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Bridge to Nowhere

depth-first.com
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5 Years Later: The First Win

thephd.dev
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Kudzu, the vine that never ate the South (2015)

smithsonianmag.com

Art by Laura Plageman As a young naturalist growing up in the Deep South, I feared...
Art by Laura Plageman As a young naturalist growing up in the Deep South, I feared kudzu. I’d walk an extra mile to avoid patches of it and the writhing knots of snakes that everyone said were breeding within. Though fascinated by the grape-scented flowers and the purple honey produced by visiting bees, I trembled a...
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No Time Like MEMS Time

substack.com

The next generation of high performance processors are really kicking it up a notch. We’ve moved...
The next generation of high performance processors are really kicking it up a notch. We’ve moved from 300 W to 600 W and now we’re looking at 1200 W+ designs quickly coming down the pipe. TSMC published research a couple of years ago about how to cool these monsters up to 2600 W, and IBM has a lot of patents on intr...
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The big and Small of JavaScript numbers (2017)

fluffyandflakey.blog

For all its warts, JavaScript has some novelties few other languages have. In this post I...
For all its warts, JavaScript has some novelties few other languages have. In this post I want to share about JavaScript numbers, which both acknowledge normal mathematics and the fact that they are represented by an imperfect data format. Summary JavaScript numbers are all internally represented by a double-precisi...
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TypedDicts are better than you think

changs.co.uk

Published: Tue 01 October 2024 By Jamie Chang In Blog. TypedDict was introduced in PEP-589 which...
Published: Tue 01 October 2024 By Jamie Chang In Blog. TypedDict was introduced in PEP-589 which landed in Python 3.8. The primary use case was to create type annotations for dictionaries. For example, class Movie(TypedDict): title: str movie: Movie = {"title": "Avatar"} I remember thinking at the time that this was...
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Uxn

100r.co
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The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes

theverge.com

The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets,...
The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed on Wednesday. The FBI’s Ethereum-based token, NexFundAI, was created with the help of “cooperating witnesses.”As a result of the investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission charge...
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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2024-51

mozilla.org
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Ironies of Automation

complexcognition.co.uk

This paper discusses ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems...
This paper discusses ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator. This was unusual among my papers. Most of the 'big' papers took months of total concentration to write (the marvellous long vacation) - first coming up with relevant points, then m...
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Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – by Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

Today's links Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked (permalink) There are few phrases...
Today's links Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked (permalink) There are few phrases in the modern lexicon more accursed than "software-based car," and yet, this is how the failed EV maker Fisker billed its products, which retailed for $40-70k in the few short years before the company collapsed, shu...
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Google Tests Quick View Button for Recipes That Keep You on Google

seroundtable.com

Google is testing placing a "quick view" button overlayed on the images on recipes within Google...
Google is testing placing a "quick view" button overlayed on the images on recipes within Google Search. The crazy part is that clicking on "Quick view" keeps you on Google while giving you a snapshot of the content from the publisher, without sending that traffic to the publisher. Looking at this "Quick view" page,...

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Japan's Kojima, with its proud Jeans St, draws fans of vintage, deep-blue denim

apnews.com

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] KOJIMA, Japan (AP) — Denim, that All-American fabric, is...
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] KOJIMA, Japan (AP) — Denim, that All-American fabric, is all about being Japanese in the town of Kojima, where the main road is named Jeans Street, with real pairs of pants flapping like flags overhead.Some would call this spot in southwestern seas...

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Hurricane Milton's Impact: 70 Florida Cities See 50%+ Drop in Internet Traffic

twitter.com
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Five days a week in the office? Forget it

computerworld.com
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Show HN: HTML for People

htmlforpeople.com
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Unity Editor Software Terms Update: Runtime Fee Cancellation Follow-up

unity.com
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The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications

thecopenhagenbook.com
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Starship's Fifth Flight Test

spacex.com

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Jane Street Probability Guide [pdf]

janestreet.com
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X will pay its Premium users to engage with each other

theverge.com

X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform. Since...
X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform. Since last year, X has shared ad revenue with creators based on how many verified users see ads in replies to their posts. But the company announced today that creators are instead going to be paid based on “engagement with your content from ...
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G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storming Observed

noaa.gov
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Napkin: Back-of-the-envelope calculations in Python

github.com
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The State of the TI Community (1999)

ticalc.org
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