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Django 3.1
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Aug. 4, 2020
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
[Download for PDF/printable version of this article] When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that in one study, the effects of physical attractiveness on judges were so influ
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PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques
Baidu publishes PP-YOLO and pushes the state of the art in object detection research by building on top of YOLOv3, the PaddlePaddle deep learning framework, and cutting edge computer vision research.
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Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study
Children who receive a few extra years of deworming treatment eventually have better jobs, higher incomes, says study led by Berkeley economist Edward Miguel.
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Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence
Many restaurants, theatres and offices are using infrared thermometers to get the country back to work. Multiple companies are advertising these as a way to ‘reassure’ employers and employees. In China, security guards have even been given infra-red spectacles in order to detect people with fever. But where’s the…
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Julia 1.5 Highlights
Julia version 1.5 has been released, featuring many performance improvements and new capabilities.
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Racket 7.8
Racket version 7.8 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ Racket CS may become the default Racket implementation in the next release. With the improvements in this release, Racket CS provides all of the functionality of Racket BC (the curre...
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An Email got us $5k in AWS Credits
The story of our company's most valuable email.
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Mastodon 3.2
The new Mastodon release brings you a much better audio player and improved support for different audio and video formats, as well as some additional security mechanisms. The audio player has been completely reworked to have a more eye-catching design. It will extract album art from the uploaded audio file…
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Perl7 is a fork of values
Before reading this, you should watch this video where Bryan Cantrill explains a value-conflict between Joyent and Node.js, I believe we have a similar problem.
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A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law
Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence on US foreign policy).This law closely resembles the Digital Millennium Copyright Act enacted in the US 1998, with a few...
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GTK 3.99
This week, we're releasing GTK 3.99, which can only mean one thing: GTK4 is getting really close! Back in February, when 3.98 was released, we outlined the features that we wanted to land before making a feature-complete 3.99 release. This was the list: Event controllers for keyboard shortcuts Movable popovers…
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The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct to investigate Apple
The EU is investigating Apple’s App Store practices for antitrust violations. Here’s why we must all resist abuses by tech giants.
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Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
A recent analysis published in the journal BMJ showed that glucosamine supplementation conveys around a 15% reduction of all-cause mortality.
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Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
A “cold start” is the time it takes to load and execute a new copy of a serverless function for the first time. It’s a problem that’s both complicated to solve and costly to fix.
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Google removes all Danish music from YouTube
About Koda's task and where Koda works
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Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS
This post highlights a few powerful lines of CSS that do some serious heavy lifting and help you build robust modern layouts.
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Apple reports Q3 results
Apple reported its third quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, July 30, 2020.
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Sandboxing and workload isolation
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits we gained by migrating to Envoy . We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of…
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How to Hire Great Engineers
Opinionated and highly efficient way to hire great software engineers
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One Byte to rule them all
Posted by Brandon Azad, Project ZeroOne Byte to rule them all, One Byte to type them,One Byte to ...
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What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
Credit card users today can transact online with peace of mind because card-accepting merchants are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
Yesterday, the Internet Archive filed our response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), the digital equivalent of traditional library lending. CDL is a respectful and secure way to bring the breadth of our library collections to digital learners…
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Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds
Analysis by assistant professor of environment and society and sociology at Brown found that press releases expressing opposition to climate action were twice as likely to receive news coverage as those supporting action.
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Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: The Cloudflare Workers Security Model
Cloudflare is a security company, and the heart of Workers is, in my view, a security project. Running code written by third parties is always a scary proposition, and the primary concern of the Workers team is to make that safe.
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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
Introducing RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
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Speculation in JavaScriptCore
This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.