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Bail Bond Insurers Are Lobbying to Keep People in Jail

jacobin.com
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Best Practices for Bulk Optimization of Queries in PostgreSQL

substack.com
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WasmGC and the future of front-end Java development

infoworld.com

JavaScript is the clear choice for front-end development today, but there is a longstanding push to...
JavaScript is the clear choice for front-end development today, but there is a longstanding push to be able to use Java on the front end. Among other things, Java brings a vast ecosystem of libraries, frameworks, and application code, which can be exposed via its APIs. Java and languages like it also offer performan...
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Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO2 from the air as a tree

latimes.com

A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of...
A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the air over the course of a year. Now scientists at UC Berkeley say they can do the same job with less than half a pound of a fluffy yellow powder.The powder was designed to trap the greenhouse gas in its microscopic pores, then release ...

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Amazon adds gasoline discounts for Prime members

techcrunch.com
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Shanghai Before the Foreigners

jaapgrolleman.com

Written: August 2022 — Updated: August 2024Open any history book or article about Shanghai and you’ll...
Written: August 2022 — Updated: August 2024Open any history book or article about Shanghai and you’ll probably read something condescending along the lines of “Shanghai was a backwater fishing village until the foreigners came in the 19th century.” And it evokes a visual image of fishermen on the banks of an empty y...
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OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics

github.com
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Show HN: A macOS Client for HuggingFace Chat

github.com
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Why you should use Go

mortenvistisen.com
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Leveraging Class E address space to mitigate IPv4 exhaustion issues in GKE

google.com

As the number of applications and services hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) continues to grow,...
As the number of applications and services hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) continues to grow, so does the demand for private IPv4 addresses (RFC 1918). For many large organizations, the RFC1918 address space is becoming increasingly scarce, leading to IP address exhaustion challenges that impact their appli...
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Async Rust in Three Parts

jacko.io
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018)

incompleteideas.net
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Seeing faces in things: A model and dataset for pareidolia

mhamilton.net
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The brain collector: a scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter

theguardian.com

Alexandra Morton-Hayward, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented...
Alexandra Morton-Hayward, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented Vauxhall for five hours, motoring across three countries, when a torrential storm broke loose on the plains of Belgium. Her wipers pulsed at full speed as the green fields of Flanders turned a ...
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Practical Jokes (2007)

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The Script Creator

aeon.co
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Species in Pieces

species-in-pieces.com

In Pieces – 30 Species, 30 Pieces. 30 unique species face a fragmented survival. Represented here...
In Pieces – 30 Species, 30 Pieces. 30 unique species face a fragmented survival. Represented here by 30 separate pieces... They share their struggles, and unite together... in an interactive exhibition. 30 species. 30 pieces. 1 fragmented survival. A CSS-based interactive exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinct...
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Self-Documenting Code

lackofimagination.org

Think back to the last time you looked at an unfamiliar block of code. Did you...
Think back to the last time you looked at an unfamiliar block of code. Did you immediately understand what it was doing? If not, you’re not alone – many software developers, including myself, find it challenging to grasp unfamiliar code quickly. Let’s take a look at a simple JavaScript function that creates a user a...

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Lars Tunbjörk documented the rise of alienating office work

newyorker.com

In the winter of 1999, an odd little movie named “Office Space” gleefully demolished the conventional...
In the winter of 1999, an odd little movie named “Office Space” gleefully demolished the conventional portrayal of white-collar work. The film, directed by Mike Judge, was set in a fictional software company called Initech; many scenes played out under fluorescent lights in a featureless warren of cubicles. “Mike wa...

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Taming the buck with a Type III compensator

sig7.se
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Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers

yahoo.com

Goldman Sachs (GS) and Apple (AAPL) have to pay $89.8 million for sidestepping legal obligations to...
Goldman Sachs (GS) and Apple (AAPL) have to pay $89.8 million for sidestepping legal obligations to their joint credit card customers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced Wednesday. The regulator said Apple failed to send tens of thousands of consumer disputes of Apple Card transactions to Gold...

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Parks on the Air

parksontheair.com
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What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?

davidreis.me
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Why is Apple so bad at marketing its TV shows?

fastcompany.com
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