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Optical Disc Data Rot: Burned CDs going bad
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How-To Geek
The CDs You Burned Are Going Bad: Here’s What You Need to Do
If you used a computer between 1997 and 2005, you probably burned valuable data to at least one recordable CD (CD-R) or DVD-R. Unfortunately, these have a limited lifespan, and many have already become unreadable. That’s why it’s important to back up your…
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Hiring Without Whiteboards – Companies that don't have a broken hiring process
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GitHub
GitHub - poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards:
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Companies that don't have a broken hiring process - poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
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A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire
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The New Yorker
The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.
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Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
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South China Morning Post
Are fish sauces in Southeast Asia a relic of Roman Empire?
Nuoc mam in Vietnam, nam pla in Thailand, patis in Philippines – Southeast Asian fish sauces bear a startling similarity to garum, prized by ancient Romans. Could their fish sauce have travelled along the ancient Silk Road?
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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www.apmreports.org
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
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How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters
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Amazon
How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters using Kubecost | Amazon Web Services
Many AWS customers use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to operate multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters where workloads that belong to different teams or projects run in a shared cluster. Customers like that Kubernetes offers centralized management…
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Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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US About Amazon
Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
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Australia doubling fees for arts and humanities degrees
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Bbc
Why Australia is doubling fees for arts degrees
Australia’s government plans to increase university tuition fees for humanities subjects and reduce them for ‘job-relevant’ Stem courses. Is it a good idea?
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WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal
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Reuters
WHO says COVID-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization official on Tuesday described the COVID-19 pandemic as “one big wave” and warned against complacency in the northern hemisphere summer since the infection does not share influenza’s tendency to follow seasons.
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Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)
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Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test
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Quanta Magazine
An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test
Modified gravity theories have never been able to describe the universe’s first light. A new formulation does.
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Riding the Rays by Douglas Adams (1992)
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Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
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Medium
Announcing Clutch, the Open-source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
By Daniel Hochman and Derek Schaller
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Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene
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Realclearscience
Move Over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene. | RealClearScience
In 2004, researchers at the University of Manchester isolated and characterized graphene. A nearly flat, one-atom-thick crystalline form of carbon, the 2D
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UTF-8 bit by bit (2001)
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wiki.tcl-lang.org
UTF-8 bit by bit
Tclers wiki
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Bread, How Did They Make It?
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!
Thanks to our helpful volunteer narrator, this entire post series is now also available in audio format! This essay will hopefully be the first post in a series (II, III, IV, A) covering some of th…
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Doctor advises only using soap on your hands and nowhere else
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the Guardian
Soap dodger: meet the doctor who says we have been showering wrong
Hand-washing aside, James Hamblin has not used soap for five years. He warns that our obsession with being clean is harming the microbiome that keeps us healthy
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Stop Abusing Semver
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Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]
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AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings: Notebook and Server Sales Drive a Record Quarter
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AnandTech
AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings: Notebook and Server Sales Drive a Record Quarter
Continuing our look at tech industry financial results, AMD this afternoon is celebrating setting some new records in its Q2’2020 financial results. Enjoying a continuing turn-around in its fortunes t hanks in big part to its Zen series of CPU architectures…
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XXH3, world's fastest hash algorithm, has reached stable status
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GitHub
Performance comparison
Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. Contribute to Cyan4973/xxHash development by creating an account on GitHub.
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