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How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year
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The Law and Policy Blog
How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year – how the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March
New Year’s Day 2025 By the mid 1700s in England there was a curious juxtaposition between the lore of New Year’s Day and the law of New Year’s Day. The legal system, the government, the estab…
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ShredOS – Secure disk erasure/wipe
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GitHub - PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64: Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD…
Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/sh...
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Developing inside a virtual machine
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Blog | Georges Haidar
Developing inside a virtual machine
Keeping my laptop clean by developing in a virtual machine
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Passengers Say Turkish Airlines Flights Have Unwelcome Guests: Bedbugs
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NY Times
Passengers Say Turkish Airlines Flights Have Unwelcome Guests: Bedbugs
Passengers on several of the carrier’s flights said the biting pests were on seats, blankets and in overhead bins and that the airline did not take action.
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The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
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My 25-year adventure in AI and ML
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Austinhenley
My 25-year adventure in AI and ML
This is the 25-year story of how I fell into the field of AI.
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A Tricycle of the Mind
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Glue Work Considered Harmful
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Seangoedecke
Glue work considered harmful
Why companies don't reward glue work and why you shouldn't do it all the time
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What is a second?
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John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
What exactly is a second?
A second is now defined in terms of periods of radiation from a cesium atom. Why was this necessary? Why cesium? What the particular number of periods?
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Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016)
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Snopes
Are There More Trees on Earth Than Stars in the Milky Way?
While both figures are rough, a recent estimate for number of trees on Earth exceeds the highest estimates for the number of stars in the Milky Way.
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Blogs rot. Wikis wait
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Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'
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PBS News
How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known'
It's been well known for many decades that exercise provides many benefits to our health. But a new scientific consortium is revealing new insights into just how profound exercise can be for the human body. William Brangham discussed more with Euan Ashley…
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ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
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VICE
ASCII Porn Predates the Internet But It’s Still Everywhere
( . )( . ) B===D~
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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint [pdf]
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Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly
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Autodesk Community
Regarding Community Content Archiving
Re: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/community-announcements/community-content-archiving-announcement-and-faq/td-p/13187702 This thread is closed for comment, so I'm posting here.The title says archiving but the posts indicate >>> Unfortunately, we cannot…
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RWKV Language Model
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Rwkv
RWKV Language Model
The RWKV Language Model
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Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go
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GitHub - zasper-io/zasper: High Performace IDE for Jupyter Notebooks
High Performace IDE for Jupyter Notebooks. Contribute to zasper-io/zasper development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents
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GitHub
GitHub - Cinnamon/kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents. - Cinnamon/kotaemon
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Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram
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New York
Meta’s Big Bet on Bots
Meta says to expect AI “profiles” on Facebook and Instagram.
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Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events
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GitHub - dunglas/mercure:
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An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications
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An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications - dunglas/mercure
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DuPont and "DuPont" connectors, and how to crimp them properly
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