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Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says
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Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says
Leaded gas was banned in 1996, but exposure to the poison cost people born before then several IQ points on average, researchers estimated.
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A neural code for time and space in the human brain [pdf]
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Perf Is Not Enough
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Perf is not enough - MotherDuck Blog
Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database.
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Kernel Hardening: Protect Linux user accounts against brute force attacks
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GitHub - Kicksecure/security-misc: Kernel Hardening; Protect Linux User Accounts against Brute Force Attacks; Improve Entropy Collection;โฆ
Kernel Hardening; Protect Linux User Accounts against Brute Force Attacks; Improve Entropy Collection; Strong Linux User Account Separation; Enhances Misc Security Settings - https://www.kicksecure...
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Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately
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Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately
It's easy to pick on AI, because, well, it's costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits. One of the easiest criticisms to lob at it is that it's extractive โ whether you're pointing at public knowledge, creative work or resources and I thinkโฆ
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Do we know enough about the safety of quat disinfectants? (2020)
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Chemical & Engineering News
Do we know enough about the safety of quat disinfectants?
Quaternary ammonium compounds have been widely used as disinfectants for decades. But some scientists think we need more data on their safety in people
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Serving Astro with Rust
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Serving Astro with Rust - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
I wanted to turn one of my side projects into a statically generated website. But the backend was written in Rust. So I decided to combine them.
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Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi
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Arduino Blog
Controlling 3.6kW of solar EV charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi | Arduino Blog
The EV (electric vehicle) versus ICE (internal combustion engine) debate is more complicated that it may seem, but one fact is quite simple: it is much easier to generate electricity at home than it is to refine fossil fuels. This means that it is possibleโฆ
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Context-switching โ one of the worst productivity killers
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Eng-Leadership
Context-switching - one of the worst productivity killers in the engineering industry
Nothing gets done at the end of the day
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Microplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and death
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Microplastics Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke and Death
People who had tiny plastic particles lodged in a key blood vessel were more likely to experience serious health problems or die during a three-year study
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Show HN: RE3 โ Reversed Engineered GTA3 Source Code
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How the Devteam Conquered the iPhone
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Joe Biden says he would sign bill banning TikTok
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Sky News
Joe Biden says he would sign bill banning TikTok
While his administration has raised national security concerns about the popular video-sharing app, Mr Biden's re-election campaign joined the platform last month.
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Did the whole pairdrop repo just vanished? #356
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Did the whole pairdrop repo just vanished? ยท Issue #356 ยท fm-sys/snapdrop-android
App version Lastest Android version 12 Describe the bug I don't know whether this is the best place to put up this issue, honestly I don't know a better place, at least it is connected to t...
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The Case Against Homework
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The Case Against Homework
FAMILY CIRCLE October 2012 The Case Against Homework By Alfie Kohn After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second shift, with more academic assignments to be completed atโฆ
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Jupiter's ocean moon Europa, thought to be habitable, may be oxygen-starved
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An Ocean Moon Thought to Be Habitable May Be Oxygen-Starved
A new study suggests that the amount of the element on the moon of Jupiter is on the lower end of previous estimates.
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Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same basic challenges
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Substack
Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same fundamental challenges
Report card on an infamous paper.
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"xAI will open source Grok"
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Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
This week, @xAI will open source Grok
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Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
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Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
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Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
Extreme heat waves are already here, and they are killing tens of thousands of people. Blasting through 2 degrees Celsius of warming means theyโll happen many times more frequently.
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How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python) (2010)
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