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A Thread on "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective"

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PostgreSQL comes to Firebase

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Countries which decide elections in court, lecture us on howto conduct elections

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The power of interoperability: Why objects are inevitable (2013) [pdf]

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AI is the reason interviews are harder now

softwaredesign.ing
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VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use

9to5mac.com

Popular virtualization software VMware Fusion Pro is out with a neat update today – free licenses...
Popular virtualization software VMware Fusion Pro is out with a neat update today – free licenses for anyone who wants to download it for personal use. Here are all the details and how to get it for your Mac. At the end of 2022, VMware debuted support to run Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs with Fusion 13. And at th...
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Electron Vortices in Graphene Detected

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Why so many jobs are boring: Study identifies interest gaps in US labor market

phys.org

Examining interest supply and demand using profile correlations. Note. Total N = 1,208,465. To estimate these...
Examining interest supply and demand using profile correlations. Note. Total N = 1,208,465. To estimate these distributions, each participant’s RIASEC interest profile was correlated with each O*NET occupation. Then, occupations were organized based on their RIASEC high-point code, such that the red bars display the...

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US moves to stop buying uranium from Russia and start producing it at home

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2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2000 years

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Enlarge / Top: a look through the past 2,000 years of summertime temperatures, showing that 2023...
Enlarge / Top: a look through the past 2,000 years of summertime temperatures, showing that 2023 is considerably warmer than anything earlier. Bottom: a bell curve of the typical temperatures, showing that the hot outliers are all recent years. Starting in June of last year, global temperatures went from very hot to...
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Developing mathematical software in C (2021)

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fredrikj.net / blog / January 28, 2021 I sometimes get asked whether it makes sense to...
fredrikj.net / blog / January 28, 2021 I sometimes get asked whether it makes sense to implement XYZ in C, especially compared to using some language that is more advanced (C++, Julia, Python, Haskell or Rust) or perfect (Lisp). I suspect that a lot of people are a bit intimidated by C and believe that it requires s...
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Looking Glass 32" Spatial Display – Next-generation holographic technology

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Vital: A spectral warping wavetable synth

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A.I.'s 'Her' Era Has Arrived

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When 'Lol, No' Is Not Enough: Why Bogus DMCA Over Shirt Should Result in Fees

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Say That Again You may recall last month’s hilarious story of lawyer Mike Dunford’s response to...
Say That Again You may recall last month’s hilarious story of lawyer Mike Dunford’s response to a vexatious angry demand letter from IMG, representing the LAPD Foundation, claiming that a t-shirt with the following “Fuck the LAPD” logo violated its IP rights: The response was as simple as it was direct: Lol, no. As ...
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Scientists develop sticky pesticide to combat pest insects

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Sumu: A new synth by Madrona Labs

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In Sumu, sampled sounds are represented as collections of up to 64 bandwidth-enhanced partials, each with...
In Sumu, sampled sounds are represented as collections of up to 64 bandwidth-enhanced partials, each with a frequency, volume, and noisiness that can change over time. This representation of sound makes all kinds of creative changes possible, from natural-sounding time stretching to exotic timbral manipulations. Usi...
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Optimizing Linux for an AMD Xiaomi/Framework Laptop

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Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes

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Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture

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Alex Eben Meyer for Quanta Magazine In an old Indian parable, six blind men each touch...
Alex Eben Meyer for Quanta Magazine In an old Indian parable, six blind men each touch a different part of an elephant. They disagree about what the elephant must look like: Is it smooth or rough? Is it like a snake (so thinks the man touching the trunk) or a fan (as the man touching the ear proposes)? If the blind ...
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Parseback: A pure-Lua introspection library for LuaJIT's FFI ctype objects

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Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs. Purple Air

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Purple Air played a significant role in making low-cost air quality monitors accepted by the public...
Purple Air played a significant role in making low-cost air quality monitors accepted by the public and government institutions. There are now a significant number of studies available comparing the Purple Air monitors against reference instruments and proposing correction formulas to make them more accurate. It’s p...
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A Potentially Fatal New Covid-Related Syndrome Has Emerged

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A rare yet deadly autoimmune disorder appears to be on the rise in the north of...
A rare yet deadly autoimmune disorder appears to be on the rise in the north of England, and new research indicates that the outbreak may be linked to COVID-19. Known as Anti-MDA5 positive dermatomyositis, the disease was mainly observed in Asian populations prior to the pandemic, yet is now surging among the caucas...
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Forwarding References in C++

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