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An unusual Google Keyboard bug

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Spirit Airlines is filing for bankruptcy

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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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3600 MHz Raspberry Pi 5 with Liquid Nitrogen

skatterbencher.com
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Utilizing HubSpot's APIs to Break Down Data Silos

accelant.com

I’ve seen this movie countless times: Business Has Tons of Useful Data That’s Scattered Across Systems...
I’ve seen this movie countless times: Business Has Tons of Useful Data That’s Scattered Across Systems and Isn’t Being Used for Much (or anything). Sound familiar? If you’ve seen this movie (meaning you’re living it!), and it resonates with you, the next step might be figuring out how to harness that untapped data. ...
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We bypassed the geoblock on Apple's AirPods pro hearing aids feature

twitter.com
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Ecosia and Qwant, European search engines, join forces on European search index

techcrunch.com

Qwant, France’s privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue...
Qwant, France’s privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and other climate-focused initiatives, are joining forces on a joint venture to develop their own European search index. The pair hopes this move will help drive innovatio...
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Five Unusual Raku Features

buttondown.com

November 12, 2024 v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of...
November 12, 2024 v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of the content I wanted to put in the book is now present, and all that's left is copyediting, proofreading, and formatting. Which will probably take as long as it took to actually write the book. You can see the release notes on the l...
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How do you juggle WFH with a baby?

marissagoldberg.com
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Carving Your Space

heather-buchel.com

As I'm currently looking for my next role, I've had to do serious reflection on the...
As I'm currently looking for my next role, I've had to do serious reflection on the work I actually want to do. My conclusion from this reflection is that teams generally don't hire for the work I really like, with some rare exceptions. This is why I almost always end up carving out my own space. Whenever I join a t...
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The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling

slack.com

Quick take: Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming...
Quick take: Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming year. And yet, for the first time since generative AI’s introduction, adoption rates are plateauing and excitement is cooling among the global workforce. Read on to learn the surprising reasons employees are hiding their AI use fr...
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M4 Mac mini's efficiency is incredible

jeffgeerling.com

I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on...
I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on the Pi 5 and testing a 192-core AmpereOne server to quickly post on the M4's efficiency. I expected M4 to be better than M1/M2 (I haven't personally tested M3), and I hoped it would at least match the previous total-system-power effici...
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Rust Foundation Releases Problem Statement on C++/Rust Interoperability

rust-lang.org

DOVER, DELAWARE, November 12, 2024 – The Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit dedicated to stewarding and...
DOVER, DELAWARE, November 12, 2024 – The Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit dedicated to stewarding and advancing the Rust programming language, released a comprehensive problem statement addressing the challenges and opportunities in C++ and Rust interoperability. This publication marks a significant step t...
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Huawei develops 72TB SSD-tape hybrid storage device

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Shutterstock) As Huawei is on the U.S. government's Entity List, the company has trouble...
(Image credit: Shutterstock) As Huawei is on the U.S. government's Entity List, the company has trouble obtaining hard drives made by American companies. As a result, the company develops its own storage technologies to replace HDDs. Earlier this year, Huawei introduced its so-called magneto-electric disk (MED) stor...
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Is NAD your best shot at longevity?

ft.com

In the top compartment of my fridge, next to a slightly shrivelled garlic bulb, is a...
In the top compartment of my fridge, next to a slightly shrivelled garlic bulb, is a vial of clear liquid. Should I pluck up the courage to inject myself in the stomach every other day, it will reportedly reverse the ageing of my cells, return my metabolism to that of a 20-year-old, improve brain fog and fill me wit...

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Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days

stretchmytimeoff.com

holidays optimise planning time off travel
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Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one

arstechnica.com

In some ways, my review of the new MacBook Pros will be a lot like my...
In some ways, my review of the new MacBook Pros will be a lot like my review of the new iMac. This is the third year and fourth generation of the Apple Silicon-era MacBook Pro design, and outwardly, few things have changed about the new M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max laptops. Here are the things that are different. Boosted ...
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Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life

arstechnica.com

Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a...
Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a year. Firmware hackers, as usually happens, have a lot more interest and have stepped in to save, and upgrade, a potentially useful gadget. Spotify's idea a couple years ago was a car-focused device for those who lacked Apple CarPla...
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Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client

tomshardware.com
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