Unearthed letters suggest award committee favored promise and youth over star power

This is a guest post by Chris Adams, in the Repository Development Center, technical lead for the World Digital Library at the the Library of Congress. Like many people who work with digital imagery, I’ve been looking forward to the JPEG-2000 image format…

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Germany's Economy and Climate Minister, a Green Party leader, lied about nuclear fuel rods

Virtually every public comment opposed Google's idea for the change.

The software supply chain is becoming a widespread analogy to designate the series of steps taken to go from source code published by developers to executables running on the users’ computers. A security vulnerability in any of these steps puts users at risk…

On the Z80 CPU there are so few registers and instructions that you can easily know and use them all and wish there were more of them.
However, half of the time it feels like the only on you really use is ld.
I imagine that if ld took half the number of…

A teacher obsessed with identifying talent, maximizing potential and optimizing education has created a dynasty. A former Wall Street bond trader, Buchholz High School coach Will Frazer says: ‘I used to get paid money. Now we get trophies.’

Yearly software development plans are my favourite genre of fiction. In the fabulous world of yearly plans, product developers assume they know exactly what product they must build and how long each task will take.

Forests and bushes now cover over 2% of Iceland, Vísir reports. That number may not seem like much, but since 1990, the surface area covered by forest or shrubs in Iceland has increased more than six times over – from 7,000 hectares to 45,000. In 20 years…

Those from households with an annual income of $1 million are 10 times more likely to become artists than those from families with a $100,000 income

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV - GitHub - ajensenwaud/dbs-tools: Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV

I'm saddened by the need to author this blog post about a product that I once loved. For the last eight months I've been traveling around Australia in a custom built van with a Denon 4 controller connected to two SOUNDBOKs v3 speakers

and life has been pretty…

The data scientist's open-source choice to scale, assess and maintain natural language data. Treat training data like a software artifact. - code-kern-ai/refinery

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