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Visually Symmetric Words
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John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
Visually symmetric words
The word "kayak" is a palindrome, but it isn't visually symmetric. The word "bud" is visually symmetric, but not a palindrome.
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LibreLingo: A community-owned language-learning platform
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GitHub - kantord/LibreLingo:
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a community-owned language-learning platform - kantord/LibreLingo
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What a $1M Retirement Looks Like in America
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WSJ
Here’s What a $1 Million Retirement Looks Like in America
Four retirees open up about their financial lives and how they spend their time and money.
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Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Toon Is Set to Be Public Property
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NY Times
Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Creation Will Soon Be Public Property
The version of the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie” will enter the public domain in 2024. But those trying to take advantage could end up in a legal mousetrap.
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All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters
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Hackaday
All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters
Let’s be clear – it’s not enough to have USB-C to USB-C cables. There’s a lot of cables that we might want to acquire for our day-to-day use, perhaps, for a transition perio…
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Hydrochloric acid is more complicated than you think
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Science
Acid Personalities
This is one of those papers that’s going to seem to non-chemists (and perhaps to some chemists as well!) like a how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin stuff. But it’s the details like this that we have to understand in order to figure out what’s really…
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Unmasking Meta's Bad News Strategy
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Memo
Unmasking Meta's Bad News Strategy - Memo
Comms pros often agonize over what day to release news. Whether it’s good or bad, the day news is announced can significantly impact coverage and readership, especially if there are other global events happening on the same day. Do big companies share negative…
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CoreFreq, a CPU monitoring software frequencies, ratios, C-states
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GitHub
GitHub - cyring/CoreFreq: CoreFreq : CPU monitoring and tuning software designed for the 64-bit processors.
CoreFreq : CPU monitoring and tuning software designed for the 64-bit processors. - cyring/CoreFreq
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A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor written in C, and Lua
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Lite-Xl
Lite XL
Lightweight and powerful code editor, available for Windows, Linux and macOS.
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Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?
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Los Angeles Times
Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?
Around the same time that Tesla stopped self-reporting Autopilot safety stats, its crash rates were soaring far higher than those of its competitors.
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BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
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“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
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Blogspot
TOC Stories #2: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing
This is one of my favorite stories from all of my years in applying TOC. I use it frequently in my consulting work and again it's totally tr...
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Anki SRS Algorithm : Spaced repetition explained with code
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Juliensobczak
Anki SRS Algorithm
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GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users
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Twitter
so godaddy runs a brilliant new scam where if your domain name expires, they purchase it, park it, and then pretend someone else bought it and make you bargain via a “godaddy broker” to get it back. their “suggested starting bid” for our indie game’s website…
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Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers
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Putin gives eight gold rings to presidents of CIS countries, keeps ninth
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The Insider
Putin gives eight gold rings to presidents of CIS countries, keeps ninth
Vladimir Putin gave eight rings as gifts to the leaders of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries at an informal summit held in St. Petersburg, reported Kommersant. Putin kept the ninth ring.
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BrianKrebs: Experian Vulnerability Shows Any Report with just SSN, DOB, ADR
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Infosec Exchange
BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)
Notified Experian on Dec. 23 that their site was allowing anyone to see the credit report for, well, basically anyone, completely bypassing their lame 4-5 multiple guess questions and other security.
Or even in cases (like mine) where trying to get your…
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Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator (2015)
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Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia
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Smithsonian Magazine
Vandals Destroy 30,000-Year-Old Indigenous Cave Drawings in Australia
The perpetrators broke in to the cave and defaced some of the earliest known examples of First Peoples Rock Art
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Tesla Drops Out of the 10 Biggest U.S. Public Companies
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Barrons
Tesla Shares on Pace for Worst Year on Record
Shares of electric-vehicle giant Tesla have fallen for seven straight days, marking the longest losing streak for the stock since September 2018.
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Dating of a large tool assemblage at the Cooper’s Ferry site (Idaho, USA)
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Science Advances
Dating of a large tool assemblage at the Cooper’s Ferry site (Idaho, USA) to ~15,785 cal yr B.P. extends the age of stemmed points…
A collection of stemmed projectile points excavated from cultural features dates to ~15,785 cal BP yr at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho.
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