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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole

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Are retrocomputers best left on or off?

stackexchange.com

This is not subjective at all. You should do whatever is best for the critical components...
This is not subjective at all. You should do whatever is best for the critical components rather than what is best for the hardware overall. Some things in a computer are trivial to repair, other parts are impossible. TL;DR: keep it turned off. (The author of this answer has some 20+ years of experience from electro...
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Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

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Mishaal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android. The Terminal...
Mishaal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android. The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. This app is likely intended for Chromebooks but might also be available for mobile devices, too. Although a lot of work ca...
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Exploring 120 Years of Timezones

scottlogic.com

Timezones, and daylight saving - the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour once a...
Timezones, and daylight saving - the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour once a year - are a pain. They make it hard to schedule international meetings, plan travel, or may simply cause you to be an hour late for work once a year. For a developer, they are even worse! The number of things that can trip you...
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Gleam: A Basic Introduction

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An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs

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Show HN: Sendsheets.com – send personalized emails from Google Sheets

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A Swiss firm’s software mines the world’s knowledge for patent opportunities

ieee.org

Just outside Lausanne, Switzerland, in a meeting room wallpapered with patent drawings, Ioannis Ierides faced a...
Just outside Lausanne, Switzerland, in a meeting room wallpapered with patent drawings, Ioannis Ierides faced a classic sales challenge: demonstrating his product’s advantages within the short span of his customer’s attention. Ierides is a business-development manager at Iprova, a company that sells ideas for invent...

generative ai invention patents
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What Ticketmaster doesn't want you to know: tickets were cheaper for decades

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news & politics
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Working from home is powering productivity

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INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model

primeintellect.ai

We're excited to launch INTELLECT-1, the first decentralized training run of a 10-billion-parameter model, inviting anyone...
We're excited to launch INTELLECT-1, the first decentralized training run of a 10-billion-parameter model, inviting anyone to contribute compute and participate. This brings us one step closer towards open source AGI.Recently, we published OpenDiLoCo, an open-source implementation and scaling of DeepMind’s Distribut...
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How London's Crystal Palace was built so quickly

arstechnica.com

London's Great Exhibition of 1851 attracted some 6 million people eager to experience more than 14,000...
London's Great Exhibition of 1851 attracted some 6 million people eager to experience more than 14,000 exhibitors showcasing 19th-century marvels of technology and engineering. The event took place in the Crystal Palace, a 990,000-square-foot building of cast iron and plate glass originally located in Hyde Park. And...
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Ryzen 9000X3D performance according to MSI

videocardz.com
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Gboard double-sided version

google.co.jp
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The revival of the beach in twentieth-century Los Angeles

bbc.com
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'Shoe doping' changed marathon times in ways we still don't understand

nytimes.com

Five years ago today, in a park in Vienna, Eliud Kipchoge ran the most significant marathon...
Five years ago today, in a park in Vienna, Eliud Kipchoge ran the most significant marathon ever.The clock stopped at 1:59:40. Kipchoge was already a legend. He had won 10 consecutive marathons between 2014 and 2019, including Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.This, though, was something else. A sub-two-hour ma...

olympics
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Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream

urlshortenersaresoyesterdaytrythisamazingsuperlongurlexpander.site
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Show HN: Self-Hostable Algolia DocSearch Replacement

github.com
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PeachPie Compiler: Compile and run PHP on top of .NET runtime

peachpie.io
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Phase transitions in random circuit sampling [pdf]

nature.com
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In Praise of 'Megalopolis'

compactmag.com

film
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Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI

github.com
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The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves

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This drawing appears on all membership certificates of the Society. The Society in Dedham for Apprehending...
This drawing appears on all membership certificates of the Society. The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves is the "oldest continually existing horse thief apprehending organization in the United States, and one of Dedham's most venerable social organizations."[1][2][3] Since its founding there have bee...
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Python and SysV Shared Memory

euroquis.nl

At work-work the system uses, for historical reasons, a lot of SystemV shared memory. The SysV...
At work-work the system uses, for historical reasons, a lot of SystemV shared memory. The SysV shared memory API has C functions like shmat(2). There is also a different shared memory API, POSIX shared memory, which has functions like shm_open(3). For reasons, on some work-work systems we’re constrained to Python 3....
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