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It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done
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It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done (Published 2019)
Voltaire was right.
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Why Being Bored Is Good
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The Walrus
Why Being Bored Is Good | The Walrus
Technology keeps us constantly stimulated. What do we lose when we no longer have nothing to do?
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Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions
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Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions.
Efforts to form unions at several smaller tech companies have stalled, showing the limits of how far a wave of employee activism can go.
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The new dynamic arrays in Excel with Python and xlwings
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xlwings
Dynamic arrays in Excel with Python and xlwings
The days of Ctrl-Shift-Enter and You can't change part of an array are finally over! Say hello to the new dynamic arrays that Microsoft has now (July 2019) rolled out to a broader user base: their Office 365 subscribers who are on the monthly channel.
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Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently
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Gizmodo
Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Says Most People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak deleted his personal Facebook account last year and is now telling everyone else they should do the same. Woz was stopped by TMZ at Reagan National Airport in D.C. recently and warned that the lack of privacy on the platform…
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More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions
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CNET
More than 1,000 Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions
The apps gather information such as location, even after owners explicitly say no. Google says a fix won’t come until Android Q.
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Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash
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Righto
Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash
We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer 1 . Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Try...
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Deutsche Bank staff sent home as 18,000 job cuts begin
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the Guardian
Deutsche Bank staff sent home as 18,000 job cuts begin - as it happened
Deutsche Bank staff across the globe have learned how the bank’s massive restructuring plan will affect them
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In 1919, an Army convoy drove cross-country from Washington to San Francisco
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Washington Post
- The Washington Post
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Why do you host offensive content?
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The human impact of having too few nurses
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Research Digest
The Human Impact Of Having Too Few Nurses
By Lucy Maddox. This new research adds to a body of evidence that takes the blame off the nurse and squarely places the responsibility on the system to do better.
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The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy
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AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome
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AnandTech
AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome
Editor's Note: With Zen 2 set to launch tomorrow (7/7), here's our architecture analysis from last month for some timely background information.
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It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion in US History
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The Sounding Line
It's Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion in US History - The Sounding Line
Since 1854, the average economic expansion has lasted just over three years
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Announcing Code Annotations for SourceHut
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Photon Micro GUI
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Cycfi Research
Elements C++ GUI library
Update: Renamed the library to avoid the name Clash with QNX Photon.Let me tell you a bit about Elements... From my previous post about Ascend, some folks noticed its existence and actually found the github repository. The repository is rather underwhelming…
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Blindsided by a Devastating Veto, Alaska University System Pleads for Lifeline
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NY Times
Blindsided by a ‘Devastating’ Veto, Alaska’s University System Pleads for a Lifeline
Facing campus closures and wide layoffs, university leaders are pleading with lawmakers to override the governor’s deep cuts to state support in a special session this week.
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Data-Oriented Design (2018)
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Where we see shapes, AI sees textures
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Quanta Magazine
Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes.
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3D Wireframes Using SVG
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The Little Grasshopper
3D Wireframes in SVG
How to use Python to generate 3D SVG.
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The Spanish Prisoner: On the Future of Libra and Bitcoin
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Epsilon Theory
The Spanish Prisoner
Mark Zuckerberg is not The Spanish Prisoner. He's the guy running the con. Libra, the cryptocoin promoted by Facebook, is a classic Spanish Prisoner con.
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