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Tom Waits expressed strong opposition to commercial endorsements, particularly when his music or voice was used without permission. Frito-Lay used a song similar to Waits’ “Step Right Up” in a commercial, causing Waits to sue for false endorsement and voice misappropriation. The court ruled in Waits’ favor, awarding him $2.6 million in damages. The case […]
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Amber is a Rust-based code search and replace tool inspired by ack, ag, and other grep-like tools. It offers useful default settings, multi-threaded searching, interactive replacing, and can be easily installed on Arch Linux using the `amber-search-git` package or through Cargo. Users can search and replace keywords over directories using the `ambs` and `ambr` commands. […]
Bytehound is a powerful memory profiler for Linux that gathers every allocation and deallocation, along with full stack traces. It can help analyze memory leaks, identify temporary allocations, and investigate excessive memory fragmentation. With a custom stack unwinding implementation, Bytehound is significantly faster than similar tools, exporting data in JSON, Heaptrack, and flamegraph formats. It […]
It is crucial to increase EC2 boot speed for certain workloads at Depot. While it may seem like the boot time is fixed, it can actually be optimized to speed up the process significantly. For example, starting the instance once to preload data blocks can reduce boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds. Another […]
Pavel discovered a 3-state 4-symbol TM that can compute an Ackermann-level function and halts with a large number of non-zero symbols on the tape. The TM can be approximated as BB(3,4) > Ack(14). This TM is the first in the wild to simulate an Ackermann-level function. Pavel’s code specified the result as Halt(SuperPowers(13)). The validation […]
Sierra On-Line’s Space Quest II 720KB floppy disks contain hidden treasure- 70% of the AGI interpreter source code! This code was accidentally copied onto production disks for versions 2.0D and 2.0F. Discovered in 2016, this discovery offers a peek into Sierra’s development process. This mishap could have had serious consequences had it been noticed at […]
Cortile Linux offers an auto tiling manager supporting various window managers such as Openbox, Fluxbox, XFCE, GNOME, and more. It can be installed on top of your current window manager to enable dynamic tiling, workspace based layouts, keyboard shortcuts, and multi-monitor support. Unique features include socket communication, a master-slave layout concept, and hot corner events. […]
Sal Khan is at the forefront of educational innovation with the release of GPT-4o, which is revolutionizing AI in the classroom. The book “Brave New Words” by Bill Gates sheds light on the limitless possibilities of this technology, presenting AI as a lifelike, personalized tutor that can engage students like never before. Khan’s vision for […]
The author explores the shocking world of Etsy prints featuring works by famous artists like Monet, Van Gogh, Klimt, and Matisse, as well as the lesser-known artist William Morris. These seemingly authentic prints are actually AI-generated images that blend traditional styles with modern aesthetics. The author questions the ethics of selling these prints without clear […]
Emacs Easy Draw is a drawing tool that operates within Emacs, requiring Emacs 27.2, image support, SVG support, gzip and gunzip (or zlib support), and libxml support. It can be used in Org-Mode with various configurations. To start drawing, type [[edraw:]], and to save data in the buffer, type C-c C-c. Different link notation formats […]