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The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you [video]

youtube.com

gaming
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Find a needle in a haystack with Git bisect

jerryorr.com
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Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD

begriffs.com

GDB is an old and ubiquitous debugger for Linux and BSD systems that has extensive language,...
GDB is an old and ubiquitous debugger for Linux and BSD systems that has extensive language, processor, and binary format support. Its interface is a little cryptic, but learning GDB pays off. This article is a set of miscellaneous configuration and scripting tricks that illustrate reusable principles. It assumes yo...
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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary [video]

youtube.com

gaming
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Black Plastic Kitchen Tools Might Expose You to Toxic Chemicals

nytimes.com

To find the best spatula for every scenario, we’ve tested spatulas of all types—from all-purpose fish...
To find the best spatula for every scenario, we’ve tested spatulas of all types—from all-purpose fish spatulas to silicone scrapers.
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Jawboning in Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated by the DMCA

rstreet.org

The DMCA should be amended to remove its coercive qualities so that providers, and the user...
The DMCA should be amended to remove its coercive qualities so that providers, and the user expression of speech they facilitate, are no longer vulnerable to government-enabled censoring. Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides critically needed liability protection for the providers of i...
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Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection

bleepingcomputer.com

Hackers are targeting Windows machines using the ZIP file concatenation technique to deliver malicious payloads in...
Hackers are targeting Windows machines using the ZIP file concatenation technique to deliver malicious payloads in compressed archives without security solutions detecting them. The technique exploits the different methods ZIP parsers and archive managers handle concatenated ZIP files. This new trend was spotted by ...

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The Polars vs. Pandas difference nobody is talking about – Labs

quansight.org

Published November 11, 2024 I attended PyData Berlin 2024 in April, and it was a blast!...
Published November 11, 2024 I attended PyData Berlin 2024 in April, and it was a blast! I met so many colleagues, collaborators, and friends. There was quite some talk of Polars - some people even gathered together for a Polars-themed dinner! It's certainly nice to see people talking about it, and the focus tends to...
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What would it cost to kill coal

economist.com
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Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo

bad-example.com

2024-11-13 by phil (they/them) work in progress It's fun to play with data[citation needed]. All data...
2024-11-13 by phil (they/them) work in progress It's fun to play with data[citation needed]. All data on Bluesky is extremely public, and with 15 million users (as of today and with mind-boggling growth), there's a lot of public data to play with. You can get the firehose as a websocket JSON feed with Jetstream. Thi...
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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

half-life.com

Our Half-Life 1 25th anniversary documentary went so well that we invited Secret Tape back to...
Our Half-Life 1 25th anniversary documentary went so well that we invited Secret Tape back to make another one—this time focusing on Half-Life 2. And it's about a lot more than just the making of a game. Running out of money. Getting hacked, and an early version being leaked online. Being sued by our publisher. Tryi...
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"I'm fortunate to have a call with the Bluesky back end team for an hour a week"

bsky.app
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FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business

arstechnica.com

The FTC also highlighted fees charged on users transferring data out of certain cloud systems and...
The FTC also highlighted fees charged on users transferring data out of certain cloud systems and minimum spend contracts, which offer discounts to companies in return for a set level of spending. Microsoft has also attracted scrutiny from international regulators over similar matters. The UK’s Competition and Marke...
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Four-wave mixing could boost optical communications in space

physicsworld.com

Four-wave mixing A weak optical signal (red) from a spacecraft transmitter can be amplified noise-free when...
Four-wave mixing A weak optical signal (red) from a spacecraft transmitter can be amplified noise-free when it encounters two pump waves (blue and green) in a receiver on Earth. (Courtesy: Chalmers University of Technology/Rasmus Larsson) A new and practical approach to the low-noise amplification of weakened optica...
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Why did people rub snow on frozen feet?

stackexchange.com

Was there any logic behind this practice (rubbing frostbite with snow)? Is this method encouraged /...
Was there any logic behind this practice (rubbing frostbite with snow)? Is this method encouraged / discouraged by modern medicine? According to Hypothermia, Frostbite and Other Cold Injuries: Prevention, Survival, Rescue ... By Gordon G. Giesbrecht, James A. Wilkerson, the treatment gained popularity in the Napoleo...
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Nearly 80k pounds of butter recalled because of missing label "contains milk"

forbes.com

A closer look at Costco’s Kirkland Signature Butter, now under recall for missing allergen ... [+]...
A closer look at Costco’s Kirkland Signature Butter, now under recall for missing allergen ... [+] information. When labels fall short, consumer safety is on the line.getty Would you toss your butter in the trash if the label left out one critical detail? For some Costco shoppers, the answer is yes, according to the...

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Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them

cell.com
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Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++

googleblog.com

Posted by Alex Rebert and Max Shavrick, Security Foundations, and Kinuko Yasuda, Core Developer Attackers regularly...
Posted by Alex Rebert and Max Shavrick, Security Foundations, and Kinuko Yasuda, Core Developer Attackers regularly exploit spatial memory safety vulnerabilities, which occur when code accesses a memory allocation outside of its intended bounds, to compromise systems and sensitive data. These vulnerabilities represe...
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Maybe Bluesky has "won"

anderegg.ca
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First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU (Phk)

freebsd.org
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Ask HN: What job search strategies work for you?

ycombinator.com
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Lessons from Palantir Alums About Building a Tech Company

partly.work

When I joined Palantir in 2015, I didn’t think the company was that weird. It was...
When I joined Palantir in 2015, I didn’t think the company was that weird. It was my first real job, so I assumed Palantir was probably similar to other tech companies. It was only after I left that I realized how wrong I was. Palantir was fundamentally different from almost any tech company out there. That differen...
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RIP Open Core – Long Live Open Source

thenewstack.io
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'Possibility of a catastrophic failure': Space station leak has NASA worried

cnn.com

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries,...
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A Russian-controlled segment of the International Space Station is leaking, allowing pressure and air to bleed out. The situation has reached a fever pitch as cosmonauts sc...
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