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Why Kundera never went home
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Why Kundera Never Went Home
My visits to Milan Kundera and his wife, Věra, became regular in 2019, when I was in the third year of my mission as Czech ambassador to France. What started as polite and admiring calls from a diplomat to his country’s greatest author evolved into friendship.…
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Netscape Meteors
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Netscape Meteors
I went on a hunt to find the "Meteors" loading animation from Netscape back in the 90s, and wrote up my adventure.
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The Shader Permutation Problem – Part 1: How Did We Get Here? (2021)
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The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 1: How Did We Get Here?
It is no secret that we tend to have a bit of a problem with shader permutations in real-time graphics. It’s such a bad problem that it not only affects graphics programmers, but also trickles down to all of the other content creators that use an engine.…
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Derek Lowe on AOH1996: A New Mode of Cancer Treatment
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A New Mode of Cancer Treatment
Let’s talk about a really interesting new paper in Cell Chemical Biology, which is also getting some pickup in the wider press. It’s about a molecule designated AOH1996, which seems to have a unique mode of action in tumor cells, one that might make it more…
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Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery
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Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
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Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
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Vicuna v1.5 series, featuring 4K and 16K context, based on Llama 2
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Radio frequency hearing in humans and its effects (2003)
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Auditory response to pulsed radiofrequency energy
The human auditory response to pulses of radiofrequency (RF) energy, commonly called RF hearing, is a well established phenomenon. RF induced sounds can be characterized as low intensity sounds becau...
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IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face
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IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face
IBM & open-source AI platform Hugging Face today announced that IBM's watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA's satellite data – will now be openly available on Hugging Face.
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Don't Be Clever
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Don't be clever - stitcher.io
The story of the CRUDController
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The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
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The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)
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Network Protocols for Anyone Who Knows a Programming Language
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Purism wants Louis Rossman to Delete video exposing refund scam & delay tactic
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Purism wants me to delete my video exposing their refund scam & delay tactic - answer is no
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Impressions of American Hotels 1883-1898 (2022)
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Impressions of American Hotels
1883-1898 Max O’Rell was the pen name of Léon Paul Blouet, a well-known French author and journalist in the late nineteenth century. Beginni...
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Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
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Live code with Tidal Cycles | Tidal Cycles
Live coding environment for making algorithmic patterns
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Canonical LXD forked by former project leader stgraber
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GitHub - stgraber/incus: Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - GitHub - stgraber/incus: Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
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Briefcase: Convert a Python project into a standalone native application
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Microsoft accidently leaks internal tool; can enable hidden Windows 11 features
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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features
StagingTool can enable hidden and unannounced features in Windows 11 preview builds.
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“
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is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”
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Remember reading when Google's 8.8.8.8 crossed through over 1.2 trillion requests per day back in 2018 and thinking: that's unfathomable. Well, 1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3 trillion requests per day. Still feels unfathomable.
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Pgvector: Fewer Dimensions Are Better
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Elixir for Cynical Curmudgeons
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