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DuckDB as the New jq
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Paul Gross's Blog
DuckDB as the New jq
Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse…
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Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)
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SES
Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source) - SES
Tunnelmole is a free and open-source alternative to ngrok. It works out of the box with no port forwarding or networking config needed.
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A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque was found in 50% of colon cancers
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NBC News
A new type of bacteria was found in 50% of colon cancers. Many were aggressive cases.
Scientists discovered that a common type of bacteria has two distinct subspecies. One of them shields tumor cells from cancer treatment.
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Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet
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Lawprofs Mastodon
James Grimmelmann (@jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org)
Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet.
In the last few months, the constant flood of algorithmically generated junk content has kicked into an AI-powered overdrive, and it is cutting a swath of destruction as it overwhelms search engines…
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Hackers can extract secret encryption keys from Apple's Mac chips
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Ars Technica
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.
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SBF repeatedly lied to get out of "supervillain" prison term, FTX CEO alleges
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Ars Technica
SBF repeatedly lied to get out of “supervillain” prison term, FTX CEO alleges
FTX CEO: "The harm was vast. The remorse is nonexistent."
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Silent Running: 1970s Environmental Fable Remains Depressingly All Too Relevant
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Reactor
Silent Running: A 1970s Environmental Fable Remains Depressingly All Too Relevant
Director Douglas Trumbull's special effects and Bruce Dern's intense performance anchor this haunting, melancholy classic.
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FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose
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ABC Action News - WFTS - Tampa Bay
FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose
The FDA released a report saying that marijuana does have a legitimate use for medical purposes and recommended the drug’s classification change from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.
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Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. We found it usually isn't
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Grist
Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn’t.
Trackers placed in 93 bundles of Amazon packaging marked for "store drop-off" recycling showed many of them were buried or burned.
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Implementing Vertical Form Controls
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WebKit
Implementing Vertical Form Controls
Safari 17.4 adds vertical writing mode support for form control elements across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.
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Allegations of criminality by Boeing in deceased whistleblower complaint
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World Socialist Web Site
Allegations of staggering criminality by Boeing spelled out in complaint by whistleblower John Barnett, released by lawyers after…
As more information emerges in the suspicious death of Barnett, lawyers for the longtime Boeing Quality Manager released his full whistleblower complaint Wednesday.
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Tooling has improved for ambitious software developers
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Therealadam
Adam Keys is Thinking
- Tooling has improved for ambitious software developers
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If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT
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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM
RAFT (Retrieval Augmented Fine-tuning): A new way to teach LLMs (Large Language Models) to be better at RAG (Retrieval Augmented…
RAFT “Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning” combines the benefits of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and Fine-Tuning for better domain adaptation
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Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes
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Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
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SpaceX forced workers to sign illegal severance agreements, US agency claims
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How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
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Quanta Magazine
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
Large language models do better at solving problems when they show their work. Researchers are beginning to understand why.
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Only seven countries in the world breathe safe air. Three of them are in Europe
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euronews
Which European countries have the best - and worst - air quality?
Scientists say that air pollution is a ‘global health catastrophe’.
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Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent
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CyberInsider
Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent
Glassdoor users report privacy policy changes which include publishing people's real names and locations on their profiles without consent.
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Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
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TechCrunch
Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
One user said Glassdoor took her full name from an email and added it to her profile. Another user said it wasn't clear how Glassdoor got his data.
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Apollo Data Uncovers Lunar Seismic Events
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essopenarchive.org
New Views of Lunar Seismicity Brought by Analysis of Newly Discovered Moonquakes in Apollo Short-Period Seismic Data - ESS Open…
In the 1970s, two types of seismometers were installed on the nearside of the Moon. One type is called the Long-Period (LP) seismometer, which is sensitive below 1.5 Hz. The other is called the Short-Period (SP) seismometer, whose sensitivity is high
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