📰 News

🍄 Fungi may not think, but they can communicate

Fungi are out here forming complex social networks underground—kind of like Mother Nature’s version of LinkedIn, but far more interesting. Researchers found fungi communicate through their mycelial networks. Let’s just hope they don’t start sending us friend requests!

🏦 X was supposed to be a bank by now

Elon Musk wanted Twitter to be a "digital town square" and an "everything app," but so far, it's just a political battlefield. Waiting for X to become a bank is like waiting for your toaster to call you an Uber.

🚗 Four takeaways from Pony AI's IPO filing

Pony AI joined the U.S. stock market, now valued at $4 billion, down from $8.5 billion. With robotaxis and robotrucks, they’re making AI-driven cars a reality, but who knew self-driving ponies cost more than a stable? Just hope they avoid the "Fisker'ed" fate!

📷 Apple iPhone 16 Pro review: a small camera update makes a big difference

iPhone 16 Pro: Major updates are MIA until next year, but hey, there's a spiffy new Camera Control button! Now you can accidentally adjust settings while trying not to miss that perfect shot. Incremental upgrade, immediate confusion - typical Apple!

🧬 Quantum Machines, Nvidia use machine learning to get closer to quantum computer

Quantum Machines and Nvidia teamed up for a techie tango, using Nvidia’s DGX Quantum platform to keep qubits dancing correctly. While we're not yet error-free, their calibration efforts are like fine-tuning a cosmic DJ, ensuring those quantum beats never miss a step!

💰 Billionaires are 'ultimate beneficiaries' linked to €3B of EU farming subsidies

So, 17 billionaires received €3.3 billion in EU farming subsidies. It’s like finding out the Monopoly man just won the lottery and used the winnings to buy Boardwalk… again. Next, will Jeff Bezos be milking cows?

🎮 Can Nintendo's Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can

Doom on an alarm clock? I love the smell of demonic possession in the morning! With this USB hack, you can now say “I’m late for ripping and tearing!” It’s the best snooze-fest ever.

☠️ Postmortem of the day

💥 Stack Exchange. Uncategorized

The primary SQL-Server triggered a bugcheck on the SQL Server process, causing the Stack Exchange sites to go into read only mode, and eventually a complete outage.

💡📚 Articles

🌐 Configuring AWS CDK Apps Across Multiple Environments (8 min read)

🐳 13 Ways to Optimize Docker Builds (20 min read)

🚀 Rust fullstack web app! WASM + YEW + ROCKET (20 min read)

✈ How We Moved from AWS to Fly.io (1 min read)

👨‍💻 Repositories

🧩 Puzzle of the Day

🃏 The Three-Card Challenge

On the table are three face-up playing cards. Using the clues below, can you determine the suit and rank of each card from left to right?

1. A heart card is somewhere to the left of a spade.
2. A card showing a 9 is somewhere to the left of the heart card.
3. The 7 card is immediately to the right of the queen.
4. A diamond card is immediately to the left of a spade.

🗝️ Last Puzzle Solution

🦁 The Magical Island Dilemma

The puzzle from ISSUE-429 ↗️

Answer: There will be 18 lions and 1 sheep

Explanation:

1. Base Cases:

- 1 Lion and 1 Sheep:
The lone lion will eat the sheep.
Reason: After transforming into a sheep, there are no other lions to pose a threat.
Outcome: 1 Sheep (former lion), 0 Lions.

- 2 Lions and 1 Sheep:
Neither lion will eat the sheep.
Reason: If one lion eats the sheep and becomes a sheep, the other lion can then eat the new sheep (former lion), violating Rule 1 for the first lion.
Outcome: 2 Lions, 1 Sheep (no change).

- 3 Lions and 1 Sheep:
A lion can safely eat the sheep.
Reason: After transforming into a sheep, there are 2 lions left. As established, with 2 lions, neither will eat the sheep (including the new sheep). So, the lion remains safe.
Outcome: 2 Lions, 1 Sheep (former lion).

- 4 Lions and 1 Sheep:
No lion will eat the sheep.
Reason: Eating the sheep leads to a scenario with 3 lions, where a lion would eat the new sheep (former lion), risking being eaten.
Outcome: 4 Lions, 1 Sheep (no change).

2. Pattern Observed:
- Odd Number of Lions (e.g., 1, 3, 5...): A lion can safely eat the sheep without risking being eaten.
- Even Number of Lions (e.g., 2, 4, 6...): No lion will eat the sheep because it would eventually lead to their own risk of being eaten.

19 is odd number, therefore a lion can eat the sheep. After that the population stabilizes at 18 vs 1

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