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C++ Template Macroprogramming versus Lisp Macros

simondobson.org
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Recycled Server Components Bring More Sustainability

ieee.org

Servers consume a lot of energy in data centers, but it’s easy to forget their carbon...
Servers consume a lot of energy in data centers, but it’s easy to forget their carbon footprints begin before they’re ever placed on racks inside air-conditioned mega-warehouses. After all, it takes energy to extract minerals and manufacture them into things like processors, motherboards and memory modules. These “e...

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Alternative notation for exponents, logs and roots?

stackexchange.com

The question asked is "Has anyone ever considered alternative notation?" I think that it almost certain...
The question asked is "Has anyone ever considered alternative notation?" I think that it almost certain that many people have, but it is equally certain that no such notation has caught on. Most of the other answers here discuss proposed notations, none of which seem to have any traction (or even use) in the wider m...
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A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor

crowdsupply.com
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Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

ycombinator.com
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Go-taskflow: A taskflow-like General-purpose Task-parallel Programming Framework

github.com
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Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland

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.A researcher thinks he knows what has been coming ashore on miles of beaches. Canada’s environmental agency says it is still looking into it.Listen to this ar...
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Incorporation of photosynthetically active algal chloroplasts in mammalian cells

jst.go.jp

chloroplast
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I Feel Unsafe

jezenthomas.com
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First generation and control of skyrmions at room temperature in a 2D material

nanowerk.com
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Gliimly is a programming language for web services

gliimly.github.io
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Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs

github.com
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Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer

daringfireball.net

Bill Atkinson, on Facebook, “Request for Prayers”: On October first, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer....
Bill Atkinson, on Facebook, “Request for Prayers”: On October first, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Because of vascular involvement, surgery is not possible. I am taking weekly chemo treatments to shrink the tumor before surgical resection. I am tolerating the chemo pretty well, and I am in good spirits. Ev...
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Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs

closingwtf.com

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Biological Miracle – Wood Frog

nps.gov

Yet wood frogs have evolved ways to freeze solid for up to eight months each year....
Yet wood frogs have evolved ways to freeze solid for up to eight months each year. They’ve accomplished what would seem to be a biological miracle. How do they pull this off? At the beginning of winter, ice quickly fills the wood frog’s abdominal cavity and encases the internal organs. Ice crystals form between laye...
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AI Sucks at Code Reviews

codepeer.com

It seems like everyone is building an AI code review tool these days, each promising to...
It seems like everyone is building an AI code review tool these days, each promising to revolutionize how we write and manage code. But after trying nearly every AI code reviewer on the market, and building one of our own, we’ve come to one undeniable conclusion - AI sucks at code reviews. In this post, we’ll take a...

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The PGP Problem (2019)

latacora.com

Cryptography engineers have been tearing their hair out over PGP’s deficiencies for (literally) decades. When other...
Cryptography engineers have been tearing their hair out over PGP’s deficiencies for (literally) decades. When other kinds of engineers get wind of this, they’re shocked. PGP is bad? Why do people keep telling me to use PGP? The answer is that they shouldn’t be telling you that, because PGP is bad and needs to go awa...
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Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA

wordsandbuttons.online

programming quizzes
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JSON Formatter (Free, no ads, no signups)

hqjson.com

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Scaling Document Data Extraction with LLMs and Vector Databases

timescale.com

Extracting structured data from unstructured documents is a powerful use case for large language models (LLMs)....
Extracting structured data from unstructured documents is a powerful use case for large language models (LLMs). This sort of data extraction from complex documents has always remained a challenge. Done either completely manually or using current intelligent document processing (IDP) platforms that utilize previous-g...

ai
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How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers

zdnet.com

Dani/Getty ImagesIt's no secret that X (formerly Twitter) has been in flux since Elon Musk took...
Dani/Getty ImagesIt's no secret that X (formerly Twitter) has been in flux since Elon Musk took over the company. The platform has undergone a series of controversial changes, alienating users with each new decision. The most recent privacy shift, which allows blocked users to view your posts (though they can't enga...
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100-MW solar farm just broke ground in Wisconsin

electrek.co

Image: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River...
Image: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin solar farm, which will use US-made First Solar Series 6 Plus bifacial modules, will be constructed by The Boldt Company, creating 150 construction and service jo...
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SNES and Playstation Cubic Adpcm Interpolation

jsgroth.dev
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Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech

mit.edu

history science & tech surveillance
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