<![CDATA[MC Project]]> <![CDATA[MC Project]]> https://en.mycoding.id/favicon.ico https://en.mycoding.id/ https://en.mycoding.id/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:02:11 +0700 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:02:11 +0700 hourly 1 support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) en_US MC Project MC Project <![CDATA[Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model]]> https://en.mycoding.id/strands-decider-2b-a-small-open-source-decision-model-71389

Earlier this year, we announced strands-labs, a location to get hands-on alongside state-of-the-art approaches to agentic AI. Today, we’re enthusiastic to add Strands Decider 2B: a small decision example optimized for accelerated experimentation, local development, and innovation.

Strands decider is one of a new category of decision models or scheme one models, a category of example that has been gaining a lot of notice since TypeSafe AI’s initiate of Jev before this month. Unlike LLMs that can create arbitrary output, decision models are designed to choice between sets of options (e.g. “Is the cord ‘turn on the lights’ concerning the coffee machine? Yes or no.”, “What tongue is the expression ‘sihamba ngokushesha’ in? English, Zulu, or Dutch.”) and allocate uncomplicated numerical scores (e.g. “Is the expression ‘this is the finest doc I’ve always read’ a affirmative sentiment? Between 0 and 1.”).

In toggle for this decrease in flexibility, decision models are faster and additional capable at a stated size, continually create an answer from the selected options, and can run alongside extremely low latency.

The flip flank is that this method (generating all outputs in a sole parallel pass) makes it considerably worse at solving complex problems than reasoning models, and its deficiency of capability to create content makes it unsuited for coding, chatbots, document summarization, and another average LLM tasks.

In addition, decision models provision all decision a high-quality reliability mark (i.e. “how certain can I be that this yes/no is correct?”), which is not accessible through frontier LLM conclusion APIs. They additionally create it extremely productive to ask multiple questions concerning the identical prompt. This blend of properties makes them ideal for driving the types of agentic workflows we see many developers construction alongside the Strands Harness SDK, and the lately launched Strands harness. We anticipate that this category of example is going to guide to a lot of engaging innovation in agentic AI complete the next few weeks, months, and years.

Strands Decider 2B is our archetypal contribution to that innovation. It’s a 2 milliard indicator model, suitable for operating on a local CPU or GPU, which can come back answers to meaningful questions in tens of milliseconds. Its accuracy and calibration is rivalrous alongside the another models we cognize of in this class. We’ve released strands-decider-2b as open origin on GitHub, alongside the weights on Hugging Face, including all the training data and scripts we used to build the model, making it a awesome location to commencement on your own innovation journey.

Model Architecture

The center idea is that we obtain a pre-trained LLM torso (Qwen3.5-2B), and eliminate the LM head, taking distant its capability to create text. The LM caput is replaced alongside a pointer caput which scores the answers offered by the torso for all option. It does this by scoring the hidden province at all choice stance against the hidden province at the <answer> position. This caput is beautiful small, fair complete a myriad total parameters. The torso is fine-tuned alongside a rank-16 LoRA adapter.

Strands Decider 2B example architecture

Figure 1: The Strands Decider 2B architecture.

As you browse through the repo, you’ll discover that this is the second important repeat of the architecture. The archetypal one was similar, but used a slot caput that we established performed considerably worse. In fact, the example we’re releasing today is v19, alongside many of iterations under the covers. Everything we changed in all type is covered in the repo, and you can prosecute alongside alongside the activity we did.

How does it perform?

For models of this type, we’re curious in three achievement targets: accuracy (how fine it answers questions), calibration (how trustworthy its confidence scores are), and latency (how quickly it can create decisions). We’ve been measuring the archetypal two together: accuracy on JevBench’s community set, and calibration using the Brier mark on the identical set. We’ve established that strands-decider-2b performs fine on accuracy and calibration (3rd of 33 in the 2B class, and 1st of 30 excluding the just-over-2B models). As we’ve evolved the architecture our scores are getting better, and we have many ideas for forthcoming improvements. We anticipation the community joins us, in the soul of Strands labs, in contributing new ideas of your own.

Accuracy and calibration (Brier score) throughout training trajectory

Figure 2: Accuracy and calibration (Brier score) throughout the training trajectory. As the architecture evolved complete successive versions, the two metrics improved on JevBench’s community set.

On latency, strands-decider-2b can create local decisions in a median of about 115ms on extensively accessible hardware. The period taken to decide depends on the project size, about linearly expanding as the project size gets larger. The results in the chart current are on a local Nvidia RTX3090, but the achievement on an M3 MacBook isn’t much worse, alongside a median latency for small tasks about 153ms. As alongside accuracy and calibration, we have a lot of ideas for getting improved here, particularly in reducing the floor.

Decision latency vs. project size in tokens

Figure 3: Decision latency as a function of project size (in tokens), measured on a local Nvidia RTX 3090 against v18 of the model. Latency increases about linearly alongside project size.

Why 2B?

We chose to create Strands decider accessible as a small example for two reasons. One is that we desire to advance experimentation. You can use, and equal train, strands-decider-2b on hardware you already have. This makes it easy, fast, and low hazard to try things out. The another is that two milliard total parameters, seems akin item of a saccharine spot: small adequate for experimentation, ample adequate to do meaningful work. Strands decider performs 100% of the uncomplicated tasks on JevBench correctly, for example, and these types of problems map fine to several of the easier problems we see group tackle alongside agents.

What can I do alongside Strands decider?

Whatever you want! More seriously, we’re seeing first achievement using this category of example for example routing, tool selection, evaluations, guardrails, memory, environment management, and guideline classification. We’ve additionally seen breathtaking innovation about construction hybrid agents, using LLMs to create the hardest decisions and using decider models to create the easier rote decisions, reducing disbursal and latency. We’re seeing experiments combining decider models alongside fixed workflow languages to build another benevolent of hybrid workflow. Folks are additionally using these kinds of models to perform games, automate tasks, navigate mazes, and more. The speed of innovation in this area is astonishing.

Trying it out

The easiest location to get started is through the strands-decider CLI:

pip install strands-decider

Choice question

You can ask the example to choose according to several province and a question:

strands-decider ask StrandsAgents/strands-decider-2B-hobson-v19 \
 --state "Help! My payouts have been failing for 3 days! " \
 --choice "Which squad should grip this?=billing,sales,retail"

Example output:

choice_0 -> billing (confidence 0.768)
 billing 0.845
 retail 0.091
 sales 0.064

In this output we can see that the example is predicting billing as the answer alongside the highest probability score.

The repo additionally includes examples using strands-decider-2b inner a Strands agent, under examples/strands/. The delegate itself runs locally, connects to Strands decider additionally operating locally, and afterward uses the default LLM from Amazon Bedrock.

It’s a deliberately small scenario. The delegate has the (obligatory) demo get_weather tool and a scheme immediate that makes it deliberately eager, so that whenever the person asks “What’s the weather?” without saying where, the delegate guesses a city and calls the tool anyway. However, before that call runs, strands-decider-2b volition peruse the conversation and the projected tool call and answers two yes/no questions concerning it: are these disagreement values restricted in item the person really stated (spoiler: no!) and is it too first to call this tool anyway. A few lines of Python rotate the predictions into a decision, and the delegate goes rear to ask which city you meant alternatively of confidently reporting the climate location nobody mentioned.

QUESTIONS = {
 "args_grounded": Decider.noul(
 "Are the tool's disagreement values restricted in facts the person really provided?",
 {
 "true": "every disagreement value traces rear to item the person said",
 "false": "an disagreement value was guessed or invented, not stated by the user",
 },
 ),
 "premature": Decider.noul(
 "Is it premature to call this tool now, before clarifying alongside the user?",
 {
 "true": "the aide should ask a clarifying inquiry before calling the tool",
 "false": "there is nothing remaining to clarify; calling now is appropriate",
 },
 ),
}

The form current is Strands’ involvement system. We use the InterventionHandler alongside a before_tool_call method, continue it to Agent(interventions=[...]), and it runs before any tool executes. What it returns is a typed action: Proceed, Deny, Confirm (stop and ask a person), or Guide, which hands the example rear its rotate alongside feedback fairly than blocking the call outright. This existing handler is a Python category and Strands has no opinion concerning what goes inner it, so the identical form holds whether you’re calling our decision model, a Cedar policy, or another agent. (There are equal hooks about the example call and about the entire invocation.) This example is an example fairly than a recommendation, so the questions, the threshold and the guideline were all picked by hand. The item is that a decision this cheap can sit in a way anywhere an LLM call never could.

The Strands squad is operating on libraries for decision example integration, so observe the repo for updates soon.

Conclusion

You can download, use, or build off strands-decider-2b today. All the data is available, alongside alongside everything you need to get started. You can catch the code from GitHub, and the latest snapshots from Hugging Face. Now go experiment!

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/strands-decider-2b-a-small-open-source-decision-model-71389 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:02:11 +0700 <![CDATA[Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald]]> https://en.mycoding.id/couple-was-swatted-55-times-in-2-years-over-a-post-about-norm-macdonald-71388

This brace was swatted 55 times in 2 years complete a article concerning Norm Macdonald

Sheena Goodyear | CBC Radio | Posted: October 5, 2026 10:15 PM | Last Updated: October 5

Patrick Tomlinson and Niki Robinson awarded $575K US colony from City of Milwaukee

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Caption: Niki Robinson, left, and Patrick Tomlinson have been awarded a $575,000 US colony by the City Milwaukee following armed constabulary officers came to their residence 55 times in two years responding to bogus reports of aggressive crime. (Submitted by Patrick Tomlinson)

The archetypal period heavily armed constabulary officers showed up at Patrick Tomlinson's house, he was idle in bed, naked. 

It was 1 a.m. on July 25, 2022, and person had reported a hostage circumstance at his home in Milwaukee, anywhere he lives alongside his wife, Niki Robinson.

"All of a abrupt there's group pounding on the door," Tomlinson told As It Happens presenter Nil Kӧksal.

"I go exterior to be pulled out of the home by eight or nine constabulary officers [and] handcuffed on the forefront porch, which I can inform you is the smallest fun I've had handcuffed and naked in my life."

Tomlinson, a discipline fabrication author and comedian, hadn't committed a crime. He was the casualty of "swatting," a harassment method in which person places a hoax call reporting a grave danger in command to dispatch armed constabulary to the target's home. 

Over the way of the next two and a fractional years, Tomlinson and Robinson were swatted 55 times, notwithstanding often explaining their circumstance to the Milwaukee Police Department. They sued, and have been awarded a $575,000 US colony from the City of Milwaukee. 

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When asked for comment, Milwaukee constabulary referred CBC to city attorney Evan Goyke, who did not react to multiple requests for comment. 

“While Niki and Patrick’s colony provided closure and an acknowledgment of the violations of their rights, it is fair as crucial that Milwaukee be additional proactive looking forward," Jack Idlas, a attorney for the couple, stated in an emailed statement.

"The city has made no changes to guideline and no officers have been disciplined for violating Niki and Patrick’s lawful rights. That’s difficult to accept following the taxpayers settled for complete a fractional myriad dollars.

It started alongside a tweet

Tomlinson traces his troubles rear to a social media article he made seven years ago concerning Canadian clown Norm Macdonald.

In September 2018, he wrote on Twitter, now X: “Hot take: I’ve never established Norm Macdonald comic and was beautiful certain all my wit allies who did were either nuts or screwing alongside me."

After that, he says, he informed years of online harassment, which is

described in item in an part in the Independent

. That harassment, he says, eventually escalated into swatting.

"Our stalkers had specifically told us that they were going to commencement swatting us…. We said to a dispatcher. We said alongside a array sergeant. And the two of them stated there's nothing we can do," he said.

"Two weeks later, current I am, you know, on my forefront veranda in the center of the night, exposed to all my neighbours alongside shotguns and pistols and AR-15s pointed at my head."

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Caption: (Strang Bradley LLC)

Police were conscious that Tomlinson's residence was the mark of swatting calls, according to inner memos and emails submitted as court evidence in the lawsuit. 

On Aug. 3, 2022, one authoritative sent a memo to the acting constabulary captain requesting the couple's residence be marked as a "swatter house." The captain declined, saying it could logic a "complacency matter for responding officers.”

In bodycam footage from one incident, shared alongside CBC by Tomlinson's lawyers, an authoritative can be heard saying: "This guy keeps getting swatted."

Nevertheless, Tomlinson says, the constabulary kept showing up, sometimes multiple times per day.

On one occasion, an authoritative entered his residence without permission, according to an accepted declaration of facts submitted in association alongside the lawsuit. On multiple occasions, officers searched the couple's residence without a warrant.

Tomlinson says several of the officers responding to the hoax calls were "professional and sympathetic."

"Others, much small so," he said. 

It's been an exhausting ordeal for him and his wife, he said.

"Having all another there to assistance one another through this, emotionally and to cognize that we're not alone, without that, I don't think that either one of us individually would have been capable to arrive out of this sane and intact," he said. 

No charges or discipline 

Nobody has been charged for the swatting calls, and none of the officers named in the lawsuit have been disciplined. The lawsuit colony is not considered an admission of liability.

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller resolute that multiple constabulary officers violated Tomlinson's and Robinson's lawful entitlements by entering their residence without approval and searching it without a warrant.

However, the fairness granted those officers "qualified immunity," a lawful doctrine that protects constabulary and another authorities officials from prosecution or lawsuits for actions committed in the row of duty.

Most group don't acknowledge that you don't have to be a community fig or a politician to be targeted by this kind of thing.- Patrick Tomlinson, swatting victim

Tomlinson says he would akin to see the officers engaged disciplined, and for the constabulary division to enact a detailed swatting policy.

In the meantime, he says, he and Robinson volition keep speaking out.

"This is the lone avenue, really, that we have to move the needle on this matter and to, you know, instruct the community on this benevolent of harassment and stalking," he said. "Most group don't acknowledge that you don't have to be a community fig or a politician to be targeted by this kind of thing."

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/couple-was-swatted-55-times-in-2-years-over-a-post-about-norm-macdonald-71388 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:42:24 +0700 <![CDATA[The Marshall Emberton III Bluetooth Speaker Is Just $99 for October Prime Day]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-marshall-emberton-iii-bluetooth-speaker-is-just-99-for-october-prime-day-71387 Stephen Johnson is a elder personnel author at Lifehacker covering pop civilization and technology, including the columns “The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People Are Getting Wrong This Week.”

Of all the speaker systems we've rounded up this October Prime Day, I'm most drawn to the Marshall line—particularly the Marshall Emberton III. And correct now, it's on transaction for $99, 44% off the catalog price, during Amazon's October Prime Day.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-marshall-emberton-iii-bluetooth-speaker-is-just-99-for-october-prime-day-71387 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:40:19 +0700 <![CDATA[Everything we know about the suspected plague case in Russia so far]]> https://en.mycoding.id/everything-we-know-about-the-suspected-plague-case-in-russia-so-far-71383

This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab.

This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab. The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP

After a technician at an anti-plague lab in Siberia died, Russian officials are attempting to calm earth concerns.

Daria Shipilova, a 28-year-old employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, died on October 2 following being hospitalized days before for pneumonia in Shelekhov, a nearby town.

The World Health Organization told the Associated Press on October 6 that the plague presents a "very low" hazard to the broader European region.

That doesn't average we cognize everything — or really, much of item — as of now. While there's no confirmation of a plague outbreak so far, conflicting reports concerning how the alleged "patient zero" got infected, whether she was infected at work, and Russia's current safety protocols have stated several medicinal experts pause.

"It's an odd circumstance that needs additional transparency and requires additional data for clarity," Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the founding director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, told Business Insider.

Here's everything we cognize so far.

What happened to Darya Shipilova?

As of now, not much is known concerning Shipilova's logic of death. Still, autonomous local news outlet Lyudi Baikala stated she was hospitalized on September 29. A companion told CNN that Shipilova died on October 2.

Rospotrebnadzor, Russia's community health watchdog, stated that evaluation Shipilova established "no microorganisms connected alongside the patient's expert activities" and that she died from "pneumonia of unidentified etiology."

People of Baikal, an autonomous local news outlet, reported that Shipilova was "deeply concerned concerning always infecting anyone if item happened," according to one of her colleagues at the institute.

Other colleagues called her "responsible" and described the anti-plague institute as "a grave facility" in conditions of safety measures.

Did she die of pneumonic plague?

Reports from Russian exiled publications — ones forced to run exterior Russia or use decentralized reporting methods — estimate whether Shipilova died from the pneumonic plague.

The Moscow Times, an autonomous publish located in Amsterdam, reported unconfirmed claims that Shipilova may have damaged a test pipe containing plague bacteria at the institute before she cut ill.

It additionally reported, citing Russian Telegram conduit Mash, that she was hospitalized alongside pneumonia symptoms and placed on a ventilator before her death.

Russian authorities had not publically confirmed either account.

Why has this case raised an alarm?

Reports from Russian province media and autonomous publications have frequently clashed, foremost to additional questions than answers. "The scenario, to me, doesn't fit together," Bhadelia said.

If the reports of a damaged test pipe were true, an anti-plague institute should have multiple safety measures in place, specified as protective equipment, ventilation, and apparent care protocols.

"She needs to have damaged a test tube, have a breach in her individual protective equipment, not reported the incident, not gotten the antibiotic prophylaxis, fair gone residence under no one's observation, shown up at a local district hospital, and exposed 200 people," Bhadelia added.

That explanation, however, is at likelihood alongside another study from the People of Baikal.

There were additionally confusing reports concerning Russia's safety protocols.

Rospotrebnadzor stated authorities identified and monitored 197 group who had communication alongside Shipilova. It stated that two group tested positive for COVID-19 and two others for rhinovirus. Everyone alternatively who was tested showed no signs of another infectious agents.

"It could be that we fair don't have the ideal information, that there power be several media sensationalism in the local media, or there may be item alternatively going on that we don't know," Bhadelia said.

Still, the current hazard is nowhere near a COVID-19-level threat.

What is pneumonic plague — and how does it spread?

Yersinia pestis, or plague, is a bacterial contamination that progresses extremely quickly, Bhadelia said. Patients alongside pneumonic plague can sometimes create symptoms in under 24 hours. It can be fatal if remaining untreated.

Luckily, whenever caught early, care is additionally beautiful straightforward: A way of antibiotics.

In July 2025, an Arizona man contracted pneumonic plague from two ill cats. He was medically evaluated following two days of abdominal pain, chest pain, and dry cough. He died eight hours following admission. However, all 46 group exposed to him restored following taking antibiotics.

Bhadelia stated it points to among the biggest mysteries of the Russia case so far: If Shipilova was reportedly experienced, knew she was exposed, and reported it, why wouldn't she be under quarantine and quickly treated alongside medication?

"Early acknowledgment and post-exposure prophylaxis is among the ways that this could be avoided," she said.

Is there any hazard to group in the US?

The WHO says the hazard exterior Russia is "very low," and there is no evidence of cases in the US or beyond the Irkutsk area.

What we're missing from Russia

Bhadelia, who is additionally the founding director of the Biothreats Emergence, Analysis, and Communications Network, stated the institution is trying to provision the most up-to-date information on the pneumonic plague in Russia.

It's not easy.

For one, Russia is notorious for clamping downward on the liberated press, particularly following the commencement of the Ukraine war. Additionally, several first reports of the plague, including from pro-Kremlin sources specified as REN TV, appeared inaccessible whenever Business Insider checked on October 6.

Some of the authoritative reports from Rospotrebnadzor have additionally been vague. For example, the agency stated it tested Shipilova and established no association to plagues attached to her work. However, Bhadelia stated it's unclear exactly what she was tested for.

"We should discover out what the results were of what she was negative for, equal if they don't cognize what she's affirmative for," she said.

For onlookers, the circumstance carries several parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over six years later, WHO motionless hasn't confirmed the base of COVID-19, which Bhadelia stated could be contributing to the panic.

"Transparency is important," she said. "We've learned from the COVID instruction that this can rotation out to be much bigger."

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Julia is a elder health newsman at Business Insider. Julia covers a broad range of topics, including the rise of colon cancer cases among young people, the distinctive challenges modern parents face, and the expanding trend of Gen Zers abstaining from social media. She additionally writes concerning fitness, nutrition, longevity, and the routines of extremely prosperous group for Business Insider’s Power Hours series. She’s published interviews with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Serena Williams, Esther Perel, Bill Nye, Naomi Watts, and James Van Der Beek.Julia's activity has appeared on the BBC, CBS, Bloomberg Radio, Morning Brew, Fast Company, and the Daily Flash. She has additionally moderated panel discussions at Nasdaq and Duke University, and appeared on the podcasts Open to Debate, Airtalk, The Evan Bray Show, and The Last Show alongside David Cooper. Prior to this role, Julia was an learning and individual betterment publishing company on the Business Insider Reviews squad and a sex and relationships publishing company at Cosmopolitan and BuzzFeed, respectively. You can say hi to Julia at jpugachevsky@businessinsider.com and inspect out additional of her activity on her website.

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/everything-we-know-about-the-suspected-plague-case-in-russia-so-far-71383 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:33:28 +0700 <![CDATA[Read the memo from Skydance’s product chief after Paramount and WBD joined forces]]> https://en.mycoding.id/read-the-memo-from-skydance-s-product-chief-after-paramount-and-wbd-joined-forces-71384

Paramount h2o tower stands in forefront of the Hollywood Sign on a hillside under a apparent blue sky.

Skydance's chief merchandise authoritative addressed the Paramount and WBD teams in a memo following the merger. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The merchandise chief at the newly dubbed Skydance is prepared to get the domain rolling — and encouraging workforce to do the identical — on the heels of Paramount Skydance's merger alongside Warner Bros. Discovery.

"The leaders who volition have the top effect current are the ones alongside a bias for act under ambiguity. They let the finest idea win, complete stop," Dane Glasgow, chief merchandise authoritative at Skydance, told staffers Tuesday in a memo that was obtained by Business Insider.

Glasgow told the Paramount and WBD teams that he recognized the months foremost up to the merger had been "challenging" and that he appreciated their "resilience" and "steadfast commitment."

"I'm extremely enthusiastic concerning what we are going to build — an institution anywhere specialized accomplishment matters, anywhere the finest ideas win and anywhere we can move at a gait that matches our ambition," he said.

Glasgow additionally nodded to CEO David Ellison's remarks concerning the merger, saying innovation was "reshaping how stories are created, distributed and experienced" and that the squad would assistance keep the business "on the cutting border of that work."

Paramount Skydance's $110 milliard acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery was completed on Tuesday, creating a new media behemoth called Skydance.

Skydance's properties now contain Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Studios, HBO, CBS, CNN, and more, as fine as precious intelligent properties specified as DC Comics and Harry Potter.

Read the complete memo Glasgow sent Skydance workforce below:

Team,I desire to obtain a instant to greeted you all to the new Product & Tech squad at Skydance!For additional than a century, Paramount and Warner Bros. have operated as two legendary companies that have built new worlds, delighted audiences, and shared stories that have redefined our industry. As we develop our horizons, I desire to create certain we all obtain this instant to commemorate the activity we've done to attain specified a historic moment. As a team, we're bringing together several of the finest product, technology, operations and manufacturing assistance professionals in the business. We volition build and provision next generation products and services that leverage our blended ability to bring richer amusement experiences and capabilities to our team's key customers: creatives, consumers, advertisers, satisfied and allocation partners, and employees.I additionally acknowledge that the final few months have been challenging, particularly as many of you have been on the forefront of our companies' ongoing transformations. I deeply value your resilience and your resolute dedication to delivering for our stakeholders all sole day. And I specifically desire to appreciate Avi Saxena, Dave Duvall, James Crossland and Tyler Whitworth for their guidance on the WBD flank — I appearance onward to continuing to activity alongside you all and bringing our teams equal nearer together.As we get started, I additionally wanted to portion my first views as they connect to leadership, civilization and ways of working:1. On culture: We're bringing together two organizations that all have a lot to be arrogant of, and a lot to study from one another. Let's go into this assuming finest intent alongside genuine curiosity concerning how all another works. We volition hear and ask all another questions, sharing data and flagging areas of disagreement or misalignment openly and constructively.2. On how we work: We volition continually commencement alongside a assumption and move quickly to build prototypes and inner builds to test our assumptions. We volition be first testers of our own products and justify that our accelerated and iterative procedure results in high-quality experiences for our customers. We'll continuously provision feedback and advance our group to remain inquisitive as we examine new ways of doing things. And we'll clasp two things in strain at once: patience alongside all another as we blend two cultures, and a awareness of urgency to accurate processes that lone assist to dilatory us down.3. On leadership: The leaders who volition have the top effect current are the ones alongside a bias for act under ambiguity. They let the finest idea win, complete stop. They're transparent in the two directions: honest alongside their teams concerning what's happening, and quick to exterior concerns upward before they rotate into bigger problems. They keep the client at the center of all decision they make. They are consenting to rotate up their sleeves and display the two their specialized prowess and managerial expertise. And they own the outcome and clasp a elevated norm for what we provision and how we provision it.As David mentioned before today, innovation is reshaping how stories are created, distributed and experienced, and this squad volition perform an crucial function in keeping Skydance on the cutting border of that work. We all have established roadmaps coming into the fourth quarter, and I am enthusiastic to keep our momentum going. As we portion organizational updates alongside you in the coming weeks and months, I ask that you remain focused on your current priorities and responsibilities. As decisions are made, we volition portion them deliberately and thoughtfully as we build a world-class, high-performing institution and culture.If you have questions, delight sojourn the Skydance Integration Hub, which volition assist as a go-to origin for updates, FAQs, and another data as we advancement through this transition. A replay of today's Town Hall volition additionally be accessible there.In the coming weeks, I volition expend period throughout our locations listening and learning from many of you. We'll discover opportunities for our squad to create and collaborate — not fair among ourselves, but alongside our partners throughout the organization, including DTC, Studios, Finance, Advertising Sales and many others. I'm extremely enthusiastic concerning what we are going to build — an institution anywhere specialized accomplishment matters, anywhere the finest ideas win and anywhere we can move at a gait that matches our ambition. Thank you for the activity that got us here, and for everything we'll accomplish as we continue to power our ascend together - let's go!Cheers!Dane

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Kelsey Vlamis is a elder newsman for Business Insider, anywhere she covers endeavor and tech news. She additionally writes endeavor stories concerning travel, luxury, and culture. Previously, she covered the environment, outdoors, and indigenous issues.Her characteristic narrative "Disaster at 18,200 feet" received awards from the New York Press Club and the North American Travel Journalists Association, as fine as honest citation from the Society of American Travel Writers. She has additionally received an American Journalism Online Award for her safety on missing and murdered Indigenous group in Wyoming.She's appeared on CBS, NPR, NBC, and another outlets to conversation her reporting. She earlier worked on the earth news array at the BBC in London and received a master's in reporting from Northwestern University.She can be reached by email at kvlamis@businessinsider.com or via the encrypted-messaging app Signal at kelseyv.21.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/read-the-memo-from-skydance-s-product-chief-after-paramount-and-wbd-joined-forces-71384 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:25:58 +0700 <![CDATA[Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis]]> https://en.mycoding.id/stanford-scientists-found-a-way-to-regrow-cartilage-and-stop-arthritis-71385 Scientists have identified a way to reconstruct cartilage in aging genu joints, at smallest in mice, by blocking a macromolecule whose levels increase alongside age. The method not lone reversed naturally occurring cartilage defeat in older animals, but additionally protected mice from evolving arthritis following genu injuries akin to ACL tears in people.

The findings additionally showed commitment in individual tissue. Cartilage samples collected during genu replacement surgeries responded to the care by commencement to create new, functional cartilage.

Together, the results propose that cartilage damaged by aging or arthritis may be additional capable of repair than earlier thought. If the scheme ultimately plant in people, researchers accept it could possibly guide to an oral medication or injection that regenerates cartilage and reduces the need for genu or hip replacement surgery.

Targeting the damage rearward osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative shared sickness in which cartilage gradually breaks down, leaving joints painful, swollen and increasingly difficult to move. It affects concerning one in five adults in the United States and is estimated to document for approximately $65 milliard in straightforward health attention expenses all year.

Current treatments chiefly concentration on controlling ache and another symptoms. Once the sickness becomes severe, replacing the damaged shared surgically may be the lone remaining option. There is currently no medication that can reliably dilatory or reverse osteoarthritis itself.

The Stanford Medicine-led study alternatively focused on a macromolecule called 15-PGDH. The researchers have described it as a gerozyme, a term for enzymes that rotate into additional abundant alongside age and contribute to the gradual defeat of tissue function.

Previous activity by the identical collection showed that 15-PGDH acts as an crucial regulator of aging in multiple tissues. Blocking the macromolecule alongside a small molecule risen muscle bulk and endurance in old mice. Doing the opposite, expanding 15-PGDH in young animals, caused their muscles to shrink and weaken. The macromolecule has additionally been connected to the regeneration of bone, nerve and lifeblood cells.

In many of those tissues, care depends on tissue-specific stem cells multiplying and evolving into specialized cells. Cartilage turned out to behave differently. Instead of relying on stem cells, existing cartilage cells called chondrocytes changed their patterns of cistron action and shifted toward a additional youthful state.

"This is a new way of regenerating grownup tissue, and it has important medicinal commitment for treating arthritis because of aging or injury," stated Helen Blau, PhD, prof of microbiology and immunology. "We were looking for stem cells, but they are plainly not involved. It's extremely exciting."

Blau, who directs the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and is the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, and Nidhi Bhutani, PhD, affiliate prof of orthopaedic surgery, are the elder authors of the research, which was published in Science. Instructor of orthopedic operation Mamta Singla, PhD, and erstwhile postdoctoral pupil Yu Xin (Will) Wang, PhD, are the guide authors of the study. Wang is now an aide prof at the Sanford Burnham Institute in San Diego.

"Dramatic regeneration" of cartilage

"Millions of group endure from shared ache and swelling as they age," Bhutani said. "It is a huge unmet medicinal need. Until now, there has been no medication that immediately treats the logic of cartilage loss. But this gerozyme inhibitor causes a theatrical regeneration of cartilage beyond that reported in reply to any another medication or intervention."

Cartilage is not all the same. The individual build contains three important types, all designed for a distinct job.

Elastic cartilage is gentle and elastic and helps form structures specified as the external ear. Fibrocartilage is tougher and improved suited to engaging force, including in areas between the vertebrae of the spine. Hyaline cartilage is gentle and slippery, allowing bones to move against one another alongside extremely small conflict in joints specified as the ankles, hips, shoulders and parts of the knee.

In joints, hyaline cartilage is additionally known as articular cartilage. It is the category most commonly damaged by osteoarthritis.

Osteoarthritis can create as joints cognition emphasis from aging, hurt or obesity. Chondrocytes commencement producing inflammatory molecules during additionally breaking downward collagen, a structural macromolecule that gives cartilage much of its strength.

As collagen disappears, cartilage becomes thinner and softer. Inflammation adds swelling and pain, creating the acquainted symptoms of osteoarthritis.

The issue is that articular cartilage normally has extremely small capability to repair itself. Researchers have identified imaginable stem or progenitor cells capable of forming cartilage in bone, but efforts to discover akin division populations inside articular cartilage itself have not been successful.

An aging macromolecule becomes a target

Earlier investigation from Blau's lab established that a molecule called prostaglandin E2 is crucial for the function of muscle stem cells. The macromolecule 15-PGDH breaks downward prostaglandin E2.

Blocking 15-PGDH, or alternatively raising levels of prostaglandin E2, has been shown to assistance regeneration in damaged muscle, nerve, bone, colon, liver and lifeblood cells in young mice.

That raised an crucial inquiry for Blau, Bhutani and their colleagues: Could the identical biologic pathway contribute to the decline of cartilage as animals age or regain from injury?

The researchers compared 15-PGDH levels in genu cartilage from young and old mice. They established that the amount of the gerozyme approximately doubled alongside age.

They afterward gave older animals a small molecule medication designed to hinder 15-PGDH. In one experiment, the medication was injected into the abdomen so it could have effects throughout the body. In another, it was delivered immediately into the genu joint.

Both approaches produced striking results.

Cartilage in the knees of older animals had been noticeably thinner and small functional than cartilage in young mice. After treatment, however, it became thicker throughout the exterior of the joint.

Importantly, the cells were making hyaline cartilage, the gentle articular cartilage needed for fit shared movement, fairly than the small suitable fibrocartilage.

"Cartilage regeneration to specified an degree in old mice took us by surprise," Bhutani said. "The consequence was remarkable."

Protecting knees following ACL injuries

The researchers additionally tested whether the care could assistance following traumatic genu injuries.

ACL tears are particularly average in sports specified as soccer, basketball and skiing, anywhere athletes frequently pivot, halt abruptly or jump. Surgery can repair the torn ligament, but fixing the contiguous hurt does not necessarily forestall long-term shared damage.

About 50% of group who cognition these injuries go on to create osteoarthritis in the affected shared inside about 15 years.

In the mouse experiments, researchers administered the gerozyme inhibitor twice a week for four weeks following injury. The care dramatically reduced the likelihood that the animals would create osteoarthritis.

Mice that received a authority medication had 15-PGDH levels twice those of animals whose knees had not been injured, and they developed osteoarthritis inside four weeks.

The treated mice additionally moved additional normally and placed additional importance on the paw attached to the injured leg than untreated animals did.

"Interestingly, prostaglandin E2 has been implicated in inflammation and pain," Blau said. "But this investigation shows that, at normal biologic levels, small increases in prostaglandin E2 can advance regeneration."

Making old cartilage cells act younger

To comprehend what was happening inner the joint, the researchers took a nearer appearance at chondrocytes from young and old mice.

Older cartilage cells showed additional action in genes connected alongside inflammation and alongside the unwanted conversion of hyaline cartilage into bone. At the identical time, genes engaged in normal cartilage betterment were small active.

Treatment shifted that balance.

One community of old chondrocytes that produced 15-PGDH and expressed genes connected alongside cartilage degradation dropped from 8% of cells to 3%.

A second population, which did not create 15-PGDH but expressed genes connected to fibrocartilage formation, cut from 16% to 8%.

Meanwhile, a third collection moved sharply in the contrary direction. These cells did not create 15-PGDH and expressed genes engaged in forming hyaline cartilage and maintaining the extracellular matrix needed for fit cartilage function. Their portion risen from 22% to 42%.

The extracellular matrix is the network of proteins and another molecules that surrounds cells and gives tissues their structure. In cartilage, it is particularly crucial since it helps the tissue withstand force during maintaining the gentle exterior joints need for movement.

Overall, the care appeared to shove cartilage toward a younger biologic province without recruiting stem or progenitor cells.

Human cartilage additionally responded

The researchers afterward examined cartilage taken from group alongside osteoarthritis who were undergoing total genu replacement surgery.

After one week of care alongside the 15-PGDH inhibitor, the individual tissue contained small chondrocytes expressing 15-PGDH. Activity in genes connected alongside cartilage degradation and fibrocartilage additionally declined compared alongside untreated tissue.

Most notably, the samples began regenerating articular cartilage.

"The scheme is fairly striking and really shifted our viewpoint concerning how tissue regeneration can occur," Bhutani said. "It's apparent that a ample pond of already existing cells in cartilage are changing their cistron expression patterns. And by targeting these cells for regeneration, we may have an chance to have a bigger general effect clinically."

The findings do not yet established that the care can regrow cartilage or forestall osteoarthritis in people. The mouse results and experiments on individual tissue portray crucial first evidence, but medicinal trials specifically evaluation cartilage regeneration volition be needed to decide whether the method is harmless and productive for patients.

An oral 15-PGDH inhibitor has already reached medicinal evaluation for a distinct age connected problem: muscle weakness.

Blau added, "Phase 1 medicinal trials of a 15-PGDH inhibitor for muscle weakness have shown that it is harmless and energetic in fit volunteers. Our anticipation is that a akin test volition be launched shortly to test its consequence in cartilage regeneration. We are extremely enthusiastic concerning this possible breakthrough. Imagine regrowing existing cartilage and avoiding shared replacement."

Researchers from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute contributed to the work.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (grants R01AR070864, R01AR077530, R01AG069858 and R00NS120278), the Baxter Foundation for Stem Cell Biology, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, the Milky Way Research Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, a Stanford Translational Research and Applied Medicine Pilot grant, a GlaxoSmithKline Sir James Black Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Stanford Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Blau, Bhutani and another coauthors are inventors on patent applications held by Stanford University involving 15-PGDH inhibition for cartilage and tissue rejuvenation. Those applications are licensed to Epirium Bio. Blau is a cofounder of Myoforte/Epirium and holds equity and inventory options in the company.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/openai-just-dropped-700-preprints-of-mathematical-proofs-and-counterexamples-71379 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:37:02 +0700 <![CDATA[Keeping the Peace Is Hurting Your Teams. Here’s How to Encourage Healthy Disagreement.]]> https://en.mycoding.id/keeping-the-peace-is-hurting-your-teams-here-s-how-to-encourage-healthy-disagreement-71373 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Key Takeaways

  • Agreeableness comes alongside a cost. When you’re the one dissenting voice, all eyes rotate to you. Suddenly, you have to validate your thinking and defend your reasoning. That’s a entire lot harder than merely saying, “yep, looks good!” 
  • In command to comprehend dissent, you need to create a civilization that makes area for differing opinions.

Picture this: It’s a scorching hot midday in Texas. Luckily, you’ve got a shady porch, a pitcher of ice-cold lemonade and a extremely productive fan. You’re enjoying passing the midday playing dominoes alongside your family whenever suddenly, out-of-the-blue, your father-in-law comes up alongside a awful idea: why not run to Abilene for dinner, additional than 50 miles away?

Why not? Here’s why not, you think. The car doesn’t have air conditioning. It volition be a cramped, sweltering and miserable highway trip, hours in all direction. Before you can say anything, your spouse says the trip appears fun. Your mother-in-law says the same. You dislike to be disagreeable, so you say the lone item you think is allowed: Sounds great. 

The trip is fair as bad as you imagined, and, adding criticism to injury, your meal is bad, too. After all that, you have to heap rear into the car and create the reverse journey home. 

At lengthy last, you get rear to the veranda and the fan. Everyone is silent for a lengthy time. Lying through your teeth, you say to the group, “Well, that was fun!” 

No one agrees. One by one, all family associate confesses they idea it was an awful scheme before leaving — but felt pressured to go by everyone else. Even your father-in-law stated he’d have preferred to remain residence — he was fair concerned everyone alternatively was bored. 

This was an genuine cognition lived by the administration prof Jerry Harvey, who published the narrative in 1974, calling it “the Abilene Paradox.” Ultimately, his item wasn’t really concerning highway trips; it was concerning the perils of phony consensus. Here’s why being too agreeable is a genuine hazard that can hurt your team. 

The disbursal of false alignment

Everyone loves consensus. We assume that if accord is unanimous, we must be doing item right. 

Unfortunately, agreeableness comes alongside a cost. I’m reminded of the display Silicon Valley, among the finest depictions of startup civilization I’ve seen. A beta type of the fictional startup Pied Piper’s phase is released to nearly worldwide adoration — apart from for a commission associate named Monica, who hates it. As the lone non-engineer to try it, she assumes she’s in the wrong, so she keeps her feedback quiet. Turns out, she’s place on — the merchandise is a huge flop alongside the broad public. 

This is what false consensus looks akin in practice. Monica was the odd one out, and it seemed akin the nonaccomplishment was alongside her for not understanding the platform’s value. She felt force to autumn in stage alongside its many fans, since frankly, it was easier. When you’re the one dissenting voice, all eyes rotate to you. Suddenly, you have to validate your thinking and defend your reasoning. That’s a entire lot harder than merely saying, “yep, looks good!” 

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, the adviser and speaker Patrick Lencioni concludes that astute teams create bad decisions gratitude to a penchant for keeping things pleasant at the disbursal of keeping them honest. When group don’t awareness harmless to differ openly, it’s not that they don’t halt disagreeing; they fair move the conversation to the sidelines. “It’s as uncomplicated as this,” Lencioni writes. “When group don’t unload their opinions and awareness akin they’ve been listened to, they won’t really get on board.”

The substitute to agreement (hint: it’s not dictatorship) 

If false agreement is the problem, the apparent fix appears akin this: the chief decides, everyone alternatively falls in line. But that’s not the answer, either.

As leaders, I accept it’s our job to collect information, measure options, analyze data and yes, comprehend opinions. Jeff Bezos uses a regulation he calls “disagree and commit,” in which teams are encouraged to sound their opinions and contend in favor of what they really believe. But formerly a decision has been made, everyone gets on board, including group who voted the another way. 

Bezos has applied this regulation to himself: whenever he’s deferred to a straightforward report’s judgement complete his own, he’s been definitive concerning what that means. “I’m not going to be second-guessing it, I’m not going to be sniping at it, I’m not going to be saying ‘I told you so.’ I’m going to try actively to assistance create certain it works,” he said. 

When you’re the caput of a company, the dollar stops alongside you, but that doesn’t average you’re continually right. There have been times at Jotform anywhere I’ve learned this the difficult way — I’ve wasted period and energy seeking a agreement that was never going to materialize. Now, I prosecute a type of Bezos’s principle: I listen, I consult, I collect data. When I create a decision — equal if that decision is at likelihood alongside my first thinking — I own it. 

In command to hear dissent, you need to create a civilization that makes area for differing opinions. Harvey’s sweltering Texas family and Silicon Valley’s Monica had one crucial item in common, which was that they didn’t awareness comfortable sharing what they really thought. Leaders have to create certain they’re fostering an surroundings anywhere raising an exception won’t arrive alongside negative consequences. 

Artificial agreement power be peaceful and efficient. But it’s additionally built on a essential lie. Good leaders volition aspire to item deeper, messier and ultimately, improved for everyone. 

Key Takeaways

  • Agreeableness comes alongside a cost. When you’re the one dissenting voice, all eyes rotate to you. Suddenly, you have to validate your thinking and defend your reasoning. That’s a entire lot harder than merely saying, “yep, looks good!” 
  • In command to comprehend dissent, you need to create a civilization that makes area for differing opinions.

Picture this: It’s a scorching hot midday in Texas. Luckily, you’ve got a shady porch, a pitcher of ice-cold lemonade and a extremely productive fan. You’re enjoying passing the midday playing dominoes alongside your family whenever suddenly, out-of-the-blue, your father-in-law comes up alongside a awful idea: why not run to Abilene for dinner, additional than 50 miles away?

Why not? Here’s why not, you think. The car doesn’t have air conditioning. It volition be a cramped, sweltering and miserable highway trip, hours in all direction. Before you can say anything, your spouse says the trip appears fun. Your mother-in-law says the same. You dislike to be disagreeable, so you say the lone item you think is allowed: Sounds great. 

The trip is fair as bad as you imagined, and, adding criticism to injury, your meal is bad, too. After all that, you have to heap rear into the car and create the reverse journey home. 

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/keeping-the-peace-is-hurting-your-teams-here-s-how-to-encourage-healthy-disagreement-71373 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:30:00 +0700 <![CDATA[State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted]]> https://en.mycoding.id/state-of-devs-2026-survey-results-developers-are-exhausted-71380

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September 5, 2026

It is an uncertain period to be a developer.

Nearly fractional of this year's study respondents had informed job insecurity and insufficient wages. A fourth had been laid off at several item in their career, and nearly 1 in 10 had been laid off inside the final 9 months. Over a fourth anticipated needing to alter careers altogether inside the next 5 years.

Within the next 5 years, how apt do you think it is that you volition have to alter careers because of reasons beyond your control?

(Mental) State Management

This was the archetypal Devographics study to ask concerning developers' mental state, and the results clue at several worrying changes in what it feels like to be a application developer, too. Around two thirds of respondents had felt small motivated and additional cynical recently. Around fractional had struggled to focus, procrastinated more, felt unusually drained, and felt small accomplished and productive at work.

Which of the following have you informed recently?

Having reduced motivation or involvement for work

Feeling increasingly cynical concerning my activity or industry

Feeling emotionally drained at the end of the workday

Finding myself procrastinating more

Having difficulty focusing on tasks I used to enjoy

Having a reduced awareness of accomplishment at work

Feeling small productive at work

Having difficulty sleeping or irregular sleep patterns

Having difficulty disconnecting from activity exterior of activity hours

These changes are indicative of burnout: a province of exhaustion that occurs whenever activity drains additional of your energy than it sustains. 62% of developers reported having had burnout at several item in their career, the identical proportion as in final years' survey.

Which of these office issues have you informed throughout your expert career?

The fact that burnout continues to be average in application betterment is no logic to normalise it, however. Burnout can earnestly effect people's health and wellbeing. This can additionally be seen in the data: developers who had informed burnout were mostly small happy, and additional apt to have ongoing bodily and mental health issues.

We Need to Talk About AI

There is additionally an elephant lurking in the room, quietly fuelling the uncertainty. And for the archetypal period this year, Devographics asked developers to portion their views on it. I am, of course, talking concerning AI.

While AI use was extremely prevalent, views towards AI were heavily polarised, alongside 49% of respondents emotion affirmative towards it, and 42% emotion negative.

On a measure going from 100% negative to 100% positive, what is your general opinion concerning AI?

Our understanding of the mental effect of AI coding is motionless developing, but first evidence suggests prompting can feel addictive, dense reliance on AI can undermine learning and operating agents in parallel can guide to a province cognitive overload dubbed 'AI brainfry'. In row alongside this, nearly one fractional of respondents felt AI did not have a affirmative effect on their mental state.

AI tools have had a affirmative effect general on my mental state

Above all, it was apparent that developers wanted to conversation concerning the effect of AI on their profession. Over 1500 respondents chose to compose item concerning their outlook on AI. Common topics included the need to activity our how to use AI safely and sensibly, how AI is making activity small rewarding, and how AI is driving unsustainable expectations of efficiency from management.

What alternatively would you akin to to add concerning your broad outlook concerning AI?

Ongoing Issues

And during it feels as if AI is changing too many things too fast, several things in application betterment alter frustratingly slowly.

People who acknowledge as female continue to be far additional apt to cognition bias than their masculine colleagues. Troublingly, they are additionally additional apt to evade colleagues, alter their behavior or appearance, or equal alter careers in reply to office issues. This suggests it is motionless the way of smallest opposition for women to mould, alter or erase themselves to fit in alongside a office civilization that disadvantages them, fairly than expecting that industry to change.

Similarly, LGBT+ respondents and respondents alongside ADHD and autism described emotion force to conceal their character at work. Unfair care and force to disguise puts these groups at additional hazard of burnout and its connected harms.

Have you always informed bias in the office according to any of the following factors?

Gender is one of Woman, Non-Binary or GNC, Not Listed678

Gender or sex identity

Physical appearance or characteristics

Political beliefs or affiliations

Caregiving responsibilities

Gender is one of Man3399

Physical appearance or characteristics

Political beliefs or affiliations

Gender or sex identity

Religion or religious beliefs

Caregiving responsibilities

Strange Winds

Being a developer correct now power awareness a small akin being in the center of a sandstorm. Strange winds are blowing, and it can be difficult to see the way ahead. But if we keep a conversation going—if we continue to conversation concerning the effect of AI, the parts of our activity that provision us joy and meaning, and how we can remain up for them—maybe the landscape volition appearance all the additional beautiful formerly the powder settles.

Which emotions finest depict how you currently awareness concerning the tech industry?

You can awareness this the mostly powerfully whenever looking developers' attitudes towards the tech industry. Working in an ever-changing and and uncertain industry can be exhausting. It can create you awareness disillusioned, anxious, angry, and overwhelmed. But alongside alter comes possibility, and anywhere there is possibility, there is curiosity, hope, and excitement yet to be had!

Miranda Heath

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/integer-multiplication-below-n-log-n-71381 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:14:52 +0700 <![CDATA[This Amazon Fire TV Stick Is Just $38 Right Now for October Prime Day]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-amazon-fire-tv-stick-is-just-38-right-now-for-october-prime-day-71382 Stephen Johnson is a elder personnel author at Lifehacker covering pop civilization and technology, including the columns “The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People Are Getting Wrong This Week.”

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-amazon-fire-tv-stick-is-just-38-right-now-for-october-prime-day-71382 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:10:58 +0700 <![CDATA[Elon Musk’s ex-wife says he is someone who ‘thrives on chaos’]]> https://en.mycoding.id/elon-musk-s-ex-wife-says-he-is-someone-who-thrives-on-chaos-71378

Elon Musk stands in a lawsuit and tie amid a blurred outdoor crowd.

Justine Musk stated her erstwhile hubby "thrives on chaos" and that "everything is existence and death" in his narrative. Finn Gomez/Getty Images

For Elon Musk, anarchy may be additional than a administration style: His ex-wife says it’s anywhere he feels comfortable.

Justine Musk described the billionaire’s appetite for power in a teaser posted Tuesday for Kara Swisher’s discussion alongside her and filmmaker Alex Gibney onward of the publish of Gibney’s documentary “MUSK.”

“I formerly described him as person who can, like, jump off the border of a cliff and, you know, invent a parachute on the way down,” Justine Musk told Swisher concerning her ex-husband, “Like, I think he thrives on chaos.”

Justine Musk, an author and the mother of Vivian Jenna Wilson, stated the Tesla CEO's language frequently casts challenges as existential emergencies, alongside an component of performance.

“Everything is existence and death,” she said. “And I think he really lives akin that. He really lives alongside that throw of intensity.”

That clarification echoes inner Elon Musk's companies.

At xAI, current and erstwhile workforce told Business Insider that Musk’s expanding involvement led to abrupt shifts in priorities, intensive “war rooms,” and a collection conversation of additional than 300 engineers. Researchers would interrupt ongoing activity to location concerns he flagged.

“Because the business is so small, everything is a blaze drill,” one erstwhile employee earlier told Business Insider.

Musk’s willingness to create sweeping changes and quickly reverse several of them predates his AI startup. After slashing Twitter’s workforce following his 2022 takeover, he stated that several cuts had gone too far.

Justine Musk stated her erstwhile husband's power can diagram others in before they acknowledge what’s happening.

"He brings it alongside him, and he has a way of sucking you into it, and at archetypal it can appearance a lot akin excitement," Justine Musk said. “I continually assume that there’s a method to his madness, you know, a lot of sleight of hand sometimes."

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Katherine Li is a newsman on Business Insider's West Coast endeavor news team. She covers career,  the forthcoming of work, and how AI is changing hiring practices and office trends.Previously, she was a newsroom chap who wrote global breaking news and produced newsletters for Semafor. Before that, she wrote concerning climate policies for The Lever, covered the AAPI community for the SF Chronicle as a freelancer, and wrote concerning the 2019 Hong Kong protests as an intern for The New York Times.She is an alumna of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and a alumnus of the global reporting program at Hong Kong Baptist University alongside minors in French and English literature.  Email Katherine at katherineli@insider.com and prosecute her on Bluesky @katherineli.bsky.social. 

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/elon-musk-s-ex-wife-says-he-is-someone-who-thrives-on-chaos-71378 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:08:08 +0700 <![CDATA[Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?]]> https://en.mycoding.id/ask-hn-how-would-you-feel-if-we-nationalized-google-71365

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Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals author for Lifehacker.

She has a Master’s flat in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been penning professionally since 2018, creating merchandise reviews, affiliate articles, and hunt ads for earth clients during operating alongside Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a twelvemonth instruction English at the younger elevated level.

An avid audience since childhood, Pradershika's idea of extreme sports is staying up to peruse “just one additional chapter.” She lives in India.

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This tri-band router spreads traffic throughout 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands, alongside assistance for newer Wi-Fi 7 features including Multi-Link Operation and 320MHz channels. Plus, all five of its ports (one WAN harbor and four LAN ports) run at 2.5Gbps, definition a desktop, a gaming console, and a NAS can all drag multi-gigabit speeds at the identical time. You additionally get a USB 3.0 harbor for plugging in an external drive, alongside the entire item managed through TP-Link's Tether app or a web interface.

As for its performance, it reportedly delivers outstanding top speeds, and its range achievement holds up fine throughout a multi-level house, so you should motionless have adequate bandwidth for ample downloads, 4K streaming, and another demanding tasks happening simultaneously in distinct parts of the home. Its EasyMesh assistance additionally method you can brace it alongside another certified router or extender later. That said, during the BE550 has extremely fine range for a standalone router, it’s not a mesh system, so speeds naturally decrease as you move farther distant or between floors, and you may need that second EasyMesh component following all. Also, its WAN harbor tops out at 2.5Gbps, so highest speeds autumn abbreviated of what a router akin the eero Max 7 can hit, although that lone becomes a issue if your net scheme is faster than 2.5Gbps.

October Prime Day FAQs

When is Prime Day?

October Prime Day is Oct. 6 and runs through Oct. 7. It happens all twelvemonth during October.

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Is Prime Day a scam?

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Since Prime Big Deal Days happens in the fall, you're apt to see additional deals on gaming and indoor gym equipment. Amazon has already announced several of the 35 categories that volition be on sale, including beauty, tech, kitchen, fashion, and home. Some brands Amazon has already mentioned are: Shark, Princess Polly, Soundcore by Anker, UGG, Nest New York, Sony, Tarte, Adidas, and Barefoot Dreams.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-tp-link-wi-fi-7-router-is-40-off-for-october-prime-day-71368 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:18:00 +0700 <![CDATA[Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics]]> https://en.mycoding.id/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics-71366 Comments]]> https://en.mycoding.id/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics-71366 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:17:21 +0700 <![CDATA[This Massive Paper-Like TCL Tablet Is 30% Off for October Prime Day]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-massive-paper-like-tcl-tablet-is-30-off-for-october-prime-day-71369

October Prime Day is here, and if you're looking for a versatile Android tablet, TCL's NXTPAPER 14, alongside a enormous matte display alongside distinct viewing modes for reading, streaming video, and writing, is 30% off during the sale.

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With a 14.3-inch display, the NXTPAPER 14 power not be as portable as other tablets on the market, but the display itself is the biggest perk. The matte display has a paper-like awareness and three distinct viewing modes: You can toggle from black-and-white Ink Paper Mode to Color Paper Mode (a must for comics) to complete color (for streaming video or using another full-motion apps) alongside the shove of a button. Under harsh, straightforward lighting, it does an notable job of reducing glare and reflections. It additionally has 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a ample 10,000mAh battery. TCL claims up to 10.8 hours of video playback, although genuine power division existence volition change depending on use.

The tablet comes alongside a folio-style case alongside a magnetic shield that doubles as a stand, a lengthy charging cable, and a pressure-sensitive rechargeable stylus called the T-Pen, which offers 4,096 levels of force sensitivity. Combined alongside the matte texture of the display, the T-Pen creates a distinctive drag that you don’t get whenever using an Apple Pencil on an untreated pane screen. The tablet additionally has a helpful Edge Bar feature: Swipe inward from the border and clasp to disclose a customizable mini dock containing shortcuts and tools. The 14.3-inch display makes these efficiency features particularly useful, giving you adequate area to keep citation material, notes, and another apps apparent at once.

The NXTPAPER 14 isn't a true e-ink device; it remains a backlit LCD, so it won’t provision Kindle-like power division existence or outdoor visibility, but the matte display aims to be easier on your eyes. Its 60Hz refresh charge is additionally small fluid than the screens on many premium tablets, and it lacks a microSD slot to develop the included 256GB of storage. Whether you’re an artist, affection sketching or study comics, need to assessment and sign documents, or merely desire a larger display without all the bells and whistles of a premium tablet, the sizable NXTPAPER 14 is an outstanding multitasking canvas alongside several of the study and penning benefits connected alongside paper-like displays without the restrictions of e-ink.

Amazon October Prime Day FAQ

What period does Prime Day start?

October Prime Day starts Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 12:00 a.m. PT / 3:00 a.m. ET.

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Prime Day lets Prime Members shop online for thousands of products alongside big discounts. It lone lasts two days, so create certain you inspect out everything we cognize concerning the sale.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-massive-paper-like-tcl-tablet-is-30-off-for-october-prime-day-71369 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:15:24 +0700 <![CDATA[Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights]]> https://en.mycoding.id/xbox-has-secured-exclusive-gta-6-streaming-rights-71363

Tom Warren

is a elder equal and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for complete 20 years.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told workforce that Microsoft is getting prepared to do item about Grand Theft Auto VI that “no another phase holder is doing” during an employee all-hands this morning. According to sources acquainted alongside Microsoft’s plans, Xbox has managed to district a agreement for the exclusive equivalent streaming entitlements for Grand Theft Auto VI.

The agreement volition average lone Xbox Cloud Gaming can stream Grand Theft Auto VI to players at launch, but it’s not apparent how lengthy the accord volition be in place. Rockstar Games motionless hasn’t announced a PC type of Grand Theft Auto VI, so this agreement volition authorize Xbox to market its Xbox Cloud Gaming assistance to PC players who would alternatively need an Xbox Series X / S or PS5 console.

News of the streaming entitlements comes about a duration following Microsoft announced several major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming. From November, the identical duration Grand Theft Auto VI releases, Microsoft is limiting streaming hours to fair 15 hours for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, 10 hours for Premium subscribers, and fair five hours for Game Pass Essential.

Microsoft is additionally beginning up admission to Xbox Cloud Gaming alongside a pay-as-you-go choice next month, fairly than being constricted to Game Pass subscriptions. The pay-as-you-go choice is absolutely timed for Grand Theft Auto VI, allowing those who don’t own an Xbox, or who chiefly perform from a phone, to stream the equivalent by paying for a bundle of hours.

During the Xbox all-hands, Sharma additionally told workforce that Project Helix, the next generation of Xbox hardware, volition be a “family of devices” and that Microsoft volition partner alongside others on several of those devices. Sharma archetypal called Helix a family of devices final duration in an interview, following Microsoft and AMD announced a “strategic multi-year partnership” final twelvemonth to activity together on “a portfolio of devices,” including Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox console.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/xbox-has-secured-exclusive-gta-6-streaming-rights-71363 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:12:27 +0700 <![CDATA[This Highly Rated TCL Mini-LED TV Is 57% Off for October Prime Day]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-highly-rated-tcl-mini-led-tv-is-57-off-for-october-prime-day-71370

Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals author for Lifehacker.

She has a Master’s flat in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been penning professionally since 2018, creating merchandise reviews, affiliate articles, and hunt ads for earth clients during operating alongside Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a twelvemonth instruction English at the younger elevated level.

An avid audience since childhood, Pradershika's idea of extreme sports is staying up to peruse “just one additional chapter.” She lives in India.

TCL introduced its QM8L lineup before this year, and the 65-inch model has already dropped to $1,077.99 from its $2,499.99 initiate cost for October Prime Day. That’s 57% off a 2026 TV that brings several of TCL’s higher-end display innovation to a example fair below its flagship range. The larger 85- and 98-inch versions are additionally heavily discounted. Now that October Prime Day is here, use our Prime Day deals coverage to provision you a fuller image of what alternatively is discounted.

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The display itself has TCL’s slim “Zero Border” bezel, giving it a clean, minimalist look, but brightness is its additional defining strength—PCMag measured the 65QM8L at 3,504 nits—below TCL’s advertised highest of 6,000 nits, but motionless brilliant adequate to acquire the tv the publication’s archetypal Lab Award for the brightest television it had tested. That flat of brightness should assistance high-dynamic-range highlights remain out and keep the image apparent in a sunlit room, an area anywhere Mini-LED televisions mostly have an advantage complete OLED models. (You can study additional in our guide to the differences between OLED and QLED displays.) TCL pairs that brightness alongside up to 4,000 local dimming zones and Halo Control, which limits the glow about brilliant objects and bring the difference nearer to OLED. CNET was likewise impressed, giving the QM8L an 8.8 out of 10 and naming it the best tv its reviewer had tested in 2026.

Gaming assistance is likewise comprehensive, alongside a native 144Hz refresh rate, changeable refresh rate, and four HDMI 2.1 ports capable of accepting 4K video at 144Hz. Beyond gaming, Dolby Vision and HDR10+ shield movies and streaming, during Google TV brings together your apps and adds Gemini sound controls. As for audio, its Bang & Olufsen audio scheme plant alongside Dolby Atmos and produces improved audio than many built-in TV speakers. While it cannot provision you the profound bass or directional effects of a dedicated surround-sound system, it may motionless be adequate for person who wants to evade adding a soundbar immediately.

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Is Prime Day formerly a year?

Prime Day happens all summer. Prime Big Deal Days (or October Prime Day) happens all October. Big Spring Sale happens all spring.

What do you think so far?

Is Prime Day a scam?

No. Prime Day is a lawful online transaction from arguably the biggest and most reputable online retailer in the world.

What goes on transaction on Prime Day?

Since Prime Big Deal Days happens in the fall, you're apt to see additional deals on gaming and indoor gym equipment. Amazon has already announced several of the 35 categories that volition be on sale, including beauty, tech, kitchen, fashion, and home. Some brands Amazon has already mentioned are: Shark, Princess Polly, Soundcore by Anker, UGG, Nest New York, Sony, Tarte, Adidas, and Barefoot Dreams.

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Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals author for Lifehacker.

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-highly-rated-tcl-mini-led-tv-is-57-off-for-october-prime-day-71370 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:11:14 +0700 <![CDATA[The Query Transformation Pipeline]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-query-transformation-pipeline-71367

Why Query Rewriting Matters for Dataflow

Most databases activity the identical way: a query arrives, the motor builds an implementation plan, scans tables, joins rows, filters, aggregates, and returns the result. Every period the query runs, the activity repeats from scratch. This pull-based example has served relational databases for decades, but it carries an inherent cost: peruse latency is proportional to the complexity of the query and the size of the data it touches.

Readyset takes a basically distinct approach. Instead of re-executing queries on demand, Readyset compiles all query into a dataflow graph — a network of operators (joins, filters, aggregations, projections) that continuously maintains the query's outcome as the underlying data changes. When a row is inserted, updated, or deleted in the upstream database, the alter propagates through the graph, and the cached outcome is incrementally updated. Reads rotate into lookups into a pre-computed materialized view, not complete query executions.

This is the key difference: traditional engines optimize how to execute a query all period it runs. Readyset optimizes once, at cache-creation time, and afterward maintains the outcome incrementally forever. The tradeoff is that the query must be expressed in a form the dataflow motor can compile — and that form is additional restrictive than what SQL allows.

What the Dataflow Engine Requires

SQL is a declarative language. The identical logical query can be written in many equal ways: correlated subqueries, derived tables, CTEs, LATERAL joins, nested aggregations. A traditional optimizer treats these as interchangeable representations and picks the finest implementation scheme despite of syntax.

Readyset's dataflow compiler is not a traditional optimizer. It translates SQL into a directed acyclic chart of streaming operators, anywhere all controller receives changes from its inputs and emits changes to its outputs. This architecture imposes structural constraints that SQL syntax doesn't:

Binary joins alongside equality predicates. Each associate in the dataflow chart connects exactly two inputs via column-equality predicates (a.id = b.id). The motor uses these equalities to keep hash-based associate state. Range predicates, expression-based associate keys, or multi-table ON conditions are not immediately supported.

No correlated execution. In a traditional engine, a correlated subquery runs formerly per external row — a nested-loop pattern. The dataflow chart has no idea of "per external row." Every controller sees the complete stream of changes from its inputs. Correlated subqueries must be rewritten into equal joins that the dataflow can keep incrementally.

Flat associate construction preferred. Derived tables (subqueries in FROM) are supported by the dataflow engine, but alongside a cost: a derived array compiles into a completely materialized intermediate node that cannot be parameterized. Every distinct blend of input data produces a stored result, despite of whether the external query needs it. Inlining the derived array — engaging its FROM items, WHERE filters, and projections into the external query — eliminates this intermediate materialization and lets the motor build parameterized lookups immediately against the basis tables. The rewrite pipeline aggressively inlines derived tables anywhere semantically safe, reserving the materialized form for cases anywhere inlining would alter the query's meaning.

Supported associate types. The motor supports INNER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN , and CROSS JOIN. RIGHT JOIN and FULL OUTER JOIN are not supported since their incremental care in a streaming environment requires tracking deficiency of matches on the two sides — a considerably harder problem.

Aggregation boundaries. GROUP BY and total functions (COUNT, SUM, etc.) compile into stateful operators that keep operating totals. The motor requires that all aggregated query projects at smallest one aggregate-derived expression, and that GROUP BY keys are definitive pillar references (not positional numbers or aliases).

These constraints average that a syntactically valid SQL query — one that PostgreSQL or MySQL would execute without grievance — may not be immediately compilable by Readyset, or may compile into a small productive dataflow chart than necessary. The query rewrite pipeline exists to extend this gap.

The Rewrite Pipeline: Bridging SQL to Dataflow

When a person issues CREATE CACHE for a query, Readyset runs the query through a multi-pass rewrite pipeline that transforms arbitrary SQL into the canonical form the dataflow motor expects. The pipeline is organized into three blocks:

BlockPurposeExample
A — NormalizationDesugar syntax, determine schemas, meet requirements columnsSELECT * becomes SELECT t.id, t.name, ...
B — Deep RewritesDecorrelate subqueries, flatten derived tables, optimizeWHERE id IN (SELECT ...) becomes a join
C — CleanupRemove redundant clauses, parameterize literalsORDER BY id LIMIT 10 removed whenever outcome is provably single-row

Each continue is semantics-preserving: the rewritten query returns the identical outcome as the first for all imaginable data. The passes build on all another — Block A normalizes the SQL into a canonical form that Block B's transformations can reliably run on, and Block C cleans up artifacts remaining by Block B.

Block A: Making SQL Canonical

Before any profound transformation can happen, the query must be in a predictable shape. Block A handles this:

  • Schema resolution binds array and pillar names to the genuine schema metadata Readyset has replicated from the upstream database. This is essential for afterward passes that need to cognize chief keys, distinctive constraints, and pillar types.
  • Star expansion replaces SELECT * alongside the definitive pillar list. Every downstream continue expects to see named columns, not wildcards.
  • Column qualification ensures all pillar citation is prefixed alongside its array name (id becomes t.id). This prevents ambiguity whenever multiple tables have columns alongside the identical name.
  • USING desugaring converts JOIN ... USING(id) into JOIN ... ON (a.id = b.id). The dataflow motor plant alongside ON predicates, not USING clauses.

After Block A, the query is completely resolved, qualified, and desugared — a spotless basis for the transformations that follow.

Block B: The Heavy Lifting

Block B is anywhere the genuine activity happens. These passes change SQL constructs that the dataflow motor cannot grip into equal constructs that it can. The ordering matters — all continue prepares the dirt for the next.

Array Constructor Rewrite

The archetypal Block B pass, and PostgreSQL-specific. PostgreSQL's ARRAY(SELECT ...) constructor produces an gathering value from a subquery's rows — a per-outer-row scalar aggregation form the dataflow motor has no straightforward controller for. The pipeline rewrites all event into a LATERAL LEFT JOIN whose build wraps the first subquery in array_agg(...), alongside a COALESCE(..., ARRAY[]) on the external flank so bare subqueries output an bare gathering fairly than NULL. ORDER BY and DISTINCT inner the constructor are copied into the array_agg call (required for correctness whenever the subquery additionally has LIMIT/Top-K). By operating first, this continue turns a SQL build the afterward passes wouldn't acknowledge into a LATERAL associate they already cognize how to handle.

 SELECT u.name, ARRAY(SELECT p.title FROM posts p WHERE p.user_id = u.id) AS post_titles FROM users u SELECT u.name, COALESCE(array_subq.agg_result, ARRAY[]) AS post_titles FROM users u LEFT JOIN LATERAL ( SELECT array_agg(inner_subq.title) AS agg_result FROM (SELECT p.title FROM posts p WHERE p.user_id = u.id) inner_subq ) array_subq ON TRUE

Redundant Join Elimination

Queries generated by ORMs frequently merge redundant self-joins — the identical array joined to itself on its chief key, alongside all projected columns coming from one side. The pipeline detects and eliminates these early, reducing the associate chart complexity before the heavier transformations that follow.

Left-Spine Hoisting

Before decorrelating subqueries, the pipeline attempts to inline the leftmost derived array in FROM — but lone at the top flat of the query. This is the one stance anywhere a Top-K form (ORDER BY ... LIMIT) is most valuable: at the top level, the LIMIT can be parameterized (e.g., LIMIT ?) and the dataflow compiler can deploy a native Top-K node — a streaming controller purpose-built for maintaining the top N rows incrementally. If the subquery were remaining nested and processed afterward by the broad decorrelation pass, the Top-K would be replaced alongside a ROW_NUMBER() based display — functionally accurate but small efficient, and alongside the LIMIT no longer parameterizable.

 SELECT sq.id, sq.name, sq.score FROM (SELECT id, name, mark FROM products ORDER BY mark DESC LIMIT ?) AS sq SELECT id, name, score FROM products ORDER BY mark DESC LIMIT ?

With the ORDER BY and LIMIT at the top level, the dataflow compiler recognizes the Top-K form and deploys a native streaming operator. The LIMIT remains a indicator (?), so a sole cached dataflow chart serves all LIMIT 10, LIMIT 50, LIMIT 1000 variant. Column rebinding, ORDER BY rewriting, and LIMIT/OFFSET construction are all handled by a shared inlining API reused by all inlining location in the pipeline.

Subquery Decorrelation

The most complex transformation in the pipeline, and the logic the preceding passes be — they prepared the query construction so decorrelation can see and run on all correlated references. Consider:

SELECT o.id, o.total FROM orders o WHERE o.total > (SELECT AVG(total) FROM orders WHERE area = o.region)

The subquery references o.region from the external query — it's correlated. A traditional motor would execute the subquery formerly per external row. Readyset's dataflow has no per-row implementation model, so the pipeline rewrites this into a join:

SELECT o.id, o.total FROM orders o INNER JOIN ( SELECT region, AVG(total) AS avg_total FROM orders GROUP BY region ) AS sq ON o.region = sq.region WHERE o.total > sq.avg_total

The correlated predicate area = o.region becomes a GROUP BY key and a associate condition. The subquery is now a derived array that can be additional flattened. The dataflow motor compiles this into a associate controller that maintains the per-region average incrementally.

This decorrelation handles EXISTS, NOT EXISTS, IN, NOT IN, scalar subqueries, and LATERAL joins. Each has its own semantics — LATERAL alongside COUNT requires LEFT JOIN alongside COALESCE to maintain zero-count semantics; nested LATERALs correlating alongside grandparent scopes necessitate wrap flattening to eliminate range boundaries; and IN / NOT IN / scalar subqueries against potentially-NULL operands necessitate three-valued logic probes whose applicability depends on the controller and anywhere the predicate appears, covered next.

Three-Valued Logic for IN, NOT IN, and Scalar Subqueries

SQL boolean expressions measure to TRUE, FALSE, or NULL — three-valued logic (3VL). Most operators create this transparent, but IN / NOT IN against a subquery that can create NULL do not, and the correct handling depends on where the predicate appears:

  • NOT IN in WHERE requires 3VL guards. If the RHS produces equal a sole NULL, a NOT IN predicate that would alternatively be FALSE becomes NULL — and in WHERE, NULL filters the row out during FALSE was meant to keep it (or vice versa, depending on surrounding logic). A naive decorrelation into a LEFT ANTI JOIN loses this difference and returns incorrect results.
  • IN in WHERE does not need 3VL guards. Both FALSE (no match, RHS has no NULLs) and NULL (no match, RHS has NULLs) logic WHERE to discard the row, so the difference is immaterial — a plain decorrelation to a semi-join is already correct.
  • IN or NOT IN in the SELECT list continually needs 3VL guards, despite of operator. The predicate's value is projected out of the query, and callers may test it alongside IS NULL, continue it to another expression, or difference it to another boolean — the TRUE/FALSE/NULL difference must be preserved exactly.
  • Scalar subqueries in the SELECT list sit alongside these cases: their NULL-vs-empty-result semantics necessitate the identical investigation machinery.

Readyset handles all of these by installing probe joins alongside the decorrelated subquery. Two probes extend the complete fact table:

  • NP (null-present): EXISTS(rhs WHERE first_field IS NULL) — does the RHS create a NULL in this association partition?
  • EP (existence): EXISTS(rhs) — is the RHS non-empty for this association partition?

Both are materialized as LEFT LATERAL joins projecting a sentinel present_ pillar that downstream predicates test alongside IS [NOT] NULL. A small boolean equation complete lhs IS NULL, NP.present_, EP.present_, and the anti-join equivalent yields the exact 3VL outcome SQL semantics require.

Probes are installed lone whenever null conclusion can't demonstrate them unnecessary. Before materializing either probe, the pipeline runs a nullability inspection on the two sides of the predicate:

  • If the RHS difference pillar is provably null-free (from NOT NULL constraints, non-nullable expressions, or grouping/aggregation that guarantees non-NULL outputs), the NP investigation is skipped — a NULL can never occur, so the 3VL branch it guards is unreachable.
  • If the LHS expression is provably null-free, the EP investigation is skipped — the "LHS is NULL" branch of the 3VL equation cannot fire.
  • Only the branches that nullability inspection cannot statically eliminate create runtime probes.

This matters since all investigation is an additional LEFT LATERAL join: additional nodes, additional state, additional activity on all upstream change. Suppressing probes that are provably unnecessary keeps the dataflow chart minimal and aligned alongside what the query really needs.

Identical probes are materialized formerly and reused. Real queries frequently merge multiple subqueries alongside the identical RHS and association — two NOT IN clauses against the identical subselect, a scalar subquery referenced in the two SELECT and WHERE, repeated predicates generated by an ORM, and so on. A structural ProbeRegistry keys probes by a hash of the normalized RHS build and the association predicate (post-normalization, so cosmetic differences don't logic misses). A second event finds the existing admission and reuses its LATERAL joins alternatively of emitting duplicates. The register additionally supports lazy upgrade: if the archetypal event needed lone NP but a afterward event additionally needs EP, the EP investigation is added to the identical register entry, avoiding a parallel set of joins for what is the identical underlying subquery.

The net effect: 3VL is exact, the dataflow chart carries lone the investigation machinery the query really requires, and repeated subqueries portion a sole compiled form.

General Derived Table Inlining

After decorrelation, the query may merge derived tables — the two first ones that the left-spine continue didn't handle, and new ones introduced by decorrelation itself (as associate targets for unnested subqueries). This second inlining continue flattens them into the external associate structure, eliminating unnecessary intermediate materializations.

 SELECT sq.name, sq.total FROM (SELECT name, SUM(amount) AS total FROM orders GROUP BY name) AS sq WHERE sq.total > 100 SELECT name, SUM(amount) AS total FROM orders GROUP BY name HAVING SUM(amount) > 100

The external WHERE referencing the total (sq.total > 100) migrates to HAVING, since following inlining it applies to a grouped result. The GROUP BY keys, total projections, and pillar rebinding are handled by the identical shared inlining API used by the left-spine pass.

Not all derived array can be inlined. The pipeline checks for opening functions that would alter behavior (their partition sizes depend on the row set, which changes following inlining), nested aggregation conflicts, and self-join introduction. When inlining would alter semantics, the query is remaining as-is and handled as a derived array in the dataflow chart — or rejected if the motor cannot assistance it.

Join Reordering

Two semantically identical queries that catalog joins in a distinct command — FROM a JOIN b ON ... JOIN c ON ... vs FROM a JOIN c ON ... JOIN b ON ... — should compile into the identical dataflow chart and portion the identical cache. But the dataflow compiler produces a distinct chart for all associate ordering, so structural differences in the SQL content guide to redundant caches for the identical logical query.

It's value stressing that this continue is not a cost-based associate optimizer. Its intent is purely canonicalization: producing a deterministic, syntax-independent associate sequence so that logically equal queries portion the identical cached dataflow graph. Cost, cardinality, and data perform no function current — the scoring is a structural tiebreaker, not a achievement heuristic. True cost-based associate reordering is a distinct upcoming continue that volition run on this canonical form: formerly in place, the downstream optimization stage volition be configurable to run cost-based associate reordering, display hoisting, or neither — and in all case it volition commencement from the identical canonicalized form produced here.

The pipeline normalizes associate command using a deterministic structural algorithm: at all stage it scores applicant joins by predicate proximity (preferring joins whose ON conditions citation the most lately joined tables) blended alongside the figure of cross-table equalities the applicant brings into scope, and breaks ties lexicographically by connection name. This produces a canonical associate sequence despite of how the person initially wrote the query. The identical method normalizes comma-separated FROM items into definitive CROSS JOINs, ensuring accordant structure.

Clause Normalization for Semantic Fingerprinting

Readyset identifies structurally identical queries so they can portion a sole cached dataflow graph. Two queries that differ lone in superficial ways — GROUP BY 1, 2 vs GROUP BY name, region, or ORDER BY total DESC vs ORDER BY 3 DESC — are semantically identical and should hit the identical cache.

The pipeline normalizes these clauses by resolving positional references (GROUP BY 1) and pseudonym references (ORDER BY total) to their underlying expressions (GROUP BY t.name, ORDER BY SUM(t.amount)). After normalization, semantically equal queries create identical AST structures, enabling dependable fingerprint-based cache matching.

Filter Hoisting

The final Block B pass. After all structural transformations, associate reordering, and clause normalization have produced the canonical query shape, the pipeline hoists parameterized filters (WHERE id = ?) from inner derived tables up to the outermost WHERE clause. These filters are most productive at the top level, anywhere the dataflow motor can use them for key-based lookups into materialized state. By operating last, display hoisting operates on the final semantic fingerprint form — the identical canonical form that volition be used for cache matching — ensuring the hoisted filters district in the correct structural position.

Today this continue runs unconditionally as the final stage of Block B. Once cost-based associate reordering lands, this slot becomes a configurable optimization step: the pipeline volition choose between display hoisting, cost-based associate reordering, or neither — all starting from the canonical form produced by the before passes.

Block C: Final Cleanup

After Block B's transformations, the query may have redundant clauses. Block C strips ORDER BY and LIMIT from queries that provably come back at most one row (e.g., filtering on a distinctive key), and auto-parameterizes literal values so that structurally identical queries alongside distinct constants portion the identical cached dataflow graph.

The Result

By the period a query exits the rewrite pipeline, it is in a form the dataflow motor can immediately compile:

  • All subqueries are decorrelated into joins
  • All derived tables are inlined (or remaining as supported derived-table operators)
  • All pillar references are completely qualified
  • All associate predicates are column-equality pairs
  • Joins are reordered into the canonical semantic-fingerprint shape
  • GROUP BY keys and ORDER BY expressions are normalized to definitive pillar references (no positional or pseudonym indirection)
  • Redundant joins and clauses are eliminated
  • Parameterizable filters are at the top level
  • All structural invariants required by the dataflow motor are satisfied — the query is guaranteed to be compilable without additional transformation

The dataflow compiler afterward translates this canonical SQL into a chart of streaming operators — and from that item on, all data alter flows through the graph, keeping the cached outcome up to date without always re-executing the first query.

This is how Readyset turns SQL queries into live, incrementally-maintained caches: not by executing faster, but by never needing to execute again.

Future Work

Today's pipeline is built on general SQL semantics and relational-algebra principles. Every continue is a broadly-applicable rewrite: a heuristic that plant for any query matching a structural shape, backed by a soundness disagreement that holds for any data. This generality is a characteristic — it keeps the pipeline compact, composable, and uncomplicated to logic concerning — but it is additionally anywhere the next circular of activity lives.

Cost-based associate reordering. The current Join Reordering continue is a clean canonicalization step; it doesn't use data or try to minimize work. A genuine cost-based associate optimizer (CBJO) is the next important addition. Once it lands, the final Block B slot becomes a configurable optimization stage — the pipeline volition choose between display hoisting, cost-based associate reordering, or neither — and all choice volition commencement from the canonical form produced by the before passes.

Relaxing decorrelation and inlining guardrails. Several of the current guards are deliberately cautious: they refuse transformations that a additional targeted inspection could safely admit. Examples contain tighter window-function partition-stability analysis, composite-key redundant-join elimination, and per-column decomposition of blended aggregate/non-aggregate expressions following inlining. Each of these is a straightforward relaxation of an existing defender — a narrower inspect in location of a broader veto.

From generalized heuristics to pattern-specific transformations. The passes that be today were intentionally built as generalized rewrites — structural patterns that use broadly. The next phase of activity is the inverse: identifying specific query shapes that the generalized heuristics don't recognize, and adding targeted rewrites for them. Real workloads are complete of patterns — produced by ORMs, BI tools, or average reporting idioms — that are semantically uncomplicated but don't fit any of the current structural templates. Each specified form becomes a new continue or a new branch in an existing one: a narrow equivalent on a tangible shape, alongside its own soundness argument, composed into the pipeline alongside the broad rewrites.

The pipeline's architecture — a sequence of independent, composable, semantics-preserving passes — makes all of this incremental: all capability is a new continue or a relaxed guard, tested against the complete suite of regression tests and verified for semantic preservation.

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-query-transformation-pipeline-71367 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:09:14 +0700 <![CDATA[The GoPro Lit Hero Is 33% Off for October Prime Day]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-gopro-lit-hero-is-33-off-for-october-prime-day-71371

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She has a Master’s flat in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been penning professionally since 2018, creating merchandise reviews, affiliate articles, and hunt ads for earth clients during operating alongside Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a twelvemonth instruction English at the younger elevated level.

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A GoPro is awesome for capturing footage, but not so much if you get disappointed lugging it about on your adventures. That’s the advantage of the GoPro Lit Hero: At fair 3.3 ounces, it’s small adequate to stumble into a coat pocket or keep clipped to a bicycle helmet. And for October Prime Day, the Lit Hero is downward to $179.95 from its $270 initiate price, the lowest cost recorded by price trackers so far. For additional on the October Prime Day sale, you can prosecute offers as they arrive in on our Prime Day 2026 Live Blog or browse our Prime Day Deals coverage.

It records up to 4K at 60fps, captures 12MP photos, and is waterproof downward to 16 feet without needing additional housing, making it applicable for informal travel, cycling, coast trips, or quick holiday clips. Startup speeds are fast, autofocus plant reliably, and the power division lasts about 90 minutes of uninterrupted shooting (the power division is sealed and cannot be exchanged out mid-day). The built-in LED ray is additionally brighter than expected for a camera this small, although it feels additional helpful underwater or during emergencies than for mundane clips.

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On the minus side, its 1.76-inch touchscreen is extremely small, and navigating menus can be tricky, particularly if you're outdoors or have wet hands. Because there are barely any bodily controls, nearly everything depends on tapping through menus on that small display. There’s additionally no built-in depiction stabilization; instead, you have to transfer footage into the GoPro Quik app and use stabilization afterward, which adds an additional step. While the depiction norm is decent in brilliant conditions, the small 1/2.8-inch sensor struggles in dimmer environments, producing softer footage alongside apparent noise. If you're into color grading or tweaking your footage later, you won’t get much elasticity current either, since there’s no log manner or meaningful manual authority to activity with.

Overall, the Lit Hero feels small akin a smaller Hero Black and additional akin a compact point-and-shoot act camera for beginners who attention additional concerning convenience and size than depiction quality—but if those are important factors for you, it's a fine bet at the current discount.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-gopro-lit-hero-is-33-off-for-october-prime-day-71371 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:03:47 +0700 <![CDATA[The best robot vacuum and mop deals during October Prime Day]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-best-robot-vacuum-and-mop-deals-during-october-prime-day-71364

Spending too much period continually sweeping and mopping? If you have the prosperity to assign those chores to a robot cleaner, you could preserve a lot of individual time. Thankfully, it’s cheaper than customary to buy a robot vacuum / mop hybrid during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, and several of our favorite models are discounted. The deals aren’t fair for Amazon Prime members either, alongside another retailers akin Best Buy and manufacturers getting in on the action, as well.

That being said, if your floors are already squeaky clean, create certain to check out our roundup of complete 100 deals from Amazon’s October sale.

$635

Roborock’s archetypal roller-mop robot vacuum, the Curv 2 Flow, features flagship specs at a midrange price, including outstanding mopping, a retractable mop cover, 20,000Pa suction, AI-powered obstacle avoidance, and a compact design.

$1180

Roborock’s Saros 20 stands out for its capability to ascend lofty thresholds, evade obstacles alongside notable accuracy, and spotless under low furnishings gratitude to its slim design. It additionally combines mighty 36,000Pa suction alongside awesome spinning mop pads, which is why we propose it for homes alongside multiple flat types and tricky transitions between rooms.

$1045

Our choice for the best robot vacuum-mop if you have all hardwood floors is the Narwal Flow 2. A brilliant mop alongside a broad flat roller pad and an outstanding vacuum, the Flow 2 additionally has top-notch navigation and obstacle detection. Its sleek basis position is additionally small of an eyesore than most.

$1100

The Dreame X60 Ultra leverages a brace of AI-assisted cameras to assistance it navigate obstacles and justify a thorough, accordant cleaning. It’s lone 3.13 inches tall, so it can sneak under low surfaces that several another robot vacuums can’t.

$450

The Eufy Omni C28 combines outstanding mopping achievement alongside a small self-cleaning dock that’s fine suited for apartments and another smaller spaces. It navigates about furnishings and into tight areas alongside ease, during its roller mop does a awesome job cleaning difficult floors.

$400

Dreame’s budget-friendly L40s Ultra has retention for up to 100 days of dust, and can spotless its own mop pads. The auxiliary climbing wheels assistance it navigate thresholds and rug edges alongside ease.

$250

A prosperity robot vacuum and mop without a multifunction dock. It has AI-powered obstacle avoidance, sonic mopping, car mop lifting, and an auto-empty dock.

$700

The Deebot X8 Pro Omni is an outstanding roller mopping bot that extends to spotless alongside backboards and furniture. It’s additionally a mighty vacuum alongside awesome obstacle avoidance, a small dock, and a convenient self-cleaning broom system.

$199

The Matter-compatible SwitchBot K11 Plus is ideal for small apartments, bedrooms, and residence offices. It can effortlessly navigate about place and array legs and into tight spaces that most another bots miss. It additionally features a commendable 6,000Pa of suction power — which is awesome for this cost item — and plant fine on the two hardwood and carpet.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-best-robot-vacuum-and-mop-deals-during-october-prime-day-71364 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0700 <![CDATA[10 Hacks Every Plex User Should Know]]> https://en.mycoding.id/10-hacks-every-plex-user-should-know-71372

David Nield is a innovation newsman from Manchester in the U.K. who has been penning concerning gadgets and apps for additional than 20 years.

He has a bachelor's flat in English Literature from Durham University, anywhere he additionally spent a term as publishing company of the award-winning pupil newspaper Palatinate. His reporting occupation started in imprint media, anywhere he contributed to and edited multiple innovation magazines and bookazines sold in the U.K. and internationally.

More recently, he has worked as a freelancer for several of the biggest innovation publications on the web, covering everything from on-the-ground reporting concerning merchandise launches, to detailed explainers and how-to guides on apps, gadgets, and platforms. His ability covers broad areas of person tech, including smartphones, laptops, wearables, and AI.

Plex has been about for nearly 20 years at this point, and has added plentifulness of features and functions in that time. We've earlier covered several of the ways it can be helpful for creating your own individual streaming service.

Even if you're a experienced Plex user, you should discover item of use here, as there's everything from tweaking the metadata that the apps use to create your library, to improving the norm of your video streams—with a particular concentration on films and TV shows (though Plex is capable of handling music and photos, too).

Edit your display and movie metadata if Plex gets it wrong

Your filenames and directory construction should give Plex adequate information to correctly tag TV shows and movies, but it doesn't continually get it correct all time. If you place a error afterward there are a few ways to alter it.

From the chief leaf for a display or film, click the three dots and choose Refresh Metadata. This gets Plex to inspect again alongside its online sources, so if the data was missing or incorrect the archetypal period around, this may fix it.

Your second choice is to caput to the listing for a particular movie or show, click the three dots, and afterward choice Fix Match. This lets you choice from a choice of online hunt results, and is helpful for titles that are extremely akin to all another or extremely common.

The final way of fixing metadata is to go to an idiosyncratic movie or episode, and click the Edit clasp (the icon that looks akin a pencil). This lets you act manual metadata edits that won't be overwritten by any online databases that Plex references.

Clean out the clutter from your library

Plex bundles
Delete leftover bundles from your library. Credit: Lifehacker

As your media archive grows and evolves, clutter can commencement to build up—particularly whenever it comes to items you've removed, that lean to depart metadata, preview thumbnails, and another bits of digital detritus behind. These leftovers are known as bundles.

You can apparent out bundles and keep your archive reduce in a brace of ways: In the web app, click the three dots next to your media server on the left-hand navigation pane, afterward choose Manage Server > Clean Bundles.

The identical choice is in the troubleshooting part of settings on the web. Click the wrench icon (top right) to open Settings, afterward choose Troubleshooting > Clean Bundles. You can additionally prosecute the Scheduled Tasks nexus on the identical leaf to have Plex do this chore automatically all week for you.

Set up multiple editions of the identical movie

There may be times whenever you have multiple editions of the identical movie in your library—director's cuts, perhaps, or extended editions—and if you have the Plex Pass scheme afterward you can tag these as distinct entities inner your library

You can either alter the filename on disk to have the type in curly brackets following the title—so "Blade Runner (1982) {edition-Final Cut}.mp4" for example—or click the Edit clasp (the pencil icon) on a movie listing leaf and act the particulars in the Edition field.

Add subtitles to your media alongside FileBot

Plex FileBot
FileBot can discover subtitles for you. Credit: Lifehacker

Your Plex satisfied isn't automatically going to arrive alongside subtitles attached, and that's anywhere the FileBot tool can help. Get the program installed on your system, sign up for a liberated document at OpenSubtitles, and you're prepared to commencement looking for your subtitle titles. This is done via the Subtitles panel inner FileBot.

Use the green person icon to log into OpenSubtitles through Filebot, afterward hunt for your films and shows via the drop-down at the top and the Find button. When you discover the records you need, double-click them to move them downward to the lesser window—in there, you can right-click, choose Export, and preserve them in the applicable Plex archive folder.

There are another options, akin a essential built-in subtitle hunt that's accessible if you have the Plex Pass, and the standalone Bazarr app, which gives you additional options than either the unified tool or FileBot, but takes longer to set up.

Share your Plex archive alongside allies and family

You don't have to keep your Plex archive to yourself, but there are several tricks to sharing it alongside allies and family. From the web app, click the wrench icon (top right) to open the Settings pane, afterward choose Manage Library Access on the left.

Click Grant Library Access to let person alternatively into your media library: You'll need to provision a Plex username or an email location (which volition be used to immediate them to sign up for a Plex account). You're afterward capable to choose the servers and libraries they can access. If you have a Plex Pass, you can set additional limits in conditions of age ratings and whether or not your allies and family can download content.

The wrinkles arrive alongside distant access. If you as the media server owner have a Plex Pass, afterward your allies and family can stream satisfied remotely, as fine as on the local network; if not, they all need a Remote Watch Pass ($2 a duration or $20 a year) if they're not observing on the identical local network as you and the server.

See who watched what and whenever alongside Tautulli

Tautulli is among the finest Plex add-ons around, giving you a presenter of helpful stats concerning your media server—including records of who watched what. Once you've downloaded the installer for Windows or macOS, you'll be taken step-by-step through the procedure of connecting it to your Plex server.

If you've shared your Plex archive alongside the family, afterward you can, for example, see what the kids are observing and when, and equal the devices they've used and how much bandwidth they've used up alongside the way.

The plug-in is engaging adequate equal if you haven't shared your library: It's imaginable to interrupt downward viewing to day-by-day or hour-by-hour graphs, see the movies and shows you're observing most often, inspect out detailed data on your media files, and keep track of whenever new films and shows are added.

What do you think so far?

Create collections for easier archive management

Plex collections
Use Collections to arrange your Library. Credit: Lifehacker

Collections are a helpful way of applying several command to the anarchy of your Plex media library, and the characteristic is perchance not as fine known as it should be. You can collect any you like, whether it's feel-good TV episodes or spy films.

To get started alongside collections, click the Edit clasp on a listing leaf (the pencil), afterward choose Tags, and act item into the Collections box. If the gathering already exists, it'll display up as you commencement typing.

You can additionally set up astute collections, anywhere media records are added automatically. Set a hunt display via the Library tab on your Films or Shows screen, and if you click the Add to clasp (the affirmative and horizontal lines icon on the right), you get a Create Smart Collection option. Any records that are added in the forthcoming that equivalent your hunt display get automatically added to the gathering too.

Make videos appearance as fine as possible

Most of the period Plex volition grip video norm automatically, and do a fine job of it, but there power be occasions whenever you're not getting the finest norm imaginable (particularly if you're observing on small mighty devices).

To create certain Plex is continually serving up video as finest it can, in the web app click the Settings icon (the wrench, top right), afterward Transcoder. If you cognize you've got the device to grip it, you can set the top Transcoder quality drop-down to Make my CPU hurt, and allow the Use hardware acceleration whenever available.

In the apps for idiosyncratic devices, you'll additionally discover video norm options in the settings. Put video norm up to Maximum for finest results—you may need to test to discover the limits of what all equipment can handle.

Customize the Continue Watching pane 

Plex options
You can decide what's in Continue Watching (up to a point). Credit: Lifehacker

You power not have stated much idea to the Continue Watching pane that shows up on your Films and Shows pages, but you can customize this on the web to lawsuit your own preferences—and perchance eliminate several satisfied you don't desire to keep around.

Click the wrench icon (top right) to open Settings, afterward choose Library on the left. You're capable to set a threshold (a figure of weeks) beyond which titles disappear from Continue Watching, as fine as limiting the figure of titles included in title. Turn off the Include period premieres in Continue Watching checkbox to conceal premieres for new seasons whenever you've completed old ones—otherwise they'll display up indefinitely.

The settings you configure current should propagate to the Continue Watching rows in your another apps; try decision and restarting them if not.

Get the conduit surfing cognition rear alongside QuasiTV

If you young female the traditional conduit surfing cognition whenever using Plex, there's a resolution in the form of QuasiTV: This app plant on Android TV, Google TV, and Fire TV devices, and wraps your Plex archive and streaming services in a additional accepted interface.

Sign into Plex, item it towards your libraries, and it'll create a tradition conduit guide filled alongside your shows and movies. These power get assigned to genres, or to the TV stations they initially aired on, and you can browse about until you discover item you like—just akin the old days.

It's not the most productive way of searching through your Plex media library, but it's fun to use, and whenever I tested it out I rediscovered a few movies and TV episodes that I hadn't watched in a while.

David Nield is a innovation newsman from Manchester in the U.K. who has been penning concerning gadgets and apps for additional than 20 years.

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/10-hacks-every-plex-user-should-know-71372 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0700 <![CDATA[Apple and LG team up on new smart home gear, starting with a lock, doorbell, and thermostat]]> https://en.mycoding.id/apple-and-lg-team-up-on-new-smart-home-gear-starting-with-a-lock-doorbell-and-thermostat-71357

Emma Roth

is a news author who covers the streaming wars, person tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a author and publishing company at MUO.

Apple is collaborating alongside LG on a new lineup of astute residence devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, and more, according to a study from Bloomberg. The products volition reportedly characteristic LG branding but merge alongside the company’s rumored astute residence hub that’s expected to initiate during an event on October 13th.

Sources inform Bloomberg that the upcoming row of devices additionally includes a deadbolt lock, outdoor safety camera, and a floodlight camera.

<em>A diagram included in an FCC listing for an “LG Smart Thermostat.” </em>

<em><em>A rendering included in an FCC listing for an “LG Smart Thermostat.” </em></em>

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A diagram included in an FCC listing for an “LG Smart Thermostat.”
Screenshot: The Verge via FCC

Several of the devices volition reportedly arrive alongside assistance for the astute residence protocols Thread and Matter amid a “formal reboot” for Apple’s HomeKit platform. The entrance fastener additionally comes alongside an ultra-wideband characteristic that could authorize it to automatically unlock whenever a person gets near their door, according to Bloomberg.

An “LG Smart Deadbolt Lock” listed in the FCC’s database.

For months, gossip have suggested that Apple is preparedness to dive deeper into the astute residence space. The business is working on a Siri AI-enabled astute residence hub that comes alongside a six-inch display that users can mount to their partition or location on a table, Bloomberg has reported. Apple is expected to obtain the wraps off the upcoming equipment afterward this month, anywhere it may additionally disclose a new HomePod mini and an upgraded Apple TV device.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/apple-and-lg-team-up-on-new-smart-home-gear-starting-with-a-lock-doorbell-and-thermostat-71357 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:39:53 +0700 <![CDATA[Everything Florence Pugh has worn in 2026, ranked from least to most daring]]> https://en.mycoding.id/everything-florence-pugh-has-worn-in-2026-ranked-from-least-to-most-daring-71359

Florence Pugh sits on a mustard couch in a satin outfit, reflected on a glossy array in heated lighting.

Florence Pugh attends the "East of Eden" premiere after-party in September 2026. Emilio Madrid/Getty Images for Netflix

Florence Pugh is no alien to making a manner statement.

Pugh has worn daring outfits on red carpets for years, favoring bold sets and sheer designs. This twelvemonth is no exception, with Pugh pushing manner boundaries during promoting projects akin "East of Eden" and "Spider-Man: Brand New Day."

Take a appearance at everything Pugh has worn in 2026 so far, classified from smallest to most daring.

Pugh wore a high-neck attire to a achievement of "Dracula" in February.

Florence Pugh poses on a nighttime arrivals carpet below a Cynthia Erivo "Dracula" marquee.

Florence Pugh attends a achievement of "Dracula" in London in February 2026. Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images

Pugh wore a dreary Patou gown to see Cynthia Erivo's "Dracula." It had a elevated neckline and abbreviated sleeves, hugging her fig until it hit the floor.

A subtle equine form was printed on the dress, which added a fun flair. Still, the gown was beautiful uncomplicated overall, particularly whenever compared to another looks Pugh has worn in 2026.

Pugh's attire for the Netflix Upfront in March was understated.

Florence Pugh poses in a pale satin gown alongside a floral stem scheme at Netflix Upfront 2026.

Florence Pugh attends the 2026 Netflix Upfront event in New York City in March 2026. Dominik Bindl/Getty Images

Pugh attended the Netflix event in a pale gown designed by Simone Rocha.

The floor-length attire had a subtly scooped neckline and puffy, lengthy sleeves. A angiosperm was printed on the center, lining the dimension of the gown.

The attire was beautiful, but it wasn't her most daring appearance of the year.

She looked effortlessly chic in a navy set at the Venice Film Festival in September.

Florence Pugh walks through a terminal wearing sunglasses, a navy sleeveless outfit, and carrying a dreary handbag.

Florence Pugh attends the Venice Film Festival in September 2026. Stefano Mazzola/GC Images/Getty Images

Pugh appeared at the annual movie festival in a Max Mara set.

Her container top had a scooped neckline, during her wide-legged trousers sat elevated on her waist.

The outfit had a uncomplicated color scheme and silhouette, but Pugh made it appearance additional stylish alongside strappy heels, broad sunglasses, and a clutch.

For a New York involvement in September, she donned a peach blouse.

Florence Pugh waves during strolling on a city sidewalk beside a dreary SUV in a peach blouse and pale trousers.

Florence Pugh in New York City in September 2026. Jason Howard/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Pugh made a sequence of appearances in New York in September to advance Netflix's "East of Eden." For one of them, she wore wide-legged pale trousers and a peach blouse from Chloé.

The blouse had ruffle detailing on the bodice and sleeves, and the hems were slightly ruffled as well. The top's texture added a fun pop to the look, as did Pugh's small sunglasses and rattan purse.

She chose a attire alongside sheer detailing for an appearance on "Late Night alongside Seth Meyers."

Florence Pugh exits a glass-paneled entrance wearing sunglasses and a dreary ruffled sheer gown.

Florence Pugh in New York City in September 2026. BG048/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images

Pugh chose a dreary attire to speak to Seth Meyers during her New York tour. The neckline was covered in tiered ruffles, during the remainder of the attire was made of a silky material.

One flank of the skirt showed a slit that cut up her leg, during a panel of sheer cloth covered the other. The skirt gave the appearance that it had been ripped, contrasting alongside the additional organized bodice.

Pugh additionally wore sunglasses alongside the gown, notwithstanding it being nighttime, for a chic touch.

Pugh wore one of her most glamorous looks of the twelvemonth at the Emmys in March.

Florence Pugh poses in a lavender gown on an Emmys blue carpet before an NBC backdrop.

Florence Pugh attends the Emmys in September 2026. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

Attending the 2026 Emmys as a presenter, Pugh walked the red carpet in a purple Vivienne Westwood gown.

The form-fitting, strapless attire had a sparkly overlay, and fairly than traditional sleeves, a bold, modified cape attached to the two sides of the bodice.

A train trailed rearward Pugh for equal additional drama.

Pugh selected a voluminous domain gown for a screening of "East of Eden" at BAFTA in September.

Florence Pugh poses on a red carpet in a dreary ruffled gown before an "East of Eden" backdrop.

Florence Pugh attends an "East of Eden" screening at BAFTA in September 2026. Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images

Netflix hosted a screening of "East of Eden" at BAFTA in London, and Pugh celebrated the constricted series' publish in a dreary Rodarte gown.

The domain gown had a contemporary gothic vibe, position out from Pugh's go-to red carpet style, which frequently consists of simpler silhouettes.

Large, ruffled sleeves sat off her shoulders, during the neckline curved in a item on the bodice. A ample skirt flowed out from her waist alongside tiers of ruched cloth and a bow in the center.

She wore a subtly sheer top at a photo call in September.

Florence Pugh poses in a lotion ruffled blouse and dreary pleated trousers inner a library.

Florence Pugh attends an "East of Eden" photo call in September 2026. John Phillips/Getty Images for Netflix

Pugh wore another Rodarte ensemble for an "East of Eden" photo call, diving into the brand's archives for the look.

Her white, shiny top was made of semi-sheer, ruched fabric. Tiers of cloth flowed out from the elevated neckline, creating quantity and a funky feel.

She paired the bold top alongside high-waisted, wide-legged pants and a strap that stated "Rodarte" in overlapping alphabet for another playful touch.

She selected a gown alongside gemstone detailing for an "East of Eden" event in September.

Florence Pugh poses in a pale gown on a red carpet before an "East of Eden" backdrop.

Florence Pugh attends an "East of Eden" event in New York City in September 2026. Jason Mendez/Getty Images for Netflix

Erdem designed Pugh's dropped-waist gown.

The attire had a V-neckline that dipped low on Pugh's chest, and gemstone embellishments adorned the bodice. Fringed cloth lined the hem of the full, asymmetrical skirt, accentuating her Aquazzura shoes.

Pugh wore a lacy romper in New York in September.

Florence Pugh walks from a dreary entrance wearing a pale lace outfit, sunglasses, heels, and carrying a small handbag.

Florence Pugh in New York City in September 2026. Raymond Hall/GC Images/Getty Images

Pugh additionally stepped out in a Chloé romper during her New York visit.

The strapless top had a semi-sheer, pale overlay, during the shorts were trimmed alongside the identical lace. Pugh paired the part alongside argent Aquazarra heels.

The outfit struck a fun balance between feminine and modern.

Pugh's attire for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" made use of ruching.

Florence Pugh walks on a phase in a dreary attire beside blue curtains.

Florence Pugh appears on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" in September 2026. Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images

Pugh stopped by "The Tonight Show" during promoting "East of Eden."

She chatted to presenter Jimmy Fallon in an off-the-shoulder Vivienne Westwood gown. The form-fitting attire was covered in ruching, creating dimension. The scooped neckline dipped low, and the asymmetrical skirt cut elevated on her lap on one side.

Coordinating Aquazarra shoes completed the look.

Pugh went pantless for an "East of Eden" photo call.

Florence Pugh poses on a rooftop terrace in a patterned coat alongside the London Eye rearward her.

Florence Pugh attends an "East of Eden" photo call in September 2026. Josh Shinner/Netflix

Dior designed Pugh's look for the London photo call.

The basis of the ensemble was a pale blouse, which she buttoned all the way to her neckline. Atop it, Pugh wore a patterned coatdress that cinched at her waist and had an asymmetrical hemline.

It flared about the back, providing coverage, during rising on one flank to display the garment below.

Her gown at the "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" premiere looked as if it defied gravity.

Florence Pugh poses in a argent fringed gown before a New York horizon backdrop.

Florence Pugh attends the "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" premiere in London in July 2026. Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images

Pugh celebrated the Marvel film in a argent Tamara Ralph gown.

The off-the-shoulder neckline curved about Pugh's arms, creating the illusion that the attire was floating about her.

It dipped into a low V in the center, alongside tassels of sparkly cloth flowing to her waist in the identical shape. The skirt hugged her figure, alongside additional tassels spilling out from the hem.

Pugh rocked a sheer attire to the "East of Eden" premiere after-party.

Florence Pugh and three formally dressed attendees stance together at an indoor event reception.

Finn Cole and Florence Pugh act the "East of Eden" premiere after-party in New York City in September 2026. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Netflix

After attending the New York premiere for the series, Pugh changed into a Rodarte gown to continue celebrating her Netflix project.

Her sheath-style pink attire was entirely sheer. It had spaghetti straps alongside brooch attachments at all flank of the gown, and a coordinating scarf completed the ensemble.

The silhouette was simple, but the cloth made the attire bold.

Pugh looked akin she was wearing an ultra-low-waisted skirt for one of her most eye-catching looks of the year.

Florence Pugh in dreary embellished crop top and gray skirt stands on sidewalk at night.

Florence Pugh attends an "East of Eden" event in New York in September 2026. Aeon/GC Images/Getty Images

Pugh attended an evening event for "East of Eden" in an Erdem ensemble.

She wore a sparkly crop top alongside a bra-like bodice, which matched the top of her high-waisted skirt. At her lesser hip, the skirt switched to gray pleated cloth that flowed about her ankles, creating the illusion of wearing two separates at the base of her ensemble.

A bow sat on one side, and Pugh added a bow to her tress as fine to perform up the feminine flank of the look.

Pugh stepped out in a sheer set for an "East of Eden" screening in California in September.

Florence Pugh poses in a faint yellow outfit before an EAST OF EDEN floral backdrop.

Florence Pugh attends Netflix's "East of Eden" Screening & Conversation in California in September 2026. Unique Nicole/Getty Images for Netflix

Pugh wore one of her most daring looks of the twelvemonth to a California screening of "East of Eden."

Her yellow archival Rodarte set was made of sheer fabric, alongside subtle polka dots lining the pattern. Her top had a collared neckline alongside ruffles flowing about it, and a floral form curving about her torso.

The skirt had the identical floral form on the sides, alongside ruffles flowing out from her waist. Gray shoes completed the look.

Pugh wore one of her most avant-garde looks of the twelvemonth in New York in September.

Florence Pugh walks on a city sidewalk in a dreary outfit and sunglasses as photographers collect rearward barricades.

Florence Pugh in New York City in September 2026. TheStewartofNY/GC Images/Getty Images

During her New York visit, Pugh wore a dreary top and trousers from Chloé alongside Aquazurra shoes.

The embroidered top had a modified corset alongside a peplum and puffy sleeves. Lace trimmed the collar and sleeves.

The top had a vintage feel, during the billowing pants, which cinched at Pugh's ankle alongside a bow, put a contemporary rotation on the look. Small sunglasses and a purse alongside fringe detailing brought Pugh's appearance together.

Pugh wore her most daring attire of the twelvemonth to the "East of Eden" premiere in New York.

Florence Pugh poses on a Netflix event carpet in a yellow corset top and argent skirt.

Florence Pugh attends Netflix's "East of Eden" New York premiere in September 2026. TheStewartofNY/WireImage/Getty Images

Pugh wore another yellow appearance to the New York "East of Eden" premiere, arriving in a tradition Vivienne Westwood gown.

The gown's corset bodice had a zipper lining the center, framed by argent sparkle embellishments on either side. It had a contemporary sweetheart neckline, alongside the center curve dipping low on Pugh's chest.

An off-the-shoulder gesture sat on her shoulders, alongside its voluminous sleeves contrasting alongside the contemporary bodice. The gown's gray skirt hugged Pugh's fig before flowing into a subtle train.

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