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Programmers, Teach Non-Geeks the True Cost of Interruptions
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DaedTech
Programmers, Teach Non-Geeks The True Cost of Interruptions - DaedTech
Interruptions are one of the biggest sources of inefficiency for programmers. Now, to be fair, they’re probably a big source of inefficiency for everyone, but relatively speaking, they’re worse for programmers. To understand what I mean, let’s take someone…
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Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation
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blog.torproject.org
Announcing Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation | Tor Project
Greetings! Today I'm happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation. Over the past year or so, we've been working on "Arti", a project to rewrite Tor in Rust. Thanks to funding from Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), we can finally put the Arti project up…
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GitHub confirmed using all public code for training copilot regardless license
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Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives SF customers back to taxis
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The San Francisco Examiner
Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives angry SF customers back to taxis - The San Francisco Examiner
‘We just can’t stop talking about how high the prices are getting. It’s ridiculous.’
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The Medici as Artists Saw Them
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The New Yorker
The Medici as Artists Saw Them
The guileful Medici family advanced humanism in all the arts in Florence, and most of the city’s painters fell into line, flattering the dynasty with masterly portraiture.
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The Politics of Fernando Pessoa
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New Left Review
Nick Burns, The Politics of Fernando Pessoa, NLR 129, May–June 2021
Pessoa was one of the greatest and strangest poets of the 20th century, famous for the elusive profusion of his ‘heteronyms’. Yet in light of the first biography worthy of him, and recent Portuguese studies of his work, he emerges as perhaps the most passionate—and…
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A Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash
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GitHub
GitHub - not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash: Git repository with a commit for every single shorthash
Git repository with a commit for every single shorthash - not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash
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How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind
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Medium
How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply and bind
This is post # 35 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and…
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A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dying forest language
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The World from PRX
A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dying forest
The town of Älvdalen is fighting to preserve its local language amid pushback from some members of parliament.
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Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
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GitHub
GitHub - romeovs/creep: a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font.
a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font. Contribute to romeovs/creep development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Surveilling the Gamers: Privacy Impacts of the Video Game Industry
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Ssrn
Surveilling the Gamers: Privacy Impacts of the Video Game Industry
With many million users across all age groups and income levels, video games have become the world’s leading entertainment industry. Behind the fun experience t
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Linux Audio Is Dead
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non.tuxfamily.org
Linux Audio is Dead | Non
2021-02-07 Linux Audio is Dead ~~#F00:CENSORED~~
Due to threats directed at TuxFamily from those behind the attack of this project and its author, the content of this post has been relocated to a platform more supportive of freedo
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The Private Life of a Cat (2020)
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JSTOR Daily
The Private Life of a Cat
Maya Deren was a fringe filmmaker who existed far outside the Hollywood machine, but she often borrowed its tactics to promote herself and her movies.
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It's Official. We Can Now Harvest Usable Lithium from Seawater
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Interesting Engineering
It's Official. We Can Now Harvest Usable Lithium From Seawater
Extracting concentrated lithium from seawater will only cost five dollars of electricity per kilogram! And the output material covers the cost.
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VPN – A Very Precarious Narrative
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overengineer.dev
VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative - Dennis Schubert
A very long article about commercial VPNs, their marketing strategies, and the truth behind their privacy and security claims.
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How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (2019)
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Teddy Katz’s Blog
How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions
Last December, I was invited to a private bug bounty program to test a beta version of GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a workflow automation tool integrated with GitHub. One common use case of GitHub Actions is for CI builds – a project can fairly easily…
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How to achieve sustainable remote work
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The New Yorker
How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work
Companies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust.
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“Cat Person” and Me
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Slate Magazine
I’ve Always Suspected “Cat Person” Was Based on My Life. Now I Know It Was.
Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?
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The hottest temperature ever reliably measured recorded in Death Valley today
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Twitter
Jeff Masters
Death Valley hit 130°F this hour, breaking all-time reliably measured world heat record of 129.9°F set August 16, 2020 at the same site. To see the obs, choose 24 hours and click Decoded Data from this link: bit.ly/3ww8odK. Final high may be higher; Saturday…
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Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse
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Ars Technica
Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”
Capture cards, input hardware, and machine learning get around system-level lockdowns.
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Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
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PNAS
Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
Under what conditions do groups outperform their individual members? This question is of paramount importance and has spurred many studies in management and organizational science, psychology, sociology, complex systems, and computer science. Here, we investigate…
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