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There Is No Business Case for Civilization

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Cheerleading Became Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular

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2007 Boston Mooninite Panic

wikipedia.org

2007 mass panic 2007 Boston Mooninite panic On the morning of January 31, 2007, the Boston...
2007 mass panic 2007 Boston Mooninite panic On the morning of January 31, 2007, the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as improvised expl...
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Firefox DevTools Network Tab: How to filter requests by properties

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Firefox Source Docs The request list of the Network Monitor shows a list of all the...
Firefox Source Docs The request list of the Network Monitor shows a list of all the network requests made in the course of loading the page. By default, the Network Monitor shows a list of all the network requests made in the course of loading the page. Each request is displayed in its own row: By default, the Netwo...
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DreamSim: Learning New Dimensions of Human Visual Similarity (2023)

dreamsim-nights.github.io
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32k context length text embedding models

voyageai.com

TL;DR – We are excited to announce voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite embedding models, advancing the frontier of...
TL;DR – We are excited to announce voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite embedding models, advancing the frontier of retrieval quality, latency, and cost. voyage-3 outperforms OpenAI v3 large by 7.55% on average across all evaluated domains, including code, law, finance, multilingual, and long-context, with 2.2x lower costs an...
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Frosted Glass from Games to the Web: HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game dev

tyleo.com

Frosted Glass from Games to the WebDuring my time as a UI developer for Forza Horizon...
Frosted Glass from Games to the WebDuring my time as a UI developer for Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Motorsport 7, I had the opportunity to work with stunning frosted acrylic design elements. Here's an example from Horizon 3:Inspired by this design, I've always wanted to create a similar effect using HTML. On this page...
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Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser

winterpixel.io
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The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice

dedoimedo.com

The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice. Updated: September 30, 2023 Let me start with a...
The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice. Updated: September 30, 2023 Let me start with a disclaimer. I really like LibreOffice. I use it extensively, and I've written pretty much of all of my books using it, up to the point where I needed to send the materials to my editors, who would only accept DO...
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Three hundred words you can spell on a calculator [pdf]

mathsquad.com
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Anti-scale: a response to AI in journalism

tylerjfisher.com

Let's start here: Gallup's annual media trust survey said in 2023 that only 32 percent of...
Let's start here: Gallup's annual media trust survey said in 2023 that only 32 percent of Americans trust journalism "to report the news in a full, fair and accurate way." People don't trust journalism. That's bad enough, but by any conceivable metric, journalism's foray online has failed. Consider journalists emplo...
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A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

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TypeScript 5.7

microsoft.com

Today we excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 5.7! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript,...
Today we excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 5.7! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on JavaScript by adding syntax for type declarations and annotations. This syntax can be used by the TypeScript compiler to type-check our code, and it can also be erased to emit clean...
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1st Use of MIRV in Combat: Why "Non-Nuclear" MIRV Missile Has Shocked the World?

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In a significant escalation in the ongoing Ukraine War, Russia launched a ballistic missile using Multiple...
In a significant escalation in the ongoing Ukraine War, Russia launched a ballistic missile using Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs) against a Ukrainian city on November 21. This marks the first-ever use of MIRV in combat and has sent shockwaves across the world. The Ukrainian Air Force claimed on Novemb...
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AI PCs make users less productive

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Those using personal computers with built-in AI services are less productive than those using traditional PCs,...
Those using personal computers with built-in AI services are less productive than those using traditional PCs, according to a study conducted by Intel. The chipmaker, which is quite keen to see people buy the AI PCs sold by its hardware partners, came to this conclusion following a commissioned survey [PDF] of 6,000...
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1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations

datavizproject.com
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Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)

github.com
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Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf

science.org
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Wordpress.org released Secure Custom Fields "PRO" version with ACF pro features

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Energy is frame-dependent, infrastructure of energy is frame-independent (2020)

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The concept of energy and the elaborate mathematical infrastructure that surrounds it are so fundamental to...
The concept of energy and the elaborate mathematical infrastructure that surrounds it are so fundamental to mechanics that they are generally introduced less than half-way through the first semester of the introductory course in a college classroom (true whether you are doing a force-first or momentum-first introduc...
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CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a human infection with avian influenza...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) (H5N1 bird flu) in a child in California. This is the first reported avian influenza H5 virus infection in a child in the United States. Consistent with previously identified human cases in the United St...
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Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat

libera.chat
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The $5000 Compression Challenge

patrickcraig.co.uk
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Do you have any suggestions on RSS readers?

ycombinator.com
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