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R number for UK below 1 for first time since August
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BBC News
R number for UK below 1 for first time since August
Scientific advisers to the government estimate the coronavirus epidemic is no longer growing.
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Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity
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Renew Economy
Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity
Tasmania declares it now produces enough renewable electricity to meet 100 per cent of its needs, with wind turbines at Granville Harbour coming online.
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Just Solve the File Format Problem
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K6 is “like unit testing, for performance”
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GitHub
GitHub - grafana/k6: A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - grafana/k6
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Tony Hsieh Has Died
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Yahoo Life
Tony Hsieh, Zappos Luminary Who Revolutionized the Shoe Business, Dies at 46
The big-hearted exec pioneered footwear e-tailing and delivered happiness to countless people.
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Ontology, Graphs and Turtles
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blog.owulveryck.info
Ontology, graphs and turtles - Part II
This article is about parsing and extracting the knowledge from a triplestore to create a graph in-memory in Go.
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Life on the inside as a ‘locked-in’ patient
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the Guardian
'Is anybody in there?' Life on the inside as a locked-in patient
The long read: Jake Haendel spent months trapped in his body, silent and unmoving but fully conscious. Most people never emerge from ‘locked-in syndrome’, but as a doctor told him, everything about his case is bizarre
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The Unix Command Language (1976)
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GitHub
GitHub - susam/tucl: The first-ever paper on the Unix shell written by Ken Thompson in 1976 scanned, transcribed, and redistributed…
The first-ever paper on the Unix shell written by Ken Thompson in 1976 scanned, transcribed, and redistributed with permission - susam/tucl
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AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock
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The Register
AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock
Cloud giant has a lust for Rust so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language
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Goodbye PowerDns
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Powerdns
Goodbye DNS, Goodbye PowerDNS! | PowerDNS Blog
After over 20 years of DNS and PowerDNS, I am moving on. Separate from this page, I am releasing a series of three huge posts on the history of PowerDNS.
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Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine
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phys.org
Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine
Mahesh Bandi, a physicist with the Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit, OIST Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, has found a way to produce N95-type respirator filters that is less expensive and ...
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Unusual murder weapons in crime fiction
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CrimeReads
The Most Unusual Murder Weapons in Crime Fiction
One of the first things you discover as a crime writer is that the range of plausible murder methods is disappointingly small. Basically, it’s stabbing, throat-cutting, strangling, shooting, drowni…
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Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of Covid
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CBS News
Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of COVID
Japan had turned the tide on suicides until the pandemic reality sunk in, now it could prove a worrying harbinger of a mental health crisis festering elsewhere.
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RipTable – multi-threaded Python data analytics tools for numpy arrays/datasets
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GitHub
GitHub - rtosholdings/riptable: 64bit multithreaded python data analytics tools for numpy arrays and datasets
64bit multithreaded python data analytics tools for numpy arrays and datasets - rtosholdings/riptable
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Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
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Amazon
Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
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How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Diary of Alice James (2017)
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Brain Pickings
How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Extraordinary Diary of Alice James, William and Henry James’s Brilliant Sister
“It is the most supremely interesting moment in life, the only one in fact when living seems life.”
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Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
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Nytimes
Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal (Published 2020)
The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.
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Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code
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simonwillison.net
datasette-ripgrep: deploy a regular expression search engine for your source code
This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
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Is Probability Real?
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Aram’s Lair of Mad Science
Is probability real? (Part 1)
Today, I want to address an issue with statements involving chance. To demonstrate, let’s first consider a statement that doesn’t involve chance:
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Show HN: NFreezer – Encrypted-at-rest remote backup tool
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GitHub
GitHub - josephernest/nfreezer: nFreezer is an encrypted-at-rest backup tool.
nFreezer is an encrypted-at-rest backup tool. Contribute to josephernest/nfreezer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Most Americans Object to Government Tracking Their Activities Through Cellphones
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WSJ
Most Americans Object to Government Tracking of Their Activities Through Cellphones
A new survey found widespread concern among Americans about government tracking of their whereabouts through their digital devices, with an overwhelming majority saying that a warrant should be required to obtain such data.
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