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The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
Change for change’s sake alone is masturbatory. That with Safari 15 it actually makes usability *worse*, solely for flamboyant cosmetic reasons, is downright perverse.we
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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Microsoft and the Metaverse
Defining the Metaverse, and explaining why Microsoft is well-placed for the virtual reality opportunity
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Is π the Same in Every Universe?
Mathematician: That depends on what you mean by “universe.” Here’s a framing: A circle of radius R centered at a point P is the set of all points in the plane with distance R fro…
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“It's not peaches and cream either for men”
I spend a lot of time talking about men’s mental health because it’s what I, as a man, know about. And like with everything, the truth is complicated. We live in a patriarchal society that privileges men in certain ways, but also hurts them in other ways. The harmful effects on our heavily gendered society especially…
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Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD
As an operating system GNU/Linux has become a mess because of the fragmented nature of the project, the bloatware in the kernel, but mainly because of the manipulation by corporate interests. There exist several technical reasons for when a migration from GNU/Linux to BSD make sense, but this article isn't about that…
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Meta: A Social Technology Company
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta, a new company brand for Facebook apps and technologies.
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Office 2000 is good to go
The biggest competition for Office 2000 was…Office 97. –Realization at the end of the project
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Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom…
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Not school or homeschool, but modular learning
Meet the new wave of teachers, artists and techies who are reinventing K-12 education one kid at a time
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Complexity No Bar to AI
Critics of AI risk suggest diminishing returns to computing (formalized asymptotically) means AI will be weak; this argument relies on a large number of questionable premises and ignoring additional resources, constant factors, and nonlinear returns to small intelligence advantages, and is highly unlikely.
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KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07
The Plasma Mobile team is happy to present the Plasma Mobile updates for July 2021. Read on to found out about all the new stuff included in this release: Shell First and foremost: Marco Martin made the shell more responsive by improving the performance of the top panel.
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Coming to Terms with Tailwind
For a while, I blocked the Tailwind keyword on Twitter. I was a bit mad that @tailwindcss and author Adam blocked me on Twitter after I wrote a bit of criticism that got popular.
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Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall
Google Tensor is our first custom-built SoC specifically for Pixel phones, and it will power the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro later this fall.
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Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business
Initial Disclosure: This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report. We have no position (short or long) in Clover Health because we think in this moment for public markets, it is more important for people to…
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Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsearch lockdown
Crate.io will no longer use Elastic’s Elasticsearch as an upstream project for CrateDB and open source its entire codebase under the APLv2 with CrateDB 4.5
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What I Wish I Knew About U2F and Other Hardware MFA Protocols
We revamped the second-factor authentication in Teleport 6.0. This post provides a birds-eye view of U2F and other cryptographic hardware standards.
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USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)
**US Navy SubmarineAircraft Carrier design** In the late 1950s the US Navy experimented with the concept of aircraft carrying submarines armed with jet fighters… Read More >….
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Pieces of Shit
I listened to this song last night.
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Cat Automatic Sprayer
If you have a cat, you know that sometimes his instincts push it to eat green eatable-looking plants, whatever they are, and whatever the consequences may be.
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Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps
To make the world's most detailed print maps, we only make maps when our data resolution exceeds that of our printed resolution and we print our maps using the highest resolution mediums available.
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Build an SMS Forwarder with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Waveshare SIM7000E Hat
In this guide, I will explain how to receive SMS messages and forward them to your Telegram account using Raspberry PI Zero W and Wireshare GSM hat. Python will be used to read SMS messages and forward them to Telegram Bot API. Messages will be listened to by Gammu SMS service and it will trigger the Python script…
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Startup Studios
Welcome to the golden age of the product studio