In the 1970s, Westinghouse and Newport News formed a joint venture called Offshore Power Systems to mass produce floating nuclear power plants. Vast environmental and design studies were done, the facility was constructed, and 8 full-scale gigawatt-class…

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For the first time in history, retail investors’ index fund holdings exceed their holdings in actively-managed funds, according to new numbers from Morningstar Direct.

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A Xiaomi engineer submitted a patch to AOSP that would add an SELinux policy blocking the shell user from grabbing APK data files because they "may include some private resources."😬 android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/sys…

Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities - remult/remult

Wishing Compiler Explorer a very happy tenth birthday

Felienne Hermans is an Associate Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In this presentation she look at how thinking about the content and shape of names can make programmers more producive.

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On April 27, 2022, It Will Never Work in Theory…

Is it possible that we’ve been wrong about sunscreen all along?

The state’s dependency on tax revenues from the rich and the continued health of the tech economy make it vulnerable in the event of a downturn.

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Constraint-based geometry sketcher for blender. Contribute to hlorus/CAD_Sketcher development by creating an account on GitHub.