared to tokenization-based models. Scaling experiments up to 8 billion parameters and 4 terabytes of training data demonstrate BLT's ability to match the performance of token-based LLMs while offering enhanced reasoning capabilities and handling of long-tail data. This research showcases the feasibility of training large-scale models directly on raw bytes without a fixed vocabulary.

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(ai.meta.com)
AI Byte-level Encoding Inference Efficiency

Top 10 Tech Joys of 2024: A Tech Writer's Retrospective

2024-12-28
Top 10 Tech Joys of 2024: A Tech Writer's Retrospective

In a year-end reflection, a tech writer shares his ten biggest tech-related joys of 2024. These include the fun of learning Python, inspiration from online creatives, the thrill of modernizing retrocomputers, the enduring usefulness of XML, the positive experience of Mastodon, the simplicity of NetBSD and Alpine Linux, the resurgence of boutique hosting, the satisfaction of hardware repair, and the clean elegance of plain HTML. The post concludes with heartfelt gratitude for reader feedback.

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(rubenerd.com)
Tech Programming Online Community

Graphene Interconnects Could Rescue Moore's Law

2024-12-14
Graphene Interconnects Could Rescue Moore's Law

Destination 2D, a California-based startup, claims to have solved two longstanding challenges in integrating graphene into chip manufacturing: high-temperature deposition and low charge carrier density. They've developed a technique to deposit graphene interconnects at 300°C, compatible with traditional CMOS processes. Furthermore, using intercalation doping, they've achieved graphene current densities 100 times that of copper. This technology promises to extend Moore's Law and support future generations of semiconductor technology.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
Hardware graphene Moore's Law semiconductors

C++ Thread-Local Storage Performance Pitfalls: 0 + 0 > 0?

2025-02-17
C++ Thread-Local Storage Performance Pitfalls: 0 + 0 > 0?

This article delves into the performance implications of using thread_local variables in C++. By analyzing assembly code, the author reveals significant performance discrepancies in different scenarios, particularly with thread_local variables having constructors and those used in shared libraries. Even simple accesses can suffer dramatic slowdowns due to constructor calls, dynamic loading of shared libraries, and other factors. The article concludes with performance optimization guidelines and discusses future improvements, aiming to help developers avoid thread_local performance traps.

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(yosefk.com)
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Intel's Ex-CEO and CFO Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Compensation

2024-12-24
Intel's Ex-CEO and CFO Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Compensation

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and current CFO and co-interim CEO David Zinsner are facing a shareholder derivative lawsuit alleging they misled shareholders about the financial performance of Intel's foundry unit. The suit claims breaches of fiduciary and contractual duties, seeking the return of all profits, benefits, and compensation. This follows Gelsinger's failed turnaround plan and Intel's record quarterly loss, with the foundry business identified as a major source of losses. The lawsuit highlights Intel's challenges in regaining shareholder trust and rebuilding its image.

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(www.cfodive.com)
Tech Financial Misreporting Shareholder Lawsuit

Conquering the Dark: A Guide to Fluorescent Mineral Photography

2025-01-22
Conquering the Dark: A Guide to Fluorescent Mineral Photography

This comprehensive guide delves into the art of fluorescent mineral photography, offering a step-by-step approach from camera settings to lighting techniques and post-processing. The challenge lies in capturing vibrant fluorescent colors in low-light conditions, requiring meticulous adjustments to exposure time, ISO, aperture, and more. The article emphasizes the importance of background selection, light placement, and post-processing software, providing solutions for photographing complex specimens with multiple fluorescent minerals. The ultimate goal is to achieve sharp, color-accurate images of these glowing wonders.

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(www.naturesrainbows.com)
Misc fluorescent mineral photography photography techniques post-processing

My Linkblogging Workflow: 7,607 Posts and Counting

2025-01-06
My Linkblogging Workflow: 7,607 Posts and Counting

Simon Willison shares his approach to running a successful link blog spanning over two decades. He details his methods for curating and presenting links, emphasizing the value of adding insightful commentary, giving proper credit to creators, and using technology (Django, Markdown, Claude) to enhance the experience. He argues link blogging is a low-effort, high-reward way to contribute meaningfully to online discourse and encourages others to adopt the practice.

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(simonwillison.net)
Development linkblogging blogging content creation

Microsoft Open-Sources Document Database Built on PostgreSQL

2025-01-27
Microsoft Open-Sources Document Database Built on PostgreSQL

In a surprising move, Microsoft has launched an open-source document database platform built on a relational PostgreSQL backend. The fully open-source platform, requiring no commercial licensing fees, suggests using the open-source FerretDB as a front-end. This signifies Microsoft's increased embrace of open source and offers a new option for the NoSQL database community. The database leverages two PostgreSQL extensions: pg_documentdb_core (optimizing BSON) and pg_documentdb_api (implementing CRUD and query operations). FerretDB 2.0 integrates with it, boasting a significant performance boost, with up to 20x speed improvements for certain workloads. This move is poised to challenge existing document databases like MongoDB.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Could a Twin Earth Detect Us?

2025-02-05
Could a Twin Earth Detect Us?

A new study investigates whether an extraterrestrial civilization with technology similar to ours could detect Earth and evidence of humanity. Researchers found that Earth's radio signals, such as planetary radar emissions from the former Arecibo Observatory, are the most detectable technosignatures, potentially visible from up to 12,000 light-years away. Atmospheric technosignatures, like nitrogen dioxide emissions, are also becoming more detectable thanks to advancements like the James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory. This research provides a multiwavelength framework for understanding the detectability of technology on other planets and shaping our search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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(www.seti.org)
Tech technosignatures

Stop Using Fake Bold and Italics on Social Media!

2025-03-08
Stop Using Fake Bold and Italics on Social Media!

This post details a test showing the inconsistent behavior of screen readers when encountering fake bold and italic text created using Unicode characters. Some screen readers ignore the formatting entirely, while others announce each character individually, leading to a poor user experience for visually impaired individuals. The author stresses the importance of using standard markup like HTML for text styling to ensure accessibility and avoid confusion for screen reader users.

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(adrianroselli.com)
Development screen readers

Revolutionizing Fine-Grained Authorization: Feldera's Incremental Compute Engine

2025-01-20
Revolutionizing Fine-Grained Authorization: Feldera's Incremental Compute Engine

Feldera introduces a revolutionary approach to Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA). Traditional FGA systems evaluate authorization requests in real-time, leading to inefficiency. Feldera precomputes all authorization decisions and uses its incremental compute engine (based on SQL) to update results, turning authorization requests into simple key-value lookups. Even with large object graphs, Feldera processes changes in milliseconds, dramatically improving performance. The article details FGA principles and demonstrates building a high-performance FGA engine using SQL, showcasing its superiority in handling large datasets.

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(www.feldera.com)
Development Fine-Grained Authorization Incremental Computation

Torpedo Juice: The Legendary WWII Booze

2024-12-19
Torpedo Juice: The Legendary WWII Booze

During World War II, the US Navy used high-proof alcohol as torpedo fuel. Resourceful sailors tapped into this supply, mixing the alcohol with fruit juice to create the legendary "torpedo juice." This potent concoction, though harsh-tasting, became a popular drink among servicemen, representing a unique camaraderie and escape from the harsh realities of war. Despite the Navy's attempts to deter consumption by adding poisons, sailors devised ingenious methods of purification, even using bread as a filter. The story of torpedo juice embodies the ingenuity and resilience of soldiers during wartime.

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(www.adn.com)
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