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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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Show HN: Libretto – Simple recording and editing, an alternative to Descript

libretto.fm
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Cyph – A cryptographically secure messaging and social networking service

cyph.com
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The Practical Guide to Scaling Django

slimsaas.com

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Installed an open source garage door opener, and I'm loving it

arstechnica.com

This is not egregious behavior, at least on the scale of garage door opener firms. And...
This is not egregious behavior, at least on the scale of garage door opener firms. And Aladdin's app works with Google Home and Amazon Alexa, but not with Home Assistant or my secondary/lazy option, HomeKit/Apple Home. It also logs me out "for security" more often than I'd like and tells me this only after an iPhone...
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US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

cnn.com

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new...
The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than a century. There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 44, acc...
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Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

roadandtrack.com
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Emit-C: A time travelling programming language

github.com
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C++ Template Macroprogramming versus Lisp Macros

simondobson.org
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