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Discord API Errors

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Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button

manuelmoreale.com

Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days....
Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. Platforms are doing their absolute best (worst?) to exploit every single one of our psychological weaknesses to keep us hooked on their stupid platforms. And that’s precisely why I love, LOVE, RSS. RSS was and still is a...
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King Arthur's ancient trail across Britain

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Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations,...
Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His right-hand man was a...
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Why on Earth do we have 29.97fps?

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finalcutpro
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One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit

oldvcr.blogspot.com

I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of...
I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games I've had kicking around on the backburner. However, every game needs media assets, and while there are many great tools for doing art on your present-day workstation and exporting it, ...
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Why does the same font look better on macOS?

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Samurai Serial Killers and Mass Murderers

tokyoweekender.com

Killing is a funny old thing. You can cut down 17 people, decapitate their corpses and...
Killing is a funny old thing. You can cut down 17 people, decapitate their corpses and stuff their mouths with bamboo grass — and people will call you one of the greatest warriors ever simply because the slaughter happened during war. That’s why there are so few “evil samurai” on record. Throughout its history, Japa...
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I Learned to Stop Being a "Chill Girl" and Start Being Me

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Somewhere along the trek between girlhood and womanhood, I went through a phase of trying excessively...
Somewhere along the trek between girlhood and womanhood, I went through a phase of trying excessively hard to be the most chill, fabulously blasé person ever. The problem was that I was not chill. And I hated it. I yearned to be unburdened from the anxieties of caring and to revel in the magnetism of a breezy attitu...
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CSS Gets a New Logo: and It Uses the Color `Rebeccapurple`

michaelcharl.es
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The Final Hours of Half-Life 2

gamespot.com

Gabe Newell is about to make a promise. It's 11am on an overcast morning in Bellevue,...
Gabe Newell is about to make a promise. It's 11am on an overcast morning in Bellevue, Washington, and Newell, the impresario behind Valve, lumbers into the company's starkly decorated 10th-floor conference room. He pulls out an Aeron chair, plops himself down, and runs his stubby hands through his reddish-brown hair...
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How AI Could Break the Career Ladder

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IPv6 networks do apparently get probed

utoronto.ca

For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, my home ISP recently changed my IPv6 assignment...
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, my home ISP recently changed my IPv6 assignment from a /64 to a (completely different) /56. Also for reasons beyond the scope of this entry, they left my old /64 routing to me along with my new /56, and when I noticed I left my old IPv6 address on my old /64 active, becaus...
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Xogot – Godot for iPad

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Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

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Safety in an Unsafe World

lwn.net
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Resolving a mysterious problem with find

johndcook.com

Suppose you want to write a shell script searches the current directory for files that have...
Suppose you want to write a shell script searches the current directory for files that have a keyword in the name of the file or in its contents. Here’s a first attempt. find . -name '*.py' -type f -print0 | grep -i "$1" find . -name '*.py' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -il "$1" This works well for searching file ...

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Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made

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JavaScript dos and donts Mu-An Chiou

muan.co

When the core functionality of a feature cannot function with only HTML. When the core functionality...
When the core functionality of a feature cannot function with only HTML. When the core functionality of a feature can benefit from some JavaScript. Start with only HTML, then progressively enhance it, so it can still work without JavaScript. A table can be pure HTML; a sortable table needs only a dash of JavaScript....
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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

theo.io
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James Gleick's Chaos: The Software

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Convolutional Differentiable Logic Gate Networks

arxiv.org
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Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of Basic Computer Language, Dies at 96

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a...
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SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks

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Teach Yourself to Echolocate

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