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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Avoid Artificial Stupidity
The first step to AI - data democratisation
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You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)
Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.
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Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
Pain researchers at University of Sydney have found compelling evidence that insects feel persistent pain after injury. Read more.
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What is Silverblue?
You may have heard about Fedora Silverblue, the next-generation desktop OS. This article gives you a more complete view about what it is and how it works.
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Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)
Many people come to Clojure from an imperative language and find themselves out of their element when faced with Clojure’s approach to doing things, while others are coming from a more functional background and assume that once they leave Clojure’s functional subset, they will be faced with the same story re: state as…
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MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
WASHINGTON – The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has added Netflix as a new member of the global trade association that advocates on behalf of the film and television industry. “On behalf of the MPAA and its member companies, I am delighted to welcome Netflix as a partner,” said MPAA Chairman and CEO…
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Being multilingual alters your experience of time (2018)
A new study shows that bilinguals do indeed think about time differently, depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.
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Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10
On 2019-07-10, the Stripe API was severely degraded. Two different database bugs and a configuration change caused a cascading failure over several critical services. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
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Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result
We've been conducting an ongoing post-mortem on the add-ons outage that occurred earlier this year. There was a lot more digging to do than we expected. In addition to this ...
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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more.
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QCSuper: A tool for capturing 2G/3G/4G air traffic on Qualcomm-based phones
QCSuper, an open-source tool, helps capture mobile network frames from Qualcomm-based Android devices, enabling analysis in Wireshark and more.
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When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter
When it comes to composition and length, your password (mostly) doesn’t matter.
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Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit
Lightweight virtualization is a natural fit for low power devices and, so, seeing that the extremely popular Raspberry Pi line got an upgrade, we were very keen on trying the newly released Raspberry Pi 4 model B. Getting the board up and running with a 64bit kernel (and a 64bit userland) proved to be kind of a…
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Infinite work is less work
The first task of last week's Weekly Challenge was to print the first ten strong and weak primes. A prime p n is "strong" if it's larger than the average of its two neighbouring primes ( i.e. p n > (p n-1 +p n+1 )/2 ). A prime is "weak" if it's smaller than the average of its two neighbours.
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My First Fifteen Compilers
We sometimes think of the number of passes in a compiler as a measure of the compiler’s complexity. But what if we could make compiler development more approachable by fully embracing the ide…
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Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
Today’s carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle with devastating consequences, according to a new MIT study.
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Older Americans are alone half their waking hours, on average
Americans 60 and older spend about seven waking hours a day alone. This rises to over 10 hours a day among those living on their own.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless
The database is usually the most critical part of a software architecture and managing databases, especially relational ones, has never been easy. For this reason, we created Amazon Aurora Serverless, an auto-scaling version of Amazon Aurora that automatically starts up, shuts down and scales up or down based on your…
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Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV
Starting today, you can watch Amazon Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV devices.
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New antibiotics effective against resistant bacteria in mice
Researchers from Inserm and Université de Rennes recently identified a new bacterial toxin which they transformed into potent antibiotics active against various bacteria responsible for human infections.