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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Nardwuar interviews Questlove (2013) - 9 MIN Version! Watch the *full* 46 min Version here [link] This all happened at Killjoy Barbers in Vancouver, BC, Canada! link] Thanks to Kris Krug for the photos & Justin Leigh & Jay Swing for the extra footage!

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Being real brings the haters.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. However, research has shown that histone-deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC inhibitors) enable.

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton started his most famous and important journey. Burton undertook the Muslim

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APRIL 22, 2024

How short can a Git hash be abbreviated? A full SHA-1 hash is 160 bits, 40 hex characters, which is a bit long to talk about and retype when you're not just copy-pasting. Therefore most people will use just the first few characters to refer to commits, but how safe is this? I know of…

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MARCH 4, 2024

Every once in a while someone in the comments here says, usually as an aside to something else, that no one becomes a writer to get rich. So as a point of clarification, and to give everyone else who is slightly exasperated by this sort of comment something to point at: Hey, I became a…

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Fake CG animation was a big deal in the early-1980s. What can digital animators today learn from this short-lived trend?

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AUGUST 6, 2024

It works in all kinds of crises -- medical, legal, even existential. It's the 'Ring Theory' of kvetching. The first rule is comfort in, dump out.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

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JULY 26, 2024

Brazilian mechanic Alfredo Moser has developed an ingenious way of lighting up homes without using electricity. And his idea is spreading around the world.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

George Lucas echoed Spielberg's sentiments at an event touting the opening of a new USC School of Cinematic Arts building, saying big changes are in store.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Full time geek and re­search stu­dent with a pas­sion for de­vel­op­ing great soft­ware, of­ten late at night.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Create a cantenna to drastically extend your Wi-Fi signal! Works great with a router that has external antennas, like the old-school classic WRT54G. Requirements For This Walkthrough Materials 1. A wireless router [[link]

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JULY 18, 2024

Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars& in the Milky Way with extreme precision.But it’s not easy being a satellite: space is a dangerous place.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Oxford comma (also known as the serial comma) is that extra comma that you sometimes get at the end of a list, before the and or the or. She wrote novels, essays, and JavaScript” uses an Oxford comma. “He He bought apples, butter and the ranch”. Angus Croll | Twitter Engineer, JavaScript Obsessive, Literature Junkie.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), …

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

On the hypothetical "Island of Stability" which might allow for long-lived atoms of never-before-seen elements.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

I have been fascinated with living things since childhood. Growing up in northern California, I spent a lot of time playing outdoors among plants and animals.

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JULY 18, 2023

Once the next big thing in American sports, Jai Alai has all but completely disappeared over the past 20 years. But in Miami, the game is still played for much smaller crowds and stakes.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Recently a group of us went into our manuscripts store to have a look at some medieval genealogical rolls. We were examining Royal MS 14 B V, an English roll from the last part of the 13th century that contains quite a lot of marginalia, when one of our post-medieval.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Since 2013, Backblaze has written about the failure rates of drives. Let's take that a step further and look at Drive Stats in our fleet of storage servers.

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JULY 8, 2023

Entropy is a measure of how many configurations could yield the same macrostate, and thus how probable the macrostate is. It can be a measure of information, or a measure of disorder in a physical system. But what about the entropy of biological systems? Relatively few configurations yield life, compared to the many that don't.…

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AUGUST 13, 2024

The ideas behind Product Market Fit (PMF) were first articulated by Marc Andreessen in a detailed blog post around 2007 [[link]

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu. Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

When you read in the news that a person whom you know as rich and wealthy is in financial trouble or has declared bankruptcy, it is easy to feel a sense of futility about managing your own money. You start to think that if such a rich person, who has access to the best financial…

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JULY 21, 2023

Death metal has a unique approach to the language. Here's how it works.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. Technical informat.

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MAY 19, 2024

Adam Gopnik considers how an 18th Century chess robot - the mechanical Turk - was more than just an elaborate hoax.

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JULY 28, 2024

Technical deeptime into the unique networking architecture of Planetary Annihilation.

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MAY 12, 2023

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. [.]

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JUNE 26, 2024

Since the initial revelations of pervasive surveillance in 2013, several classes of attacks on Internet communications have been discovered. In this document, we develop a threat model that describes these attacks on Internet confidentiality. We assume an attacker that is interested in undetected, indiscriminate eavesdropping.

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APRIL 14, 2024

The L4 microkernel has undergone 20 years of use and evolution. It has an active user and developer community, and there are commercial versions which are de.

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JULY 29, 2024

An education expert says children should be allowed to get bored so they can develop their innate ability to be creative.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the „condensed time line“ section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so.

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MARCH 16, 2024

In 2013, Mozilla launched MLS as an open. The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service.

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