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Posts
X11 CRTC data provides enough information to scale to real sizes, assuming your EDID data is accurate — flak.tedunangst.com
The end of lead — worksinprogress.co, Issue 19
"Lead has been all but eliminated in most of the developed world. Doing the same for the rest of the world might not be difficult."
Can you fool the perfect predictor? — gracekind.net
Reverse engineering recommended, widely reported as a frustrating page.
Visions of the future
Laser weeding works! Begone, pesticides with off-target impacts. — Sosnoskie et al., 2025, Pest Management Science
phys.org article on the study.
Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — Andy Haverly, Rochester Institute of Technology
Is it too soon to plan for this?
Engineering Earth (Video)
Various futuristic large scale engineering projects involving our home, with animations.
AI
An interesting set of exchanges about Anthropic's Claude 4 model card misalignment scenarios between Evan Hubinger and nostalgebraist that started on tumblr and ended up on lesswrong.
Programming
binary-size-profiler is a non language specific tool for visualizing what's taking up space in a binary — github/jrmuizel/binary-size-profiler
rerun is a multi-modal data stream visualization tool — rerun.io
Using rerun for gamedev at the 2023 Rust Gamedev Meetup
flux aims to bring refinement type checking to rust — github/flux-rs
flux implements additional checks only and does not allow you to take advantage of what you've proved for optimization purposes or to prune impossible pattern matching arms.