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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge
Leaked slides document the lies, sleaze and profiteering.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer was released in 1983 and became extremely popular, defining the sound of 1980s pop music. Because micro...
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Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79
Sir Frank Williams – the longest-serving Team Principal Formula 1 has ever seen – has died at the age of 79.
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I returned my Remarkable2
The non-writing UX is bad enough to render product unusuable
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Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? English adults under 60 who have watched the 1984 Ghostbusters movie are dying at twice the rate of people who have watched the 2021 Ghostbusters move the same age.And have been for six months. The chart may seem unbelievable or impossible but it is correct…
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Calling Rust from Python using PyO3
speed up your Python using Rust
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I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
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Importance of muscle mass, strength and cardiorespiratory fitness for longevity
"If you have the aspiration of kicking ass when you're 85, you can't afford to be average when you're 50." —Peter Attia
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Lessons from a year of AI research
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Omicron Update: Nov 27
There is a lot of anxiety.
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Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use?
Do we need to measure complexity? With what metrics? What benefits can it brings? This is the questions we'll answer in this article.
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Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books
A meditation on reading, exploring what it means to read and whether it's a path to acquire wisdom.
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Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver
How to enable 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU through the new Venus experimental Vulkan driver for VirtIO-GPU
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Books that changed my career as a software engineer
I'd like to present five books that have changed my mind about software development showing me lots of concepts, techniques and tips. Let's see them and why I they were so valuable to me
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Rare Greek Variables
I scrape Arxiv to find underused Greek variables which can add some diversity to math; the top 10 underused letters are ϰ, ς, υ, ϖ, Υ, Ξ, ι, ϱ, ϑ, & Π. Avoid overused letters like λ, and spice up your next paper with some memorable variables!
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SQLite Release 3.37.0
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)
The long-awaited first post about the multiplayer replication system in development for Godot 4.0 is here! Check out the design goals, concepts, initial prototype, and as always, stay tuned for more!
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The Entire History of Soviet Rocket Engines
Soviet rocket engines - this article is about their history, their development, their use and their rockets.
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Explainer: .DS_Store Files
Many folders have them. They’re so invisible that you can’t even see them when you show hidden files. And the only way you know they’re there is when they cause problems.
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Bank transfers as a payment method
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
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No U PNP
Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed (read: I complained about) the short life and quick death of DLNA. On the way, I mentioned DLNA's dependence on UPnP as an underlying autoconfiguration protocol. Let's talk a bit more about UPnP, because it's 1) an interesting protocol, 2) widely misunderstood, and 3)…
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The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware (2020)
Over the years, Apple has built up a portfolio of services and add-ons that you pay for. Starting with AppleCare extended warranties and…
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AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
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New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
I hope everyone in the States had a fantastic Thanksgiving (even if you’re a Dallas Cowboys football fan).