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Learn to play Go
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online-go.com
Play Go at online-go.com! | OGS
Online-Go.com is the best place to play the game of Go online. Our community supported site is friendly, easy to use, and free, so come join us and play some Go!
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New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens
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New in Firefox (Desktop Only): Visual Search
Hi everyone, We’re rolling out a new feature over the next few weeks: visual search powered by Google Lens! Why are we doing this? For several years you’ve been able to effectively search the internet with a number of search providers in Firefox. As those…
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The doctor who says we can improve our vision – at any age
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Thetimes
The doctor who says we can improve our vision — at any age
The eye expert Dr Bryce Appelbaum on the simple exercises and lifestyle changes that can help
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Do not do this unless you want magic black smoke
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The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
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The MIT Press Reader
The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.
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Austria's military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice
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This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why
It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason.
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The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign
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The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign
In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "strudel" in Hebrew, "dog" in Russian and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is a mirror, and its story goes back thousands of years.
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Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
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BBC News
UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.
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I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game
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App Store
RidePods - Race with Head App - App Store
Download RidePods - Race with Head by Ali Tanis on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like RidePods - Race with Head…
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UK government underwriting £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack
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the Guardian
UK government will underwrite £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack
Britain’s largest automotive employer plans to restart engine manufacturing in early October, report says
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Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
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The Cloudflare Blog
Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the "tools" directly to the LLM. We tried something different: Convert the MCP tools into a TypeScript API, and then ask an LLM to write code that calls that API. The results…
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free
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the Guardian
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
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Ed Zitron is mad as hell
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Ed Zitron is mad as hell
How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics
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IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)
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Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union
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Ash's Blog
Beyond OpenMP in C++ & Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union
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TL;DR: Most C++ and Rust thread-pool libraries leave significant performance on the table - often running 10× slower than OpenMP on classic fork-join workloads and micro-benchmarks.
So I’ve drafted a minimal ~300-line library called Fork Union that lands…
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Questions to ask when you think need to finish something
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cassidoo.co
Questions to ask when you think you need to finish something
When a pursuit becomes a drag, here's some questions to help you figure out why, and what to do about it.
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EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies
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The Washington Post
EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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Fred Dibnah shows how to erect a chimney scaffold at 200 feet (1982) [video]
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1982: FRED DIBNAH shows HOW to erect a CHIMNEY SCAFFOLD at 200 feet! | Fred | 1980s | BBC Archive
"If that bloody rope breaks, you're dead."
Legendary steeplejack Fred Dibnah demonstrates the art of installing a chimney scaffold at 200ft while trying to avoid "half a day out with the undertaker".
"When I've done it, when I've got all the gear up, to…
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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
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www.julian.ac
Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
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Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
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Privacy Badger
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The Demon-Haunted World
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