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How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs (2017)
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The Atlantic
How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country.
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Firefox in Unity
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Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog
A browser plugin for Unity
Unity's development tools and engine are far and away the most common way to
build applications for VR and AR today. Previously, we've made it possible to
export web-based experiences [https://blog.mozvr.com/unity-webxr-exporter-update/] from
Unity. Today…
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‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes
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Nature
‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes
Scientific Reports - ‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes
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Acorn Archimedes – A Technical Introduction (1987) [video]
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YouTube
Acorn Archimedes - A Technical Introduction - 1987 BBC VHS Video
Fred Harris talks to Roger Wilson about the technical aspects of the Acorn Archimedes A305. Also features footage from Zarch by David Braben. Produced by the BBC. Digitised from VHS Video Tape by The Centre for Computing History.
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Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode – Linux Support Lands
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Phoronix
Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands
On top of Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics bringing other media engine improvements and much better 3D graphics support, another exciting element of the next-generation Intel graphics is now confirmed: GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding!
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Noprocrast
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Tutswiki
noprocrast :: TutsWiki Beta
I wrote a command line noscript called noprocrast. This noscript updates /etc/hosts to make distracting websites unreachable from my machine.
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Ansible-Defined Homelab
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0Xc45
0xC45 - Ansible-defined Homelab
0xC45 blog
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Whose bug is it anyway?
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Terence Eden’s Blog
Whose bug is it anyway?
I found a curious little bug and I’m interested in who you think should take responsibility for it. My mobile network provider sent me this message: I clicked on the link, and got this error …
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Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity
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journals.plos.org
Dance training is superior to repetitive physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity in the elderly
Animal research indicates that a combination of physical activity and sensory enrichment has the largest and the only sustaining effect on adult neuroplasticity. Dancing has been suggested as a human homologue to this combined intervention as it poses demands…
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D.E. Shaw, the first great quant hedge fund (2018)
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New York
How a Misfit Group of Computer Geeks and English Majors Transformed Wall Street
In the 1980s, a quiet hedge fund located above a Marxist bookstore launched a revolution that would change finance (and give us Amazon).
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Cryptography is not magic
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loup-vaillant.fr
Cryptography is not Magic
Crypto is often treated like a black art only anointed experts can hope to wield safely. It's not. There are laws, and we can learn them.
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Instagram caught keeping iOS camera on during usage
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9to5Mac
Instagram promises to fix bug after being exposed by always accessing the camera on iOS 14
We have already covered here some apps that were caught accessing users’ clipboard thanks to a new feature of iOS 14, but that’s not all. The next major update to Apple’s mobile operating system also indicates when an app is using the camera or microphone…
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Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?
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Understanding Null Safety in Dart
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dart.dev
Understanding null safety
A deep dive into Dart language and library changes related to null safety.
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Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vision API
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Medium
Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vision API
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What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?
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BuzzFeed News
What's The Point Of A Coronavirus Test That Takes 19 Days For Results?
Private laboratories and health agencies are swamped, leading to communication and technical breakdowns, as well as extensive delays for results.
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Doing Stupid Stuff with GitHub Actions
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Devopsdirective
Doing Stupid Stuff with GitHub Actions
TL;DR: DevOps doesn’t have to be all work and no play. I built 5 stupid (but fun!) GitHub actions… because why not?
The full code for these actions can all be found in this GitHub repo. I encourage you to fork and/or add issues/PRs with impractical actions…
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Japanese Architecture of the 1980-90s (2019)
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Adam Nathaniel Furman
THREAD: So, most people associate Japanese design with either cute kitsch or zen-like minimalism, but its much more diverse, & 1 of my particular fav periods was the architecture of its 80-90s boom era; wild, strange & incredibly diverse, & unique in world…
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In a GPT-3 World, Anonymity Prevents Free Speech
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Jay Riverlong
In a GPT-3 World, Anonymity Prevents Free Speech
What does it mean to have freedom of speech? Naively, it means that you have the right to express ideas without fear of governmental retaliation or censorship. But that’s not worth much in a vacuum. Free speech is valuable when you are communicating with…
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How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
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Bloomberg
How to Survive a Ransomware Attack Without Paying the Ransom
Norsk Hydro used faxes, Post-its, and old PCs to beat cybercriminals.
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Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
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Righto
Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
Introduced in 1978, the revolutionary Intel 8086 microprocessor led to the x86 processors used in most desktop and server computing today....
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