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Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment

abc.net.au

After years of setbacks, bad news and mounting obstacles, Australia's coal-fired generators must have felt they...
After years of setbacks, bad news and mounting obstacles, Australia's coal-fired generators must have felt they had something to celebrate.AGL, the giant energy company backed by tech billionaire and climate evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes, revealed it had pulled off a first.At its huge Bayswater power station in the...

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Plop Boot Manager

plop.at
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Introducing Our New Name

minetest.net
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The Non-Pro Apple Vision Headset Will Reportedly Be "About $2000"

uploadvr.com

headsets & tech
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An Uber, Lyft Loophole Denys NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

bloomberg.com

bloomberg graphics graphic investigation lyft rideshare
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Catastrophically warm predictions are more plausible than we thought

epfl.ch

What will the future climate be like? Scientists around the world are studying climate change, putting...
What will the future climate be like? Scientists around the world are studying climate change, putting together models of the Earth’s system and large observational datasets in the hopes of understanding – and predicting over the next 100 years – the planet’s climate. But which models are the most plausible and refl...
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Starship is Still Not Understood (2021)

wordpress.com

Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post...
Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post on The Space Show on November 5 2021. It has been exactly two years since my initial posts on Starship and Starlink. While the Starlink post has aged quite well, Starship is still not widely understood despite i...
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All asteroids in Solar System, visualized

github.com
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Show HN: The fastest Ethereum graph explorer (OpenSource)

dictynna.com
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Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated

oldvcr.blogspot.com

Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into...
Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago except for all the aforementioned time and money. Yours truly is no exception. That machine is my first Lisp Machine and my only one actually using real Lisp Machine hardware, t...
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CS 253 Web Security

stanford.edu

This course is a comprehensive overview of web security. The goal is to build an understanding...
This course is a comprehensive overview of web security. The goal is to build an understanding of the most common web attacks and their countermeasures. Given the pervasive insecurity of the modern web landscape, there is a pressing need for programmers and system designers to improve their understanding of web secu...
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The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise

theverge.com

Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal...
Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they could even talk. But it was mostly just a show.It’s obvious when ...
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Tiny Glade: How Could They Do This? [video]

youtube.com

gaming
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HHKB and Realforce – Mechanical Programming and Gaming Keyboards

hhkeyboard.us
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A Dictionary of Single-Letter Variable Names

jackkelly.name

Haskell’s expressive type system means that type signatures can carry a lot of information. Haskell’s polymorphism...
Haskell’s expressive type system means that type signatures can carry a lot of information. Haskell’s polymorphism means that you sometime write a function that works across an enormous range of types, and are often left wondering “what do I actually call my variables?”. It is often the case that there’s nothing to ...
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Inkscape 1.4 Released

inkscape.org

Oct. 13, 2024, 6:44 p.m. After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the...
Oct. 13, 2024, 6:44 p.m. After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind t...
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What is considered ‘moderate drinking’?

nytimes.com
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Fish Out of Water: The Military Is an Impossible Place for Hackers, What to Do

warontherocks.com

The U.S. military established Cyber Command almost a decade ago, but it fails to maximize its...
The U.S. military established Cyber Command almost a decade ago, but it fails to maximize its contributions to national mission. Struggles on all levels — from the political to operational — contribute to Cyber Command’s ineffectiveness. But simmering beneath the surface is a crippling human capital problem: The mil...
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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

fossil-scm.org

Carriage-Return (CR) → Move the cursor to the left margin but keep it on the same...
Carriage-Return (CR) → Move the cursor to the left margin but keep it on the same row. LineFeed (LF) → Move the cursor down one row, causing all prior rows to scroll upwards, but keep the cursor on the same column. NewLine (NL) → Move the cursor down one row and to the left margin. CR and NL are both useful control ...
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Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing

quantamagazine.org
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AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

wsj.com
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Show HN: I've added undo and redo to IsoCity

github.com
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ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

advancedcustomfields.com

We were saddened and appalled by Matt Mullenweg’s actions this morning appropriating the Advanced Custom Fields...
We were saddened and appalled by Matt Mullenweg’s actions this morning appropriating the Advanced Custom Fields plugin that our ACF team has been actively developing for the WordPress community since 2011. Advanced Custom Fields is a sophisticated plugin with over 200,000 lines of code, which we continually develop,...
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Restic: Backups Done Right

restic.net
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