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Before the Internet (2017)
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The New Yorker
Before the Internet
Shouts & Murmurs: You could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do.
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HTML Periodic Table
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‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis
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The Stanford Daily
‘A toxic culture of overwork’: Inside the graduate student mental health crisis
The crisis extends into the ways counseling and psychological services are provided at the University and into the intrinsic nature of graduate education.
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The perilous life of a computer virus cracker making enemies online
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www.bbc.co.uk
Hated and hunted
The perilous life of the computer virus cracker making powerful enemies online
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The world pulls the Andon cord on the 737 Max
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The Air Current
The world pulls the Andon cord on the 737 Max
The thing that made the 737 a success is the thing that can now save it.
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The Intercept, a billionaire-funded public charity, cuts back
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Columbia Journalism Review
The Intercept, a billionaire-funded public charity, cuts back
On Wednesday, First Look Media delivered the latest in a flurry of bad news for digital media: the company, which includes The Intercept and was founded by a tech billionaire turned Twitter critic of Donald Trump, said it could no longer afford its research…
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Experts Keep Getting the Economy Wrong
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Nytimes
Opinion | The Experts Keep Getting the Economy Wrong (Published 2019)
Again and again, forecasters have been too optimistic — which is a sign of the economy’s funk.
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With single gene insertion, blind mice regain sight
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Medicalxpress
With single gene insertion, blind mice regain sight
It was surprisingly simple. University of California, Berkeley, scientists inserted a gene for a green-light receptor into the eyes of blind mice and, a month later, they were navigating around obstacles ...
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Thinkpad X210
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geoff.greer.fm
Thinkpad X210
A couple years ago, I used an old Thinkpad while my MacBook was being repaired. I enjoyed the experience so much that I ended up getting a Thinkpad X62 (an X61 chassis with modern internals). Last S…
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The Deadlock Empire: A game that teaches locking and concurrency [2016]
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deadlockempire.github.io
The Deadlock Empire
Slay dragons, learn
concurrency! Play the cunning Scheduler, exploit flawed
programs and defeat the armies of the Parallel Wizard.
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What the Hell Is Going On
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David Perell
What the Hell is Going On? - David Perell
David shares how the new age of information abundance is transforming commerce, education, and politics. Read here.
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Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers
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Atlas Obscura
On the Hunt for Japan’s Elaborate, Colorful Manhole Covers
Dedicated enthusiasts travel the country and scour the ground to see them.
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Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years
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the Guardian
Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years
Greek historian’s denoscription of ‘baris’ vessel vindicated by archaeologists at sunken city of Thonis-Heraclion
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Nitrogen-fixing trees “eat” rocks, play pivotal role in forest health
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Life at OSU
Nitrogen-fixing trees “eat” rocks, play pivotal role in forest health
CORVALLIS, Ore. – By tapping nutrients from bedrock, red alder trees play a key role in healthy forest ecosystems, according to a new study. The study published today in the journal Proceedings of
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Famous Transcendental Numbers
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A distributed rate counting system with Lua and Redis
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Leandro Moreira
How to build a distributed throttling system with Nginx + Lua + Redis
At the last Globo.com’s hackathon, Lucas Costa and I built a simple Lua library to provide a distributed rate measurement system that depends on Redis and run embedded in Nginx but before we …
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TWA Hotel Inside Eero Saarinen's JFK Airport Terminal Open for Reservations
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Dezeen
TWA Hotel inside Eero Saarinen's JFK Airport terminal open for reservations
Reservations are now open for guests wishing to stay at Eero Saarinen's 1960s terminal building at New York's John F Kennedy airport.
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Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20m in Series A funding
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TechCrunch
Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside round
You’ve probably noticed: Design has become central for many businesses that might have once considered it an afterthought. Indeed, with sales and marketing so thoroughly optimized at this point — and companies wondering how else to trounce the competition…
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Kryofluxing PC Floppies
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Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames
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Dwheeler
Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems
This article will try to convince you that adding some limitations on legal Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames would be an improvement. Many programs already presume these limitations, the POSIX standard already permits such limitations, and many Unix/Linux filesystems…
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The Untold History of Arduino
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