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Mutt 2.0 Release Notes
Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020281 points25 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This week, as an addendum to our four(and a half)-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at pre-modern iron and steel production, we’re going to look at two alternative regional processes, where th…
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Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend I’d like to elaborate a bit here. Let’s start with the…
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Planning and Managing Layoffs
How you handle a layoff, how you communicate it to the people impacted, and how you manage and lead throughout the process really matters. It takes careful thought and planning, but it may be the most important planning you ever do as a leader.
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The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
Some classic (non-aggregation) monopolization!
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Amazon Location Service
Update June 1, 2021 – Amazon Location Service is now generally available and includes routing and raster (satellite) maps. You can easily and securely add maps, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to your applications. Read more about the new features in our new blog post here or try it now in the console. We…
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A simple way to get more value from metrics
We spent one day 1 building a system that immediately found a mid 7 figure optimization (which ended up shipping). In the first year, we shipped mid 8 figures per year worth of cost savings as a result. The key feature this system introduces is the ability to query metrics data across all hosts and all services and…
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It's Time to Start Writing (2019)
A blog by Alex Nixon on programming and software
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Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.
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Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country
Visualizing the exponential growth of COVID-19 across the world.
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Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study
A recent analysis published in the journal BMJ showed that glucosamine supplementation conveys around a 15% reduction of all-cause mortality.
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Writing well
Learn how to write well. Topics include figuring out what to write about, how to write an introduction, the writing process, writing style, and copyediting.
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Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning
A browser is an enormously complex piece of software, and it's always in development. About a year ago, we asked ourselves: how could we do better? Our CI relied heavily ...
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Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting
In the previous post we have seen how to visualize a time series data. In this post we will discuss how to do a time series modelling using ARMA and ARIMA models. Here AR stands for Auto-Regressive and MA stands for Moving Average
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Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Deponysum membahas konsep filsafat, kecerdasan buatan, ekonomi, dan kritik sastra secara edukatif untuk memperluas wawasan dan cara berpikir kritis.
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Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS
Since macOS 10.12 there’s a bug in Apple Mail that causes it to randomly become the frontmost application. If you are in full screen mode — like when you are giving a talk or watching a movie — it opens itself up in split view mode where it takes up half the screen while your other main window is being resized. I saw…
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Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
The Web just got a little bit more reliable. Available today, starting with version 1.4 of its desktop browser, Brave has added a 404 detection system, with an automated Wayback Machine lookup process to its desktop browser. By default, it now offers users one-click access to archived versions of Web pages that might…
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Nim 1.4
We are very proud to announce Nim version 1.4 after six months of continuous development! Other than version 1.0, this is probably the biggest Nim release yet and we’re very excited to release it!
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Dust in the Light
The Internet ends gatekeepers and increases transparency, which has world-altering effects — both good and bad.
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Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic
For the next 3 months, through 6/30/20, ACM is making all work published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library freely accessible.
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Systems that defy detailed understanding
Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be explained, if we’re willing to dig deep enough into the stack of abstractions our software is built atop. Some of the ensuing discussion on Twitter and elsewhere lead me to write this followup, in which I want to run…
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Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about
There are so many amazing Python libraries out there that it's hard to keep track of all of them. That's why we share with you our hand-picked selection of some top libraries.
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Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube
See how we're working to protect kids' privacy on YouTube. Discover our latest updates and initiatives for a safer platform.
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Signs you're following a fake Twitter account
Nixintel Open Source Intelligence & Investigations2020277 points149 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
The challenge of dealing with fake accounts that spread disinformation is probably one of the greatest challenges facing the large social media companies. Most methods used to detect fake Twitter a…