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Mt Rainier Elevation Survey

countryhighpoints.com

Mt Rainier Elevation Survey On the SW Rim looking back towards Columbia Crest Aug 27-28 and...
Mt Rainier Elevation Survey On the SW Rim looking back towards Columbia Crest Aug 27-28 and Sept 21, 2024 Eric Gilbertson, Josh Spitzberg, Ross Wallette, Alden Ryno Summary of Results (NGVD29 Datum): Columbia Crest has melted 21.8 ft since 1998, revealing a new summit location on the SW Rim Columbia Crest: 14,389.2 ...
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Reinventing Core Data Development with SwiftData Principles

fatbobman.com

In modern application development, an efficient persistence framework is crucial. The emergence of SwiftData once caught...
In modern application development, an efficient persistence framework is crucial. The emergence of SwiftData once caught the eyes of many Core Data developers, who anticipated the advent of a new era integrating modern programming concepts. This article will explore how to apply SwiftData’s way of thinking within Co...

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The Great Splunkbundling (2021)

substack.com

Thanks for being here! Every month-ish, I’ll publish a new thesis, interview with an enterprise operator,...
Thanks for being here! Every month-ish, I’ll publish a new thesis, interview with an enterprise operator, or commentary on happenings in b2b land.Right now, I'm thinking about investment opportunities within the SIEM & logging infrastructure stack, and ways to disrupt Splunk from a technical perspective. Thinking ab...
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We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger

mobeigi.com
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International 'race science' network funded by US tech boss

theguardian.com

An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on...
An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur.Undercover filming has revealed the existence of the organisation, formed two years ago as the Human ...
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The not-so-glamourous origins of standard railway track gauge

medium.com

A version of this article also appeared in Issue 898 (12 February 2020) of RAIL magazine.Last...
A version of this article also appeared in Issue 898 (12 February 2020) of RAIL magazine.Last year, a Twitter thread about the permanent way promptly “did an internet” and went viral. This was as much a surprise to me as it might be to you. And not just because track engineering isn’t credited with being the glamoro...

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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

theguardian.com

‘If you know your Flann O’Brien, you’ll know that bike maintenance and philosophy go arse-on-saddle in...
‘If you know your Flann O’Brien, you’ll know that bike maintenance and philosophy go arse-on-saddle in this country,” Niall Hare, the 63-year-old headteacher at Kishoge community college in Dublin, told me. He was running through what his students do on their “transition year”, which is the missing fourth year (a ye...
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Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative

simplelister.com
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Trapped

itch.io

Try out the demo on its dedicated server: visit the mobile-demo, then come back here and...
Try out the demo on its dedicated server: visit the mobile-demo, then come back here and share your feedback :) > Connection Established You're aimlessly browsing the Internet when you suddenly stumble upon a page that links you to a remote terminal. There’s someone on the other side. > Discover an AI Narrative-Driv...
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Reflections on Palantir

substack.com

Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a...
Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a tear, and the company is nearing a $100bn market cap. VCs chase ex-Palantir founders asking to invest.For long-time employees and alumni of the company, this feels deeply weird. During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you wor...
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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding BDRs

ycombinator.com
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Optimizing the Ion compiler back end

spidermonkey.dev

In September, machine learning engineers at Mozilla filed a bug report indicating that Firefox was consuming...
In September, machine learning engineers at Mozilla filed a bug report indicating that Firefox was consuming excessive memory and CPU resources while running Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime (a machine learning library) compiled to WebAssembly. This post describes how we addressed this and some of our longer-term plans for ...
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MicroPython Playground in WebAssembly Unicorn.js CPU Emulator

micropython.org
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What I Learned from Making the Python Back End for My New Webapp

youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com

I stumbled onto the idea for this app by seeing how much time my wife, who...
I stumbled onto the idea for this app by seeing how much time my wife, who is a YouTube creator who makes videos about learning music theory, spent preparing additional materials to give to her Patreon supporters as an extra "thank you" for supporting her videos. While it would be nice for her to have really good, a...
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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

arstechnica.com

Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its "Legacy Player Code" on...
Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its "Legacy Player Code" on September 24 so that developers could "contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve." Less than a month later, that repository has been entirely deleted, after it either bumped up ag...
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ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

sweeting.me
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All software in EU under product liability from 2026

europa.eu
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The early days of peer review: five insights from historic reports

nature.com

Researchers reveal the emotional and professional cost of drawn-out peer review

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Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformer

nvlabs.github.io
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Un Ministral, Des Ministraux

mistral.ai

On the first anniversary of the release of Mistral 7B, the model that revolutionized independent frontier...
On the first anniversary of the release of Mistral 7B, the model that revolutionized independent frontier AI innovation for millions, we are proud to introduce two new state-of-the-art models for on-device computing and at-the-edge use cases. We call them les Ministraux: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B.These models se...
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Be Suspicious of Success

buttondown.com

October 16, 2024 From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker]...
October 16, 2024 From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties. This is specifically in the context of model-checking a formal specific...
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Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup, including a bigger Paperwhite

arstechnica.com

The new Kindle Scribe begins shipping on December 4 and starts at $399.99. This is a...
The new Kindle Scribe begins shipping on December 4 and starts at $399.99. This is a hefty increase over the first Scribe's $339.99 starting price, though the new Scribe does include the Premium Pen accessory by default. The old Scribe came with a cheaper Basic Pen accessory instead. The new Kindle Paperwhite. Amazo...
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Hell Freezes over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86 – ServeTheHome

servethehome.com

Intel Justin And AMD Forest At OCP Summit 2024 Intel and AMD have what can only...
Intel Justin And AMD Forest At OCP Summit 2024 Intel and AMD have what can only be described as a complex history of fierce competition, cooperation, and ebbs and flows. You might think from the headline that AMD just bought Intel, but that is not the case. Instead, the two companies are coming together to support x...
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