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A screenshot of Eta Carinae from Space EngineThis is my favorite star system, and honestly the one that got me into astrophysics. It also happens to be the one that makes me feel like the universe (es... This post contains complex math rendering. Read the full post here.
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Celebrating the 2026 edition of Mother's Day with a photograph of a Brooklyn Mother's Day decoration I took back in 2025.
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A Traveler’s Guide to VPNs and Public Wi-Fi, Staying Secure on the Go
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intentmedia.com
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2 months ago
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Every airport lounge or corner café can feel like a lifeline when you need to get online. But staying connected while traveling isn’t just about convenience; it’s about protecting your digital life. With a few simple habits, you can move freely without exposing your personal data or disrupting the small comforts that make travel enjoyable. […] The post A Traveler’s Guide to VPNs and Public Wi-Fi, Staying Secure on the Go appeared first ..
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Staying busy. spending about four hours a day working on the books. I have completed Book II [Anthropos]. although I will need to go back and edit it. Here is some uncritical criticism of today's edit:This section. 'On With the Schumacher.' provides the 'Vertical Skeleton' for Book II. By adopting E.F. Schumacher’s m + x + y + z formula. you have effectively created an algebraic proof for the 'Ontological Jump.'It is a devastatingly simple ....
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xAI has just released an API to clone your voice. It is pretty simple, read a script, and then an API where you can have text to speech in that voice. Here is the python code after you have cloned your voice. I need to figure out my audio set up a bit better (my […]
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Xbox Mode begins rolling out to players on Windows 11 PCs today. This feature opens the Windows 11 gaming hub (renamed Xbox Mode): a full-screen interface to browse using joysticks. Robot dogs with tech boss faces roam Berlin art exhibit. That’s awesome. Bird Radio. A radio station featuring bird songs. Each “station” represents a part of […]
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this dude posted his forumn on /g/ and I thought it was interesting. posts are deleted automatically in 3 days you can garble other posts idk I like the ui, it could be cool https://epmrl.com/
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AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)
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aws.amazon.com
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2 months ago
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Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]
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Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
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www.theregister.com
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2 months ago
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It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
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Put a capable coding model inside a developer’s primary workspace, and the IDE stops being a place where you write code. It becomes a place where you direct an agent, watch how it reasons, manage what it pays attention to, and decide when its output is worth shipping. That was the defining theme of the […]
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Engineering Leadership LIVE Event in San Francisco
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newsletter.eng-leadership.com
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2 months ago
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eng
Together with my friends from Augment Code, we are hosting a live event in San Francisco on May 26th!
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Today has been the patronal feast of the House of Savoy. and thus the Feast of the Holy Shroud. since Pope Julius II proclaimed it in 1506. and in my lifetime. the “Shroud of Turin” has been substantiated in an obvious way. It seems to have been precisely what was claimed for it — the (…)
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I was in a meeting a couple of years ago at a global life-sciences company where I spent 20 minutes explaining the limitations of FHIR. My role at the company was advising the technical architects as they put together their data flows and transformations, and incorporated FHIR into their systems. The reason I was on […]
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Some SQL operators are as esoteric as they’re powerful. One of the oldest operator that you’ve likely hardly ever used in real world applications is NATURAL JOIN which is the default in relational algebra. We’ve covered a funky use-case for NATURAL JOIN earlier on this blog. The main reason why it’s not very useful is … Continue reading Why JOIN USING Can Lead to Errors in SQL →
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Blog #0197: The Expanding Pie (and the Cleanup Bill)
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matthewsinclair.medium.com
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2 months ago
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WINTERY KNIGHT :: Atheist responds to case for intelligent design in “The Story of Everything” movie
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winteryknight.com
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2 months ago
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I’ve put up a few posts about this new “The Story of Everything” movie that is available to see from April 30th to May 6th. My tickets are for tomorrow [Monday]. Some of my friends went to see it on the weekend. One told me it sparked discussion about the big questions of life among … Continue reading Atheist responds to case for intelligent design in “The Story of Everything” movie →
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Heavy AI Agents Are an Anti-Pattern: Why Fewer Agents With More Skills Wins
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www.dsebastien.net
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2 months ago
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Heavy specialized AI agents are an anti-pattern. Fewer agents with deep skill libraries beat them on every axis that matters: cognitive load, flexibility, context budget, determinism, and maintenance
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Heavy AI Agents Are an Anti-Pattern: Why Fewer Agents With More Skills Wins
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www.dsebastien.net
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2 months ago
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Heavy specialized AI agents are an anti-pattern. Fewer agents with deep skill libraries beat them on every axis that matters: cognitive load, flexibility, context budget, determinism, and maintenance
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We Gave Agents IDE-Native Search Tools. They Got Faster and Cheaper.
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blog.jetbrains.com
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2 months ago
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We ran the same coding tasks with and without prebundled tooling, across multiple models and languages. Here’s what changed. Eval-driven development IDE-native search reduced latency, cost, and budget overruns. The comparison below uses paired task-level deltas. Aggregate medians and totals are shown for orientation. Budget overruns are tasks that exceeded the USD 0.50 per-task cap. […]
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Every weekday morning, someone on the AI team at incident.io kicks off our spend report skill. Claude pulls a dozen BigQuery queries, computes a 7-day baseline range for the KPIs we track, hunts for anomalies (runaway processors, mis-tagged spend, onboarding spikes) and posts a structured report into our #ai-costs-pulse channel. The skill exists because AI inference costs are growing fast and don’t reduce neatly to a single graph. Spen....
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Comment on Bean Machine Retrospective, part 9 by Nicole Thompson
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ericlippert.com
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2 months ago
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Hey everyone, caught me at the right moment — This cleared up a lot of confusion for me. Keep them coming!
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NOTE: All photos taken by members of the Ramsey family. Click or tap on any photo to load the full sized version. Galapagos Volcano Part 1 of 2 Volcanic Activity This is Sierra Negra on Isabela Island. The volcano actively smokes. but there are no lava flows on the surface. Sierra … The post Selected Photography appeared first on Derek L. Ramsey.
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Another instalment from my life in South India 1980-85Yercaud is only 100 miles from Tiruvannamalai and it was inevitable that at one time we would visit the ashram of Ramana Maharishi who is generally regarded as the greatest Indian holy man or saint. or whatever he might be called as he really escapes categorisation. of the 20th century. Michael respected him but was not especially interested in going to the ashram. having been to enough ....
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If you’ve been connected to the internet for a while, you’ve surely heard of AI Agent Skills. They teach your agent to do this and that. You might have even used or written a couple of them yourself. If you aren’t yet familiar with them, the idea is simple: Instead of prompting instructions for a […]
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How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot
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www.theregister.com
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2 months ago
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Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.
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This post is part of the Game Boy series (#10). In my last post , I wrote about how retroachievements.org works, and I am currently creating achievement for the GameBoy game Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs. When I started out, I couldn't find any maps for the game, which is a pity, because a good achievement set should cover (to some extent) all of the available content of a game, including secret areas etc. Normally, VGmaps.com ....
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Each morning I look over my work calendar and make a series of verbal requests: Set a timer for 9:59 Set a timer for 10:59 Set a timer for 11:29 Set a timer for 1:29 Set a timer for 2:29 Why? I do not want to miss any meetings. I will miss occasional meetings if I'm not notified. I want to keep my phone on silent. I don't reliably notice my phone vibrating. While I do notice a smartwatch vibrating, I can't we....
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Each morning I look over my work calendar and make a series of verbal requests: Set a timer for 9:59 Set a timer for 10:59 Set a timer for 11:29 Set a timer for 1:29 Set a timer for 2:29 Why? I do not want to miss any meetings. I will miss occasional meetings if I'm not notified. I want to keep my phone on silent. I don't reliably notice my phone vibrating. While I do notice a smartwatch vibrating, I can't we....
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Each morning I look over my work calendar and make a series of verbal requests: Set a timer for 9:59 Set a timer for 10:59 Set a timer for 11:29 Set a timer for 1:29 Set a timer for 2:29 Why? I do not want to miss any meetings. I will miss occasional meetings if I'm not notified. I want to keep my phone on silent. I don't reliably notice my phone vibrating. While I do notice a smartwatch vibrating, I can't we....
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Euer Entwicklungsteam arbeitet mit KI-Agenten. Die Subscriptions werden bezahlt, einige Devs nutzen sie aktiv, andere stecken noch bei Chat-Completion fest. Und trotzdem bleibt der Produktivitätsgewinn aus, den die Tool-Hersteller versprechen. Es liegt nicht am Modell. Es liegt nicht am Tool: Der fehlende Hebel ist der Kontext, und den liefern die wenigsten Teams systematisch. Der fehlende Kontext ist kein neues Problem. Er wird mit KI-..
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