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When to Mock
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Enterprise Craftsmanship
When to Mock
The use of mocks in unit testing is a controversial topic (maybe less so now than several years ago). I remember how, throughout my programming career, I went from mocking almost every dependency, to the "no-mocks" policy, and then to "only mock external…
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Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
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Axios
Digital payments platform Stripe raises $600 million and is valued at nearly $36 billion
Venture capitalists remain willing and able to invest big dollars in select companies.
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For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression
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Quanta Magazine
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories
For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression.
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Engineers are Converting Old Shipping Containers into Mobile ICUs
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Engineering Passion
Engineers are Converting Old Shipping Containers into Mobile ICUs
Engineers are playing a vital role during pandemic. Engineers around the world are trying to build ventilators, PPEs and now intensive care units (ICUs).
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The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
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Nature Medicine
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
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GoPro Cuts More Than 20% of Workforce, Changes Sales Strategy
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Bloomberg.com
GoPro Cuts More Than 20% of Workforce, Changes Sales Strategy
GoPro Inc. said it will cut more than 200 jobs, shift the company’s sales operation to market its digital adventure cameras directly to consumers and withdraw its 2020 financial guidance in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Workstream: A super fast virtual computer you can use for anything
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Paperspace
NVIDIA H100 for AI & ML Workloads | Cloud GPU Platform | Paperspace
Accelerate AI training, power complex simulations, and render faster with NVIDIA H100 GPUs on Paperspace. Easy setup, cost-effective cloud compute.
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Now I Understand Why Almost No One Uses Encrypted Email
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Buridan's Principle (1984) [pdf]
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Microsoft Research
Buridan's Principle - Microsoft Research
I have observed that the arbiter problem, discussed in [22], occurs in daily life. Perhaps the most common example is when I find myself unable to decide for a fraction of a second whether to stop for a traffic light that just turned yellow or to go through.…
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Melting Ice Reveals a “Lost” Viking-Era Pass in Norway’s Mountains
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Scientific American
Melting Ice Reveals a “Lost” Viking-Era Pass in Norway’s Mountains
Artifacts show people used the route for 1,000 years—then abandoned it, possibly amid a plague
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10-core i9-10900F desktop CPU lags behind 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS mobile APU
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Notebookcheck
10-core Intel Core i9-10900F desktop CPU does well in Geekbench multi-core test but then gets put to shame by 8-core AMD Ryzen…
A 10-core Intel Core i9-10900F desktop processor has been spotted as part of an HP system on Geekbench, where it racked up strong single-core and multi-core scores. Unfortunately for the upcoming Comet Lake chip, its multi-core score lagged behind the result…
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Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro
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Auth0 JWT Auth Bypass: Case-Sensitive Blacklisting Is Harmful
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Cleaning algorithm finds 20% of errors in major image recognition datasets
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Deepomatic
How we improved computer vision metrics by more than 5% only by cleaning labelling errors - Deepomatic - Visual Automation Platform
Using simple techniques, we found annotation errors on more than 20% of images in popular open source datasets like VOC or COCO. By manually correcting those errors, we got an average error reduction of 5% for state-of-the-art computer vision models (and…
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Mailvelope
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Mailvelope
Add end-to-end encryption to your webmail address with Mailvelope!
The envelope for your emails! Mailvelope adds end-to-end encryption to your webmail address. Check out our products.
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Show HN: React-tater – A React component to add annotations to any element
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GitHub
GitHub - localjo/react-tater: A React component to add annotations to any element on a page
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A React component to add annotations to any element on a page
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Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups
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Librem 5 Is Calling
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Purism
Your Librem 5 is Calling – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Show HN: Clikan – a super simple personal kanban board that runs in a CLI
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GitHub
GitHub - kitplummer/clikan: clikan is a super simple personal kanban board that runs in a CLI
clikan is a super simple personal kanban board that runs in a CLI - kitplummer/clikan
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Michigan's Ex-Gov. Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water – and Lied About It
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Vice
Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water—and Lied About It
Six years after the city of Flint, Michigan, began using a toxic water source that sickened its residents, VICE uncovered payoffs, the silencing of a whistleblower, a shady financial deal, a coverup, and the former governor who presided over it all.
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Cheops telescope begins study of far-off worlds
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BBC News
Europe's Cheops telescope begins study of far-off worlds
Europe's newest space telescope starts its study and characterisation of distant planets.
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