The Future of Radiation Safety is Lies, I Guess
Here’s a page from AEG Test (archive), a company which sells radiation detectors, talking about the safety of uranium glass. Right from the get-go it feels like LLM slop. “As a passionate collector of uranium glass,” the unattributed author begins, “I’ve often been asked: ‘Does handling these glowing antiques pose a health risk?’” It continues into SEO-friendly short paragraphs, each with a big header and bullet points. Here’s one:
Uranium glass emits low levels of alpha and beta radiation, det...
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December 15, 2025
Tracking renamed files in Git
Git famously doesn’t track file renames. That is, Git doesn’t store the information “file A has been renamed to B in commit X”.
Instead, Git stores snapshots of the repository at each commit. It then uses a (customizable) heuristic during diffing to guess at likely renames: “File B in commit X is new, and file A has been deleted. B is 90 % identical to A’s previous contents, so A was probably renamed to B.”
This behavior is very much by design:
Git FAQ: Why does Git not “track” renames?
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December 15, 2025
Misunderstanding what the Cricket Celebration Bowl is
Apparently, not a bowl of crickets.
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December 15, 2025
The Windows clipboard automatic text conversion algorithm is path-dependent
When the journey is not half of the fun.
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December 15, 2025
From Basement to Breakthroughs: Inside the Studio Powering the Internet’s Boldest Brands
A look at the studio where branding, engineering, and experimentation collide to shape the web’s next chapter....
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December 15, 2025
A 13-10 week
The Universal Cup Grand Prix of Jinan was the only round of last week (problems, results, top 5 on the left). This season is turning out to be the most one-sided to date, with team USA1, which won all previous seasons, winning 8 out of the first 9 Grand Prix. This particular contest was very one-sided as well, with USA1 winning 13 problems to 10, with more than an hour to spare. Well done!One slightly disappointing thing about the Universal Cup is that the problem discussions happen on Discord, ...
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December 15, 2025
CodeSOD: Duplicate Reports
Today's anonymous submitter sends us a short snippet. They found this because they were going through code committed by an expensive third-party contractor, trying to track down a bug: every report in the database kept getting duplicated for some reason.
This code has been in production for over a decade, bugs and all:
if (reportStatuses.indexOf(newStatus > -1))
{
// add report to database
}
This is server-side JavaScript running in NodeJS. The mistake here is easy to make, it's a simple tr...
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December 15, 2025
Invisible Art
The best-known art forgers are driven by ego; the best, period, aren’t known. She was possibly — who could ever tell — the most skillful one alive. She was too smart to risk her freedom out of ego but too human not to feel a stab of loneliness every time she had a moment of genius and nobody to share it with.The Tool — not the name the FBI has chosen for its project, what she called it inside her head — had changed that. It was the most impersonal of programs, simply a way to process sensor data...
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December 15, 2025
Show Git Log Before Move
Show Git Log Before Move...
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December 15, 2025