🦀 Rust’s New v0 Symbol Mangling Explained
An insightful look into Rust’s compiler evolution, showcasing how the ecosystem is maturing toward standardization and developer-friendly tooling. A must-read for anyone interested in language internals or low-level debugging.
A detailed technical overview of Rust’s new ‘v0’ symbol mangling standard, which defines how function and type names are encoded in compiled binaries. The scheme improves compatibility and readability by removing cryptic hashes, adopting Punycode for Unicode identifiers, and using base-58 encoding for efficiency. These changes simplify demangling and make debugging tools more reliable across platforms.
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📺 Microsoft Copilot AI Lands on LG TVs—and Can’t Be Removed
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🤖 Should AI That Replaces Humans Also Pay Taxes?
A thought-provoking exploration of AI’s economic and ethical dimensions—how automation challenges traditional tax systems and social fairness. It invites readers to rethink fiscal policy in an age of intelligent machines.
An in-depth *El País* analysis examines whether AI and automation should be taxed like human labor. Experts discuss the economic effects of automation on employment, tax revenue, and productivity, debating the feasibility of a ‘robot tax’ versus broader tax reform on capital income. The piece highlights contrasting views between innovation advocates and those prioritizing social equity.
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🧠 The Gorman Paradox: Why Don’t We See AI-Built Apps Yet?
A thoughtful reality check on AI automation hype, reminding developers that capability doesn’t always translate to production success.
Drawing on the Fermi Paradox, this essay questions why—despite advanced AI tools—there are still no major, market-ready applications built entirely by AI. It explores the gap between technological potential and practical outcomes in AI-generated software.
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🐾 The Cat Gap: When Felines Vanished from North America
A fascinating example of evolutionary adaptation and environmental dynamics shaping biodiversity through deep time.
A summary of the ‘cat gap,’ a period 25–18.5 million years ago with few cat fossils in North America. Researchers link it to climate shifts, habitat loss, and ecological competition, noting how dog-like species temporarily evolved cat-like traits before true felines arrived from Eurasia.
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