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The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people

npr.org

Kids as young as 15 were stripping on TikTok’s live feature fueled by adults who were...
Kids as young as 15 were stripping on TikTok’s live feature fueled by adults who were paying for it. That’s what TikTok learned when it launched an internal investigation after a report on Forbes. Officials at TikTok discovered that there was “a high” number of underage streamers receiving a “gift” or “coin” in exch...
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Why does FM sound better than AM?

johndcook.com

The original form of radio broadcast was amplitude modulation (AM). With AM radio, the changes in...
The original form of radio broadcast was amplitude modulation (AM). With AM radio, the changes in the amplitude of the carrier wave carries the signal you want to broadcast. Frequency modulation (FM) came later. With FM radio, changes to the frequency of the carrier wave carry the signal. I go into the mathematical ...

radio
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Lusitania Sinks in Real Time – 18 Minutes of Terror (Scored) [video]

youtube.com

music
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Search Engine Shortcuts in Firefox

jamesg.blog
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Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space

berkeley.edu
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Lessons from USAF Brutalism

dmsnell.blog

yesterday i spent a couple hours at the national museum of the air force in dayton...
yesterday i spent a couple hours at the national museum of the air force in dayton ohio. military design and engineering is always a fascinating topic because of the varied constraints they deal with which are much less important for civilian designs. websites are obese and getting heavier and there’s a fascinating ...
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Show HN: I built Bazaari.io to make launching online stores simple and fast

bazaari.io

bazaari create online store ecommerce ecommerce platform free ecommerce platform
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Notes on Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

simonwillison.net

Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object (via) Kenton Varda introduces the next iteration of Cloudflare's...
Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object (via) Kenton Varda introduces the next iteration of Cloudflare's Durable Object platform, which recently upgraded from a key/value store to a full relational system based on SQLite. This is a fascinating piece of distributed system design, advocating for a really i...
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Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment

abc.net.au

After years of setbacks, bad news and mounting obstacles, Australia's coal-fired generators must have felt they...
After years of setbacks, bad news and mounting obstacles, Australia's coal-fired generators must have felt they had something to celebrate.AGL, the giant energy company backed by tech billionaire and climate evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes, revealed it had pulled off a first.At its huge Bayswater power station in the...

agl bayswater coal power station
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Plop Boot Manager

plop.at
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Introducing Our New Name

minetest.net
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The Non-Pro Apple Vision Headset Will Reportedly Be "About $2000"

uploadvr.com

headsets & tech
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An Uber, Lyft Loophole Denys NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

bloomberg.com

bloomberg graphics graphic investigation lyft rideshare
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Catastrophically warm predictions are more plausible than we thought

epfl.ch

What will the future climate be like? Scientists around the world are studying climate change, putting...
What will the future climate be like? Scientists around the world are studying climate change, putting together models of the Earth’s system and large observational datasets in the hopes of understanding – and predicting over the next 100 years – the planet’s climate. But which models are the most plausible and refl...
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Starship is Still Not Understood (2021)

wordpress.com

Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post...
Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post on The Space Show on November 5 2021. It has been exactly two years since my initial posts on Starship and Starlink. While the Starlink post has aged quite well, Starship is still not widely understood despite i...
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All asteroids in Solar System, visualized

github.com
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Show HN: The fastest Ethereum graph explorer (OpenSource)

dictynna.com
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Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated

oldvcr.blogspot.com

Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into...
Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago except for all the aforementioned time and money. Yours truly is no exception. That machine is my first Lisp Machine and my only one actually using real Lisp Machine hardware, t...
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CS 253 Web Security

stanford.edu

This course is a comprehensive overview of web security. The goal is to build an understanding...
This course is a comprehensive overview of web security. The goal is to build an understanding of the most common web attacks and their countermeasures. Given the pervasive insecurity of the modern web landscape, there is a pressing need for programmers and system designers to improve their understanding of web secu...
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The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise

theverge.com

Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal...
Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they could even talk. But it was mostly just a show.It’s obvious when ...
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Tiny Glade: How Could They Do This? [video]

youtube.com

gaming
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HHKB and Realforce – Mechanical Programming and Gaming Keyboards

hhkeyboard.us
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A Dictionary of Single-Letter Variable Names

jackkelly.name

Haskell’s expressive type system means that type signatures can carry a lot of information. Haskell’s polymorphism...
Haskell’s expressive type system means that type signatures can carry a lot of information. Haskell’s polymorphism means that you sometime write a function that works across an enormous range of types, and are often left wondering “what do I actually call my variables?”. It is often the case that there’s nothing to ...
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Inkscape 1.4 Released

inkscape.org

Oct. 13, 2024, 6:44 p.m. After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the...
Oct. 13, 2024, 6:44 p.m. After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind t...
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