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March 10

What We've Learned from 150 Years of Stock Market Crashes

morningstar.com

This month marks five years since the covid market downturn.Though the initial downturn on March 9,...
This month marks five years since the covid market downturn.Though the initial downturn on March 9, 2020, was dramatic—the US stock market lost nearly 8% in one day—the US stock market ultimately recovered from that crash in just four months, making it the fastest recovery of any market crash over the past 150 years...
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March 10

I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

jagilley.github.io
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March 10

The Einstein AI Model

thomwolf.io
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March 10

Sigint in Fiction

siginthistorian.blogspot.com

I had an articled published last month in the John Buchan Journal (unsurprisingly, the journal of...
I had an articled published last month in the John Buchan Journal (unsurprisingly, the journal of the John Buchan Society). It is about the way that John Buchan drew on his First World War experience as a customer of Sigint to use cryptanalysis in one of his books and in a short story to advance the narrative, and t...
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March 10

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

arstechnica.com

Unsurprisingly, Google's remedy position is light-years away from the Justice Department's. "DOJ’s sweeping proposals continue to...
Unsurprisingly, Google's remedy position is light-years away from the Justice Department's. "DOJ’s sweeping proposals continue to go miles beyond the Court’s decision and would harm America’s consumers, economy, and national security," said a Google spokesperson. As expected, Google did not change its suggested reme...
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March 10

Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf]

analog.com
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March 10

Hit by heatwave, Mumbai is ignoring a quick fix to cool off

scroll.in

On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department predicted an unusually hot day for Mumbai. The mercury soared...
On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department predicted an unusually hot day for Mumbai. The mercury soared to 37 degrees, about 3.4 degree higher than the average temperature for early March. At 3 pm, Suvarna Bandagale sat on a cement block on a footpath to catch some respite from the scorching afternoon heat. A...

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March 10

Everything I Was Lied to About Node.js Came True with Elixir

d-gate.io

beam concurrency elixir fault tolerance nodejs
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March 10

Wall Street stocks tumble as investors fret over US economic slowdown

ft.com
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March 10

Ariane 6 performs first commercial flight with launch of CSO-3 satellite

arianespace.com

The first commercial flight of Ariane 6, operated by Arianespace, placed the CSO-3 Earth observation satellite...
The first commercial flight of Ariane 6, operated by Arianespace, placed the CSO-3 Earth observation satellite in orbit for the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) and the French space agency (CNES) for the French Air and Space Force’s Space Command (CDE). CSO-3 is the third CSO (Composante Spatiale Optique – Op...
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March 10

YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients

github.com
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March 10

Ceramic powders with Archimedean shapes resist extreme heat and oxidation

phys.org
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March 10

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

charlespetzold.com

programming visual studio
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March 10

Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS

glasskube.dev

I am Jakob—an engineer working at Glasskube, which helps companies distribute their application to customer-controlled environments....
I am Jakob—an engineer working at Glasskube, which helps companies distribute their application to customer-controlled environments. We build an Open Source Software Distribution platform called Distr (github.com/glasskube/distr), the hosted version of which is running on AWS EKS. If you have ever hosted a web-appli...
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March 10

Generative AI Hype Peaking

bjornwestergard.com
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March 10

uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

google.com

ExtensionPrivacy & Security38,000,000 usersFinally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely...
ExtensionPrivacy & Security38,000,000 usersFinally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely unrelated to the site "ublock.org". uBlock Origin is not an "ad blocker", it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature. *** Out of the bo...
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March 10

Wealthy Colleges Fight to Protect Their Riches from Taxation

bloomberg.com
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March 10

A technical history of Acorn Computers

mcmordie.co.uk

These pages contain a fairly brief technical history of Acorn Computers. I have decided to focus...
These pages contain a fairly brief technical history of Acorn Computers. I have decided to focus on the technology because that is where my interests lie. Only very major non-technical events in Acorn's history have been included. If anyone finds any inaccuracies in the following pages please contact me using the li...
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March 10

Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision

bbc.co.uk
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March 10

Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?

isitdownrightnow.com
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March 10

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says

arstechnica.com

But David Seubert, who manages sound collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara library, told...
But David Seubert, who manages sound collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara library, told Ars that he frequently used the project as an archive and not just to listen to the recordings. For Seubert, the videos that IA records of the 78 RPM albums capture more than audio of a certain era. Research...
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March 10

Show HN: In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM

kuzudb.com

Chang Liu DevOps Engineer & Co-founder of Kùzu Inc. Semih Salihoğlu CEO of Kùzu Inc. &...
Chang Liu DevOps Engineer & Co-founder of Kùzu Inc. Semih Salihoğlu CEO of Kùzu Inc. & Associate Prof. at UWaterloo We’re excited that members of our community are already building applications with the WebAssembly (Wasm) version of Kuzu, which was only released a few weeks ago! Early adopters to integrate Kuzu-Wasm...
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March 10

Show HN: Editable Games

playscl.com
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March 10

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)

ploum.net
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