If you ever see it too, thank London

This is a reblog/translation of a post by Héctor García… During the 80s in the United States, Japan was started to be seen as the inevitable first economic power of the world. It went from be…

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In his new book, Tony Hall, who has maintained Kew’s world-renowned arboretum for more than 20 years, reveals the stories behind some of the country’s most loved and unusual trees

NiceHash breaks Nvidia's LHR mining limiter

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Chapters:
00:00 Introducing JPEG and RGB Representation
2:15 Lossy Compression
3:41 What information…

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Human activity and behaviour is contributing to an increasing number of disasters across the world, putting millions of lives and every social and economic gain in danger, warns a new UN report.

We were magicians and the web was our magic

(1978) 30m, dir. David Loeb Weiss. On July 2, 1978, the last hot lead edition of the New York Times rolled off the presses. Weiss, a proofreader for the Times,...

<div class="desc text-stone-500 font-mono text-sm">Posted On 05.08.2022</div> A parser is a program that usually takes a stream of lexical tokens and transfo...

[Note: Shuna, aka eggbeater, has covered this subject well and honestly in many posts, notably the culinary school question.  I address it in the intro to the new paperback of Making of a Chef and on my FAQ page. But when I read Bourdain's take in his most…

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The writer and musician Ali Sethi has created an unconventional hit with “Pasoori.”

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