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DoD is poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemicals
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The US military is poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemicals
The Department of Defense has ordered the burning of 20m pounds of AFFF – despite risks to human health
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1982: The Hobbit
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50 Years of Text Games
1982: The Hobbit
Veronika Megler just wanted a part-time job while she finished her college degree. She didn't realize it would end with her writing one of the first computer game blockbusters.
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When constitutions took over the world
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When Constitutions Took Over the World
Starting in the eighteenth century, citizens were promised their rights in print. Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?
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Domain/OS Design Principles (1989) [pdf]
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Louvre makes its entire collection available online
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collections.louvre.fr
Louvre site des collections
The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.
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Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’
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Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’
Exclusive: Teleperformance, which employs 380,000 people, plans to use specialist webcams to watch staff
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Programmer's Competency Matrix for SDE hiring parameters
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Sijin Joseph
Programmer Competency Matrix | Sijin Joseph
Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at
level n implies that you also know everything from the
levels lower than n.
Computer Science 2n (Level 0) n2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log(n) (Level 3) Comments data structures Doesn’t know the difference…
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The Mercury functional programming language
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A “Better C” Benchmark
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A "Better C" Benchmark
An unusual benchmark for programming languages, designed to replace C. Unlike many other benchmarks, this one measures developer productivity and performance.
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Fussell on Muscle
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Drmichaeljoyner
Sam Fussell: an interview with the author of Muscle | Human Limits: Michael J. Joyner, M.D.
Michael J. Joyner, M.D. June 10, 2014 In 1991 Sam Fussell published the book “Muscle” about his experiences in body building. The book tells the story
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First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified
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Nature
First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified
Nature - Discovery that a whitefly uses a stolen plant gene to elude its host’s defences may offer a route to new pest-control strategies.
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Congress demands tech CEOs to censor the Internet
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Glenn Greenwald
Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively
The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.
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Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)
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Medium
socat
I learned about socat a few years ago and am generally surprised more developers don’t know about it. Maybe I appreciate it all the more…
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Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlash grows
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Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlash grows
Companies including H&M and Nike are targeted for showing concern over Uighur forced labour claims.
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FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage
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FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage. Be careful. You don't need FileZilla on Linux or Unix-like systems at all. On windows, try using WinSCP winscp.net/eng/index.php if you need that kind of stuff. WSL will also save you…
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'Ice-cream toothache': Cold food and drinks pain explained
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BBC News
'Ice-cream toothache': Cold food and drinks pain explained
Scientists say they have worked out how teeth become sensitive and hurt with cold food and drinks.
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PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs
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Collabora | Open Source Consulting
PanVk: An Open Source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs
With Panfrost getting more and more mature, the natural next step was to work on an Open Source Vulkan driver for those GPUs.
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Elite philanthropy mainly self-serving
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2020 World Press Freedom Index: A decisive decade for the future of journalism
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Data Show
2020 World Press Freedom Index : A decisive decade for the future of journalism
According to RSF’s measures, world press freedom improved very slightly in 2019. However, the Covid-19 pandemic highlights and amplifies the multiple crises that threaten the right to free, independent, pluralistic and reliable information.
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China accused of forcing 570k people to pick cotton in Xinjiang
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U.S.
China accused of forcing 570,000 people to pick cotton in Xinjiang
China is forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other minorities to pick cotton by hand, a U.S. think-tank said, sparking calls for governments to ban all cotton imports from the Xinjiang region.
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Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute
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The Intercept
Documents Show Amazon Is Aware Drivers Pee in Bottles and Even Defecate En Route, Despite Company Denial
If employees actually had to pee in bottles, Amazon said, “nobody would work for us.” That’s a lie.
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