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Wednesday November 4th, 2026

Transportation noise & health Dan Lyke / comment 0

Transportation noise linked to higher risk of heart conditions, even with healthy sleep — American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2026, Abstract Poster MDP2871

“People with noise exposure should consider strategies to reduce noise levels, such as installing thicker drywall, windows and doors in their home; placing bedrooms in the quietest areas of the house; planting dense trees and vegetation in the yard to absorb noise; and using earplugs during sleep,” he [Joseph Nguyen, M.D., an internal medicine resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center in Boston] said.

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Careful on those cross-compiles Dan Lyke / comment 2

Dennis Forbes: Shlemiel the Painter Is Back: How Zig’s libc Rewrite Made SQLite 12,000× Slower.

How cross-compiling an application for Linux on the Mac used Zig cc, and:

In the rewrite of strspn, repl acing the musl version with the pure zig variant), the first step measures the entire length of the string. This is also seen in the rewrites of strcspn, strpbrk and strstr.

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Oh hell yeah Love the Petaluma Dan Lyke / comment 0

Oh hell yeah. Love the Petaluma election results.

https://results.enr.clarityele...noma/127275/web.345435/#/summary

Tuesday November 3rd, 2026

Geolocating video from aircraft noise Dan Lyke / comment 0

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and no one knows about it) (YouTube video)

Spoiler: The sound is aircraft noise. In particular he uses doppler shift from propeller aircraft and ADS-B data, looking at timing between aircraft passes, the slope of the Doppler curve to figure distance from the aircraft and the speed of the aircraft, including matching a model based on flight geometry and observer points to the Doppler curve.

Amazon changing AI strategy Dan Lyke / comment 0

Michael Tsai: Amazon Changing AI Strategy is a good roundup, and includes a link to The Register: Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use which talks about Terk Terkowitz at Amazon: An update from Amazon engineering leadership on the role of the developer in the age of AI and notes of one passage from it that:

Those are three different positions within three sentences and they're not at all aligned with one another.

The stupid, it burns. Dan Lyke / comment 0

Donald Trump Jr. Complains That Democrats ‘Want to Make Ohio a State’

Trump Jr. made the comments at a campaign event in Swanton, Ohio, on Monday, Nov. 2

Next thing you know they'll wanna make Massachusetts a freakin' Commonwealth or something.

Fox News for people who went to boarding school Dan Lyke / comment 0

In a thread about the NYT's coverage of Haley Stevens' meltdown, Indio Gringo ® @paninid@mastodon.world notes:

The New York Times is Fox News for people who went to boarding school.

Meaanwhile, Smart Bitches Trashy Books: The New York Times Terminates Contract with Romance Columnist Olivia Waite After Bluesky Repost, Marisa Kabas emailed the assistant managing editor for standards and trust at the NYT, Patrick Healy, to ask why the stories about the new report on Trump rapes didn't include details from Beatrice Keul, posted his reply, and Waite reposted that.

thing about getting sucked into Dan Lyke / comment 0

The thing about getting sucked into Reddit's r/AskElectricians is that I'm now pretty sure I'll never trust an actual electrician ever again, and I'm happy that we rewired our house ourselves...

Ess Ee Vee Ee En En Dan Lyke / comment 0

Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen (video)

OH Dan Lyke / comment 0

OH: she looked like the kind of woman who smoked Pall Malls

We are becoming a one vehicle household Dan Lyke / comment 0

We are becoming a one vehicle household. The 2000 Ford Ranger is off to another owner for a symbolic amount, he can either drive it 'til that power steering pump goes, or spend a few grand fixing it up...

Goldman Sachs wants to avoid becoming Binance Dan Lyke / comment 0

Goldman Sachs is restricting traders and bankers from using AI coding tools

The bank limited Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub to engineers after reviewing productivity and risk concerns


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