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East-Western Disco Cowboys Yin Yin released a new album this week: Yatta! And it brings me all the joy the previous albums did.
(They are from the Netherlands, which is (don’t look to closely now) smack in the middle between Far East and Wild West, which might be why they so effortlessly blend those musical influences.)
https://album.link/b…

I'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild

Bättre effekt för mRNA vaccin mot influensan jämfört med etablerat influensavaccin.
Dock också fler som fick akuta biverkningar direkt efter vaccineringen med mRNA vaccinet.
Pfizer's mRNA flu vaccine shows 34.5% greater efficacy than standard shot in phase 3 https://www.fierce…

Pfizer's mRNA flu vaccine shows 34.5% greater efficacy than standard shot in phase 3
Pfizer has released the full data from its phase 3 trial of an mRNA flu vaccine candidate, with the potential new shot demonstrating 34.5% greater efficacy compared to a control vaccine. | Pfizer has released the full data from its phase 3 trial of an mRNA flu vaccine candidate, with the potential new shot securing 34.5% greater effectiveness compared to a control vaccine.

US prices rose 2.7% in the year to November,
according to federal data released
a day after Donald Trump claimed they were falling “very fast” on his watch.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/18/november-us-inflation?CMP=Sh…

Inte helt originellt, liknande teorier finns ju sedan tidigare, men ändå tänkvärd text. ”Rational depends on the system you’re in. So if you’re in the spheres-of-influence system, this might not appear rational, but if you’re in this neo-royalist structure, it’s perfectly rational.” https://www.

What’s Really Driving Trump’s Moves in Venezuela and Greenland
A new political theory suggests that what motivates this president is something far older than great power rivalry.

To ChatGPT: Draw a plot of effective visual resolution as a function of penetrating electrode count using the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant approach for up to 16,000 penetrating wire electrodes in V1. https://chatgpt.com/share/6970cd96-60f4-8004-8b95-5fb1f3d58cf8 At …

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease #health

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease
Microplastics—tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues—may directly accelerate artery-clogging disease, and new research shows the danger may be far greater for males. In mice, environmentally realistic doses of microplastics dramatically worsened plaque buildup, altered key vascular cells, and activated harmful genes linked to inflammation and atherosclerosis, all without changes to weight or cholesterol.

US BLS data: video and videogame subscriptions and rentals saw inflation of 19.5% in December; cable, satellite, and livestreaming rose 1.1%, same as music subs (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

“Streamflation” Is Real: U.S. Inflation Data Shows Soaring Price of Streaming Video Services
Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday showed that overall inflation cooled in December ... but streaming video prices soared by nearly 20 percent.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that it would not publish the October consumer price index (CPI)
– one of the country’s key reports for inflation data.
“BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data due to a lapse in appropriations.
BLS is unable to retroactively collect these data,”
a statement on the agency’s website reads.
The report was set to be released in November,
and would serve as an important barometer for the Feder…

(LinkedIn) #Neuroscience in 2026: Realistic milestones the scientific community can achieve https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neuroscience-2026-realistic-mil…

Neuroscience in 2026: Realistic Milestones the Scientific Community Can Achieve
As we enter 2026, neuroscience stands at a rare inflection point. The convergence of large-scale data generation, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and translational medicine is enabling progress that was aspirational only a decade ago.