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Admiral Cloudberg: the TWA 800 investigation

medium.com

Note: this accident was previously featured in episode 26 of the plane crash series on March...
Note: this accident was previously featured in episode 26 of the plane crash series on March 3rd, 2018, prior to the series’ arrival on Medium. This article is written without reference to and supersedes the original.Fires burn on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean following the crash of TWA flight 800. (Newsday)On t...

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Congress hears testimony on aliens the government hides

theregister.com

Video The US government has known about aliens since the 1940s, but kept the truth from...
Video The US government has known about aliens since the 1940s, but kept the truth from us all, according to testimony offered at a Wednesday session of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The two-hour hearing – titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth" – included claims that the...
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Packages, Not Programs

bitfieldconsulting.com

All design decisions start and end with the package. —Bill Kennedy, “Design Philosophy On Packaging” This...
All design decisions start and end with the package. —Bill Kennedy, “Design Philosophy On Packaging” This is the first of a two-part tutorial on designing Go packages, guided by tests: Write packages, not programs From packages to commands This is fine What’s wrong with this program? package main import ( "fmt" ) fu...
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Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube

engadget.com

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I want my deaf daughter to have the best of both worlds

aeon.co
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A New Kind of Mitochondria

nature.com
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FlutterFlash - Ship your next Flutter app, at lightning speed

flutterfla.sh

flutterflash
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Modern Treasury (YC S18) Is Hiring a Product Designer

ashbyhq.com
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Manual for Larry Tesler's PUB markup language.

nomodes.com

STANFORD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT AUGUST 1972 OPERATING NOTE 70 PUB The Document Compiler by Larry Tesler...
STANFORD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT AUGUST 1972 OPERATING NOTE 70 PUB The Document Compiler by Larry Tesler ABSTRACT: PUB is an advanced text justifier and page formatter intended primarily for use by programmers. It can automatically number pages, sections, figures, footnotes, etc. and can print their numbers ...
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Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls

onair.io

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Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

github.com
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The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany

vincentschmalbach.com
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Terence Tao: Solving problems by abstracting away highly relevant information

mathstodon.xyz
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Is `(expession, lvalue) = rvalue` a valid assignment in C or C++?

stackoverflow.com

Some time ago I stumbled upon the idea of how a C construct, such as (expr0,...
Some time ago I stumbled upon the idea of how a C construct, such as (expr0, expr1, expr2), evaluates (see "What does the comma operator , do?" for more context). I've started experimenting with this, especially inside of function-like macros, and recently found a code which is rejected by some compilers, while acce...

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Ask HN: How to learn software development concepts crucial for senior roles?

ycombinator.com
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Europe's flying taxi dreams falter as cash runs short

bbc.com

VolocopterThe VoloCity made demonstration flights in Paris over the summerOne of the innovations at this year's...
VolocopterThe VoloCity made demonstration flights in Paris over the summerOne of the innovations at this year's Paris Olympics was supposed to be an electric flying taxi service.Germany's Volocopter promised its electric-powered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city.It neve...
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Extreme, Extreme! The literature of laughing gas. (2014)

theparisreview.org
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Revealing How Copperfield Vanished the Statue of Liberty [video]

youtube.com

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New Microblog with TILs

jvns.ca
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Reducing the cost of a single Google Cloud Dataflow Pipeline by Over 60%

allegro.tech
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Windows Memory Mapped File IO

jeremyong.com

Memory-mapping is my preferred way to do file I/O, on pretty much every platform I write...
Memory-mapping is my preferred way to do file I/O, on pretty much every platform I write code for (desktop and console). In this post, we’ll start by discussing some of the key advantages of this approach, as well as some disadvantages. Then, we’ll look at some Windows-specific undocumented user-mode functions which...
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"Here I Gather All the Friends" Machiavelli and Emergence of the Private Study

publicdomainreview.org

Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing.Coloured engraving of Niccolò Machiavelli after...
Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing.Coloured engraving of Niccolò Machiavelli after a portrait by Stefano Ussi, ca. 1894 — Source. Sant’Andrea in Percussina lies about ten kilometers south of Florence, nestled in the proverbially beautiful Tuscan landscape, surrounded by vineyards, o...
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Google's Shadow Campaigns

microsoft.com

Since moving into my current role at Microsoft almost seven years ago, I’ve worked hard to...
Since moving into my current role at Microsoft almost seven years ago, I’ve worked hard to be genuine, responsive, and transparent. I’ve taken pains to tell the truth, even when that might make things more complicated for Microsoft. I think, and hope people I’ve engaged with – including reporters, and regulators – w...
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My first Thunderbolt 5 experience has been a bust

pcworld.com
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