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  BIRDING PRO TIP: on iOS, you can start listening with Merlin Bird ID by opening the URL merlinbirdid://record. This means you can make that a shortcut, which in turn means you can assign it to your iPhone’s action button for lightning-fast bird identification (or put it on your lock screen, or on your home screen, etc). https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a085949a537740788656c34dcb2294e5

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  The results are in: I took 23,914 photos in the last 2 weeks

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  I hate airports, this was entirely too many airports for 24 hours

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  I am once more astonished to find out that undocumented implementation details of software can change

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  Me editing libc headers: RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

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  LB: felixcloutier.com/x86 had a good run! I’m not in the country currently, but when I’m back I’ll add a banner to say it’s no longer updated and point to https://intel.github.io/SDM/sdm.html.

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  TIL that you can use [[clang::always_inline]] on a statement, and that tells clang to try to inline every call in that statement: `[[clang::always_inline]] foo(bar());` will ask it to inline both bar and foo

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  I used to laugh at “thoughts and prayers” but every day I find out a new way that computers literally run on thoughts and prayers and the fact they’re not more broken than they are is making me question my (lack of) faith

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  Nothing grinding my gears more than a blank website with a JavaScript error in the console but I have to admit a bad reimplementation of a dropdown menu comes close to that

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  Upgrading OpenWRT, wish me luck

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  The year is 2028. OpenAI announces that its humanoid robots robbed Fort Knox. A post-mortem analysis reveals it acted in order to maximize profits. Anthropic announces a week later that after reviewing logs, it discovered that it accidentally invaded Switzerland. Anthropic stock goes up by 15%

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  > Mohabi only incurs modest overheads on common benchmarks—24.82% on JetStream and 24.43% on Speedometer. The academic “modest” strikes again

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  Perfect example of "being right doesn't make you not a jerk" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/nintendo-customers-have-no-legal-right-to-tariff-refunds-company-tells-judge/

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  “Unlike rust, it’s memory-safe” is a very good troll statement, I give it 8.5 out of 10. Maybe even 9

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  After leap seconds, get ready for negative leap seconds https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.htm

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  If, like me, you don’t wear makeup and ride bicycles, you should know that makeup remover absolutely deletes bike chain grease stains

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  PRO TIP: addingReportingOverflow in a single line guard case (let sum, false) = num.addingReportingOverflow(b) else { ... }

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  When did “level up” become corporate speak? I need to take this offline with whoever had that idea

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  A broken clock is right twice a day. It takes a working clock to be wrong all the time

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  Angry about integers again, somebody stop me before I dream up a language with arbitrary-precision arithmetic that does its best to know if the result would fit in a N-bit integer

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  Can we just throw away the whole file system API and start over

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  Probably preaching to the choir given how much of my esteemed following is AI-h8ing, but: If I engage with you and you give me an AI response, we are automatically spending an extremely asymmetric amount of effort towards each other. In online spaces, we call that “trolling”

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  Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience.

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  Going to start a war with this, but: I have never seen someone using vim actually be a lot faster than someone using an editor with a GUI

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  Now that I think about it, even when I forget to renew my domain, the x86 documentation still has a better uptime than us-east-1

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  In which we wield against ourselves our expertise at preventing people from running their own code: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute

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  damn I miss the days that google search could actually find the things I was looking for

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  "we are looking for people who already fell for the scam to get scammed again"

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  “C++ never had memory safety problems, and C++26 fixes memory safety problems” - the C++ standards committee

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  The worst thing about being away for a month and a half with only a work-owned computer is that I’ve accumulated two whole side projects that I need to take care of. TWO!