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Ancient Roman music is the most unsettling shit I’ve ever heard in my life
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The music is not from a surviving score. It is new music based on guesswork.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaulia
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Fun fact: The closest thing that we have to medieval Slavic that is still spoken today is the Gorani language.
I've always loved the Cyberpunk idea but thought that most of the said authors had stupid ideas. Now I find generating Cyberpunk stories and deleting them after reading much more satisfying than consuming the published stuff.
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Is there any good reason to use all this React and JSX nonsense anymore? Why?
Seems like totally unnecessary complexity now.
I understand if your enterprise is already locked in, but for anyone building any web app or business today--
is there any reason to choose this stuff?
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If you are ever trapped inside a locked-down Linux container that doesn't have curl, wget, or netcat installed, you can still make raw TCP network connections.
Bash has a secret built-in network stack wired to /dev/tcp:
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🚨JUST IN: OpenAI models will now have invisible watermarks hidden in ChatGPT and Codex outputs
>"We are not making text watermarking a global default AT LAUNCH"
>"phased approach starting with the EU"
>"this regional approach gives us room to learn"
>"starting today, API customers around the world WILL be able to opt in…"
"We expect to revisit each part of this approach as the technology, standards, and evidence evolve"
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We are about 3 months away from someone coming clean with this story:
We spent $4m in tokens to port our 2.7m LoC enterprise Java application to Rust.
- P99 performance increased by 0.3%
- RAM usage decreased by 2%
- Full compile times increased by 437x and required 279GB of disk.
- Incremental compile times increased by 9853x and required 279GB of disk.
- Average developer salary increased by 24%
- No one understands the code
- We are super hip again!!
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Serb from Belgrade (DNA Heatmap)
Genetically closer to Transylvanians than to most Croats. Southern Germans over Slovaks, too.
max distance = 0.05
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The Ottomans didn’t invent a new cuisine.
They just took what was already there and renamed it.
































