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In Python, the dict data structure is the conventional key-value structure. E.g., you might store a list of names as keys and have their phone numbers as values. Valentin Ignatev wrote this amusing post on X: It is indeed widely believed that, in the strict sense, the dict data structure and its companion, the set ……
We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.
As part of the ZX Spectrum tour, I implemented some routines that would let you play simple tones out of the 1-bit beeper. These were in large part inspired by earlier work I did on the Apple II. W…
I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 and fits an RTX 4090.
Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and rule ov…
How a Hertfordshire research lab quietly transformed an iconic British staple food, and the complexion of the countryside - without anyone actually noticing
– an owl mid flight I saw last summer. try drawing it. “You should have failed this class. I’m going to make accommodations so that no student can pass next semester the same way you did.” This is what my Ancient History II professor told me when my group and I got our final group project essay handed out. Every group…
Root election, port roles, proposals and agreements, topology changes: explore RSTP through simulations powered by MSTPD compiled to WebAssembly.
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE. This is the sixth release of the stable/14 branch.
Student performance across OECD countries has continued to decline, reaching the lowest average ever recorded by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in mathematics and reading. Across the OECD, one in five 15-year-old students is now a low performer in science, mathematics and reading, up…
We can mostly blame Internet Explorer, as always.
Across 44,143 European companies with a detected CDN, 89.6% use Cloudflare. We publish the per-country counts and what the 2025-26 outages showed.
I’ll admit that until fairly recently I had no idea git worktrees existed. They’ve been part of git for a decade1 and I never once needed them. Feature branches did the job just fine - create a branch, do the work, merge it, delete it, and start over. What finally introduced me to worktrees was, of all things, AI…
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
consumer-grade hardware can run an LLM that hacks the planet. we can stop it, but we don't have much time.
I've been testing a simple prompt with different model and harness combinations to work out which one produces best results. I do this in /goal mode.
We previously noted that, while it's easier than ever to hit a particular quality bar by having coding agents use effective test techniques, software quality seems to be getting worse , indicating that whatever defaults developers are using may not work very well. Here, we test if simple instructions to agents to use…
Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a dozen auto-playing video ads!)
{/ cspell:ignore crobibero Brainz EOTF desync /}
Seven real-world layout comparisons and eleven original diagrams, including two with selective TALA positioning.
Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI
The very same week we signed our first ever angel investor for Plastic SCM, in early summer of 2005, Linus Torvalds announced Git. I had spent more than a year pitching investors to build a new version control, and suddenly the creator of Linux was building one himself. That week I understood the road ahead was going…
Broadcom pulled public VMware VDDK downloads, creating new challenges for customers migrating to Azure, Nutanix, OpenShift, KVM, and other platforms.
Bedrock is a minimal, human-crafted starter-kit for Emacs, and today I’m pleased to announce that version 2.0 of Bedrock is available! This release requires Emacs 31, which came out in August 2026. If you are unable to upgrade Emacs that high, you should be able to remove some of the Emacs 31-specific config without…
$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.
Stronger, smaller, and easier to run, thanks to an upgraded network architecture, universal binaries, and more!
– Some cows in the fields. Brain Fog My brain is not the same as it was a few years ago. When I started working as a Software Engineer, everything was novel and mentally demanding. I notably remember how during my first professional months I’d come back home and just go straight to bed due to the mental exhaustion of…
