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The Ocean Sunfish: Why the Rant Is Wrong (2017)

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Things that go wrong with disk IO

eatonphil.com
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The Quantum Chaos of Literature

nybooks.com

The Faustian bargain is a spiritual form of a conservation law: nothing good happens without something...
The Faustian bargain is a spiritual form of a conservation law: nothing good happens without something bad happening too. In the modern version, as depicted in books and movies, the message is that geniuses see far beyond their contemporaries, but often at the expense of lasting relationships and happy families. In ...
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HDMI Musings: YCbCr color subsampling, Dolby Vision MEL/FEL, and and5V injection

archimago.blogspot.com

Hey folks, for this post, I thought it would be good to dive a little more...
Hey folks, for this post, I thought it would be good to dive a little more into the world of AV technologies after discussing the nVidia Shield TV Pro last week. While "classic" audiophile technology (ie. standard hi-fi analog and digital 2-channel stereo without special DSP advancements) has matured nicely already,...
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Show HN: Dish: A lightweight HTTP and TCP socket monitoring tool written in Go

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Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com

citizenlab.ca

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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

merriam-webster.com

The em dash (—) can function like a comma, a colon, or parenthesis. Like commas and...
The em dash (—) can function like a comma, a colon, or parenthesis. Like commas and parentheses, em dashes set off extra information, such as examples, explanatory or descriptive phrases, or supplemental facts. Like a colon, an em dash introduces a clause that explains or expands upon something that precedes it. The...
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The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee

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I tried making artificial sunlight at home

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Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah

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The Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah and moving to different mountains.America’s most important launchpad for...
The Sundance Film Festival is leaving Utah and moving to different mountains.America’s most important launchpad for independent film will abandon its home for Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027, the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced Thursday.Boulder won in a vote Wednesday evening by the institute’s board of t...
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Akamai Now Providing the Hosting Infrastructure for Kernel.org

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desktop linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks linux hardware reviews linux server benchmarks
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Much of the administration's agenda for research is in Proj. 2025's 900+page doc

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‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts

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What happens to DNA data of millions as 23andMe files bankruptcy?

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SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever

wired.com

SignalGate, as it's come to be called, may be the biggest scandal to hit the Trump...
SignalGate, as it's come to be called, may be the biggest scandal to hit the Trump administration in its first months in power. But it's been great for Signal.Since the news broke on Monday that senior Trump administration cabinet members accidentally included the editor in chief of The Atlantic in a group chat on t...
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Using Gorilla glass for home building

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Show HN: Xorq – open-source Python-first Pandas-style pipelines

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Nature of Code

natureofcode.com
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H&M to use digital clones of models in ads and social media

bbc.co.uk

The initiative was first reported by industry publication Business of Fashion, external.H&M told the outlet that...
The initiative was first reported by industry publication Business of Fashion, external.H&M told the outlet that models would retain rights over their digital replicas and their use by the company and other brands for purposes such as marketing.Its images are likely to be initially used in social media posts, with w...
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"You're Here Because of Your Tattoos"

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Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that...
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday, March 14, Arturo Suárez Trejo called his wife, Nathali Sánchez, from an immigration detention center in Texas. Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela, explained that his deportation fligh...

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De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness (2022)

nateliason.com

There are at least two kinds of fun: Type 1 fun is fun in the moment....
There are at least two kinds of fun: Type 1 fun is fun in the moment. Watching a movie, playing a video game, scrolling TikTok, reading a book. You want to have fun, you do the fun thing, and voilá, it is fun. Type 2 fun is fun in retrospect. Running a marathon is mostly un-fun from moment to moment; you’re often ei...
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Mathematicians Find Proof to 122-Year-Old Triangle-to-Square Puzzle

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About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science...
About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a triangular tile cut into four pieces that were connected by tiny hinges. With a simple swivel, the pieces spun around...
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A language for building concurrent software with confidence

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Show HN: A difficult game to test your logic

rvlabs.ca
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Ai2 Paper Finder

allen.ai
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