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Large French Alpine ski resort to close in face of shrinking snow season

theguardian.com
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Nonfree software found in GNU Boot releases again, many distros affected

gnu.org
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Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

1e100.net
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Time: Yes, it's a dimension, but not like space

bigthink.com

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel...
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all When it comes to dimensions, most of us intuitively understand the notion that space possesses those properties. You can move forward or backward by any amount you desire in any of the t...
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Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it

frondly.app

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Accountability Sinks

aworkinglibrary.com

2024-10-16 In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb...
2024-10-16 In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it. Here’s an example: a higher up at a hospitality company decides to reduce the size o...
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Regarding our Cease and Desist letter to Automattic

wpfusion.com

To start, if you haven’t heard about the #wpdrama that’s taken over WordPress in the last...
To start, if you haven’t heard about the #wpdrama that’s taken over WordPress in the last month, congratulations 😊. I imagine you’ve had a comparatively stress-free October, and hopefully got to spend lots of time outdoors. There are many, many, many posts, videos, and commentaries about everything that’s happened. ...
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Time-restricted eating – a non-drug approach for managing metabolic syndrome

acpjournals.org
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DEA National Drug Threat Assessment 2024 [pdf]

dea.gov
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The Languages of English, Math, and Programming

github.com
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Implementing an Intermediate Representation for ArkScript

lexp.lt

arkscript
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Blocking code is a leaky abstraction

notgull.net

Asynchronous code does not require the rest of your code to be asynchronous. I can’t say...
Asynchronous code does not require the rest of your code to be asynchronous. I can’t say the same for blocking code. Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers for smol, a small and fast async runtime for Rust. I’ve been involved in the Rust community for four years at this point. At this point, I’ve seen a lot of crit...
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Autism's Four Core Subtypes

thetransmitter.org

Despite the huge variation in how autistic people experience the condition, they can be divided into...
Despite the huge variation in how autistic people experience the condition, they can be divided into just four subgroups, according to a preprint. The people in these groups—who share similar traits and life outcomes—carry gene variants that implicate distinct biological pathways, the researchers found. Each group i...
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555 Timer Circuits

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Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

ribbonfarm.com

After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially...
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm.com domain and all links will remain active, but there will be no new content after November 13th, 2024, which happens to be my 50th birthday. There will be one f...
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QUIC Is Not Quick Enough over Fast Internet

arxiv.org
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'Stanford Prison Experiment' Psychologist Zimbardo Dies at 91 – AP News

apnews.com

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It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware

usenix.org
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How I Use Git

thorstenball.com
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Smurf: Beyond the Test Pyramid

googleblog.com

This article was adapted from a Google Testing on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download...
This article was adapted from a Google Testing on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT episode and post it in your office.By Adam BenderThe test pyramid is the canonical heuristic for guiding test suite evolution. It conveys a simple message - prefer more unit tests tha...
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The Oblivion Mod Terry Pratchett Worked On

eurogamer.net

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Why the B-52 is outliving newer bombers [video]

youtube.com

education
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Dwarf Fortress – Boatmurdered Part #1 – Intro

lparchive.org

What follows is a succession-style Let's Play of the game Dwarf Fortress. In it, we chronicle...
What follows is a succession-style Let's Play of the game Dwarf Fortress. In it, we chronicle the rise and fall of the epic Dwarven fortress, Boatmurdered. (Actually, it's pretty much all fall.) Each ruler was given a single year of gametime in which to manage the fortress, then they gave the reigns over to the next...

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Cold District Heating

wikipedia.org

District heating with very low temperatures Schematic function of a cold district heating network Cold district...
District heating with very low temperatures Schematic function of a cold district heating network Cold district heating is a technical variant of a district heating network that operates at low transmission temperatures well below those of conventional district heating systems and can provide both space heating and ...
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