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Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in man's home for decades
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CBC
Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in Sask. man's home for decades | CBC News
Thanks to an intrepid rescue more than 60 years ago, original blueprints of a famously cancelled Canadian military project are now on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada Centre.
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How to use Query Objects to refactor Rails SQL-queries
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Refactor Rails SQL with Query Objects | mkdev
Ivan Shamatov, mkdev Ruby on Rails mentor, describes Query Objects and explains how to put them into practice
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13.3" full color ePaper display
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A note on reading big, difficult books
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Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong
A Note on Reading Big, Difficult Books...
Knowledge system and cognitive science guru Andy Matuschak writes a rant called _Why Books Don’t Work_ , about big, difficult books that take him six to nine hours each to read: >Have you ever had a book… come up… [and] discover[ed] that you’d absorbed what…
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Show HN: Visualizing Your Life in Weeks
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Failflow
How many weeks until you die?
Find out how many more weeks you have to live!
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Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
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Teen Vogue published and then deleted an uncritical story about Facebook
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Business Insider
An uncritical Teen Vogue story about Facebook caused bewilderment about whether it's sponsored content before the entire article…
Teen Vogue published and then promptly deleted a story about Facebook's 2020 election efforts. No one has any idea what's going on.
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Lidar Company Velodyne Debuts $100 Auto Safety Sensor
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Forbes
Lidar Pioneer Velodyne Debuts $100 Auto Safety Sensor As Self-Driving Cars’ Pace To Market Slows
The leading lidar sensor company is looking to expand sales in the near term as demand for hardware for self-driving vehicles grows slowly.
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Sonos: Working with big tech sucks
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The Verge
Sonos said what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks
Google is explicitly denying it copied Sonos’ technology
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Hector Garcia-Molina, influential database expert, dies at 65 (2019)
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Stanford News
Hector Garcia-Molina, influential computer scientist and database expert, dies at 65
Over his 40-year academic career, Garcia-Molina helped lay the technological foundations for cloud computing.
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Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
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Leaving Pittsburgh because of industrial air pollution
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When better isn't good enough: Why I tell my Google co-workers and industry peers to avoid Pittsburgh - PublicSource
Editor’s note, Jan. 11: Google issued a statement in response to this first-person essay. Compelling personal stories told by the people living them. In 2017, I was working for Google in the Bay Area of California, lamenting the ever-rising cost of housing…
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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010)
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Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
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Scientific American
Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak , an oceangoing engineer, has figured out a way to recover the colorful brilliance of the deep.
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Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer, died on December 26, 2019
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U.S. cancer death rate drops by largest annual margin ever, report says
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STAT
U.S. cancer death rate drops by largest annual margin ever, report says
The drop was largely credited to a decline in lung cancer deaths due to advances in treatments, among other factors, the American Cancer Society said.
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To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air
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Scientific American
To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air
Such energy storage technology could help relieve congested transmission lines in places like Vermont
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Hummingbird – AirVPN's free and open source OpenVPN 3 client
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GitLab
Files · master · AirVPN / hummingbird
Free and open source OpenVPN 3 client based on AirVPN's OpenVPN 3 library fork with CHACHA20-POLY1305 support on both Data and Control Channel.
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Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall
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Public Books
Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall
Isaac Asimov loved large numbers. He was born a century ago this month, and when he died, in 1992, he was both the most famous science fiction writer in the ...
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Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
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Spiegel
Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
Billionaires and leading researchers in the United States are developing next-generation nuclear reactors that are small, reputedly safe and suitable to modern power grids. They could be part of the climate change solution.
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Integrate PWAs into Native Sharing UIs with Workbox
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web.dev
Integrate PWAs into built-in sharing UIs with Workbox
How to register routes in Workbox so that your Progressive Web App shows up in system-level sharing UIs, alongside platform-specific apps.
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