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C23 has a new rule for struct, union, and enum compatibility finally appearing in compilers starting with GCC 15, released this past April, and Clang later this year. The same struct defined in different translation units (TU) has always been compatible — essential to how they work. Until this rule change, each such…
Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to a new Stanford Medicine study.
Here's a dumb story. When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it ...
ISC is excited to announce the release of Kea 3.0.0! This is a major release, and is the first Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Kea.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems in Canada's public sector.
I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share.
Update: See my follow up post, What should a native DOM templating API look like? .
Learn how to build with Gemma 3n, a mobile-first architecture, MatFormer technology, Per-Layer Embeddings, and new audio and vision encoders.
Up until today, all capable generative image editing models were only available as proprietary tools.
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.
How cubic reduced noisy AI code review comments with reasoning logs, fewer tools, specialized agents, and evaluation before changes reached production.
The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste e…
An admittedly partial - but deeply troubling - case against America's most brazen medical grift, involving Chinese knockoffs, subscription traps, and prescription gas station sex pills.
There was a recent incident where Microsoft somehow allegedly blocked a mailbox of a sanctioned individual . Any organization highly depending on MS products that might come into the crosshair should ask - can this happen to me? What would be the cost? How much I invest into prevention of this scenario? In this…
In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that they wrote from week to week. They devised a…
New in LM Studio 0.3.17: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Host support. Connect MCP servers to the app and use them with local models.
Build and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude. Update: Now available on Team and Enterprise plans. (July 31, 2025) Update: Upload PDFs, images, and more into your artifact.
Transit time of 6,600 years; that long ago, around 4,600 BCE, the state of human civilization was devoid of technology. Hard to imagine what would happen back home on Earth during a journey of that length.
Behavioral and cognitive patterns distinguish humans from bots. Explore interactive demos and a practical framework for invisible Proof of Human.
The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"
I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.
For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport. I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics. Table of ContentsBackgroundRecreating the MRZPython code to…
A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here.
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
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