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The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk
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The Conversation
The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk – and fastidious medieval monks
Monks who failed to factor in the leap day placed spring equinox on the wrong day, which meant Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week and Pentecost were also marked on the wrong day.
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ExxonMobil is suing investors who want tougher action on climate change
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NPR
ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action
The oil and gas giant is suing investor groups that want it to slash climate pollution. Interest groups on both sides of the case say it could lead to more lawsuits against activist investors.
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Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian
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Derek Sivers
Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian
This is a lukewarm little story with a few connected bits, but it might be interesting or even helpful. Follow the links in it, for full effect.
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Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
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jamesg.blog
Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages | James' Coffee Blog
Intended audience: You are likely to enjoy this post the most if you are interested in Linux and/or Linux manual pages, or if you enjoy reading about esoteric programming projects.
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Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source
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Phoronix
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source
Back in 2022 Cloudflare announced they were ditching Nginx for an in-house, Rust-written software called Pingora
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You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?
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Unearthing the Oldest Forest on Earth
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World Sensorium / Conservancy
Unearthing The Oldest Forest on Earth: Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years
Unearthing The Oldest Forest on Earth Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! The exploration of an ancient,...
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US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in 'climate time bomb'
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the Guardian
US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’
New analysis finds money from Biden’s $1.2tn infrastructure bill has overwhelmingly been spent on widening highways for cars
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The Emmy Computer Algebra System
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GitHub
GitHub - mentat-collective/emmy: The Emmy Computer Algebra System.
The Emmy Computer Algebra System. Contribute to mentat-collective/emmy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Alright then keep your secrets
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Ford EVs gain access to Tesla Superchargers starting today
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Ars Technica
Ford EVs gain access to Tesla Superchargers starting today
The adapter is free if you order it before June 30 or $230 if you wait.
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Common Mistakes in Modularisation
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Two-Wrongs
Common Mistakes in Modularisation
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Antarctic English
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Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application
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GitHub
GitHub - jovandeginste/workout-tracker: A workout tracking web application for personal use (or family, friends), geared towards…
A workout tracking web application for personal use (or family, friends), geared towards running and other GPX-based activities - jovandeginste/workout-tracker
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Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
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Esquire
'Dune: Part Two' Is The Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
Even better than the first film, the stakes are exponentially higher, the power struggles even more mythic, the on-screen world-building richer and more exotically filigreed, and the visuals even more dazzling. I didn’t think this was possible.
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Show HN: Marimo – open-source reactive Python notebook – running in WASM
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marimo.app
marimo | a next-generation Python notebook
A reactive notebook for Python — run reproducible experiments, execute as a noscript, deploy as an app, and version with git.
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White House urges developers to dump C and C++
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InfoWorld
White House urges developers to dump C and C++
Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.
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Google abandoned "don't be evil" – and Gemini is the result
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www.natesilver.net
Google abandoned "don't be evil" — and Gemini is the result
AI labs need to treat accuracy, honesty and unbiasedness as core values.
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Money Bubble
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ongoing by Tim Bray
Money Bubble
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"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages
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The New Yorker
“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
The alien language spoken in Frank Herbert’s novels carries traces of Arabic. Why has that influence been scrubbed from the films?
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Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users' machines
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BleepingComputer
Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines
At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face platform, some of which can execute code on the victim's machine, giving attackers a persistent backdoor.
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