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The decline amounted to a 7% reduction in traffic in the toll zone south of 60th Street.

Hard drive that could provide access to 8,000 bitcoins is buried at the dump.

Researchers have discovered an underground aquifer in Oregon's Cascade Range is significantly larger than previously thought — three times the size of Lake Mead. This vast water reserve holds potential for both resource management and volcanic activity insights…

London's riverbanks are filled with treasures, including scores of deep red garnets with mysterious origins.

TL;DR – Introducing voyage-code-3, our next-generation embedding model optimized for code retrieval. It outperforms OpenAI-v3-large and CodeSage-large by an average of 13.80% and 16.81% on a suite …

Insects use “crazy turning” to dry off after a cooling dip in water

We are excited to announce the release of OpenZFS 2.3.0.
Key Features in OpenZFS 2.3.0:

RAIDZ Expansion (#15022): Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without dow...

The Campsite monorepo. Contribute to campsite/campsite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Eventually, models could be trained without any dedicated hardware at all

After any service at a Sikh gurdwara, or temple, the free meal of langar is served. Anybody is welcome, and all of the work for the meal is voluntary, an expression of selfless service. Learn about langar and try a recipe commonly served for it. 

Link to: https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/

And I think you should too.

Rather than technology alone, it's the practices, processes, and culture changes DevOps introduces that can most positively impact your software delivery.

A new survey found that fewer workers know what is expected of them at work.

what does MrBeast mean?