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Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
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Yarn's Future - v2 and beyond · Issue #6953 · yarnpkg/yarn
Hi everyone, When the Yarn project started back in 2016, our landscape was very different from what it is now. Package locking was far from being a first class citizen in the Javanoscript ecosystem, ...
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American justice system ignores science in the pursuit of convictions
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NBC News
How bad science is being used to send people to prison
Forensic techniques including bite-mark comparisons and blood-spatter analysis have sent dozens of innocent people to prison.
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Una Corda, a piano with one string per note
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Klavins Piano
Una Corda - Klavins Piano
World First in Piano Building. Commissioned by and in cooperation with Nils Frahm we have developed the Una Corda Piano.
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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly (2017)
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what ...
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Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media
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Y Combinator
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media – Samantha Bradshaw
Samantha Bradshaw is a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project and a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. She’s been tracking the phenomenon of political manipulation through social media.
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Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?
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Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
Why are pianos traditionally tuned "out of tune" at the extremes?
My understanding is that the vast majority of western music uses equal temperament, i.e. all semitones have a frequency ratio of the 12th root of 2.
However I can hear in my piano that the notes at...
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Theranos CEO Says 'I Don't Know' 600+ Times in Deposition
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ABC News
Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes says 'I don't know' 600-plus times in never-before-broadcast deposition tapes
elizabeth Holmes has since settled with the SEC, with no admission of wrongdoing, but is now facing up to 20 years in prison and awaiting a criminal trial.
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Threads Basics (2009)
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Google Search Operators: A Complete List
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SEO Blog by Ahrefs
Google Search Operators: The Complete List (44 Advanced Operators)
They're super powerful.
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Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
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The Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft acquires Citus Data, re-affirming its commitment to Open Source and accelerating Azure PostgreSQL performance and scale
Data and analytics are increasingly at the center of digital transformation, with the most leading-edge enterprises leveraging data to drive customer acquisition and satisfaction, long-term strategic planning, and expansion into net new markets. This digital…
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Oregon Bottle Deposit System Hits 90 Percent Redemption Rate
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www.opb.org
Oregon Bottle Deposit System Hits 90 Percent Redemption Rate
Oregon’s bottle deposit system is recycling more containers than ever before despite major disruptions in global recycling markets.
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Why We Dominate the Earth
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Farnam Street
Yuval Noah Harari: Why We Dominate the Earth
Why did Homo sapiens diverge from the rest of the animal kingdom and go on to dominate the earth? Communication? Cooperation? According to best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari, that barely scratches the surface.
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For $29, This Company Swears It Will ‘Brainwash’ Someone on Facebook
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The Daily Beast
For $29, This Company Swears It Will ‘Brainwash’ Someone on Facebook
A shadowy startup claims it can target an individual Facebook user to bend him or her to a client’s will. Experts are… not entirely convinced.
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Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users
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Medium
Confiant & Malwarebytes Uncover Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan On Mac Users
Recent months have seen an uptick in reports of JavaScript malware that hides in image files. This is often referred to as “image based…
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Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data
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Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
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Facebook lobbied in favour of upload filters
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Boing Boing
Facebook sold out the internet, secretly lobbied IN FAVOUR of upload filters
Though Facebook’s lobbying associations spent the whole debate over the EU Copyright Directive arguing (correctly) that algorithmic filters to catch copyright infringement would end up blocki…
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Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize
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Engadget
Nearly half of game developers want to unionize
A lot of game developers say they want to unionize -- but will they?
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DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video]
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Twitch
StarCraft - Twitch
Tespa Collegiate Series: StarCraft II Team Brawl Playoffs - Final Day
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Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018)
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www.maizure.org
Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux – MaiZure's Projects
Tracing the x86 context switch in Linux throughout time
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Right to Repair is already hurling into action in 2019
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iFixit
Right to Repair Is Already Hurtling into Action in 2019
Just three weeks into the new year, Right to Repair laws are being proposed across the country. These laws would restore our ability to fix the things we own by…
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