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Drowning Machine: The Dangers of Low Head Dams
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Practical Engineering
Drowning Machine: The Dangers of Low Head Dams — Practical Engineering
Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the structure itself still remains. Dams come in all shapes and sizes, but contrary…
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Cicero used humor to charm audiences–and humiliate opponents
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‘How to Tell a Joke’ Review: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A guide to captivating an audience, from ancient Rome’s master of the art.
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Merkle Tree
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A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA
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A growing number of governments hope to clone America’s DARPA
They will not succeed unless they adopt the spirit which motivates it | Science & technology
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Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
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Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
Labour shortages are rising even though unemployment remains high | Finance & economics
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Keep Your Identity Small (2009)
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Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting prosecution
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Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting prosecution
Fifty years after he leaked the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg says he's made another disclosure.
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Stop saying how simple things are in docs
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How we achieved write speeds of 1.4M rows per second
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QuestDB
Building a new vector based storage model | QuestDB
The detailed story of how the open source time series database QuestDB came to life.
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ST3000DM001
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It’s Time to Ditch Chrome
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WIRED
It’s time to ditch Chrome
As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works
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On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'
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Merriam-Webster
On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'
Sorry, not sorry
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Clever vs. Insightful Code
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Hillel Wayne
Clever vs Insightful Code
“Don’t write clever code.” Why not? “Because it’s hard to understand.” People who say this think of clever code such as Duff’s Device:
Duff's Device send(to, from, count) registershort*to, *from; registercount; { registern =(count +7) /8; switch(count…
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Our Engineering Team Used Python's AST to Patch 100,000s of Lines of Code
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Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
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Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial
“I sometimes think that general and popular treatises are almost as important for the progress of science as original work.” - Charles Darwin, 1865.
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The Levenshtein distance in production (2020)
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Vishnu Bharathi
The Levenshtein distance in production
You might have heard about the Levenshtein distance while in college or while preparing for tech interviews. It is the famous edit distance problem. It is one of those must-try Dynamic Programming cha
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Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors
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Farms
Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors | Farms.com
Read Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors in addition to hundreds of recent farming and agriculture news articles. View up to date crop reports, livestock information and ag industry breaking news from farms.com.
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Gene sequencer malware injection via encoded DNA (2017)
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WIRED
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA.
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Sorry everybody, I failed with you
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GitHub
Sorry everybody, I failed with you
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Hi everybody, I really want to ask sorry to everyone and say that maybe I failed with the community, but has an explanation. In the last year, I can't give any support here. I really know t...
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The Globalization of Venture Capital Investing
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The Globalization Of Venture Capital Investing - AVC
I’ve written a bunch about the globalization of the startup economy. You can start and build a tech company almost anywhere these days. That has been true for at least the last decade. But until very recently, raising capital for your startup was significantly…
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Laser pulse travels 300 times faster than light (2002)
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optics.org
Laser pulse travels 300 times faster than light
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