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A material way to make Mars habitable
Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gasses keep Earth warm
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,838 posts.
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Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
Saagar Jha's website.
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The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver
For your magical build needs.
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Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI
Learn about 5 interesting Linux tools that will help break your dependence on the GUI and keep you productive on the command line.
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Ode to the 767
An Oldie but Goodie From Boeing.
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Oldschool planar graphics and why they were a good idea
Oldschool planar graphics If you ever work with old hardware, like writing an NES emulator or reverse engineering an old Amiga game, you ...
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AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
AWS customers are always asking for more features, more bandwidth, more compute power, and more memory, while also asking for lower latency and lower prices. We do our best to meet these competing demands: we launch new EC2 instance types, EBS volume types, and S3 storage classes at a rapid pace, and we also reduce […]
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The New Dropbox Sucks
Link to: https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/new-dropbox
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Public hacker test on Swiss Post’s e-voting system
Die Post unterstützt mit ihren Dienstleistungen den Alltag der Menschen in der Schweiz, in der physischen und in der virtuellen Welt. Beim E-Voting digitalisiert sie, was sie bereits am besten kann: den sicheren Transport vertraulicher Informationen.
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Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
Discover and share the technology stacks used by top companies. Compare tools, read reviews, and make informed decisions about your tech stack.
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.NET Core gRPC
The .NET team at Microsoft has been working in close collaboration with the gRPC team since November 2018 on a new fully managed implementation of gRPC for .NET Core. We’re pleased to announce that grpc-dotnet is now available with .NET Core 3.0 today! How to get it? grpc-dotnet packages have just been released to…
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Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing
Our hardware infrastructure comprises millions of machines, all of which generate logs that we need to process, store, and serve. The total size of these logs is several petabytes every hour. The o…
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Build an Ioniser in Under $10
A Do it Yourself project to help remove dust particles in your room. A completely open-source hardware project which you can download and use for free.
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Cloudmacs: access your Emacs in browser
How I really wanted Spacemacs everywhere and my wish came true thanks to Docker
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Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Data Structures
The next several chapters will be describing the basic data structures that every programming language provides, their usage, and the most i...
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GLFW 3.3 Is Released
New GLFW release announcement.
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Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…
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How to Join a Social Network in 1998
I'm David Friedman , a professional photographer who sometimes gets ideas for photos, designs, gadgets, and other projects. I write about it all on this blog. You can find the meaning behind the name “Ironic Sans” back in the very first post .
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Lego logic gates and mechanical computing
randomwraith.com - LEGO, Beer & pastimes
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Photos from Crude Sketches: Nvidia's GauGAN Explained Visually
In this article I'll be explaining how GauGAN converts simple blobs of color into photorealistic paintings of landscapes.
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OS X/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper bypass
Last week, Intego researchers discovered new Mac malware, OSX/Linker, that attempts to leverage a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in macOS' Gatekeeper protection. Let's examine what we know about this latest Mac malware campaign. What is the back story? Before digging into the OSX/Linker malware, it would be helpful…
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Nim's author on v1 launch: Personal words about version 1
When I started Nim's development I had a small simple language in mind that compiles to C; its implementation should not be more than 20,000 lines of code. The core guideline has always been that Nim should be a small language with a macro system, which should be capable of extending Nim with all the features that the…
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New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics
New Nebraska U-led research reports nearly 40% of Americans say politics is stressing them out, and one in five are losing sleep. The study published in PLOS ONE Sept. 25.
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Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
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How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (2014)
ContentsWhat is grid-interactive water heating? Benefits to the utilityLowest-cost energy storage New control technologiesSo far, no negative impact on customersGetting GIWHs into customers’ homesWhat’s happening with GIWHs now?
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Minnesota court decision means doctors can be sued by patients they don't treat
By KIP SULLIVAN (30) On April 17, the Minnesota Supreme Court published an opinion holding that doctors who deny services to patients may be sued even if they did not have a doctor-patient relation…