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Europe's Largest Makerspace

berlin-partner.de
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All Clothing Is Handmade (2022)

ruthtillman.com

The idea for this quilt came to me several years ago. Besides making quilts, I make...
The idea for this quilt came to me several years ago. Besides making quilts, I make some of my own clothes and occasionally make clothes for people in my life. I made my own wedding dress and one for a college friend as well (and never doing that again). There’s something special nowadays about something that was ma...
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ESA has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?

arstechnica.com

ESA's governance structure isn't favorable for taking quick action. On one hand, ESA member states approve...
ESA's governance structure isn't favorable for taking quick action. On one hand, ESA member states approve the agency's budget in multiyear increments, giving its projects a sense of stability over time. However, it takes time to get new projects approved, and ESA's member states expect to receive benefits—jobs, inv...
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'A walking billboard': The history of San Francisco's most recognizable bag

sfgate.com
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Ask HN: Are there any money-saving hacks that AI can assist you with？

ycombinator.com
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Evolving Scala

scala-lang.org
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Slow SMB Speeds over WiFi

truenas.com

Hello, I need some help optimizing SMB speed when connected to Wifi. I don’t have any...
Hello, I need some help optimizing SMB speed when connected to Wifi. I don’t have any problems over Ethernet. Speeds: File transfer from NAS to windows laptop over ethernet 115 MB/s File transfer from NAS to windows laptop over Wifi 15-25 MB/s File transfer from NAS to Android phone with SMB2 60 MB/s File transfer f...
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A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning

lilianweng.github.io

[Updated on 2020-09-03: Updated the algorithm of SARSA and Q-learning so that the difference is more...
[Updated on 2020-09-03: Updated the algorithm of SARSA and Q-learning so that the difference is more pronounced. [Updated on 2021-09-19: Thanks to 爱吃猫的鱼, we have this post in Chinese]. A couple of exciting news in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has just happened in recent years. AlphaGo defeated the best professional ...

long-read math-heavy reinforcement-learning
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Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir

elixir-lang.org

How do you coordinate visual fidelity across two hundred cameras for a live event like the...
How do you coordinate visual fidelity across two hundred cameras for a live event like the Super Bowl? The answer is: by using the craft of camera shading, which involves adjusting each camera to ensure they match up in color, exposure and various other visual aspects. The goal is to turn the live event broadcast in...
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Show HN: Matrix-themed Nostr note composer

enterthenostr.com
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GM Killed the Only Apple CarPlay Retrofit for Its EVs

motor1.com

General Motors really doesn't want you using Apple CarPlay in its electric vehicles. The company infamously...
General Motors really doesn't want you using Apple CarPlay in its electric vehicles. The company infamously launched its new infotainment system without the technology in 2023, and now the auto conglomerate is shutting down one of the only aftermarket workarounds. White Automotive & Media Services launched an Apple ...
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Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

intelrealsense.com

Field of View: 87° × 58° IP67 / Global Shutter / IMU Ideal Range: 60 cm...
Field of View: 87° × 58° IP67 / Global Shutter / IMU Ideal Range: 60 cm to 6 m Field of View: 87° × 58° GMSL/FAKRA Ideal Range: 60 cm to 6 m Field of View: 87° × 58° Global Shutter / IR Pass Filter / IMU Ideal Range: 60 cm to 6 m Field of View: 87° × 58° Global Shutter / IMU...
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Show HN: I built a chatbot that lets you talk to any GitHub repository

sentientdocs.com
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How to Read a Paper (2016)

dropbox.com
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The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab

xeiaso.net
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How to use an en-dash and em-dash correctly? (BrE)

lighthouseproofreading.co.uk

There are hyphens. Then there are dashes. There’s the en dash. Then there’s the em dash....
There are hyphens. Then there are dashes. There’s the en dash. Then there’s the em dash. And these diddy lines can cause all sorts of confusion when you’re writing your marketing copy. If you spot them at all. At a glance, you might not notice the difference between these three punctuation marks. And even if you do,...
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RISC Architecture Really Did Change Everything

wired.com
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A conversation with Richard M Stallman (2004)

learntosolveit.com

In the early and initial days (when open source, free software, and Linux were the same...
In the early and initial days (when open source, free software, and Linux were the same for me), I used to think of Richard M Stallman, known as RMS, in comparison with Mahatma Gandhi. One math professor there (at Cochin University of Science and Technology) gave a brief introduction and said that he feels RMS is co...
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Rest Easy

commentary.org

The Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov once said of writers, “And to write and write, like a...
The Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov once said of writers, “And to write and write, like a wheel or a machine, tomorrow, the day after, on holidays; summer will come—and he must still be writing. When is he to stop and rest? Unfortunate man?” Goncharov was born in 1812 and died in 1891, so I am clearly not the model ...
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OpenSMTPD and Maildrop working in concert

whenhen.com
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CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers

theintercept.com

For years, U.S. officials villainized end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal as the domain of criminals...
For years, U.S. officials villainized end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal as the domain of criminals and terrorists and a threat to national security. As fallout over a Signal group chat about Yemen war plans ricocheted through Washington, however, CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed at a Senate Intelli...
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'Brainrot' AI on Instagram Monetizing the Most Fucked Up Things You Can Imagine

404media.co

ai instagram
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GSA Announces FedRAMP 20x

gsa.gov

March 24, 2025 Implementing a new approach to accelerate cloud adoptionWASHINGTON — The U.S. General Services...
March 24, 2025 Implementing a new approach to accelerate cloud adoptionWASHINGTON — The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), a leader in providing tools and guidance to help federal agencies deliver seamless digital services to American taxpayers, announced today that the Federal Risk and Authorization Manage...
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If only someone told me this before my first startup

substack.com

1. Validate.I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.2. Kill your EGO.Make your users...
1. Validate.I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.2. Kill your EGO.Make your users happy instead of yourself.3. Don’t chaise investors; chase users, and then investors will chase you.4. Never hire managers. Only hire doers until PMF.5. Landing page isn't important.Go for an average template and edit...
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