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A Response to Rich Harris
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Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?
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Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret
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Reuters
Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret- Nikkei
Japan will compensate companies to keep secret patents with potential military applications under proposed legislation, the Nikkei reported on Sunday, without citing sources.
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Rainy years can’t make up for California’s groundwater use
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Ars Technica
Rainy years can’t make up for California’s groundwater use
And without additional restrictions, they may not recover for several decades.
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Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
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CYBERTEC
Getting started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS - CYBERTEC
Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with PostGIS and QGIS.
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Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
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Stack Overflow Blog
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.
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37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet
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ITU
Facts and Figures 2021: 2.9 billion people still offline - ITU
New data from ITU suggest a ‘COVID connectivity boost’ – but the world’s poorest are still being left far behind, with 2.9 billion people still offline.
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KiCad 6.0.0 Release Announcement
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www.kicad.org
KiCad 6.0.0 Release
The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of version 6.0.0. This is the first major version release of KiCad since 5.0.0 was released in July of 2018.
KiCad binaries are available for download for Windows, MacOS, and Linux or will be in the very…
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Raytracing Diamonds
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11011110.github.io
Raytracing diamonds
This comes from a question posed to me and others in 2019 by Stefan Langerman, a computational geometer who also happens to be a diamond dealer. The classic ...
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Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse
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Using BeOS on a Power Mac (2001)
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Low End Mac
Using BeOS on a Power Mac - Low End Mac
In my past couple articles (BeOS or NeXT: Did Apple make the wrong choice? and User Interface: Mac vs. BeOS), I’ve described parts of BeOS. It’s a technically impressive OS that lacks some of the finesse that the Mac OS has. All the advertising about Mac…
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Ask Hacker News Weekly
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Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme
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GitHub
GitHub - cyphar/paperback: Paper backup generator suitable for long-term storage.
Paper backup generator suitable for long-term storage. - cyphar/paperback
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CPM MagnaCut – The Next Breakthrough in Knife Steel
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Knife Steel Nerds
CPM MagnaCut - The Next Breakthrough in Knife Steel - Knife Steel Nerds
CPM MagnaCut is a new stainless knife steel designed to be better than anything that has been available before. Is it a success?
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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk
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The Atlantic
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk
“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it.”
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A lunar farside low radio frequency array for dark ages
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Ask HN: Been writing code for 40 years and can't get hired
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Gene Therapy for a Failing Heart
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Science Translational Medicine
Gene therapy knockdown of Hippo signaling induces cardiomyocyte renewal in pigs after myocardial infarction
Gene therapy–mediated disruption of Hippo signaling results in tissue renewal and improved function in pigs after myocardial infarction.
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Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow
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Spokesman.com
Shawn Vestal: Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow
If you ever lived on a farm, or in a farming community, the idea of praying for snow won’t be unfamiliar to you.
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Practicing Programming (2005)
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Practicing Programming
Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants
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Back in October I wrote an essay in which I compared programming to other professions. In it, I made the unsubstantiated claim that programming is unusual, in that most programmers don't practice their…
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Bad Data and Data Engineering: Dissecting Google Play Music Takeout Data
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Bad Data and Data Engineering: Dissecting Google Play Music Takeout Data using Beam, go, Python, and SQL
On the joy of inheriting a rather bad dataset - dissecting ~120GB of terrible Google Takeout data to make it usable, using Dataflow/Beam, go, Python, and SQL.
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