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Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx with first and only tweet for account
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Valve (@valvesoftware) on X
We make games, Steam, and hardware.
For support, visit https://t.co/VRsFD4GURP.
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Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study
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WIRED
Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart
Americans are as polarized as they've ever been. Could the problem be that we're caring for each other too much?
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Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.
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Cops put GPS tracker on man’s car, charge him with theft for removing it
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Ars Technica
Cops put GPS tracker on man’s car, charge him with theft for removing it
Cops tracked the man's car because they suspected he was dealing meth.
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Show HN: Blocklike.js Educational Library – So kids can level up from Scratch
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GitHub
GitHub - ronilan/BlockLike: Bridging the gap between block programming and JavaScript.
Bridging the gap between block programming and JavaScript. - GitHub - ronilan/BlockLike: Bridging the gap between block programming and JavaScript.
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Delftse Foundations of Computation (2018)
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Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audiobook star
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the Guardian
'Your throat hurts. Your brain hurts': the secret life of the audiobook star
As the business booms, narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a day
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Amazon is sending me packages I didn't buy
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The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker (1985)
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Testing Google Stadia [video]
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YouTube
We tested Google Stadia. The input lag is horrendous. | Launcher Reviews
Editor’s note: This video incorrectly states that we asked for Google for comment on the input lag time. At the time of publication, we had not asked for comment, but have subsequently done so.
Google Stadia is a great concept for the next generation of…
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The Floating-Point Guide (2010)
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The Floating-Point Guide - What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
Aims to provide both short and simple answers to the common recurring questions of novice programmers about floating-point numbers not 'adding up' correctly, and more in-depth information about how IEEE 754 floats work, when and how to use them correctly…
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40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year
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There Is No Cure for Burnout
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Ella Dawson
There Is No Cure For Burnout
I’m afraid that there is no cure for burnout. After all, you can’t untoast toast.
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Brokering Bricks: The World of Lego Investing
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Medium
Brokering Bricks: The World of Lego Investing
The Lego community has been flooded with people looking to turn a profit. Will it last?
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Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
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Bbc
Julian Assange: Sweden drops rape investigation
Prosecutors drop a rape inquiry into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is in custody in the UK.
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Fitbit users are getting rid of the devices because they don’t trust Google
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CNBC
Some Fitbit users say they're getting rid of the devices because they don't trust Google
Privacy groups this week began pushing regulators to block the Fitbit acquisition, which the company originally hoped to close in early 2020.
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Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone explained on functional programming
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Jrsinclair
Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about functional programming
Algebraic data types and algebraic data structures sound similar. It’s like they ought to be the same thing. But they’re not. They both have ‘algebraic’ in the name, so it’s confusing. I got them mixed up at times. Others have too. But, they’re different…
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The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere
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The Verge
The everything town in the middle of nowhere
A growing industry of "preppers" repackages goods from other stores before sending them to Amazon
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We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus – by accident
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LinkedIn
We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus – by accident.
I was studying the effectiveness of a head-mounted device to stop motion sickness in driverless cars when something unexpected happened. One of the participants in my experiment reported that her tinnitus had dramatically improved, she scored 100% for motion…
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"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"
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threader.app
A thread written by @mcclure111
A long time ago— like 15 years ago— I worked at Sun Microsystems. The company was nearly dead at the time (it died a couple years later) because they didn't make anything that anyone wanted to buy anymore. So they had a lot of strange ideas about how they'd…
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How to (not) have sex in the 600s
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Erik Wade
How to Have Sex in the 600s: A very NSFW #MedievalTwitter Thread. Archbishop Theodore gave many judgments on what sexual acts were appropriate (and not) in the late 600s in England. So...how *was* it appropriate to have sex? (Lyon, BM, MS 5128, f. 100r)
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