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Life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back

psyche.co

Narratives are everywhere, and the need to construct and share them is almost inescapable. ‘A man...
Narratives are everywhere, and the need to construct and share them is almost inescapable. ‘A man is always a teller of tales,’ wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in his novel Nausea (1938), ‘he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live h...
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Using static websites for tiny archives

alexwlchan.net
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Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

npr.org

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation...
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room. She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive. “He was moving around — kind of thra...
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What Is Theoretical Computer Science?

acm.org

Thinking of theoretical computer science as a branch of mathematics is harmful to the discipline. I...
Thinking of theoretical computer science as a branch of mathematics is harmful to the discipline. I consider myself a computer science (CS) theoretician, but Wikipedia describes me as a “mathematician and computer scientist.”a So, what am I? To answer that question, we must consider theoretical computer science (TCS...
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Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies

wolfram.com

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I had to bulldoze my house: Palestinians face spike in Israeli demolition orders

bbc.com

BBCAhmad Musa al-Qumbar said he faced huge fines for building his home without a legal permitWalking...
BBCAhmad Musa al-Qumbar said he faced huge fines for building his home without a legal permitWalking through the ruins of what used to be his home, 29-year-old Ahmad Musa al-Qumbar always feared the Jerusalem city authorities would come after him. The married Palestinian father-of-four built the modest single-storey...
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Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations

strangeloopcanon.com

When I landed in India last week, my friend came to pick us up. And as...
When I landed in India last week, my friend came to pick us up. And as we got in his car and started to drive out, we went the wrong way inside the giant parking garage at Delhi airport where all directions look the same.But he drove intrepidly. With no hesitation, just looking for a direct way down, we soon came to...
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Watch YouTube videos on the album artwork of Windows music control bar

github.com
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ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX Motherboard)

github.com
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Kentucky hospital staff quit after asked to retrieve organs from living person

npr.org

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation...
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.“He was moving around — kind of thrash...
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Esmeralda

esmeralda.org

We’re building a new village 90 mins north of San Francisco!Imagine living on a college campus....
We’re building a new village 90 mins north of San Francisco!Imagine living on a college campus. You run into friends just walking to class, and everyone is learning and creating side by side together. Group dinners, creative projects, book clubs, and pickup sports happen spontaneously.Why only live this way for four...
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Hacker Typer

hackertyper.net
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EU court upholds right to sell Playstation add-ons, in loss for Sony

euronews.com

Software sold by UK company Datel that allowed infinite boosts on a racing game doesn’t infringe...
Software sold by UK company Datel that allowed infinite boosts on a racing game doesn’t infringe EU copyright law, judges in Luxembourg said, in a ruling that some say could prove crucial to the gaming sector. ADVERTISEMENTThird party add-ons for Sony PlayStation games that offer players extra options don’t breach E...
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Bugs in LLM Training – Gradient Accumulation Fix

unsloth.ai
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The fentanyl funnel: How narcos sneak deadly chemicals through the U.S.

reuters.com
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DigitalRiver/MyCommerce stopped paying vendors since July

ycombinator.com

We're a small family company and the $20k MyCommerce owes us is a big deal.For those...
We're a small family company and the $20k MyCommerce owes us is a big deal.For those who don't know MyCommerce is a platform for selling software online. They're merchant of record, they handle taxes, generate license keys, etc so they're a bit higher level than Stripe or PayPal. We're with them since 2005. Things s...
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Kennedy, Merkley introduce bill to end TSA facial recognition (2023)

senate.gov

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in introducing the Traveler...
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in introducing the Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2023 to safeguard Americans from facial recognition screenings that the federal government is implementing at airports across the country. The bill would repeal the Transportation Secu...
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Show HN: I wrote an autodiff in C++ and implemented LeNet with it

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SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

tilde.town

SOFA is the name of a hacker/art collective, and also the name of the principle upon...
SOFA is the name of a hacker/art collective, and also the name of the principle upon which the club was founded. The point of SOFA club is to start as many things as possible as you have the ability, interest, and capacity to, with no regard or goal whatsoever for finishing those projects. The goal is acquiring many...
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DHL Pioneered the Sharing Economy

flexport.com

DHL, the international express delivery company, started its business by offering free plane tickets to people...
DHL, the international express delivery company, started its business by offering free plane tickets to people on the street. For the trouble of giving up their baggage allowances, passengers were handed a free round trip plane ticket to Hawaii.Founded as a courier service in 1969, DHL used the spare capacity in tra...
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Smart pointers for the kernel

lwn.net
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Jax – Why Is Everyone So Excited About This Framework

yash-sri.xyz
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A benchmark of three different floating point packages for the 6809

conman.org

I recently came across another floating point package for the 6809 (written by Lennart Benschop) and...
I recently came across another floating point package for the 6809 (written by Lennart Benschop) and I wanted to see how it stacked up against IEEE-754 and BASIC floating point math. To do this, I wanted to add support to my 6809 assembler, but it required some work. There was no support to switch floating point for...

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Show HN: Tamagotchi-Like Characters for AI Assistants – All in JavaScript

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