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Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record
Americans' trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four points to 36% since last year, making it the second-lowest reading in Gallup's trend.
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A few HiDPI tricks for Linux
As part of that switch, I needed to configure parts of my Linux environment (which was originally stock Ubuntu, but is now i3 with a heavily customized userspace) to function correctly on HiDPI displays.
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Users post more falsehoods after others correct them: study
Attempting to politely correct misinformation on Twitter can have negative consequences, leading to even less-accurate tweets and more toxicity from the people being corrected, according to a study co-authored by MIT scholars.
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A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
Here's why coders should take a second look at "no-code" tools.
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Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
The tools you didn’t know you need
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Spatial Audio
I got the following e-mail from a producer/engineer: “I just want to try and alert you to the potential seismic scam happening with this Atmos roll out. Â Atmos catalog remixing is being done…
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Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to solve most of those problems by producing code. Ultimately, producing code is hard, and we need help. That's why GitHub's Copilot is exciting, but it's far from ideal, and it's the tip of the iceberg of what's been done and…
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The myth of the myth of the lone genius
The Myth of the Lone Genius is a bullshit cliche and we would do well to stop parroting it to young people like it is some deep insight into the nature of innovation.
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You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
The setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches. As a result, all direct...
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Web3 is not Decentralisation – it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge
People are right to be concerned about the centralisation of power on the Web — but we embrace blockchain at our peril
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C++20 Modules with GCC11
Introduction One of the headline changes of the C++20 standard is the inclusion of modules. Modules promise to significantly change the structure of C++ codebases and possibly signal headers’ ultimate demise (but probably not in my lifetime). It also opens the door to potentially have a unified build system and…
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Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation
Economist Gary Smith sends along this post with the above title and the subtitle, “Market prices are not invariably equal to intrinsic values.” Here’s Smith:
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Pasco County’s Sheriff Must End Its Targeted Child Harassment Program
In September 2020, the Tampa Bay Times revealed a destructive “data-driven” policing program run by the Pasco County, Florida Sheriff's Office. The program is misleadingly called “Intelligence-Led Policing” (ILP), but in reality, it's nothing more than targeted child harassment by police. Young...
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Paint.NET 4.3 is now available
This is a big release, with a lot of performance improvements across the whole app. Some of this is due to the migration from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 5, which may not sound like much but is act…
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Strike Date Set for 60k Film and Television Workers
Unless an Agreement is Reached, IATSE Members Will Begin Nationwide Strike on Oct. 18 at 12:01 a.m. (PDT)
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A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease
Two recent articles, one about China and the other from Europe, are pointing at a link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease. The first
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Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
As of 1.9.0, GitHub Actions is available in your terminal. Two new top-level commands, `gh run` and `gh workflow`, provide insight into workflow runs.
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Bombs vs. Bugs
I’ll be taking some time in the next months to talk about the newly hostile-by-default nature of technology, and how I deal with it.
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Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress
Backups are critical. If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager. However there always seems to be some critical machine in my life that does not fall into these…
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A man whose software ate the world
Marc Andreessen on building, COVID, and how the Internet is taking us back to previous forms of thinking
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The Elements of Git
This is not a tutorial. If you're looking for a quick, easy, "how to use git" kind of post, look elsewhere.The goal of this post is to give you just enough understanding of the git internals that you can build up a correct intuition of what various git commands actually do under the hood.
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Results from being #1 on Hacker News for 6 hours
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
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Open Decision-Making (2014)
In my experience as the founder and CEO of two startups I have had numerous opportunities to observe decisions being made: technical decisions about how to build products, personnel decisions about whom to hire, business decisions about how to market and sell our products, strategic decisions about company direction…
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Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams
Building resilience teams with chaos engineering principles.
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Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python (2019)
Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Jul 7, 2024. 93 min read. Hey there, you’re reading an updated version of a post I published way back in 2019. Because of the 2024 Plotnine contest and the recent release of Polars 1.0, I decided to freshen things up. Changes include: Upgrade to Plotnine version 0.13.6 (from…
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Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
The Ontario Divisional Court has ruled that the Ontario College of Teachers shall grant certification to teacher candidates who have not yet passed the Math Proficiency Test but who have otherwise met all other teacher certification requirements.
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Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
A new analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the health care industry can reap many of the economic benefits of a "Medicare for All" program through incremental changes to the private health care market.