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Why Alexa won't wake up when she hears her name in ads (2019)
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Amazon Science
Why Alexa won't wake up when she hears her name in Amazon's Super Bowl ad
This Sunday's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams is expected to draw more than 100 million viewers, some of whom will have Alexa-enabled devices within range of their TV speakers. When Amazon's new Alexa ad airs, and Forest…
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Rendering like it's 1996 – Bitmap fonts and DOS
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marioslab.io
Rendering like it's 1996 - Bitmap fonts and DOS
On drawing bitmap fonts and getting all of this running in DOS.
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Bjarne Stroustrup: Think seriously about “safety”... [pdf]
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UK Police to get new powers to shut down protests before disruption begins
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Police in England and Wales to get new powers to shut down protests before disruption begins
Plans aimed at preventing tactics such as ‘slow marching’ part of Rishi Sunak’s public order crackdown
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Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
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Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews
How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities
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Intel Core i9-13900T CPU benchmarks show faster than 12900K 125W performance
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Wccftech
Intel Core i9-13900T CPU Benchmarks Show Faster Than 12900K 125W Performance at 35W
Intel recently introduced brand new 13th Gen T-series chips which feature the Core i9-13900T that operates at a 35W TDP.
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem part 2 – Module Resolution
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marvinh.dev
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - module resolution
Whether you’re building, testing and/or linting JavaScript, module resolution is always at the heart of everything. Despite its central place in our tools, not much time has been spent on making that aspect fast. With the changes discussed in this blog post…
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Rust vs. C++ Formatting
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Barry’s C++ Blog
Rust vs C++ Formatting
In Rust, if I want to print some 32-bit unsigned value in hex, with the leading 0x, padded out with zeros, I would write that as:
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Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have another Apple device
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Twitter
I own an Apple TV.
I own not a single other Apple device. Not one.
Every time I start the Apple TV I get this prompt now.
@Apple what do you expect me to do about this?
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Conditional CSS
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Conditional CSS
CSS is condtional in many ways. In this article, I will go over a few CSS features that we use every day, and show you how conditional they are.
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A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
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Blogspot
How A Supermarket Visit Brought Down The Soviet Union
Many point to the fact that the Soviet Union collapse occurred as the Soviets were baited into trying to compete with the defense build-up i...
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Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment in Common Lisp
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project-mage.org
Project Mage
Project Mage is a quest for seamless structural editing, a decent GUI toolkit, and, overall, an environment where interactivity, flexibility and power are valued very highly. A few applications are on the roadmap, notably the ones providing for note-taking…
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Netflix Has Created a Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop with Its New Shows
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Forbes
Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows
A couple weeks ago, I remarked that Netflix now felt like it was “actively stealing time from me.” I can almost not even remember which cancelation I was talking about at the time, given that there have been so many, but I believe it was 1899
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The hardest part of being a junior developer
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Rach Smith's digital garden
The hardest part of being a Junior Developer
Even though it was 12 years ago, I still remember what the most stressful part of being a junior developer was.
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Richest 1% amassed almost two-thirds of new wealth created since 2020
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CNBC
The richest 1% of people amassed almost two-thirds of new wealth created in the last two years, Oxfam says
Since 2020, the richest 1% of people have accumulated close to two-thirds of all new wealth created around the world, according to a new report from Oxfam.
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Quitting the Rat Race
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Quitting the Rat Race - Seán Barry
I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
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GPU Caching Compared Among AMD, Intel UHD, Apple M1
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Chipsandcheese
iGPU Cache Setups Compared, Including M1
Like CPUs, modern GPUs have evolved to use complex, multi level cache hierarchies.
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Will Floating Point 8 Solve AI/ML Overhead?
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Semiconductor Engineering
Will Floating Point 8 Solve AI/ML Overhead?
Less precision equals lower power, but standards are required to make this work.
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How my brother's iCloud account was stolen
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TAB electronics books
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Worldradiohistory
BOOKSHELF TAB: TAB electronics books
TAB Books was originally based in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, TAB was founded by Verne M. Ray and Malcolm Parks Jr. in 1964 to publish technically oriented magazines; TAB is an acronym for Technical Author's Bureau. It
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MSI's (in)Secure Boot
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