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America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs

wsj.com
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The New Culture War Is Real vs. Bogus

honest-broker.com

Below is my latest arts and culture briefing. I cover a dozen recent developments below, but...
Below is my latest arts and culture briefing. I cover a dozen recent developments below, but the recurring theme is the rise of a new culture war—which pits the real against the bogus. Which do you prefer?A few weeks ago, I pointed out that Google search results were giving priority to goofy AI images of famous peop...
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The Quiet Art of Attention

billwear.github.io
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UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay

kron4.com
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Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard

github.com
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A Novel Channel Contention Mechanism for Improving Wi-Fi's Reliability

arxiv.org
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Doom 2 got a Mod, featuring 2 chapters, 36 new tracks and 20 hours of gameplay

dsogaming.com
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Show HN: I built a free screen recording app similar to Screen Studio

screenvivid.com

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The Story behind Richard F. Burton's Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca

baumanrarebooks.com
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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster

twitter.com
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Difference Between Butter Chicken and Chicken Tikka Masala

twitter.com
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Starship Flight 5 Stream

twitter.com
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Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

oup.com
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Food ingredients changed over 150 years

twitter.com
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Should we be thinking about luck differently?

theguardian.com

At around midday on 19 August 1949, wreathed in thick mist, a British European Airways DC-3...
At around midday on 19 August 1949, wreathed in thick mist, a British European Airways DC-3 going from Belfast to Manchester flew into a hillside on Saddleworth Moor in the Peak District, near Oldham. All the crew and 21 of the 29 passengers died on impact or soon afterwards. Eight passengers survived, including a y...
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Stop Ignoring Your High Performers

hbr.org

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Turn your old laptop into low-end gaming machine

circuitshelter.com

10+ years old jank from a budget line-up. CPU: Mid-tier/limited (even back when it was released),...
10+ years old jank from a budget line-up. CPU: Mid-tier/limited (even back when it was released), likely from Haswell era RAM: 8Gb, ancient and unupgradable GPU: iGPU + NVIDIA M-something STORAGE: ~256Gb SATA HDD, that is still somehow works This post was "inspired" by experience with potatoes like that. Why Windows...

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Show HN: A Markdown based alternative to package.json scripts and Makefiles

github.com
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Functional PHP

fluffyandflakey.blog

Over the course of the past week, I had a chance to write some brand new...
Over the course of the past week, I had a chance to write some brand new PHP code and I took the opportunity to try writing in a (mostly) purely functional style. The experience turned out to be very pleasant and definitely helped us to accomplish our goals as we figured out the details and changes the project neede...
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Wim Taymans: PipeWire Inventor

wikipedia.org

Belgian software developer This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help...
Belgian software developer This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially lib...
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OpenBSD Is Hard to Show Off

atthis.link
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Christopher Columbus was Spanish and Jewish, documentary reveals

theguardian.com

spaineuropecolonialism
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Pepsi's Soviet Navy (2021)

foreignpolicy.com
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Pepsi's Soviet Navy (2021)

foreignpolicy.com
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