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Convier.me
– A Calendar Service for Developers
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Mikael Carlavan
Convier - Calendar service for developers
Convier is a REST API to exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos and journal entries directly in your users' calendars.
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Police found pickup truck full of bombs and guns near Capitol
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CNN
Feds say police found a pickup truck full of bombs and guns near Capitol insurrection as wide-ranging investigation unfurls | CNN…
An Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun two blocks from the US Capitol building on Wednesday for hours before authorities ever noticed, according to federal prosecutors.
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On Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines
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The BMJ
Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines—we need more details and the raw data - The BMJ
On 5 February 2021 we published a clarification to this piece. It is available here. Five weeks ago, when I raised questions about the results of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s covid-19 [...]More...
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Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F#
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markjames.dev
Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F# (Part One)
In my previous post, I discussed how I’ve decided to learn F# in 2021 for a number of reasons. Around the same time, I also happened to setup my Sim Racing rig so that I could continue to play iRacing with my VR headset (HTC Vive). Its been several years...
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They spent 12 years solving a puzzle. It yielded the first Covid-19 vaccines
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Science
They spent 12 years solving a scientific puzzle. It yielded the first COVID-19 vaccines.
Long before anyone knew of SARS-CoV-2, a small band of government and university scientists uncovered a prototypical key that unlocked life-saving immunizations.
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Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment
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Legends of Localization
Legends of Localization: Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment
I Google-Translated an entire video game one day. The results were so surprising that I even wrote a book about it!
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Ray Tracing in pure CMake
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Crude Oil Flow from Saudi Arabia to U.S. Falls to Zero
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Oil Price
Crude Oil Flow From Saudi Arabia To U.S. Falls To Zero
For the first time in 35 years, no oil flowed from Saudi Arabia to the United States last week, according to EIA data
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Show HN: DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books
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10 Fantastic Books By Developers For Developers
10 fantastic books written by developers for developers. Helping you with your career, the cloud, how to improve your writing and much more!
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Chris Patten: Mass arrests of Hong Kong Democrats [on Jan 6 2021]
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Hong Kong Watch
Chris Patten: Mass arrests of Hong Kong democrats shows why EU Parliament must reject China investment agreement — Hong Kong Watch
On 6 January 2021, 53 people were arrested in Hong Kong under the National Security Law, including the organisers and candidates in last July’s democratic primaries where over 600,000 Hong Kongers voted for pro-democracy candidates for the upcoming Legislative…
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Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
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RT International
‘Turning point in the battle for control’: Edward Snowden, others warn of consequences to Trump’s Facebook ban — RT USA News
Edward Snowden and others have reacted to news, and ensuing celebration, that Facebook will ban content from Donald Trump for two weeks by warning that giving such power to social media platforms sets a dangerous precedent.
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
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Custom Properties as State
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CSS-Tricks
Custom Properties As State | CSS-Tricks
Here's a fun idea from James Stanley: a CSS file (that presumably updates daily) containing CSS custom properties for "seasonal" colors (e.g. spring is
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Michael Apted has died
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BBC News
Michael Apted: TV documentary pioneer and film-maker dies aged 79
He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.
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Deep neck flexor exercises – Back and neck
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Next Gen Static Blogging
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Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England
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the Guardian
Government breaks promise to maintain ban on bee-harming pesticide
Farmers ‘relieved’ as chemical sanctioned for emergency use, despite EU prohibition backed by UK on using it outoors
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NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars
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Bbc
Nasa's Curiosity rover: 3,000 days on Mars
Three thousand days and counting: Nasa's Curiosity rover continues its extraordinary exploration of Mars.
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Why mmap is faster than system calls – by Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova
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Medium
Why mmap is faster than system calls
When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system call overhead”: the cost of crossing the…
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The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
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Wired
The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn't need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight.
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Early clinical trial shows anti-depressant prevents hospitalization from Covid
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