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Making a stainless steel Rubiks Cube
http://lulabs.net/machining/ss-cube/
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/illegal-wiretapping
IEEE Spectrum
When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream
Eavesdropping flourished after WW II, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”
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https://blog.vamc19.dev/posts/dockerfile-copy-chmod/
blog.vamc19.dev
`COPY --chmod` reduced the size of my container image by 35%
Earlier this week, I was writing a Dockerfile to download and run a binary when I noticed the image size was way more than what I would expect. I’m using ubuntu:21.10 as the base image, which is about 70MB. The binary I’m running is about 80MB. Other packages…
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https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/fda-crispr-cows-for-beef/
Modern Farmer
FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows For Beef - Modern Farmer
The genome-edited cattle were bred to endure climate change, and their offspring will be used in meat production.
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https://theswaddle.com/why-stress-makes-the-most-empathetic-people-less-kind/
Theswaddle
Why Stress Makes the Most Empathetic People Less Kind
Cortisol, the “stress hormone,” alters brain activity in regions linked to social decision making, reducing altruistic behavior.
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https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/
Chromeexperiments
100,000 Stars
An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars. Created for the Google Chrome web browser.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/gameralphabeta/status/1508934236195205126
Twitter
Alpha Beta Gamer
Patrick's Parabox - think outside the box in this mind-bending recursive puzzle game! Gameplay Video: youtube.com/watch?v=dXre35… Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Pa… by #gamedev @clockworkpat #gaming #indiegames #indiedev #PatricksParabox
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https://grafana.com/blog/2022/03/31/can-grafana-run-doom/
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Grafana Labs
Can Grafana run Doom? | Grafana Labs
Using time series panels and Grafana Live streaming, Doom fans can now pursue total annihilation on Grafana.
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http://www.lupinia.net/writing/tech/scammed.htm
Lupinia Studios
I'm a Scam Prevention Expert, and I Got Scammed
When discussing scams and social engineering attacks, it's easy for security experts to imply the victims of these attacks should have known better. And, as much as we may like to think we'd handle these situations so much better, that's just not true.
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https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists
Aeon
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
It began as a whim: talk to a physicist, $50 per 20 minutes. But those ‘crackpots’ taught me something about my subject
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https://persepolis.getty.edu/
persepolis.getty.edu
Persepolis Reimagined
Explore the capital of ancient Persia at its height during the reign of King Xerxes. A new immersive web experience from Getty.
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https://loganmarchione.com/2022/04/impressions-from-a-first-time-mac-user/
Logan Marchione
Impressions from a first-time Mac user
Update: 2022-04-15
I typically average around 100 unique visitors to this site per day. Below is a screenshot from my Plausible analytics setup showing the traffic spike up to almost 14k unique visitors from HackerNews (and other sources).
Update: 2022…
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https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2022/04/12/human-brain-compresses-working-memories-into-low-res-summaries/
NIH Director's Blog
Human Brain Compresses Working Memories into Low-Res ‘Summaries’
You have probably done it already a few times today. Paused to remember a password, a shopping list, a phone number, or maybe the score to last night’s ballgame. The ability to store and recall nee…
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https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
Openai
DALL·E: Creating images from text
We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
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https://news.mit.edu/2022/thermal-heat-engine-0413
MIT News
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_hotel
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https://httpie.io/blog/stardust
How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog
What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.
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https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/06/29/5-minute-breathing-workout-lowers-blood-pressure-much-exercise-drugs
CU Boulder Today
5-minute breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs
Strength training for your breathing muscles? Daily High-Resistance Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training lowers blood pressure and improves vascular health as well as, or even more than, aerobic
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https://news.mit.edu/2022/frequency-therapeutics-hearing-regeneration-0329
MIT News
Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.
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This is controversial, but a good read.
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/
Economics from the Top Down
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down
Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?
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