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Florida's new condo laws recognize the total price of living on the beach

theconversation.com

Nearly a million Florida condo owners face an important deadline at the end of the year....
Nearly a million Florida condo owners face an important deadline at the end of the year. That’s when a law passed in 2022 requires most Florida condo associations to submit inspection reports for their buildings and to collect money from owners to pay for any needed repairs. Condo owners are reporting that new condo...

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Identifying Factors Contributing to "Bad Days" for Software Developers

arxiv.org
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Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years

phys.org
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Delta sues CrowdStrike after widespread IT outage

cnbc.com

People looking for missing bags wait in line to speak with Delta Air Lines baggage in...
People looking for missing bags wait in line to speak with Delta Air Lines baggage in the Delta Air Lines baggage claim area Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesDelta Air Lines on Friday filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike in Geor...

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Quantum Computing – An Update

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Posted on October 22, 2024 by steve blank In March 2022 I wrote a description of...
Posted on October 22, 2024 by steve blank In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a good time to check in on the progress of building a quantum computer and explain more of the basics. Just as a reminder, Quantum technologies are used in three very different a...
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1933 and the Definition of Fascism

acoup.blog

Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may...
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on Nov 1, when I hope to have a post an...
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Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices

assembled.com

At Assembled, engineering velocity is our competitive edge. We pride ourselves on delivering new features at...
At Assembled, engineering velocity is our competitive edge. We pride ourselves on delivering new features at a fast pace. But how do we maintain quality without slowing down? The answer lies in robust testing. As Martin Fowler aptly puts it:[Testing] can drastically reduce the number of bugs that get into production...
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Sudha Car Museum

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How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me

ft.com
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Industry groups are suing the FTC to stop its click to cancel rule

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Ask HN: Escape from TCR? Family Shared SMS

ycombinator.com

My wife is a bit particular and when we moved in together want there to be...
My wife is a bit particular and when we moved in together want there to be a household phone. So we signed up with a VoIP service and things worked. When we bought a home together, life got more complicated. There were utilities, contractors, service people, deliveries, etc. One day we realized that some of these fo...
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Vampire Number

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35% Faster Than the Filesystem

sqlite.org

SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs...
SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs can be read from or written to individual files on disk using fread() or fwrite(). Furthermore, a single SQLite database holding 10-kilobyte blobs uses about 20% less disk space than storing the blobs in individual fi...
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How to configure an Ethernet connection between iPad and RaspberryPi with USB-C

andreagrandi.it

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Understanding Round Robin DNS

hyperknot.com

For OpenFreeMap, I'm using servers behind Round Robin DNS. In this article, I'm trying to understand...
For OpenFreeMap, I'm using servers behind Round Robin DNS. In this article, I'm trying to understand how browsers and CDNs select which one to use.Normally, when you are serving a website from a VPS like Digital Ocean or Hetzner, you add a single A record in your DNS provider's control panel.This means that rr-direc...
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AI models fall for the same scams that we do

newscientist.com

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The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source

theregister.com

Opinion If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's AI large language model (LLM) Llama 3 is open...
Opinion If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's AI large language model (LLM) Llama 3 is open source. It's not, despite what he says. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) spells it out in the Open Source Definition, and Llama 3's license – with clauses on litigation and branding – flunks it on several grounds. Meta, unfo...
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Apple wins $250 US jury verdict in patent case over Masimo smartwatches

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Scientists Mapping Landslide Risk in Alaska. Some Homeowners Don't Want to Know.

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial.Listen to this article · 9:49 min Learn mo...
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There are only two asset classes: ownership and debt

ft.com

The writer is co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management and author of ‘Mastering the Market...
The writer is co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management and author of ‘Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side’No one used the phrase ‘‘asset allocation’’ when I joined the investment management industry 55 years ago. Structuring portfolios was a simple matter, generally following the c...
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Deep dive: the instability of op-amps

substack.com

This article assumes some familiarity with signal amplification and the knowledge of basic op-amp circuits. If...
This article assumes some familiarity with signal amplification and the knowledge of basic op-amp circuits. If you need a refresher, start here.In a recent write-up on photodiodes, I mentioned that adding a capacitance in an op-amp’s feedback loop can spell trouble: it might cause ringing, sustained oscillations, or...
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Ask HN: Learning to interact correctly in online communities as a neurodivergent

ycombinator.com
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Collapse of key Atlantic current could have catastrophic impacts

livescience.com

Trouble is brewing in the North Atlantic. Beneath the waves, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC),...
Trouble is brewing in the North Atlantic. Beneath the waves, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which includes the Gulf Stream, acts as a planetary conveyor belt bringing nutrients, oxygen and heat north from tropical waters, while moving colder water south — a balancing act that keeps the North...
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Show HN: Simple Text Blog

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