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Einstein and his peers were 'irrationally resistant' to black holes
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Bbc
Einstein and his peers were 'irrationally resistant' to black holes. This illustrated story explores why
In a special illustrated feature, Ben Platts-Mills explains why Albert Einstein and other physicists refused to believe black holes could be real. Were they too strange to imagine?
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Discovered June 16th, large asteroid to pass between Earth and moon on Saturday
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CBC
Large asteroid to pass between Earth and the moon on Saturday | CBC News
On Saturday, an asteroid that is believed to be larger than 120 metres wide will make a close flyby to Earth.
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Hardware FPGA DPS-8M Mainframe and FNP Project
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DPS8M Blog
New Project:Hardware (FPGA) DPS-8/M ∕ FNP Project
We’re excited to announce an ambitious long-term project, currently in the early stages, to implement as much of the DPS‑8/M mainframe architecture as possible using one (or more) FPGAs — with the ability to run the full Multics operating system — is now…
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Quaternion Differentiation (2012)
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The ryg blog
Quaternion differentiation
I wanted to point someone to a short explanation of this today and noticed, with some surprise, that I couldn’t find something concise within 5 minutes of googling. So it seems worth writing …
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Windows: Insecure by Design
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The Register
Windows: Insecure by design
Get your hands off my computer, Microsoft!
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Pompeii fixed potholes with molten iron (2019)
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Smithsonian Magazine
Pompeii Fixed Potholes With Molten Iron
A new study suggests the Romans knew how to melt iron and used it to fill in wheel ruts and cavities on their stone streets
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It's getting harder to die
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Plough
It’s Getting Harder to Die
Lydia S. Dugdale looks at the tough choices families face when medical technology can prolong a loved one’s life.
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The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]
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Substack
The true story -- as best I can remember -- of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape.
Enjoy!
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Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
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Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code
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Visual Studio Magazine
Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.
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Paramount Wipes South Park, Daily Show Clips, and More from Websites
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GameSpot
Paramount Wipes South Park, Daily Show Clips, And More From Websites
Over two decades of clips and news stories have been wiped from Paramount's family of websites.
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A Eulogy for DevOps
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matduggan.com
A Eulogy for DevOps
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?
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The Origins of Yiddish (2014)
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Tablet
The Mystery of the Origins of Yiddish Will Never Be Solved
This is the second of two articles on the origins of the Yiddish language. *** Yiddish, it is an understatement to say, is not simply a language. It’s a culture, an identity, a past both comic and tragic—one that continues to inspire feelings as diverse as…
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T-Mobile users enraged as "Un-carrier" breaks promise to never raise prices
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Ars Technica
T-Mobile users enraged as “Un-carrier” breaks promise to never raise prices
FCC gets 1,600 complaints; users blast "deceptive advertising aimed at seniors."
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ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot
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arXiv.org
ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not...
ELIZA, often considered the world's first chatbot, was written by Joseph Weizenbaum in the early 1960s. Weizenbaum did not intend to invent the chatbot, but rather to build a platform for research...
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The History of "The Rule of Thirds"
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Photography Workshops
Where did the rule of thirds come from? — Photography Workshops
For about thirty years, photographic education leans on the rule of thirds, and other geometry like the Golden Mean. But where did these really come from? And how were they meant to be used?
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The XAES-256-GCM extended-nonce AEAD
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words.filippo.io
XAES-256-GCM
XAES-256-GCM is a new AEAD extended-nonce algorithm designed for high-level APIs and FIPS 140 compliance.
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What Happened to People Magazine?
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Substack
What Happened to People Magazine?
How the Most Important Celebrity Magazine of the Last 50 Years Started Endorsing "The Best Air Purifiers of 2024"
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OpenLoco: Modern, open source version of the classic transport simulation game
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OpenLoco
Welcome to OpenLoco
An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion
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The 'Pay Phone Bandit' Who Baffled the FBI in the '80s
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Mental Floss
King of Quarters: The ‘Pay Phone Bandit’ Who Baffled the FBI in the ’80s
Pay phones were thought to have an unpickable lock. Then James Clark came along.
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Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat
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Thechemicalengineer
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Using a vast array of mirrors that focus the sun’s heat onto a tower, the technology’s developer Synhelion plans to use its process to produce greener fuel for planes…
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