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The Tao of Topic Maps (2000)

ontopia.net

knowledge management knowledge representation ontopia steve pepper tao of topic maps
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Rust traits are a local maxima

thunderseethe.dev

Today we’re talking about Rust traits . As you might’ve guessed from the title, we will...
Today we’re talking about Rust traits . As you might’ve guessed from the title, we will not be talking about them positively. Woah woah, hang on, put down your pitchfork. A local maxima is still a maxima, I love traits as much as anyone.Traits are one of the few programming language concepts beloved enough to earn m...

compiler local coherence parametric polymorphism programming languages traits
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Truly Portable C Applications

lwn.net

Ready to give LWN a try? With a subscription to LWN, you can stay current with...
Ready to give LWN a try? With a subscription to LWN, you can stay current with what is happening in the Linux and free-software community and take advantage of subscriber-only site features. We are pleased to offer you a free trial subscription, no credit card required, so that you can see for yourself. Please, join...
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NeuralDEM – Real-Time Simulation of Industrial Particulate Flows

nx-ai.github.io

Advancements in computing power have made it possible to numerically simulate large-scale fluid-mechanical and/or particulate systems,...
Advancements in computing power have made it possible to numerically simulate large-scale fluid-mechanical and/or particulate systems, many of which are integral to core industrial processes. Among the different numerical methods available, the discrete element method (DEM) provides one of the most accurate represen...
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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

play.date
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Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (2023) [pdf]

stanford.edu
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OpenAI Challenges Google

rudo.tel

ai news tech
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Being Productive

furidamu.org

Recently I was asked which habits and practices were the secret to my productivity. I figured...
Recently I was asked which habits and practices were the secret to my productivity. I figured my answers might be of wider interest. Let me know what works for you! Why should you listen to my advice? Aside from my papers, in each year of the past decade I've authored ~1k pull requests with ~200k LoC of deltas, with...

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Oppose the Patent-Troll-Friendly Prevail Act

eff.org

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | November 13, 2024 The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S. 2140),...
Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | November 13, 2024 The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S. 2140), or PERA, would undo vital limits on computer technology patents that the Supreme Court established in the landmark 2014 Alice v. CLS Bank decision. Alice barred patent applicants from obtaining patents simply by adding...
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Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

imfreedom.org

Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and...
Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and kept forgetting to write it. Anyways, we are officially announcing that we will be releasing the first experimental release of Pidgin 3 on December 31st, 2024. This release is a pre-alpha release and no one should be using it full t...
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Apple will now be treated like a bank

9to5mac.com

The popularity of Apple Pay will now see the Cupertino company regulated by the US Consumer...
The popularity of Apple Pay will now see the Cupertino company regulated by the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a watchdog whose role is normally limited to banks and financial services companies. The decision means that the bureau will have the power to monitor and regulate Apple’s policies and prac...
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Fun with Logitech MX900 Bluetooth receivers (2006)

nynaeve.net

For some time now, I have been partial to cordless mice; they’re much less of a...
For some time now, I have been partial to cordless mice; they’re much less of a hastle to use than “conventional” mice, especially if you use a laptop primarily.Â Several months ago, I decided to upgrade from a Logitech MX700 cordless optical mouse to an MX900 Bluetooth optical mouse, so that with my new Bluetooth-e...
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The Birthday Paradox Experiment

pudding.cool

Welcome to the party! Today you will participate in an interactive experiment about the birthday paradox....
Welcome to the party! Today you will participate in an interactive experiment about the birthday paradox. We will use you, the reader, as part of our data, to help explain what it is, why it is cool, and how it works. By Russell Samora Hello! I’m Russell. On what day of the year were you born? Please tell me your re...

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Windmill Hiring Senior Front End (Svelte) Engineer in Paris

ycombinator.com

Open-source platform to turn scripts into internal apps & workflows€50K - €75K EUR / 0.10% -...
Open-source platform to turn scripts into internal apps & workflows€50K - €75K EUR / 0.10% - 0.30%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Looking for a senior, passionate and "cracked" frontend/full-stack engineer to work on the open-source developer platform Windmill: https://gi...
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AI eats the world

ben-evans.com
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Sweden's Northvolt files for bankruptcy, in blow to Europe's EV ambitions

reuters.com
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel

historytoday.com
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Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater

science.org
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Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object

amazon.com
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FLUX.1 Tools

blackforestlabs.ai

Today, we are excited to release FLUX.1 Tools, a suite of models designed to add control...
Today, we are excited to release FLUX.1 Tools, a suite of models designed to add control and steerability to our base text-to-image model FLUX.1, enabling the modification and re-creation of real and generated images. At release, FLUX.1 Tools consists of four distinct features that will be available as open-access m...
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Ask HN: Is uBlock Origin removed from Chrome extension?

ycombinator.com
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What Is Your RAM Usage on macOS? Share Your Workflow and Use Case

ycombinator.com
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Software-defined (Internet) radio with Liquidsoap (2023)

yossarian.net
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Autoflow, a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool

github.com
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