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The Inuit agree on a common writing system
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The Economist
The Inuit agree on a common writing system
A boost to a threatened language group
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Seattle looks to rein in policy used to quash big projects and developments
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CHS Capitol Hill Seattle
‘It’s rooted in the 1970s-era conception of environmentalism’ — Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big…
To rise above Capitol Hill, the Bullitt Center, the world’s first super-green “living” office building, faced a nearly unbelievable fight. Owners of a neighboring building used the State’s Environm…
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A Multithreaded fork of Redis that is 5X Faster than Redis
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docs.keydb.dev
A Multithreaded Fork of Redis That’s 5X Faster Than Redis | KeyDB - The Faster Redis Alternative
What if I told you there is a fork of Redis that can run 5x faster with nearly 5x lower latency. What if you no longer needed sentinel nodes and your replicas could accept both reads and writes? This could provide the potential to achieve a 10x reduction…
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Joint Statement on the GNU Project
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guix.gnu.org
Joint statement on the GNU Project — 2019 — Blog — GNU Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at
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the morning paper
150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com
150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com Bernadi et al., KDD’19 Here’s a paper that will reward careful study for many organisations. We’ve previously looked a…
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Neil Gaiman: My friend told me a story he hadn't told anyone
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Reblog by @neil-gaiman
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
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Fang-Pen's coding note
Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries Are Free for Anyone to Use
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kottke.org
Yellowstone National Park's Sound & Video Libraries Are Free for Anyone to Use
Yellowstone National Park maintains a collection of sounds and videos taken in the park that are in the public domain and free for anyone to use. The collection includes the sights and sounds of birds, geysers, bison,
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macOS Catalina is available today
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Apple Newsroom
macOS Catalina is available today
macOS Catalina, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is now available as a free software update.
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Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing
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Engineering at Meta
Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing system
Scribe is a distributed, buffered queueing system that encapsulates all the complexity behind moving service logs from point A to point B.
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TikTok famous: How the app is turning teenagers into celebrities
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Vox
How TikTok turns regular teens into celebrities
Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.
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Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
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Adobe
Cumplimiento de Adobe de orden ejecutiva de EE. UU. | Venezuela
Busque respuestas sobre el cumplimiento de Adobe con la Orden Ejecutiva 13884.
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IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
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ProPublica
IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.
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R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
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Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)
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Scientific American
Meet the Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks
European and Canadian orbiters can work together to catch wayward emissions
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Cross-Laminated Timber
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Cross Laminated Timber - AVC
Cross Laminated Timber (or CLT for short) is a structural building material that can replace concrete and steel in new building construction. I wrote about CLT back in April and mentioned that the Gotham Gal and I are in the process of making two CLT buildings…
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VeraCrypt 1.24
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veracrypt.fr
VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt…
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Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
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Bloomberg
Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
Armed with a street-design tool called the knip, the Dutch capital is slashing car access in the city center, and expanding public transit hours.
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South Park Scrubbed from Chinese Internet
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The Hollywood Reporter
'South Park' Scrubbed From Chinese Internet After Critical Episode
After the "Band in China" episode mocked Hollywood for shaping its content to please the Chinese government, Beijing has responded by deleting all clips, episodes and discussions of the Comedy Central show.
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Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent
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Microsoft News
Silly Alexa trick: Speaking French with a horrible American accent
Asking for a repeat, but in a different speech synthesizer.
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South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”
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South Park
Watch the full episode - cart.mn/sp-2302 @THR article - cart.mn/china
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