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Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
One of our favorite anecdotes that illustrates just how hard it is to get people to read the docs comes from an unexpected source: Van Halen. The...
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It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
Today, the Inspector General for the Department of Defense published a report into the DoD’s handling of the JEDI contract. There is a simple explanation for Microsoft’s victory: We were rated equal or superior to Amazon in every evaluation factor. We can all agree that bid-protest cases serve an important function in…
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I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future
A few days ago my wife and I went to see Uncut Gems at a Regal theater in Chicago. We booked our ticket online, reserved our seats, showed up 15 minutes ahead of time, and settled in. After the coi…
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Luhmann's Zettelkasten
We design and develop custom software solutions and websites for your business with a strong focus on usability, quality, and aesthetics.
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Signs you might be a micromanager
Warning signs of micromanagement include sweating the small stuff, getting CC'ed on every email, and needing to approve everything.
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California agency blocks release of police use of force, surveillance training
Under a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2020, all law enforcement training materials must be “conspicuously” published on the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) website. However, if you visit POST’s Open Data hub and try to download the officer...
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Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices (2019)
Researchers in the Microsoft Speech and Dialog Research Group have made an ad hoc microphone array by allowing meeting participants to join their phones together to enable more accurate meeting transcriptions. Explore how this array outperforms a single-device system.
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Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On
Sometime in the last two weeks of 1989, I sent myself an e-mail message: I no longer have it, unfortunately — it was lost in one of many system switches or crashes that happened in those early days... But it was the first message sent by a small MS-DOS application I had written, which at the time was called "ComNet…
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PostgreSQL B-Tree index deduplication
PostgreSQL 13 development is coming along nicely, Postgres 13 Beta3 was released on 8/13/2020 . The Postgres Beta 1 and 2 releases were released in May and June 2020. One of the features that has my interest in Postgres 13 is the B-Tree deduplication effort. B-Tree indexes are the default indexing method in Postgres…
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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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Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
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PowerShell 7.0
Today, we're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source
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Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots
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Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines
Explore the internals of the BEAM VM in comparison to the JVM, highlighting the significance of understanding these components.
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Technology that changed air travel
A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat. Through all this change, one thing has stayed the same — the software that manages it all.
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ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
TL;DR: Web development can be hard, whether you’re making your own components, implementing Design Systems, support many different…
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Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs
Feb 5th, 2020: We’ve made an edit to this post. Previously, we had communicated that between February 5 and March 5, 2020, RDS would automatically stage the new certificates on RDS database instances without a restart. Based on customer feedback and to give customers as much time as possible to complete updates, RDS…
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A hands-on introduction to static code analysis
An example-rich description of the architecture of static code analysis systems along with a hands-on tutorial on how to implement it.
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Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
How Neural Networks can be used in graph data
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The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014)
Following a poorly-timed Johnny Carson joke in 1973, millions of Americans hoarded every toilet paper roll on the market and induced a mass hysteria.
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The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without increasing consumer bills
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2020 Media Contact: Chelsea Eakin, ceakin@climatenexus.org, 347-371-1305 New national re…
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Stagnation and Scientific Incentives
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park
We are devastated to report that Big Basin, as we have known it, loved it, and cherished it for generations, is gone. Early reports are that the wildfire has consumed much of the park’s historic facilities. We do not yet know the fate of the park’s grandest old trees.
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Happiness is a freshly organized codebase
Starting From the Top Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase. Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017 Where do you add a source file for your team’s project? Great question. Your new team has three source directories for you to add files to, and oh,…
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Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19
Researchers offer first proof that Ultraviolet C light with a 222 nm wavelength — which is safer to use around humans — effectively kills the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia
If Australia’s proposed news regulation becomes law, we will reluctantly stop allowing publishers and people in Australia to share local and international news on Facebook and Instagram.
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Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI
SC20—NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA® A100 80GB GPU — the latest innovation powering the NVIDIA HGX™ AI supercomputing platform — with twice the memory of its predecessor, providing researchers and engineers unprecedented speed and performance to unlock the next wave of AI and scientific breakthroughs.