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Singularity Missed

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Disassembling Crossroads, Part 1

substack.com

The title illustration for the game Crossroads, published by Compute!'s Gazette, December 1987.One of my all-time...
The title illustration for the game Crossroads, published by Compute!'s Gazette, December 1987.One of my all-time favorite games for the Commodore 64—and I know I’m not alone in this—is Crossroads, the single-screen maze shoot’em’up by Steve Harter, published in Compute!’s Gazette magazine as a type-in program in De...
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My Resignation from Emacs Development

gnu.org
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Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner's Research Page

mpg.de

Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the...
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC. Microservices for beg...

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U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion

toronto.edu

Close your eyes and picture the iconic “bullet time” scene from The Matrix — where hacker...
Close your eyes and picture the iconic “bullet time” scene from The Matrix — where hacker Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, dodges bullets in slow motion. Now imagine being able to witness the same effect, but instead of speeding bullets, you’re watching something that moves one million times faster: light itself. This i...
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Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they'll need to work at 62 MPH

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Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool

sonnet.io
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Musi fans refuse to update iPhones until Apple unblocks controversial app

arstechnica.com

"The public interest in the preservation of intellectual property rights weighs heavily against the injunction sought...
"The public interest in the preservation of intellectual property rights weighs heavily against the injunction sought here, which would force Apple to distribute an app over the repeated and consistent objections of non-parties who allege their rights are infringed by the app," Apple argued. Musi fans vow loyalty Fo...
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GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released

artanis.dev
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How good are American roads?

construction-physics.com

We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. We need a...
We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. We need a lot of energy infrastructure for decarbonization, and to enable the AI data center buildout. There’s lots of interest in building high-speed rail, mass transit infrastructure, desalination plants in arid regions, and better ports.One fa...
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Kids Can't Read Books

forbes.com

I recognize I usually start with some kind of funny story or joke, but this is...
I recognize I usually start with some kind of funny story or joke, but this is definitely not one. It's a simple question: Has any policy ever looked more politically dunderheaded in immediate hindsight than the Democratic Party's obsession with student loan forgiveness? With attempting to bestow a half-trillion-dol...

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Chrestomathy

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Collection of literary passages for studying This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve...
Collection of literary passages for studying This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Chrestomathy" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2016) (Lea...
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Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways

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Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through...
Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through the landscape costs millions of dollars per mile and can take decades to complete. If you want to build that railway through one of Europe’s most densely populated countries, expect the costs and opposition to in...
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Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

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The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest Princess

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Dustin Haarstad, the owner of Black Cat in Seattle, pours from the bar’s Malört tap.Credit...Chona Kasinger for The New York TimesDustin Haarstad, the owner of Black Cat in Sea...
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What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

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It's a Panzer IVD of the 31st Panzer Regiment assigned to the 5th Panzer Div. commanded...
It's a Panzer IVD of the 31st Panzer Regiment assigned to the 5th Panzer Div. commanded by Lt. Heinz Zobel lost on May 13th, 1940. The "lake" is the Meuse River. The man is a German pioneer. All credit to finding the Panzer of the Lake goes to ConeOfArc for coordinating the search, and miller786 and their team for f...
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Decisions and Dragons

decisionsanddragons.com

This site gathers my responses to reinforcement learning questions from various social media platforms and interactions.Each...
This site gathers my responses to reinforcement learning questions from various social media platforms and interactions.Each answer begins with a concise explanation, accessible to those with relevant background knowledge. Of course, if you’re here, you may not have all of the relevant background knowledge. This sit...
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Judge Rules Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Not So Decentralized in Law

gizmodo.com

The cryptocurrency industry has long been fueled by a libertarian ethos that sees government oversight and...
The cryptocurrency industry has long been fueled by a libertarian ethos that sees government oversight and regulatory scrutiny as the enemy of economic freedom. At the same time, it is also an industry that has sought to reproduce goods and services that already exist in the traditional, regulated economy. In theory...
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The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost

newstatesman.com

In 1790, 126 years after John Milton was buried beneath the floor of St Giles’s, Cripplegate,...
In 1790, 126 years after John Milton was buried beneath the floor of St Giles’s, Cripplegate, his coffin was broken open by builders renovating the church. The verger, drinking in a local hostelry, boasted about the find. A crowd gathered. Soon the poet’s remains were being torn to pieces. A publican tugged at the t...
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Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints

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AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

frost.kiwi

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Clearest Health (YC S23) is hiring a full-stack engineer in NY

ycombinator.com

We are looking to make our first engineering hire at Clearest Health. This role will report...
We are looking to make our first engineering hire at Clearest Health. This role will report directly to the CTO.We are in an unsexy $300 B market that desperately needs better incentive alignment, which can only be achieved through better technology. Your work will directly impact the health and savings of 60% of th...
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Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

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Danish Navy Stopped a Chinese Ship Suspected of Damaging Undersea Cables

defence24.com

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