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Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015)
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www.fcc.gov
Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal?
The FM broadcast in the United States starts at 88.0 MHz and ends at 108.0 MHz. The band is divided into 100 channels, each 200 kHz (0.2 MHz) wide. The center frequency is located at 1/2 the bandwidth of the FM Channel, or 100 kHz (0.1 MHz) up from the…
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It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
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Cory Foy
It's Time to Act - a Response to Marc Andreessen - Cory Foy
As promised, I’m rereading the “Build” essay by Marc Andreessen with fresh eyes. Somewhat fresh eyes since I woke up at 0430 thinking about it, but I have some tea and I’m ready to go. Let’s start from the beginning. Every Western institution was unprepared…
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In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung
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NY Times
‘My Last Stand’: In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung
Kim Yong-hee has been staging sit-ins and hunger strikes at the top of an 82-foot-tall traffic camera tower overlooking the busiest intersection in Seoul — for more than 300 days and counting.
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Designing GraphQL schemas
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Ardanlabs
Getting Started With Dgraph and GraphQL+-
Ardan Labs is trusted by small startups and Fortune 500 companies to train their engineers and develop business software solutions and applications.
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Swiss Cat Ladders: Documenting and Deconstructing Feline-Friendly Infrastructure
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99% Invisible
Swiss Cat Ladders: Documenting & Deconstructing Feline-Friendly Infrastructure
Cat ladders, shelves and other feline-oriented designs are commonplace features inside domestic spaces, but in places like Bern, Switzerland, they reach out into the public sphere as well, merging with architecture to create community-driven cat infrastructure.…
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Build a Team that Ships (2012)
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Naval
Build a Team that Ships
I started my first company 15 years go, and I still can’t manage. I suspect that very few people can. With AngelList, we want a team of self-managing people who ship code. Here’s what we do: Keep the team small. All doers, no talkers. Absolutely no middle…
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Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination
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davidt.co.uk
Kick The Shit Out Of Procrastination
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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things (2017)
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Atlas Obscura
Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things
A seemingly silly gesture is done for the sake of safety.
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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
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Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the
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Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
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Remote Work Report
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The GitLab Handbook
The Remote Work Report 2021
3,900 global remote workers share the good, bad, and unexpected of the new status quo
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The Marvel of Mozart’s Letters
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www.spectator.co.uk
The marvel of Mozart’s letters | The Spectator
Composers’ letters can make frustrating reading. But with Mozart, you get the whole personality — candid, perceptive, irresistibly alive and packed with filth
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Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going
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Bloomberg.com
Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going
The lawsuits are just getting started.
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SwimOS: Distributed platform for building stateful, real-time streaming apps
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GitHub
GitHub - swimos/swim: Full stack application platform for building stateful microservices, streaming APIs, and real-time UIs
Full stack application platform for building stateful microservices, streaming APIs, and real-time UIs - swimos/swim
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Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming
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www.2uo.de
Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming - Thomas' Digital Garden
My collection of things I've learned.
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ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture (2019)
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openreview.net
ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture; increasing shape...
ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards object texture (instead of shape like humans). Overcoming this major difference between human and machine vision yields improved detection performance and...
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Ask HN: How are you using Go to write production-grade back end services?
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Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states
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Oil in New York Plunges Below $15 as Storage Sites Fill
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Bloomberg.com
Oil Plunges Below Zero for First Time in Unprecedented Wipeout
Of all the wild, unprecedented swings in financial markets since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, none has been more jaw-dropping than Monday’s collapse in a key segment of U.S. oil trading.
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Cryptocurrency system using body activity data
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patentscope.wipo.int
WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections
This patent search tool allows you not only to search the PCT database of about 2 million International Applications but also the worldwide patent collections. This search facility features: flexible search syntax; automatic word stemming and relevance ranking;…
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Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS
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