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Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (1992)
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Nebraska Furniture Mart
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Why I don't love Light Rail Transit
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Substack
Why I don't love Light Rail Transit
Snippets 2, Episode 22
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Small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1
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Swift by Sundell
5 small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1 | Swift by Sundell
Swift 5.1 has now been officially released, and despite being a minor release, it contains a substantial number of changes and improvements. This week, let’s take a look at five of those features, and what kind of situations they could be useful in.
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Folding Paper Globes
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Psychological Effects of a 1-Month Meditation Retreat
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Psychological Effects of a 1-Month Meditation Retreat on Experienced Meditators: The Role of Non-attachment
Background: There are few studies devoted to assessing the impact of meditation-intensive retreats on the well-being, positive psychology, and personality of experienced meditators. We aimed to assess whether a 1-month Vipassana retreat: (a) would increase…
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MIT Media Lab has a new worry
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NY Times
M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by the Epstein Scandal, Has a New Worry (Published 2019)
Former researchers for a “food computer” initiative at the lab say the project’s leader misled outsiders about how it was going.
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Money as a System of Control (2017)
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The Distillery
Money as a System of Control - Andreas Antonopoulos - Trannoscript & Video
Video and trannoscript of one of Andreas Antonopoulos' most powerful speeches, unedited, and transcribed in full. "Money as a System of Control"
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
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Nielsen Norman Group
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.
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Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are your best sources for evidence-based parenting?
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Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees
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GitHub
GitHub - spandanb/asciitree: Create beautiful ascii trees
Create beautiful ascii trees. Contribute to spandanb/asciitree development by creating an account on GitHub.
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For Airbnb employees, dream turns into disillusionment
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SFGate
For Airbnb employees, dream turns into disillusionment
SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, several Airbnb employees wrote a letter to the online...
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Proximate vs. Root Causes: Why You Should Keep Digging to Find the Answer (2017)
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Farnam Street
Proximate vs Root Causes: Keep Digging to Find the Answer
Distinguishing between proximate and root causes is an important part of continuously improving. Read this to learn more about this mental model.
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Systemd-Homed: Systemd Now Working to Improve Home Directory Handling
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Phoronix
Systemd-homed: Systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling - Phoronix
Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.
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Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
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WIRED
Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act.
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American Emergency Rooms Confront a Crisis of Violence
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City Journal
Emergency in the Emergency Room
American ERs confront a crisis of violence.
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The Church of Interruption
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Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country
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The Atlantic
Silicon Valley Is One of the Most Polluted Places in the Country
Microchip manufacturers contaminated the groundwater in the 1980s. Almost 40 years later, the cleanup still isn’t complete.
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Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150k UK holidaymakers
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the Guardian
Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150,000 UK holidaymakers
About 9,000 British jobs at risk after last-minute rescue talks fail to keep firm afloat
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Keyhut POS, Free, Single Dev QBasic POS for DOS
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Keyhut
Free POS Software / Free Cash Register Program.
Download free POS software or free cash register
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When TCP sockets refuse to die
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idea.popcount.org
When TCP sockets refuse to die —
Idea of the day
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