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Bob Heil, K9EID, Silent Key
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,697 posts.
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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #3/3
In Part 1 of the series, we took a look at undefined behavior in C and showed some cases where it allows C to be more performant than "safe" languages.
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Clang++ Builds Boost
Boost is a collection of open-source, peer-reviewed C++ libraries that's well-known for having many good utility components for C++ programmers. It's also well-known for using bleeding-edge C++ techniques, such as extensive template and preprocessor metaprogramming, that have pushed many C++ compilers beyond their…
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About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.
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Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11
UPDATE 1/5/2022: We have begun rolling out the redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Wi
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Does Market Timing Work?
We ran the numbers on market timing. Our findings? There's a high cost to waiting for the best entry point.
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New things in Android 11
The latest release of Android offers easier ways to help you manage your conversations, connected devices, privacy, and much more.
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Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless
In recent years, research showed that many professionals consider their work to be socially useless. Various explanations have been proposed for the phenomenon. The much-discussed “bullshit jobs theory” by the American anthropologist David Graeber, for example, states that some jobs are objectively useless and that…
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San Francisco Home Prices Fell for the First Time in Four Years in March
National inventory continues to decline by 3.2%, clamping down on March home sales. Read on for more housing market news.
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Is Wine Bullshit?
How should we understand the robust findings that suggest that the price of wine is not only uncorrelated with how much people enjoy it, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads?
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Google Hangouts Chat
Teams want to be able to get their work done in one place, which is why we introduced the Early Adopter Program of Hangouts Chat to bring teams together. Today, we’re ma…
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Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
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Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training
Jun 21, 2023 | ! Homepage Slider , ! Recent Country News , Artificial Intelligence , BIG DATA , Breaking News , Compliance , Insights , Japan , Machine Learning , Regulatory , Regulatory Framework , Transparency | 0 |
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Your code may be elegant, but mine works
OmniTI Seeds: leaf; This article expresses an opinion or just a downright rant.
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Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German population
Study shows antibodies against polyethylene glycol in 83 percent of the German population
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Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
Today we got our first custom domain name handle registered on Bluesky. Domain name handles are a way for us to improve the state of trust and control users have over their social identities online.
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ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market
ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after single-event sports betting was legalized and Ontario's online gambling market expanded.
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F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for...
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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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A Year-End Letter from our Executive Director
This letter was originally published in our 2022 annual report. The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt continues to thrive, serving more websites around the world than ever before with excellent…
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Android libstagefright still exploitable
Update (2015-08-13 1:16pm CST): We’ve been in contact with Zimperium and are working with them to provide coverage for detection of this flaw through their Stagefright Detector app. They have been very responsive (more so than the affected vendor) and we plan to alert them of similar flaws we’ve recently discovered…
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PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class
This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.
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Why we’re dropping Basecamp
We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level of its use in our organization, which is considerable, against the harms that we see perpetuated by the leadership of…
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Sony Releases Stacked CMOS Sensor for Smartphones with 48 Effective Megapixels
Tokyo, Japan—Sony Corporation today announced the upcoming release of the IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor for smartphone cameras. The new sensor features 48 effective megapixels, the industry's highest pixel count.
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Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
Overview of new pricing and plans for Google Workspace as the solution delivers higher value and innovations to customers.
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Russia’s move to block Telegram another attack on online freedom of expression
On Friday, the Tagansky District Court in Moscow is expected to rule on a request by Roskomnadzor, the Russian media watchdog, to block Telegram for its refusal to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) with backdoor access to encrypted messages.
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Our Long Bets and Predictions about 02020
Our bets and predictions about 02020, evaluated.
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GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model scores worse on aider’s code editing benchmarks than all the previous GPT-4 models. In particular, it seems much more prone to “lazy coding” than the existing GPT-4 Turbo “preview” models.
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