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MilliForth-6502: The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502

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Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees

caryinstitute.org
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The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003)

uchicago.edu
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The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras Is Not Unethical (2019)

seriouseats.com

In 2015, in response to reader comments on this piece, Kenji wrote a follow-up article on...
In 2015, in response to reader comments on this piece, Kenji wrote a follow-up article on the ethics of eating foie gras, which you can read here. I haven't always been comfortable with foie gras, though I've spent a good chunk of my life working with it. At first, the discomfort was with the taste. I tried it first...
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Let's Take a Look at JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking

morling.dev

Coincidentally, Apache Kafka 4.0 was released last week, too. So let’s download it and use it...
Coincidentally, Apache Kafka 4.0 was released last week, too. So let’s download it and use it for our experiments. Unpack the distribution and format a directory for the Kafka files: 1 2 3 tar xvf kafka_2.13-4.0.0.tgz KAFKA_CLUSTER_ID="$(bin/kafka-storage.sh random-uuid)" bin/kafka-storage.sh format --standalone -t ...
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Retreating Glaciers Expose 1,500 Miles of Coastline

yale.edu
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Nobody should be a "content creator"

christianheilmann.com

As part of my job, I have to keep up with the social media space and...
As part of my job, I have to keep up with the social media space and I’m worried, bored and annoyed in equal measures. There is not much social about it any longer. Instead it’s become a race to the bottom of lowest common denominator content. And interaction bait. Or rage bait. Or just obvious spam disguised in see...
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I drove 300 miles, then asked police to send me surveillance footage of my car.

cardinalnews.org
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The Epicenter of Conspiracy Belief

wiley.com
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Living Car-Free in Arizona, on Purpose and Happily

nytimes.com

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.50 STates, 50 FixesOne community near Phoenix is taking a “completely different” approach to development.A resident of Culdesac Tempe walked his e-scooter after a grocery run.A...

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iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app

theverge.com
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Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent

ycombinator.com
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Postgres Extension Tutorial

github.com
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Jevons Paradox: A Personal Perspective

substack.com

“I'm dying. Of overwork.”When I read those sentences by Kache, I thought of all the late...
“I'm dying. Of overwork.”When I read those sentences by Kache, I thought of all the late nights I spent creating just yet another product idea, a research deep-dive, a short story. I indulge with exhilaration but also feel the creeping exhaustion. It’s a good type of exhaustion. Almost romantic and evocative of the ...
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On Tyranny [book]

timothysnyder.org
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Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests

phys.org
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The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock

substack.com

Peacocking, - São Jorge Castle, Lisbon, Portugal – Photo by Andrew SpenceNot being able to get...
Peacocking, - São Jorge Castle, Lisbon, Portugal – Photo by Andrew SpenceNot being able to get together in person is a pure negative. Reed Hastings – Netflix Co-founderThe corporate peacock is alive and well.Feathers fluffed. Chest puffed. Strutting across near-empty floors in a grand display of status and control. ...
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Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors

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The team found that, when set up to operate on the verge of punch-through mode, it...
The team found that, when set up to operate on the verge of punch-through mode, it was possible to use the gate voltage to control the charge build-up in the silicon, either shutting the device down or enabling the spikes of activity that mimic neurons. Adjustments to this voltage could allow different frequencies o...
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Mid-pregnancy pollution exposure linked to postpartum depression

bps.org.uk

Around 10% of people in Europe suffer from depression after giving birth, experiencing symptoms that include...
Around 10% of people in Europe suffer from depression after giving birth, experiencing symptoms that include sadness, agitation, and difficulty concentrating. For such a common condition — and one that has been linked to poorer outcomes for both the baby and the parent — postpartum depression has been relatively und...
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Patience is a coping strategy, not a virtue

bps.org.uk

According to a well-known proverb, patience is a virtue. According to a recent study in the...
According to a well-known proverb, patience is a virtue. According to a recent study in the Personality and Social Psychology Review, though, it's actually a coping mechanism that we employ to stop everyday frustrations from getting on top of us.Kate Sweeny at the University of California Riverse and colleagues ran ...
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Entropy Attacks

yp.to
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Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better

kyrylo.org

I woke up today to an X post by Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, a...
I woke up today to an X post by Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, a company that sells “AI as a programming service”. I no longer think you should learn to code. — Amjad Masad (@amasad) The post got traction, with well over 4.5M views. In the follow-up post, Amjad dismissed the community’s reaction as “cope”. This mad...
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Plasmonic Modulators Break Wireless Terahertz Barrier

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Modern telecommunications infrastructure relies on a broad range of technologies. But ironically, some of these technologies...
Modern telecommunications infrastructure relies on a broad range of technologies. But ironically, some of these technologies can’t readily communicate with each other. The electrical signals used for wireless communications, for example, can’t just be shoved into the fiber-optic infrastructure that forms the backbon...

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7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand

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