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I'm a Former Surgeon General and I Couldn't Believe My $10k Medical Bill
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I’m a Former Surgeon General and I Couldn’t Believe My $10k Medical Bill
Everyone must be able to access necessary care without fear of financial ruin
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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
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OMG! Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users
Ubuntu first switched to Wayland as its default display server in 2017, before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it
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Anthropic: Reflections on Our Responsible Scaling Policy
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Anthropic
Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
Last summer we published our first Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), which focuses on addressing catastrophic safety failures and misuse of frontier models. In adopting this policy, our primary goal is to help turn high-level safety concepts into practical…
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Unprojecting Text with Ellipses (2016)
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Needlessly complex
Unprojecting text with ellipses
Using transformed ellipses to estimate perspective transformations of text.
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What Is Generative Art?
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Amy Goodchild
What is Generative Art? — Amy Goodchild
Randomness, rules and natural systems. Some non-restrictive definitions and an exploration of the form.
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Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death
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PubMed
Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death: a competing risk analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden…
The longer life expectancy amongst women with active sun exposure habits was related to a decrease in CVD and noncancer/non-CVD mortality, causing the relative contribution of death due to cancer to increase.
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Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember
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CNBC
Steve Wozniak: When I die, these are the moments I want to remember—they don't involve co-founding Apple
Your accomplishments won't make you happy in the end, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a recent commencement speech. Here's what he says matters more.
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Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"
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GitHub
noscripts/ffmpeg-english at master · dheera/noscripts
personal noscripts to make life easier. Contribute to dheera/noscripts development by creating an account on GitHub.
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DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)
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The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)
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ianVisits
The myth of Medieval Small Beer
There is a story repeated so often that it has become a truth -- that medieval folk drank weak beer to avoid the perils of drinking water -- but it's a myth.
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Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for industry
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Cointelegraph
Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for crypto industry
The conviction of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev reinforces a very broad interpretation of criminal liability, which has major repercussions for blockchain.
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C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)
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GitHub
GitHub - mcinglis/c-style: My favorite C programming practices.
My favorite C programming practices. Contribute to mcinglis/c-style development by creating an account on GitHub.
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An identity thief stole $5k from me. I spent two years tracking down how
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MSN
An identity thief stole $5,000 from me. I spent two years tracking down how.
When a stranger got $5,000 of my money from a bank teller, it sent me on a two-year odyssey to figure out who was impersonating me and how.
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Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
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Substack
Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
Productivity on every platform - a deep dive on the ways we're writing Swift code on Windows, and improving the developer experience along the way.
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The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that
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Kilian Valkhof | Front-end & user experience developer
The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that | Kilian Valkhof
As someone building a browser I need to parse a lot of URLs. Partially to validate them, but also to normalize them or get specific parts out of the URL. The URL API in browsers lets you do that, but it’s ergonomics aren’t ideal. The problem with new URL()…
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The England museums averaging fewer than one visitor a day
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BBC News
Inside the England museums averaging fewer than one visitor a day
What is it like for the volunteers who keep England's smallest attractions going?
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You could have invented fractional cascading
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Uber Migrates 1T Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6M Annually
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Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot…
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British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim
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CNN
British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25 million deepfake scam victim
A British multinational design and engineering company behind world-famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House has confirmed that it was the target of a deepfake scam that led to one of its Hong Kong employees paying out $25 million to fraudsters.
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Free Julian Assange
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The President of Iran has died
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X (formerly Twitter)
OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) on X
Initial Reports from Search-and-Rescue Teams are stating that all Passengers including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have Died.
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