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The Rise of Giant Pumpkins

saturdayeveningpost.com
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On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers

gnumonks.org

I sincerely regret to see Linux kernel patches like this one removing Russian developers from the...
I sincerely regret to see Linux kernel patches like this one removing Russian developers from the MAINTAINERS file. To me, it is a sign or maybe even a symbol of how far the Linux kernel developer community I remember from ~ 20 years ago has changed, and how much it has alienated itself from what I remember back in ...

linux politics
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Marketing the Odin Programming Language Is Weird

gingerbill.org
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Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Threatens Inst. Autonomy

pen.org

Effort to Scrutinize Academic Decision-Making Reflects Growing Appetite for Political Meddling in Higher Education NEW YORK...
Effort to Scrutinize Academic Decision-Making Reflects Growing Appetite for Political Meddling in Higher Education NEW YORK — PEN America today sharply criticized some Republican members of Congress for their recent actions scrutinizing academic decision-making at the Naval Academy, including insinuating that an inv...
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Light and Shadow

catlikecoding.com

This is the fourth tutorial in a series that covers the creation of a simple true...
This is the fourth tutorial in a series that covers the creation of a simple true top-down 2D game with pixel graphics, using the Godot Engine, version 4. It follows Movable Objects and adds 2D lighting to it.This tutorial uses Godot 4.3, the regular version, but you could also use the .NET version. At the moment ou...
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Why those particular integer multiplies?

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The x86 instruction set has a somewhat peculiar set of SIMD integer multiply operations, and Intel’s...
The x86 instruction set has a somewhat peculiar set of SIMD integer multiply operations, and Intel’s particular implementation of several of these operations in their headline core designs has certain idiosyncrasies that have been there for literally over 25 years at this point. I don’t actually have any inside info...
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NixOS Is Not Reproducible

linderud.dev

Okay, sorry for the clickbait. NixOS is not reproducible according to the Reproducible Builds definition. I...
Okay, sorry for the clickbait. NixOS is not reproducible according to the Reproducible Builds definition. I keep reading people making this claim repeatedly on orange-site, even LWN.net made a similar claim when writing about Nix and Guix earlier this week.1 Along with their recently launched wiki. So, what is the R...

english linux reproduciblebuilds
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Mdx – Execute Your Markdown Code Blocks, Now in Go

github.com
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Bluesky Is Not Decentralized

beige.party
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Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

gizmodo.com

Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally...
Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office...
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Akon's Cryptocurrency City in Senegal Has Evaporated

foreignpolicy.com

American R&B singer Aliaune Thiam, professionally known as Akon, has long wanted to help Senegal, the...
American R&B singer Aliaune Thiam, professionally known as Akon, has long wanted to help Senegal, the country he grew up in. He started Akon Lighting Africa in 2014 to install cheap Chinese solar-powered lighting systems across the continent. He hoped to do something more significant for Senegal. But how to fund it?...
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Facial recognition glasses turn everyday life into creepy privacy nightmare

foxnews.com

In a scenario that feels almost surreal and scary, we find ourselves grappling with the implications...
In a scenario that feels almost surreal and scary, we find ourselves grappling with the implications of the latest Meta Ray-Ban 2 Smart Glasses. These innovative shades have quickly become the center of a privacy storm, raising important questions about how technology intersects with our personal lives.As these smar...
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Fitting a Forth in 512 bytes (2021)

compilercrim.es
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Gauge Block

wikipedia.org

System for producing precision lengths by stacking components Metric gauge block set, 112 pcs Another set...
System for producing precision lengths by stacking components Metric gauge block set, 112 pcs Another set with 8 pcs, 125 mm - 500 mm Trolley model Gauge blocks (also known as gage blocks, Johansson gauges, slip gauges, or Jo blocks) are a system for producing precision lengths. The individual gauge block is a metal...
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AmpereOne at Hot Chips 2024: Maximizing Density

chipsandcheese.com

Ampere Computing focuses on developing cloud-native processors, and aims to serve many users while providing security,...
Ampere Computing focuses on developing cloud-native processors, and aims to serve many users while providing security, privacy, and consistent performance, without relying on process node scaling. Features that increase performance at the expense of consistency were ruled out, including SMT and on-the-fly clock spee...
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Nvidia dethrones Apple as the most valuable company

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Nvidia briefly eclipsed Apple to become the world's most valuable company on Friday.It's the first time...
Nvidia briefly eclipsed Apple to become the world's most valuable company on Friday.It's the first time Nvidia has been the world's largest company since mid-June.Nvidia stock jumped as much as 3% on Friday to an intra-day high of $144.13, catapulting its market valuation to $3.53 trillion. In contrast, Apple traded...

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How I Defeated an MMO Game Hack Author

thecodist.com
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The Army of Election Officials Ready to Reject the Vote

nytimes.com

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Jeanne Herman, a commissioner for Washoe County, Nev. She was one of the few local commission members nationwide to vote against certifying a Biden win in 2020.Credit...Philip ...
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Meta under fire for 'polluting' open-source

ft.com
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MrBeast's Faux Philanthropy

unherd.com

Or take the issue of wells. Again, this might seem a sensible way for outsiders to...
Or take the issue of wells. Again, this might seem a sensible way for outsiders to help poorer communities. But the landscape of Africa is littered with donor-funded wells and water systems that failed due to lack of maintenance. This has long been recognised as a problem; one report 15 years ago found that £270 mil...
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Bringing full text search to Elixir's Ecto

moosie.us
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Adventures in Algorithmic Trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange

tristanrhodes.com

Runescape has been a game near and dear to my heart since I was a child....
Runescape has been a game near and dear to my heart since I was a child. Though I do not actively play anymore, it still functions as an interesting programming project substrate. Most recently, I created a bot that automatically executes trades on the Grand Exchange in order to conduct market making via common mach...
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Jury rules Masimo smartwatches infringe Apple design patents

9to5mac.com

Apple and medical device company Masimo are currently embroiled in multiple legal battles, headlined by the...
Apple and medical device company Masimo are currently embroiled in multiple legal battles, headlined by the ongoing fight over the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor. In a separate case, however, Apple was handed a victory today courtesy of a jury in Delaware. The jury ruled that two of Masimo’s smartwatches and char...
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Anticipatory Obedience and the Media

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