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China’s State Media Show Hong Kong Protest Images, Fanning Public Anger
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WSJ
China’s State Media Show Hong Kong Protest Images, Fanning Public Anger
China’s state media aired images from the aftermath of Hong Kong’s latest antigovernment protests, a change in tack that appears aimed at fanning public anger against the demonstrations, as Beijing signaled support for a stronger crackdown by authorities…
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Rebuilding Slack on the Desktop
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Medium
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
by Mark Christian and Johnny Rodgers
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The C256 Foenix Project
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Foenix Retro Systems
Home - Foenix Retro Systems
Foenix Retro Systems is a provider of "new" retro systems. Either based off the WDC65C816 or 32bits CPUs like the MC68EC030 or i486DX2-66.
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Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake
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WIRED
Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake
The company confirmed that it had notified users earlier this week that the Align supplements they purchased were likely counterfeits.
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Robinhood raises $323m at a $7.6b valuation
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The Block
Robinhood raises valuation to $7.6 billion, receives $323 million in funding
No-fee stock-trading startup Robinhood has received $323 million investment money in its newest funding round, Reuters writes. This brings the startup’s valuation to $7.6 billion, confirming earlier reports. Last year, Robinhood’s $363 million funding round…
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When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
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Slack Engineering
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop - Slack Engineering
Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time spent rewriting something that already works is time that won’t be spent making our customers working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.…
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Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data
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Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency
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The Economist
Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency
Chinese firms are piling into the business
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Webvan
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DoorDash are using your tips to pay workers’ wages
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The Verge
Delivery apps like DoorDash are using your tips to pay workers’ wages
Using tips to make up wages is common
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A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
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arXiv.org
Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent...
Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic aspects of recommender systems. With the strongly increased interest in machine learning in...
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The Legion Parallel Programming System
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Teaching Tech Together
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teachtogether.tech
Teaching Tech Together
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PEG Parsers
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Medium
PEG Parsers
Some years ago someone asked whether it would make sense to switch Python to a PEG parser. (Or a PEG grammar; I don’t recall exactly what…
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How to assess the quality of garments: A beginner's guide
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Anuschka Rees
How to assess the quality of garments: A Beginner's Guide {Part I} — Anuschka Rees
What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you see one. You need to be able to tell the difference between a durable, well-crafted piece and one that looks pretty…
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An Analysis of WeChat’s Realtime Image Filtering in Chats
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The Citizen Lab
(Can’t) Picture This 2
In this work, we study how Tencent implements image filtering on WeChat. We found that Tencent implements realtime, automatic censorship of chat images on WeChat based on what text is in an image and based on an image’s visual similarity to those on a blacklist.…
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Thoughts on Presenting (2014)
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The Fractionating Column
Thoughts on Presenting
(This is another lightly edited post from my old Amazon internal blog.) Your slides are the least of your worries Most contemporary articles about presentation spend at least some time answering th…
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Rechargeable vs. Alkaline Batteries
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NY Times
Are Rechargeable Batteries Better Than Alkaline? Most of the Time (Published 2019)
In some cases, single-use batteries are still the better option.
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The AI of GoldenEye 007
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GAMASUTRA
The AI of GoldenEye 007
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. AI and Games is a crowdfunded series about research and…
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Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman
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Awsapprunner
Containerize Your Dev Environment with Podman | mkdev
What is Podman and does it work? Podman's pods and what they are good for. How to use Podman in real Ruby on Rails application. How to avoid Podman bugs. Using Podman instead of Docker: is it worth it?
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Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena, Flooding It With Data
The tiny island will need to turn itself into a data hub to make use of the expected bandwidth
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