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Revealing How Copperfield Vanished the Statue of Liberty [video]

youtube.com

entertainment
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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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SQL style guide by Simon Holywell

sqlstyle.guide

code style guide holywell simon holywell sql style guide
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Eudiamonia in the Information Age

jarbus.net

Wikipedia translates the Greek philosophical concept of Eudaimonia as “Human Flourishing”, particularly on the spiritual level....
Wikipedia translates the Greek philosophical concept of Eudaimonia as “Human Flourishing”, particularly on the spiritual level. It refers to genuine happiness and fulfillment over hedonism or GDP.The modern world feels meaningless at times. Instead of hunting or farming to put food on the table, many of us sit at a ...

philosophy psychology
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You can now use your itch.io subdomain as your Bluesky handle

bsky.app
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Mayor Adams' office directs NYC agencies to launch Bluesky accounts amid growth

nydailynews.com

Mayor Adams’ office ordered all city government agencies Thursday to set up accounts on BlueSky, a...
Mayor Adams’ office ordered all city government agencies Thursday to set up accounts on BlueSky, a social media platform that has seen a marked uptick in new users since President-elect Donald Trump’s election.BlueSky’s growth comes amid an exodus from X, formerly known as Twitter, amid concerns over far-right rheto...
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Assembly Optimization Tips by Mark Larson

masm32.com

Freeing up all 8 CPU registers for use in your code. This also demonstrates how to...
Freeing up all 8 CPU registers for use in your code. This also demonstrates how to save a GP register in an MMX register push ebx push esi push edi push ebp ; has to be done before changing ESP ;load up ESI and EDI and your other registers with the vales passed ;in on the stack. This has to be done before freeing...
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Attestations: A new generation of signatures on PyPI

trailofbits.com
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New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm

techcrunch.com

Apple’s new iPhone software comes with a novel security feature that reboots the phone if it’s...
Apple’s new iPhone software comes with a novel security feature that reboots the phone if it’s not unlocked for 72 hours, according to security researchers. Last week, 404 Media reported that law enforcement officers and forensic experts were concerned that some iPhones were rebooting themselves under mysterious cir...
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The OpenFlexure 3D printable microscope

openflexure.org
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Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices

nexa.ai

Your browser does not support the video tag.Omnivision is a compact, sub-billion (968M) multimodal model for...
Your browser does not support the video tag.Omnivision is a compact, sub-billion (968M) multimodal model for processing both visual and text inputs, optimized for edge devices. Improved on LLaVA's architecture, it features:9x Tokens Reduction: Reduces image tokens from 729 to 81, cutting latency and computational co...
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Grubhub sold for $650M. Four years ago it was worth $7.3B

cnn.com

Europe’s biggest meal delivery firm, Just Eat Takeaway, said on Wednesday it had struck a deal...
Europe’s biggest meal delivery firm, Just Eat Takeaway, said on Wednesday it had struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million, sending its shares soaring 20% in early trading. The Amsterdam-listed company had been looking to offload Chicago-based Grubhub since as early as 2022, after acquir...
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Are We PEP740 Yet?

trailofbits.github.io

PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI....
PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI. What are attestations? Attestations are digitally signed, publicly verifiable statements about Python packages, including their provenance (e.g., the exact source repository that produced them). Attestati...
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Matrix Client Tutorial

uhoreg.gitlab.io
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Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200

relativty.com
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Upcoming Hardening in PHP

dustri.org
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When the U.S. Forest Service's budget shrinks, who pumps campground toilets?

marketplace.org

\n\t\t\t Taking care of a national forest might seem like a job that involves beautiful mountain...
\n\t\t\t Taking care of a national forest might seem like a job that involves beautiful mountain vistas and days spent on scenic trails, but sometimes the reality is a little different. “It’s going to be loud — so be aware,” Snake River Sanitation’s Rhett Jones said as he fired up a toilet pumping truck. Jones and a...
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Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root

brixit.nl

Creating a chroot in Linux is pretty easy: put a rootfs in a folder and run...
Creating a chroot in Linux is pretty easy: put a rootfs in a folder and run the sudo chroot /my/folder command. But what if you don't want to use superuser privileges for this? This is not super simple to fix, not only does the chroot command itself require root permissions but the steps for creating the rootfs in t...

linux
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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

legiscope.com

Cookie banners have become a pervasive feature of the modern web, frustrating users who seek a...
Cookie banners have become a pervasive feature of the modern web, frustrating users who seek a seamless browsing experience. In Europe, consent banners are mandated by an old directive from 2002, the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58, which requires websites to obtain informed consent before storing or accessing informatio...
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