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Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
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Bbc
Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
Do you have a habit of picking up books which you never quite get around to reading? That's tsundoku.
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Von Braun Class Station
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Flanderization
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Flanderization - TV Tropes
The Flanderization trope as used in popular culture. The act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating …
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SolarWinds’ shares drop 22 per cent. But what’s this? $286m in stock sales
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The Register
SolarWinds’ shares drop 22 per cent. But what’s this? $286m in stock sales just before hack announced?
VC firms say they weren't aware Orion code had been backdoored
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Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder
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The Daily Beast
Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder
Two sources tell The Daily Beast that the president has expressed sympathy for the situation of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware
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GitHub
GitHub - fulldecent/system-bus-radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware.
Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware. - fulldecent/system-bus-radio
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Blob Opera
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Google Arts & Culture
Blob Opera - Google Arts & Culture
Create your own ML-powered opera song! by David Li with Google Arts &
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A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp
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Airplanes in 3D
A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings
This June I started working on a new (fourth) edition of my book about aircraft computer models. Actually, I am finishing its first volume (“Preparations”). It describes how to prepare accurate ref…
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January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all
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web.law.duke.edu
Public Domain Day 2021
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!
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On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf]
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Tensions in Google's ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO
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Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
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Daring Fireball
Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple’s Changes Strengthening iOS Privacy
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/16/facebook-takes-out-full-page-ads-to-attack-apple/
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Research in Programming Languages (2012)
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Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble
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DYNOMIGHT
Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s
You can make a DIY air purifier in 30s. To test if it works, I generated smoke, and measured how well it removes tiny particles.
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Creative Code-Generated Art
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Blog LIVE
10 Creative Coding Examples That Are Redefining Programming
Have you ever experienced true novelty? Something so mind-altering that it questions your definition of what you’ve known to be true for so long. I imagine the first people to watch a film or see an airplane felt this. It’s an inexplicable energy that has…
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React's UseRef Deep Dive
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Giovannibenussi
A Complete Guide to useRef
Prepare yourself for a deep dive on useRef, when you should use it instead of useState, and real-world use cases.
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Getting started with C programming a lightning-fast start for absolute beginners
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The Not Café - Enjoy Technology
Getting started with C programming: a lightning-fast start for absolute beginners
This tutorial will guide you through writing the "Hello World" program in the C programming language. You'll use Unix-style terminal emulators and command-line tools to execute commands, Linux-style package managers to install programs and libraries, the…
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Twitch bans words “simp” and “virgin”
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Gizmodo
Twitch Bans the Words 'Simp' and 'Virgin' (Actual Simps And Virgins Still Welcome)
Twitch announced on Wednesday that the words “simp,” “incel,” and “virgin” will no longer be allowed on the platform as long as they are used by streamers and commenters as insults.
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GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
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GitHub
GitHub - Opticos/GWSL-Source: The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases.
The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases. - Opticos/GWSL-Source
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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible
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Cockroachlabs
Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL are compatible
CockroachDB is PostgreSQL compatible in order to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge.
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51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities
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thechief.io
51% of 4 million Docker images have critical vulnerabilities
Prevasio, a cybersecurity startup, has announced that it has completed the scanning of 4 million container images at Docker Hub. Nearly 51% of the images have critical vulnerabilities, and nearly 6,500 of them can be considered malicious.
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