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OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster
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Ochafik
OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster. Here's how and what may come next.
TL;DR: OpenSCAD users: download a nightly build & enable fast-csg in settings for 10x faster render (YMMV). Make your models more ambitious and report is...
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A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)
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The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
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Simutrans – Transport Simulator
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Simutrans Transport Simulator
Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator.
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Understanding LSM Trees: What Powers Write-Heavy Databases
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Yet Another Dev Blog
How do LSM Trees work?
A log-structured merge-tree (LSM tree) is a data structure typically used when dealing with write-heavy workloads. The write path is optimized by only performing sequential writes. LSM trees are the core data structure behind many databases, including BigTable…
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CSS Aspect Ratio Is Great
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CSS { In Real Life } | Aspect Ratio is Great
A blog about CSS, front-end development, the web, and beyond.
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Incomplete history of
Forbes.com
as a platform for scams, grift, bad journalism
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Nieman Lab
An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism
That "rapper" accused of billions in crypto fraud was also a Forbes contributor. Is it finally time to move past the contributor network?
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Racket 8.4
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blog.racket-lang.org
Racket v8.4
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.4 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Command-line Racket provides a new expression editor by default for its read-eval-print loop (REPL). The new REPL is based on the Chez Scheme expr...
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How PostgreSQL Stores Rows
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ketansingh.me
How Postgres Stores Rows
poking inside postgres pages
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Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again
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Gizmodo
Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again
Hulu has ordered 20 new episodes of the beloved animated series from the creator of The Simpsons.
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Did HAL Commit Murder?
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The MIT Press Reader
Did HAL Commit Murder?
The HAL 9000 computer and the ethics of murder by and of machines.
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APIs as Ladders
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APIs as ladders
Developers have opinions on what a good API1 is, but rarely have a shared vocabulary to describe what makes them good. This essay puts forward one set of considerations (out of many) that we started using at Stripe in 2019 to discuss API design2. You can…
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Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind (2012)
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Sensemaking
Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind
Technology is complicated. These days building even the simplest website requires knowing at least half a dozen separate technologies, almost double if you want your site to be scalable and modular. Learning to program has always been challenging for beginners…
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The Black Hole Photographs: Censored Images from America’s Great Depression
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Flashbak
The Weird and Wonderful Black Hole Photographs: Censored Images From America's Great Depression - Flashbak
Now we can show you what they censors didn't want you to see: the black hole photographs.
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JetBlue A320 tail strike on takeoff, B350 in opposite direction
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Avherald
Accident: Jetblue A320 at Hayden on Jan 22nd 2022, tail strike on takeoff, B350 on short final in opposite direction
Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation
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Collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa) Preliminary NTSB Report
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The performative quality of computer-generated art
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Hyperallergic
Appreciating the Performative Quality of Computer Generated Art
Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies? What if we are too focused on results, rather than the process?
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A confession of a FAANG hiring manager
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Sagiv Ofek - Blog
A confession of a FAANG hiring manager
There must be a better way to hire software engineers
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“YouTube doesn't want you to have to see my 'disturbing' disabled body”
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YouTube
YouTube doesn't want you to have to see my "disturbing" disabled body (& is restricting my videos)
I'm missing a leg - I'm not a disturbing sight that children need to be shielded from. Everything I speak about in this video is based upon my interpretations of communications from YouTube and their stated policies. At no point has YouTube directly told…
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Lock-In and Multi-Cloud
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10 Years of Nukemap
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Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
10 years of NUKEMAP | Restricted Data
NUKEMAP was released into the world a decade ago, believe it or not.
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Amazing deck on what (pre-layoff) Peloton looked like to their investors [pdf]
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