Forty years ago, Padgett Powell’s erudite coming of age novel Edisto was released and introduced readers to a 12-year-old literary prodigy named Simons Everson Manigault. Following an acrimonious s…

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Justice Department is investigating the consulting firm’s advice to manufacturers of OxyContin and other opioid products.

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I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal
methods inline inside a Ruby file.
It’s a neat project, and I don’t want to take away from it but something in the
README example looked off to me.
require 'crystalruby'
require…

It used to be that you could pay for a retail version of Windows 11 and expect it to be ad-free, but those days are apparently finito.

Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes):

The two vendors emerged successful from an original pool of five and are expected to carry their drone designs through a prototyping phase that will build and test aircraft.

The length of bamboo internodes increases from the base to the middle of the pole, and decreases from the middle to the tip. The thickness of the bamboo wall, for its part, decreases from base to tip.

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