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Let the Knife Speak: On José Rizal
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Los Angeles Review of Books
Let the Knife Speak: On José Rizal
Gina Apostol explores the works and cultural meanings of the great Filipino rebel-poet José Rizal....
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US police receive less training than plumbers
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Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator
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Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator
If you’ve read my first post about assembly language, you might expect that this is another post on how to understand assembly language. I will write more about that at some point, but this post is not that. Instead, this post is going to talk about some…
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Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% (fourth consecutive drop) Amid Ads Slowdown
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Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% Amid Ads Slowdown
Google’s parent company reported its fourth consecutive drop in quarterly profit, weeks after culling 6 percent of its work force to cut costs.
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The search for extraterrestrial life as we don’t know it
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Scientific American
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don't Know It
Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings
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Google Fires Employee of over 16 Years with Automated Email
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Medium
After 16 years at Google, Justin Moore was fired with an automated email
Your employer sees you as disposable.
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Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
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Dallas Innovates
Exclusive Q&A: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
John Carmack, the iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR pioneer, is taking aim now at solving AGI. If successful, his moonshot effort would be a ‘change-the-world-level’ event.
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A novel PayPal scam
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anderegg.ca
A Novel PayPal Scam
This morning I received an interesting scam email. It might not be a new scam, but it was the first time I’d seen it.
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Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++
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Absint
Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++
Astrée is a static program analyzer that proves the absence of runtime errors and invalid concurrent behavior in safety-critical applications written or generated in C or C++
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Microbes are 'active engineers' in Earth's rock-to-life cycle
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phys.org
Microbes are 'active engineers' in Earth's rock-to-life cycle
The name "critical zone" may give off 1980s action thriller vibes, but it's the term scientists use to refer to the area of Earth's land surface responsible for sustaining life. A relatively small portion ...
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Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs
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X (formerly Twitter)
Justine Tunney (@JustineTunney) on X
Today I added support for sendmsg() and recvmsg() to my Blink virtual machine. Suddenly it's now able to run GUI programs. This might make it possible for us to run Linux desktop executables on other OSes and the web using WASM. https://t.co/ram0UF2Csf
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The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can (2015) [video]
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YouTube
The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near it lid, show close ups of the double-seam that hold…
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YouTube has become the world's nanny
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Quartz
YouTube has become the world's nanny
Kids' channels are highest earners on YouTube, even as parents continue to debate the limits of screen time for children
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Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn't trust Google Cloud)
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www.devever.net
Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn't trust Google Cloud)
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Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
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Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety
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Prossimo
Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety
Rémy Rakic is helping us enable the adoption of memory safe software through work to improve Rust compile times. We asked him to provide his perspective on the work in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Rémy!
Josh Aas, Head…
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Google search 'raters' demand fair treatment, deliver petition at headquarters
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Mv-Voice
Google search quality 'raters' demand fair treatment, deliver petition at Mountain View headquarters
Raters from across the country flew into the Bay Area to deliver a petition on Feb. 1 demanding that Google offer its search engine raters the same minimum wage and benefits that it promises its extended workforce.
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The Oil Thieves of Nigeria
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New Lines Magazine
The Oil Thieves of Nigeria
How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation
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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
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Show HN: DriftDB is an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps
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Driftdb
DriftDB | DriftDB
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Visually simulate Git operations with a single terminal command
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GitHub
GitHub - initialcommit-com/git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command.
Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command. - initialcommit-com/git-sim
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