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GitHub security update: A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
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The GitHub Blog
GitHub security update: A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.
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Solzhenitsyn’s Rosary
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Alec Nevala-Lee
Solzhenitsyn’s rosary
When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned in the Soviet gulag, he was forced to deal with a challenge that modern writers rarely have to confront—the problem of memorization. He wanted to keep wri…
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Generalists vs. specialists – who has a greater chance of success?
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Abhijit Bhaduri
Generalists vs specialists - who has a greater chance of success? — Abhijit Bhaduri
The world often hands us what are called "wicked problems". These are settings where the rules of the game are unclear or incomplete. The patterns do not repeat and feedback is often delayed or misleading. The world is increasingly beginning to sound close…
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I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc
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Theroadchoseme
How I self-published a professional paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc | The Road Chose Me
How I self-published a professional paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc Introduction After years working as a Software Engineer I wanted to
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More fuckin' user interface design
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Plover
The Universe of Discourse : More fuckin' user interface design
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Furious AI researcher creates a list of non-reproducible machine learning papers
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Neural | The Next Web
Furious AI researcher creates a list of non-reproducible machine learning papers
On February 14, a researcher who was frustrated with reproducing the results of a machine learning research paper opened up a Reddit account under the username ContributionSecure14 and posted the r/MachineLearning subreddit: “I just spent a week implementing…
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AI learns from brain signals to create personalized attractive faces
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New Atlas
AI learns from brain signals to create personalized attractive faces
Although certain celebrities are widely considered to be nice-looking, beauty does still ultimately lie in the eye of the beholder. A new AI-based system is able to ascertain which features are found most attractive by individual people, and then create faces…
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
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Sylvestre's blog
Debian running on Rust coreutils
tldr: Rust/coreutils is good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox and the Linux Kernel.
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`three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014)
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GitHub
linux/fs/ext4/resize.c at d158fc7f36a25e19791d25a55da5623399a2644f · torvalds/linux
Linux kernel source tree. Contribute to torvalds/linux development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Google HR 'suggested medical leave' for racism victims
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BBC News
Google HR 'suggested medical leave' for racism victims
Google staff in the US who complain over racism were advised to take mental health leave, NBC reports.
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Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
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The Quirks of Gmail UI
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On Shipping Mailwip - Best Email Forwarding Service
The Quirks of Gmail Ui
A Tale of DKIM signed email I run a mailwip(former hanami), an email forwarding service and I have a few stories about email that I want to share. Today I want to talk about Gmail.
Gmail is a big player in email world. It dominates small and medium startups.…
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Signal Appears to Have Abandoned Their AGPL-Licensed Server Sourcecode
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LinuxReviews
Signal Appears To Have Abandoned Their AGPL-licensed Server Sourcecode
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Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
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BBC News
Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
In Sweden shops with no staff are popular in rural locations that have lost their local shops.
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5k Year Old Bog Oak Table: Digging up 4k-year-old trees for furniture
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Lost Art Press
Adamson & Low: Treasure Out of the Bog
More than 43′ long and 5,000 years old, the top of the table made by The Fenland Black Oak Project is the culmination of more than 30 years of research, trial and error in milling and drying …
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Music Software and Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius (2018) [video]
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Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
In this video, I take a detailed look at the UX/UI design of Avid's Sibelius - a popular music notation software. Sibelius is the embodiment of what not to do as a user experience designer and this video covers a range of examples of inappropriate design…
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“An Introduction to Ray Tracing” is now free for download (2019)
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Realtimerendering
Real-Time Rendering · “An Introduction to Ray Tracing” is now free for download
Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques
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Less than 20% of the world's population now live in a “free” country
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Freedom House
Democracy under Siege
As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny.
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You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938)
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Modern Mechanix
You Can Learn Glass Blowing - Modern Mechanix (Feb, 1938)
THE reason that amateur glass blowing is such an interesting hobby is that the work acts as a stimulant to your creative ability. With very simple and inexpensive tools, in a corner of a room or in the attic or basement, you can quickly learn to make dozens…
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Self-decapitating sea slugs regrow their bodies – hearts and all
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the Guardian
Keep your head: the self-decapitating sea slugs that regrow their bodies – hearts and all
The disembodied head of the sacoglossan sea slug feasts on algae while its old body decomposes, and a new one grows
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Write libraries instead of services, where possible
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