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Why is "the ball of the foot" called as it is?

Actually it’s because it’s the big baller, shot caller part of the foot.

workplace.stackexchange.com

I announced my resignation . . . and was completely ignored. What to do?

Would, “As per my last email…I’m out of here!” not work?

law.stackexchange.com

Can a will be written so that it overrules the wishes of certain survivors?

This just in: dead people don’t suddenly own more now that they’ve died.

travel.stackexchange.com

Should I bring Speedos or swimming shorts to China?

“Enjoy your time here and wear whatever you like.”

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This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges.

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tomshardware.com

Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

Why couldn’t they “accidentally” give me $500 million?

stevemagness.substack.com

The cost of safetyism

Kids need to go and touch grass.

nolanlawson.com

Using AI to write better code more slowly

AI, better code, and slowly aren’t mutually exclusive.

arxiv.org

Do language models need sleep? Offline recurrence for improved online inference

If I’m taking a nap and my AI agent is taking a nap, who’s raising shareholder value?

apa.org

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting

As the kids say…go touch some grass.

virtualosmuseum.org

The Virtual OS Museum

It’s Manchester, Baby!

blog.habets.se

Everything in C is undefined behavior

As Mufasa once said to his junior dev son, Simba, “Everything the C light touches is undefined behavior.”

bbc.com

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

Might be a good time for the Japanese language to have a direct translation for, “Bless you.”

aesthetikx.info

What is Date::ITALY?

Okay, but can anyone tell me when Mercury is in retrograde during the Julian Method of the Gregorian Calendar?

tanstack.com

Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need external security researchers.

blog.maximeheckel.com

On rendering the sky, sunsets, and planets

Oh, this would go crazy in the Metaverse.

arstechnica.com

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

Does there come a time when you’ve eaten too much of your own dog food?

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Issue 331: Tomorrow's technology today

What exactly does it mean to be on the “cutting edge” of technology nowadays? With tech evolving at breakneck speed, it’s hard to keep a handle on what direction the industry is moving. So, this issue, we're talking to people on the cutting edge to understand exactly where that edge is. On the pod, we’ve got conversations on everything from storage on GPUs to security threats to enterprise chatbots with MinIO, CrowdStrike, and Slack. Plus, we’ve got blogs for you on everything coding agents: how they’re causing decision fatigue, how they’re changing the SDLC, and how leaders can get them to work at scale. And we’ve got a wonderful roundup of links and knowledge for you this week. From the web, we’ve got the scoop on mass allergies, a look into the operating systems of ye olden days, and the one simple trick to get your creativity going that Big Chair doesn’t want you to know. Plus, we’re satiating all your curiosity with answers straight from the mouths of our own community. Should you put “whistleblower” on your resume? Is it contradictory that western philosophy doesn’t believe in contradictions? What amount of ghosting is acceptable in academia? Trust us—if you want to be on the cutting edge, you should head down below because we’ve got all that knowledge and more ready for you.

Issue 330: We've got a Heap of news for you

Call us old-fashioned (and we know you do), but we think that software developers and engineers are better than AI at coding. That’s why we’re honoring the minds and work of the people with The Heap, our new software engineering blog written for the community, by the community. And we’re standing on business this week by dedicating this entire newsletter to engineering and software excellence. Besides The Heap, we’ve got conversations with some of the best and brightest minds in today’s technological landscape. Braze’s Jon Hyman joined us on Leaders of Code for a chat about engineering leadership in the age of AI, and how the last 15 years at Braze helped him transform his team to AI-first in just a few months. We’ve got conversations with Neo4j’s Philip Rathle on knowledge context for AI agents, Honeycomb’s Christine Yen on observability in the new world of AI-assisted SDLC, and Resolve AI’s Spiros Xanthos on the importance of retaining human intuition in codebases even when AI writes most of the code. Plus, our very own Josh Zhang is here to answer all our questions on cloud computing (even the dumb ones). And isn’t answering your heaps of questions what Stack does best? Outside of The Heap, our community is sharing knowledge on everything from AI and artistry to the heat of the sun, food supplies on sunken ships, and how to survive a plane crash if you wear glasses. Plus, we’ve got a heap of stories from around the web on tokenmaxxing, rendering the sky, and what time it is exactly in Italy. Don’t let your stack overflow—head down below because we have that and so much more ready for you this week.

Issue 329: The heart of our technology

This week on the blog, we’re diving into all the things that make the tech we know and love possible—architecture, hardware, and databases. We sat down with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster for a conversation on silicon and chips, and how AI is helping solve the chip shortage it caused. We’re also pulling back the curtain on our own architecture and how we’re replacing Ingress-NGINX at Stack. Plus, we’re joined by Qdrant’s Brian O’Grady to decipher what exactly we mean when we talk semantic vs. vector search. Beyond the blog, we’ve got a hearty round-up of everything you’re curious about, from phishing attempts to robodogs to piston engines. And there are no dumb questions here—kind of like our new Friday column on MCP servers. Are we all pronouncing “the” incorrectly? Is human imprecision the heart of software development? Is it so wrong to fall in love with a bot? Is Cloudflare trying to hack you? We’ve got all those answers and so much more to satiate your curiousity down below.

Issue 328: As long as you love AI

If you think about it, tech is kind of like a Backstreet Boys song: it doesn’t care who you are, where you’re from, or what you did, as long as you use it. It’s beautiful how almost everyone on earth has the same addiction to social media. We really are more alike than we think! That’s why, this week, we’re spanning the entire spectrum of tech experiences. For those who’re done screwing around with AI and ready to find out, we’ve got the story of the biggest AI conference in the world, HumanX. For the coding beginner—or the expert nostalgic for the wide-eyed, bushy-tailed optimism of their early code days—we’ve got the Worst Coder in the World’s latest misadventure with agents and Python. Maybe your software genius is bursting out of your brain with nowhere to go? We’ve got you covered with Stack Internal’s Ingestion that makes sorting all your genius as easy as pie. And we haven’t even talked about the wide range of tech complexity happening on the pod: Bloomberg’s Jason Williams dives into the deceptively simple but nearly impossible task of making date and time work in JavaScript and how the Temporal proposal fixes that, while Collate’s Harsha Chintalapani explores the complexities of production data in AI systems. Ah, the dichotomy of it all. And that’s not all. From sledgehammers to infinity to Claude Code, we’ve got stories from all over the web that’ll remind you there are many ways to use technology. There’s no better example of that than our very own Stack users, who cover the entire spectrum of curiosity and knowledge. For instance, why are things the color they are? Why were old computers so weird? Why is everyone bad at math sometimes? Wanna know one of our favorite uses of technology, though? Well, it’s getting to click away on our computers so we can have all those stories and more ready for you down below.