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On learning chess as an adult: From 650 to 1750 in two years
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Jacob Brazeal
On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it’s become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I’m now working at VisioStack and starting a master’s i…
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Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS
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MacRumors
Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS
Following the release of macOS Big Sur on Thursday, Mac users began to experience issues with opening apps while connected to the internet....
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A woman who is allergic to water (2016)
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Bbc
The woman who is allergic to water
Rachel’s rare condition means that a bath is agony; even her own tears will scorch her face. How can the human body reject life’s most basic necessity?
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The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
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Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server
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Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house
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BBC News
Stolen books worth £2.5m found under floor of Romanian house
The "irreplaceable" works, including a first edition by Galileo, were taken in a dramatic London heist.
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Italian police use Lamborghini to transport donor kidney 300 miles in two hours
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Jalopnik
Italian Police Use Lamborghini To Transport Donor Kidney 300 Miles In Two Hours
In what may be one of the most Italian things that has ever happened, the Italian State Police rushed a donor kidney from Padua to Rome for a transplant in a Lamborghini Huracan. Last week’s journey is around 300 miles, but with the help of a specially-outfitted…
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Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had
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Alexey Guzey
Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had, as …
It’s easy to give useless advice that feels profound.
For example, one of the pieces of advice I give most often to people is to write more. So a few months ago I suggested to a friend of mine that they should write about the situations in which they started…
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A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension
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Forbes
A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension
It's fundamentally different from space. Here's how.
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Apple apps can bypass firewalls and VPNs – a potential security/privacy issue
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TNW
Apple apps on Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs — this is terrible
Security researchers have found that Apple apps on Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs — this is a huge security and privacy issue.
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Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads
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Redpanda
Redpanda | The streaming data platform for developers
Redpanda is a powerful, simple, and cost-efficient streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka
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APIs while eliminating Kafka complexity.
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Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning
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Time has come for four-day week, say European politicians
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the Guardian
Time has come for four-day week, say European politicians
Left-leaning parties and trade unionists argue that working patterns need to be rethought
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A Remembrance of Forrest Fenn
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Medium
A Remembrance of Forrest Fenn
My friend Forrest Burke Fenn passed away at the age of 90 earlier this month, and if I have anything to say about it, far too soon.
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Max Schrems hits Apple with complaints over ad-tracking device
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Bloomberg
Apple Targeted by Privacy Campaigner Who Took on Facebook
Apple Inc.’s ad tracking is the target of two complaints to Spanish and German authorities by a privacy advocate whose earlier legal battles are forcing Facebook Inc. to change the way it transfers data.
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Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
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the Guardian
Hopes of Covid vaccine for more than 1bn people by end of 2021
Moderna becomes second firm to reveal positive results with nearly 95% protection in trials
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Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life
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Medium
Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps — For Your Entire Life
A new augmented reality headset will create a map of everything you see
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Show HN: Ubuntu Mate
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Ubuntu MATE
Ubuntu MATE | For a retrospective future
A community developed, Ubuntu based operating system that beautifully integrates the MATE desktop. Ubuntu MATE is a stable, easy-to-use operating system with...
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Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages
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GitHub
GitHub - nelsontky/gh-pages-url-shortener: Minimal URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub pages.
Minimal URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub pages. - nelsontky/gh-pages-url-shortener
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FreeCAD Simulator
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CrazyRobMiles/FreeCADSimulator
A tiny Python environment for debugging FreeCAD macros - CrazyRobMiles/FreeCADSimulator
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Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection
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BBC News
Moderna: Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection
The results add to growing confidence that vaccination can end the pandemic.
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