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Tomte

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nautil.us 4h ago

Australia's Greater Gliders Fly Majestically from Tree to Tree

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www.postcrossing.com 6h ago

World Postcard Day 2026 postcard and theme

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home.omg.lol 7h ago

Proofs

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endonend.org 8h ago

Sorry, the open web is political

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www.marginalia.nu 13h ago

Unranked, Systemd, Crawls

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library.sciencemadness.org 17h ago

Ignition (1972) [pdf]

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www.sciencedirect.com 1d ago

Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work

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www.nearlyfreespeech.net 3d ago

What Is the "Mffam" Policy?

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www.bbc.com 3d ago

Tate brothers arrested in US as further UK charges take total to 59

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www.legalcheek.com 3d ago

Lawyers risk being sued for failing to use AI

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www.youtube.com 4d ago

Why Captain Disillusion Is Still the Goat [video]

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moldabledevelopment.com 4d ago

Moldable Development

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gtoolkit.com 4d ago

Glamorous Toolkit

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www.youtube.com 4d ago

The Java Story – The Official Documentary [video]

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backroomsmovie.com 4d ago

An Open Letter to A24 about Backrooms Copyright

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www.jpost.com 5d ago

Israel changes crocodiles legal status in push for Ben-Gvir's 'crocodile prison'

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studio.blender.org 5d ago

Overgrown

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www.theguardian.com 6d ago

The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding

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mail.openjdk.org 6d ago

Identifying JDK value class candidates

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kottke.org 7d ago

Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal

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aeon.co 7d ago

Amid an AI's infinite memory, an animator ponders his place [video]

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www.linux.org 8d ago

The Linux.org Story

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www.cnn.com 8d ago

Buffett drops Gates Foundation from his annual donations

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github.com 8d ago

Mensfeld/code-on-incus: Give each AI agent its own isolated machine

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freebsdfoundation.org 8d ago

Come Friendly SBOMs

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retractionwatch.com 9d ago

U of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie

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www.spglobal.com 9d ago

Oracle Corp. Downgraded to 'BBB-/A-3' from 'BBB/A

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www.cnn.com 9d ago

GLP-1s are shrinking bodies. Enter cadaver fat injections

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www.wericmartin.com 10d ago

2026 Spiel Des Jahres Winners: JinxO, Rebirth and Mooki Island

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www.instagram.com 10d ago

The Five Sisters Race is underway

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CoMaps starts maximally zoomed out (showing the whole world). Organic Map starts showing my neighbourhood.

That‘s the simple reason I‘m using Organic Maps and not taking a fifth look at CoMaps (and I downloaded CoMaps yesterday after the HN thread).

Even worse, I assumed for years that the primary meaning of gimp was bullfinch. See, in German the bird is called a Gimpel. Never bothered to look it up until reltively recently.

BTW: Wikipedia is great for translating technical jargon: the language links invariably lead you to the correct disambiguation of a lemma.

In a parallel universe LLMs have learned that (a) the training material contains many different orthographic errors and (b) that humans follow a non-obvious pattern when "deciding" which error to make, so that their generated output contains such errors, as well.

In our universe LLMs seem to have learned that those errors do not follow patterns in the aggregate and that they should not be emulated.

It used to be 18 dollars in the ANSI webstore for quite some time.

Also, you can look at smaller European countries putting their national cover page on it, and selling it cheaper. It’s the same standard, in English.

The C standard is only a bit cheaper at the Lithuanian agency: https://eshop.lsd.lt/public#!/product/info/0a640332-9273-166...

Sometimes it‘s much cheaper: the Germans sell IEC 62443-4-2 for 400 Euros, the Estonians for 40 Euros:

https://www.dinmedia.de/de/norm/csa-iec-62443-4-2/331021994?...

https://www.evs.ee/et/evs-en-iec-62443-4-2-2019

That‘s cool, since it establishes a brand. If one was done well, the others probably are, too, so even if it‘s not your language of choice, it will be interesting.

I‘m out of the loop: we‘ve had Python, Clojure and possibly something else recently. Is that a series by the same people working through several languages? Is it happenstance? Is it a trend, and every programming language is now scrambling to get their own video documentary?

I‘m always a bit envious when I see those branchless styles. In my day job I have the obligation to hit 100% modified condition/decision coverage, and I‘m daydreaming about having just one control flow through everything, in order to save module tests that only test the umpteenth condition combination.

Obviously, readable code wins, but at least once I had the computing time budget to be able to have a central function go straight through by calculating all five or so variations (it was about several kinds of encodings of the output values) and just pick the correct one in the end. That felt good.

That was my impression, as well, but I recently met SFC people and they assured me that the judge is taking the third party beneficiary doctrine very seriously, it‘s not off the table. Funnily, because Vizio objected to the tentative ruling, it has little meaning now.

The trial in August will handle the TPB stuff, as well. It will be streamed, btw.

GPL itself does not forbid you from dynamically linking

GPL does not contain the words "dynamically linking". That‘s just a common interpretation as a shortcut.

In this case there are arguments for the program-plugin communication to be "intimate" and as such falling under "derivative work". But it‘s easy to take the other side, as well.