Being kind to others is good for your health https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health
Bbc
Why being kind to others is good for your health
While we might all enjoy the warm glow of helping out others or giving up a little of our time for charity, it could be doing us some physical good too.
The web is 30 years old today https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/nikon-is-ending-70-years-of-camera-production-in-japan/
mirrorlessrumors
Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan - mirrorlessrumors
The Japanese website Asahi reports that Nikon is ending the production of cameras in Japan and moving all production to Thailand. This is simply Nikon’s attempt to cut costs as much as it gets. Don’t think this is enough to make them stay in the business.…
Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-12-tokio-1-0
How We Saved Dot Org https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-review
Electronic Frontier Foundation
How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review
If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the
Father Reginald Foster has died https://theoldie.co.uk/blog/the-popes-latin-teacher
The Oldie
The Pope’s Latin teacher - The Oldie
Reginald Foster was the Pope’s Latinist for 40 years –and for four Popes – from 1969 to 2009. The discalced (from a barefoot or sandal-wearing order) Carmelite priest and friar turns 80 on 14th November.
To become the Pope’s Latinist was some appointment…
To become the Pope’s Latinist was some appointment…
Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100% https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/photocatalyst-that-can-split-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen-at-a-quantum-efficiency-close-to-100/
Fuelcellsworks
Photocatalyst that can Split Water into Hydrogen and oxygen at a Quantum Efficiency Close to 100% | Fuel Cells Works
A research team led by Shinshu University’s Tsuyoshi Takata, Takashi Hisatomi and Kazunari Domen succeeded in developing a photocatalyst that can split water in...
1937 film explains how a car differential works https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a25833/1937-film-perfectly-explains-how-a-car-differential-works/
Road & Track
1937 Film Perfectly Explains How a Car Differential Works
Even if you already understand the concept, this vintage visual illustration breaks it down beautifully.
Print this file, your printer will jam (2008) https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_printer_will_jam.html
Just Wanted to Say Thanks https://github.com/compumike/hairpin-proxy/issues/5
GitHub
Just wanted to say thanks · Issue #5 · compumike/hairpin-proxy
Like the subject says I just wanted to thank you for this brilliant solution to this annoying problem! I am starting to use Linode's managed Kubernetes and they don't have yet an annotation...
Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html
Grub Street
What the Hole Is Going On?
What the hole is going on?
Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/google-maps-moat-is-evaporating
A Closer Look with Joe Morrison
Google Maps' Moat is Evaporating
The views expressed in this newsletter are solely my own, and do not represent the views of my employer. Well, they aren’t solely my own, because I’ve stolen most of them from people smarter than me. But, you get what I’m saying. If you work at the intersection…
TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem https://omar.website/tabfs/
omar.website
TabFS
A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.
California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2149
EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology https://www.eetimes.eu/eu-signs-e145bn-declaration-to-develop-next-gen-processors-and-2nm-technology/
EE Times Europe
EU Signs €145bn Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology - EE Times Europe
17 EU member states signed a joint declaration to commit to work together in developing next generation, trusted low-power embedded processors.
A half-hour to learn Rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
fasterthanli.me
A half-hour to learn Rust
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it.
But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
On Repl-Driven Programming http://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/
Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353
X (formerly Twitter)
Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) on X
The biggest story in tech no one’s talking about is Uber discovering they’d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend.
And all bc Sleeping Giants kept bugging them to block their ads on Breitbart.
And all bc Sleeping Giants kept bugging them to block their ads on Breitbart.