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Samantha Harvey's 'beautiful and ambitious' Orbital wins Booker prize

theguardian.com

Orbital by Samantha Harvey, the only British writer shortlisted this year, has won the 2024 Booker...
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, the only British writer shortlisted this year, has won the 2024 Booker prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for fiction.Harvey’s tale of six fictional astronauts on the International Space Station was “unanimously” chosen as the winner after a “proper day” considering the six-strong sho...
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We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug at Netflix

substack.com
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2024

backblaze.com
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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

transitapp.com
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Eventually consistent plain text accounting

tylercipriani.com
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Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan's konbini

theguardian.com

Kenji Yamamoto was unsure that his business would survive when he opened Japan’s first convenience store...
Kenji Yamamoto was unsure that his business would survive when he opened Japan’s first convenience store in a Tokyo neighbourhood in May 1974. The 7-Eleven outlet he ran with his wife stocked tinned food and detergents, items that most people had previously bought from supermarkets. His first sale was a pair of sung...
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80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC

github.com
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Why Docker Compose Falls Short as Self-Hosting Scales

tealok.tech

Docker-compose is a tool for working with Docker containers. It solves very real problems with deploying...
Docker-compose is a tool for working with Docker containers. It solves very real problems with deploying complex applications. By itself it is not enough to make self-hosting applications simple enough for the mass-market. What we need is something like docker-compose, but at a higher level of abstraction that has a...

self-hosting
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Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry

privacyguides.net
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How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows

hitsubscribe.com

I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our...
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a blueprint fo...
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Why you're bad at giving feedback

posthog.com

"Feedback is a gift…" or so they say.But are your gifts useful, or are they more...
"Feedback is a gift…" or so they say.But are your gifts useful, or are they more like the third pair of socks you get at Christmas?Delivering actionable feedback is hard. You need to be brutally honest while at the same time not discouraging.In this issue, I’m diving into all the things you might be doing wrong, and...
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Micron Launches First 60TB PCIe Gen5 SSD with 12GB/S Read Speeds

micron.com

1. The Micron 6550 ION offers a capacity of up to 61.44TB. Comparisons are made with...
1. The Micron 6550 ION offers a capacity of up to 61.44TB. Comparisons are made with other 61.44TB NVMe SSDs from Samsung, Solidigm and Western Digital. 2. These comparisons use publicly available competitor information from published sources at the time of the 6550 ION launch, with the 6550 ION and Western Digital ...
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Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation

snyk.io

With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be...
With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.I’ll let the results speak for themselves:rory@ubuntu2404release:~$ cat /etc/lsb-rele...

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

cnn.com

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department...
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration. “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut was...
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My Social Anxiety Cheatsheet for Mingling

adamgrant.info
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How Oil and gas companies disguise their methane emissions

ft.com

deep dive the big read
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An unusual Google Keyboard bug

weiyen.net
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Spirit Airlines is filing for bankruptcy

wsj.com
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Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust

terminaltrove.com
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Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown?

ycombinator.com

I am dealing with a delicate problem concerning my housemate who has recently had a very...
I am dealing with a delicate problem concerning my housemate who has recently had a very serious mental health breakdown.This man is my friend of a decade and a housemate for 5 (uneventful) years. He began behaving erratically last week, and got progressivlely worse over the last weekend to the point where he was no...
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Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks

bearblog.dev
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Canada passes new right to repair rules with the same old problem

theregister.com

Digital software locks have just become flimsier in Canada with the passage of a pair of...
Digital software locks have just become flimsier in Canada with the passage of a pair of laws allowing for their bypass for repair and interoperability purposes. Royal assent was granted to two right to repair bills last week that amend Canada's Copyright Act to allow the circumvention of technological protection me...
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Volkswagen to Invest $5.8B in Rivian Through Joint Venture

wsj.com
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Thinking about recipe formats more than anyone should

rknight.me
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