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• This @Neko scan will change healthcare. It feels like a spa and takes an hour from the time you walk in to get a scan, bloodwork, strength, body composition, and a consultation with a dr about your results. I went last year and they’ve made incredible progress on the technology already. The first New York City location opens next week.

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• In all seriousness, @jococruise.bsky.social is a truly excellent way for nerds (or anyone else!) to dip a toe into the cruise thing. The the community that's developed over 15 years of the cruise is welcoming and friendly. There are always things to do, officially programmed and otherwise. It's fun!
  Quoting@superobscure.comIs JoCo a good Nerd’s First Cruise? Or is it better-suited for Advanced Cruising Nerds?

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

• Woke up this morning with what is clearly an eye infection. Not good. Got the kids on the way to school. 7:30 I book an online appointment with a doctor. I send two photos. 7:35 I have phone chat with the doctor. 7:38 I have an electronic prescription for antibiotic drops. 7:59 I am standing in front of the pharmacy which opens at 8:00 8:15 back home, dripping my eye 9:00 the infection has visibly pretty much cleared out I am actually impressed by how flawlessly this all worked. I was fully prepared it'd eat up an entire day.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

• Network School Kazakhstan is now officially open, with a packed crowd for the ribbon cutting, and government officials welcoming us. Kazakhstan is a high-tech country that recently ranked #1 in the International Physics Olympiads. It’s full of confident, smart, young people. And it’s now recruiting global talent from around the world. So: if you want to build a techno-optimist community in a techno-optimist country, join us at https://t.co/bOBW6x8JVs.
  Quoting@SuperteamKZNetwork School has officially launched in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 On September 2, Superteam Kazakhstan co-hosted the official launch of @ns Kazakhstan at https://t.co/0i1oGJtuLS alongside the Ministry of AI and Digital Development and @AstanaHub.

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• It’s now officially called “Horseshoe Fact”

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• The next Loop we run at @linear is feature flag clean up: 1) @datadoghq creates an issue when the feature flag is no longer used 2) this will assign the owner of the flag, delegate the work to Linear coding agent 3) Linear removes it and opens a PR 4) Owner reviews and merges

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• The U.S. Treasury Department was officially established this day in 1789.

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• We’ve officially moved from subletting my apartment season to looking for a sublet season, that’s how you know summer is over

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

• Introducing AI Second Brain Meetups

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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

• Before releasing Cargo earlier this year, I thought I was gonna hire someone to help me keep up with bugs & feature requests. Today, I barely look at bug reports. I point Claude at the issue, it opens a PR, and after a quick review I ship it. 🚀

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• Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

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American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

• 39 (Or So) Lessons On The Way To 39

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• AGI is officially here.
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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

• I have officially retired from Emacs

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• Nilo has officially launched its Open Beta. 🚀 Nilo is transforming how games and virtual worlds are built and prioritizes the creator's experience above all else. I’m a proud supporter 👉 Try it now: https://t.co/OtxIWqKkcB 👾 Join the Nilo Discord:

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• I can't believe I'm discovering the Apple Shortcuts just now. In one click it can now get my computer ready for screen recording -- it opens VS Code, web browser + recording app, and resizes the windows to fit a specific aspect ratio. The app is bundled with every Mac and iPhone since 2021. Be sure to check out the included library of pre-built shortcuts and automations for inspiration.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

• https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking Shot: "This opens up the potential for hardware attacks (e.g., reading the key from ROM with a scanning electron microscope), side-channel attacks (e.g., using Correlation Power Analysis to leak the key during validation), or other [...] attacks" Chaser: "We noticed that the key from an old Zen 1 CPU was the example key of the NIST SP 800-38B publication and was reused until at least Zen 4 CPUs."

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