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Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
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Learning Ruby: 2 Things I Like, 2 Things I Miss From Python
Thoughts on Ruby from the point of view of a Pythonista, brought to you by Workpath, the strategy execution platform.
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Why does my PC crash only when my cat is nearby?
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Why does my PC crash only when my cat is nearby?
I have a cat and he likes to walk around behind my desk, which is where my PC is. Somewhat frequently (at a rate of several times an hour) while he is doing this, the screen will suddenly turn blac...
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Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
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Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don…
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Fastcheck: Property based testing for JavaScript and TypeScript
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fast-check - Property based testing for JavaScript and TypeScript
Property based testing is another way to test programs. Instead of relying on hard-coded inputs and outputs, it checks characteristics of the output given the whole range of possible inputs.
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“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
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Medium
“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
Social media is a civilization-level problem
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Guthib
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“Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
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Reason
What The New York Times' Hit Piece on Slate Star Codex Says About Media Gatekeeping
"Silicon Valley's Safe Space" has misinformed readers.
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Security features of the Intel/Windows platform secure boot process
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Igor's Blog
In-depth dive into the security features of the Intel/Windows platform secure boot process
Introduction and System Architecture Buses More Components The Flash Chip Overview Early power on Bring-Up (BUP) CPU initialization UEFI initialization Loading the boot loader Windows Boot …
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The Libet experiment doesn't disprove free will (2019)
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Scientific American Blog Network
How a Flawed Experiment “Proved” That Free Will Doesn’t Exist
It did no such thing—but the result has become conventional wisdom nevertheless
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Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources
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Lastpass free limits to single device from March 16
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Logmeininc
Changes to LastPass Free
We've made changes to how LastPass Free users access LastPass across device types and how they get help. Please review important changes to LastPass Free in these FAQs.
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Blue Beads Could Be the Oldest Evidence of European Goods in North America
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Gizmodo
Found in Alaska, These Blue Beads Could Be the Oldest Evidence of European Goods in North America
European-crafted glass beads found at three different indigenous sites in northern Alaska date back to the pre-colonial period of North America, in what is an intriguing archaeological discovery.
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Python Pattern Matching
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GitHub
patma/README.md at master · gvanrossum/patma
Pattern Matching. Contribute to gvanrossum/patma development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Bitcoin surpasses $50K for first time ever as major companies jump into crypto
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CNBC
Bitcoin surpasses $50,000 for first time as major companies jump into crypto
Bitcoin has gotten a boost from news of large firms like Tesla, Mastercard and BNY Mellon warming to cryptocurrencies.
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TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
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U.S.
TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok was hit with multiple complaints from EU consumer groups on Tuesday for allegedly violating the bloc's consumer laws and for failing to protect children from hidden advertising and inappropriate content.
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Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%
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Trolly McTrollface's Blog
Bitcoin's Overnight Collapse Probability is About 50% - Trolly McTrollface's Blog
If you ever had a look at CME’s Bitcoin futures, you might have noticed that there are multiple contracts – one for each month, and that they have different prices. Systematically, the futures contracts for months that are further away, are more expensive…
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Managing Staff-Plus Engineers
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Lethain
Managing Staff-plus engineers.
While getting feedback on StaffEng,one request was for more content on managing Staff-plus engineers. It doesn’t quite fit the theme–that effort is focused on the Staff Engineer themselves rather the company or the manager–but it’s an interesting topic and…
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Sq, Sequoia PGP's CLI, Released
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sequoia-pgp.org
sq, Sequoia PGP's CLI, Released
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
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'New Car Smell' Is the Scent of Carcinogens. Even Short Trips May Overexpose Us
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ScienceAlert
'New Car Smell' Is The Scent of Carcinogens, And Even Short Trips May Overexpose Us
Dangerous chemicals aren't just on the outside of your car.
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Comma.ai
, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism
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Substack
comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism
comma.ai gets punished for being open, so why would anyone even bother?
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Does anyone find strange that sport is part of daily news?
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