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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
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Chris Zacharias on Svbtle
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to...
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Adaptive Cards: Platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON
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Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat
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Torrentfreak
Lawsuit Accuses Anna's Archive of Hacking WorldCat, Stealing 2.2 TB Data * TorrentFreak
A lawsuit filed by American nonprofit OCLC claims that its WorldCat database was subjected to a year-long hack at the hands of Anna's Archive.
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Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games
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CNBC
Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content
Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Epic Games.
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The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)
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unofficial blog
The disaggregated write-ahead log
The traditional way replicated systems are architected is to physically co-locate the write-ahead log (WAL) on the nodes where the state is being maintained. Then a consensus protocol like Paxos or Raft is used to make sure the log on each replica ag...
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The appendix is not, in fact, useless
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NPR
Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains
A sudden appendectomy as a child made Heather Smith curious about what the appendix is for and why it gets inflamed. Now as an anatomy researcher, she's finding answers.
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Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS
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Substack
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS
Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
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Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'
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SFGATE
Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'
Google workers complain about company culture, and they aren't pulling punches.
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Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing noscripts in compiled langs
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GitHub - igor-petruk/noscriptisto: A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write noscripts in compiled languages.
A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write noscripts in compiled languages. - igor-petruk/noscriptisto
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How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck
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HelixML
How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck: Helix Project Report, Feb 2024
Announcing Helix v0.5 with improved text fine-tuning and OpenAI API support
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Nvidia's "Grace" Arm CPU holds its own against x86 for HPC
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The Next Platform
Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU Holds Its Own Against X86 For HPC
In many ways, the “Grace” CG100 server processor created by Nvidia – its first true server CPU and a very useful adjunct for extending the memory space of
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Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust
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Rust rewrite, initial part by ku1ik · Pull Request #579 · asciinema/asciinema
This is the initial work for the upcoming 3.0 release, which will be based on full rewrite in Rust.
I've contemplated this, but I didn't have as many good reasons to justify it in t...
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Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
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Google Cloud Blog
New localllm lets you develop gen AI apps locally, without GPUs | Google Cloud Blog
Want to use open-source LLM models from Hugging Face on your local development environment? With localllm and Cloud Workstations, you can.
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As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery Shell Production
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As Much As You Ever Wanted To Know About 155mm Artillery Shell Production and More
America: The Ultimate Crammer
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Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems [pdf]
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Waymo Hits Cyclist in SF
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SFGATE
Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
A cyclist was injured in a collision with a Waymo driverless vehicle, officials said.
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John Walker, founder of Autodesk, dead at 75
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John Walker (1949 - 2024)
It is with great sadness that we announce John’s death on Friday, February 2, 2024. He was born in Maryland, USA to William and Bertha Walker, who preceded him in death. John is survived by his wife Roxie Walker and a brother, Bill Walker of West Virginia.…
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The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam
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The New Yorker
The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam
A federal program promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the country. It soon became rife with fraud.
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New Zealand set to be first country to ban PFAS in cosmetic products
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Chemistry World
New Zealand set to be first country to ban PFAS in cosmetic products
Environment agency says it is taking a 'precautionary approach' to PFAS in nail polish, shaving cream, foundation, lipstick and mascara
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Loungy: An Application Launcher Written with GPUI, the Zed GPU UI Framework
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GitHub - MatthiasGrandl/Loungy: Loungy is a WIP launcher in the vein of Spotlight, Alfred, Raycast.
Loungy is a WIP launcher in the vein of Spotlight, Alfred, Raycast. - MatthiasGrandl/Loungy
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FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinter: Automate Creation of YouTube Shorts Using MoviePy
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GitHub - FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinter: Automate Creation of YouTube Shorts using MoviePy.
Automate Creation of YouTube Shorts using MoviePy. - FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinter
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