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Cloudflare blocks access to acm.org via a security check. The block can be triggered by certain inputs or malformed data. To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID and your IP address.
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Notepad++ warns of a fake macOS site, notepad-plus-plus-mac.org, falsely claiming an official Mac release. The site is unaffiliated, unauthorized, and even lists the project owner’s name and bio to look legitimate. Notepad++ has never released a Mac version. The author has contacted the site owner and asks users to correct misinformation online by saying the release is not official and directing people to this announcement. Thanks to vigilant users for exposing the misuse of the Notepad++ trademark.
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GameStop announced a $55.5bn unsolicited bid to buy eBay, valuing eBay at $125 per share in cash and stock. If approved, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen would lead the combined company and be paid only on performance, while about $20bn of debt would finance the deal. GameStop says it could save $2bn within a year, mainly by cutting $1.2bn in eBay’s sales/marketing. Analysts warn the offer saddles eBay with debt; eBay rose in after-hours trading. The deal aims to leverage GameStop’s US store footprint for live-commerce; eBay has 136m users.
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Thermos recalls over 8 million Stainless King jars and Sportsman bottles after reports of a stopper without a pressure-relief feature that can eject, causing serious injuries; three people suffered permanent vision loss. About 5.8 million Stainless King jars (SK3000, SK3020, pre-July 2023) and 2.3 million SK3010 Sportsman bottles are affected. Consumers should stop using them and contact Thermos for a remedy. SK3000/SK3020: send photo of disposed stopper; SK3010: return bottle with prepaid label. Claims at Thermos support site; 7–9 weeks for processing. Sold 2008–2024 at Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc., around $30.
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From the pre-VCS days of zipfiles, network shares, and floppies to the lock-based era (SCCS/RCS) to CVS, Visual SourceSafe, and Subversion, the article traces how each system tried to fix the previous one's flaws: atomic commits, branching, directory versioning, offline work. In 2005, BitKeeper's license crisis spurred Linus Torvalds to write Git in ten days, introducing distributed, content-addressed, fast-branching version control. GitHub popularized collaboration with pull requests. By 2026 Git dominates, backed by platforms like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket; competitors (Mercurial, Pijul, Jujutsu) exist but none dethrones Git. The author cautions about user errors and acknowledges Git's lasting value.
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Could not summarize article.
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Texico, an NHK WORLD-JAPAN educational program, teaches programming principles without a computer. Animated characters guide learners through five core processes—analysis, combination, generalization, abstraction, and simulation.
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The notes recast standard linear-algebra results in a purely vector-space language, emphasizing equivalence of finite-dimensional spaces by dimension and the interplay of subspaces, quotients, and maps. They show V/W_p ≃ Rp, where W_p is polynomials divisible by p, with V = W_p ⊕ Rp and dim V/W_p = deg p. They generalize to a Chinese remainder theorem for subspaces: if V/∩W_i is finite-dimensional, then V/∩W_i ≃ ∏ V/W_i exactly when dim equality holds. In the polynomial case, this yields CRT for coprime polynomials, with a basis/matrix interpretation via stacked T_i.
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New Cambrian Lagerstätte in southern China, the Huayuan biota, yields 8,681 fossils across 153 species, many new to science, revealing a biodiverse, deep-water Cambrian ecosystem after the Sinsk mass extinction. The exquisitely preserved specimens—including soft tissues—link to Burgess Shale–type faunas and showcase early representatives of major groups (arthropods, sponges, brachiopods, priapulids, lobopodians, etc.). Findings illuminate ocean circulation, carbon cycling, and the global spread of life, suggesting deep-sea refugia and a broader view of early animal evolution.
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Jim Nielsen advocates stitching together many small HTML pages navigated by links, using CSS view transitions to enhance the experience rather than in-page JavaScript. A menu example navigates to a dedicated /menu/ page; the close link on that page uses onclick to call history.back() when there is a referrer, otherwise redirects to '/'. This design keeps interactions simple, fast, and robust across devices—even with JS disabled—treating the browser as a document navigator rather than a runtime.
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Humanoid actuators must beat a mass penalty that makes high-ratio gears brittle for walking. The field favors a rotary/linear split: rotary joints for rotation, linear actuators for high-load/shock limbs. To reduce reflected inertia, designers use Quasi-Direct Drive or roller-screw linear actuators. Control relies on Field-Oriented Torque Control, impedance control, and Model Predictive Control with fast sensor fusion (dual encoders, IMU, force/tactile sensors). Thermal limits drive liquid cooling to raise continuous torque. For a 70 kg knee: peak 150–200 Nm, continuous 50–70 Nm, torque density >60 Nm/kg, backdrive <1 Nm. Future artificial muscles may beat motors, but remain experimental.
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Tesla has started high-volume production of the Semi at Gigafactory Nevada, moving from a pilot line to a dedicated plant with 50,000 annual capacity. The truck offers Standard Range (325 miles) and Long Range (500 miles), priced around $260k and $290k. It uses an 800‑kW tri‑motor drivetrain (1,072 hp) and supports 1.2‑MW Megacharger charging, restoring ~60% in ~30 minutes. The company touts vertical integration for 4680 cells; production and Megacharger network expansion are underway, with demand signals from California vouchers and new fleet‑as‑a‑service pilots.
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Henry Wong reports microbenchmarking methods to uncover hard disk physical geometry (platters, tracks, sectors) by measuring RPM, angular positions of sectors, track skew, track boundaries, and seek times. He explains CHS history, zone bit recording, and how newer drives use varying tracks per surface and complex track layouts (head-first vs seek-first, multiple surfaces). The work builds on Gim and Won, notes Skippy fails on modern drives, and shows that inferring the number of recording surfaces requires combining measurements. He tests 17 drives (1989–2015), describes measurement techniques, defects (defective sectors), and presents results and track-layout conclusions; code hdubench.cc is provided.
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k3sup is a lightweight Go tool to bootstrap k3s on remote VMs or local hosts via SSH, delivering a kubeconfig to your laptop within minutes. It automates installing k3s, fetching kubeconfig, and joining agents, enabling single- or multi-node (HA) clusters, including embedded etcd, with optional load balancers. It ships a Community Edition (free) and a Pro edition with plan/apply automation, parallel installs, and extra commands (get-config, exec). Binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows; SSH keys and agent recommended; MIT licensed.
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Sam Collins describes the 'underdrawing' technique to produce accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images. He shows that state-of-the-art models like Gemini 3 Pro and ChatGPT-Images-2 fail on precise figures, but using a two-layer process works: Layer 1 creates a deterministic underdrawing with correct text/numbers (e.g., an SVG outline of a 50-step spiral game board); Layer 2 runs the image generator with this underdrawing to render the final image while preserving the numbers and layout. The method relies on deterministic outlines plus generative painting; it’s simple but not always perfect; Claude helped with coding.
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A concept for Spirit 2.0: an airline owned by the people, for the people.
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Claiming that LLMs are a higher level of abstraction is erroneous. Traditional layers map inputs to a single artifact (f(x) -> y); LLMs produce a probability distribution (f(x) -> P(y)) and can yield unintended artifacts (P(y|z1|z2…)). Even if you verify the desired output, other hidden artifacts may be present (e.g., credentials, server access). The post urges self-aware programmers and challenges the notion that LLMs are the next abstraction step.
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Tar files created on macOS may include Apple extended attributes, leading to extra ._ files and warnings when extracting on Linux. Solutions: recreate with tar -cvzf --no-xattrs pix.tar.gz pix, or tar -cvzf --disable-copyfile pix.tar.gz pix, or install GNU tar on macOS and set it as default, then recreate. Verify GNU tar with tar --version. These steps prevent extra files and warnings during Linux extraction.
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Modern TUIs in terminals are not inherently accessible. The article distinguishes CLI (stream) from TUI (grid): CLIs are linear and screen readers handle them well, while TUIs treat the terminal as a 2D canvas and can overwhelm assistive tech. Using Ink in gemini-cli triggers constant redraws and cursor moves that confuse screen readers, causing lag and noise, and can crash when pasting. Older tools like nano, vim, and menuconfig stay usable by hiding the cursor and keeping focus, while Irssi uses VT100 scrolling regions for stable updates. The author urges avoiding canvas-like TUIs for accessibility.
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