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How does Brown University know where you are?
In September 2020, Brown University accused students of lying about their location; e.g.:
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Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
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Why a land-value tax is inevitable
A decade after the late 2000s recession, much of the world is now back at the top of the economic cycle, and critically near the next…
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Debian 10.7 Released
[05 Dec 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.7 released [26 Sep 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.6 released [30 Aug 2020] DebConf20 online closes [01 Aug 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released [18 Jul 2020] Updated Debian 9: 9.13 released [09 Jul 2020] Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [16 Jun 2020] Ampere donates…
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R adds native pipe and lambda syntax
‘all.equal(f, g)’ for ‘function’s now by default also compares their ‘environment(.)’s, notably via new ‘all.equal’ method for class ‘function’. Comparison of ‘nls()’ fits, e.g., may now need ‘all.equal(m1, m2, check.environments=FALSE)’.
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Benefits of Walking
There has been too much research that showed that walking has a huge advantage to humans
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Book publishers call on Apple to match 15% commission granted to developers
(Manhattan Beach, CA - December 2, 2020) -- On November 18, Apple announced the App Store Small Business Program to help small businesses and independent developers. The program reduces Apple’s commission from 30% to 15% for small software publishers earning up to $1 million in proceeds in the Apple App Store.
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Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
✪ Update 2021-06-11 For WWDC 2021, Apple has posted an excellent video on EDR.
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Scaling Down Deep Learning
A blog by Sam Greydanus
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72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings
Welcome Hacker News readers!• Thank you to M. Hammad Mazhar for his research that inspired this guide.• @healyio made some great additional suggestions in th...
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Between two Lisps
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
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Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web
Why I have stopped working with IPFS and the distributed web
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I accidentally built a spying app
A personal story about creating new products and their unintended consequences
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Excess mortality from March to December of 2020
Explore data on COVID-19 excess mortality across the world.
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Guide to Effective Reading
Pick up maartenvandoorn.nl on ExpiredDomains.com — Afternic / GoDaddy, listed at $100, escrow-protected transfer in 24 hours.
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Self-host your fonts for better performance
This browser caching change kills the utility of cross-site resource CDNs like Google Fonts.
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Project Loom and Structured Concurrency
Project Loom is one of the major “projects” in which Java is moved forward, alongside the perhaps better known projects Amber and Valhalla. It will bring “virtual” threads with low resource footprint and low cost of blocking to the Java plaform. Here is my annual advent season update, this time with a focus on…
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That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020121 points103 commentscited by 6History & Retro Computing details
This series is now available in audio format. You can find the playlist here. This is the first part of a three four part (I, II, III, IV) look at the Dothraki, the fictional horse-borne nomads of …
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