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Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Half of the Airbus A320/A321neo aircraft operated in Russia are out of service due to technical...
Half of the Airbus A320/A321neo aircraft operated in Russia are out of service due to technical issues. Out of a total of 66 aircraft of this family, 34 have been grounded, and up to 20 of them may never return to operation, according to sources cited in a report by the Russian newspaper Kommersant.The engines on th...
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Twitter's heir apparent isn't X or Threads – it's Bluesky

theverge.com

Bluesky feels like the big winner right now.I’ve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my...
Bluesky feels like the big winner right now.I’ve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. I’ve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didn’t ha...
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A silly science prize changed my career

nature.com

How to win a Nobel prize: what kind of scientist scoops medals?

careers publishing scientific community
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Size and albedo of the largest detected Oort-cloud object

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:The recently announced Oort-cloud comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is remarkable...
Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:The recently announced Oort-cloud comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is remarkable in at least three respects: (i) it was discovered inbound as far as ~29 au from the Sun (with prediscovery images up to ~34 au); (ii) it showed cometary activity already at almost 24 au...
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The 'Return to Office' Lies

avas.space
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I Stopped Using OpenBSD

dataswamp.org
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Blogging Through the Decades

dtrace.org
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Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

atlasobscura.com

hidden islands language linguistics
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Writes Large Correct Programs (2008)

johndcook.com

I had a conversation yesterday with someone who said he needed to hire a computer scientist....
I had a conversation yesterday with someone who said he needed to hire a computer scientist. I replied that actually he needed to hire someone who could program, and that not all computer scientists could program. He disagreed, but I stood by my statement. I’ve known too many people with computer science degrees, ev...

programming quality
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3D Space Can Be Tiled with Corner-Free Shapes

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Tiling a space with a repeated pattern that has no gaps or overlaps (a structure known...
Tiling a space with a repeated pattern that has no gaps or overlaps (a structure known as a tessellation) is what led mathematician [Gábor Domokos] to ponder a question: how few corners can a shape have and still fully tile a space? In a 2D the answer is two, and a 3D space can be tiled in shapes that have no corner...
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Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

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Oxford University has been accused of relying on academics on “Deliveroo-style” and precarious fixed-term contracts to...
Oxford University has been accused of relying on academics on “Deliveroo-style” and precarious fixed-term contracts to give the majority of its tutorials, after new research revealed just a third of lessons are taught by full-time professors.Data obtained through freedom of information requests by the University and...
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Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit

arstechnica.com

How did supermassive black holes end up at the center of every galaxy? A while back,...
How did supermassive black holes end up at the center of every galaxy? A while back, it wasn't that hard to explain: That's where the highest concentration of matter is, and the black holes had billions of years to feed on it. But as we've looked ever deeper into the Universe's history, we keep finding supermassive ...
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Futel

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Alloy Automation (YC W20) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

Alloy is a platform for building and managing SaaS integrationsSan Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)Apply...
Alloy is a platform for building and managing SaaS integrationsSan Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)Apply to Alloy Automation and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile.Apply to role ›Alloy Automation (YC W20) is more than just a tech startup - we’re building the integration infrastructure th...
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Using GPS in the Year 1565

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There’s a wonderful web app (“Allmaps Here”) that shows your GPS location on old maps. I...
There’s a wonderful web app (“Allmaps Here”) that shows your GPS location on old maps. I love it. We didn’t have GPS until a few decades ago (it took some relativity theory, satellites and microelectronics). But we have had fantastic maps for thousands of years. So how about combining both, and doing some GPS positi...
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Amdahl's Law

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We signed a famous AI company with a HackerNews post

getlago.com

Landing your first big customer is a rite of passage for startups. If you’re an early-stage...
Landing your first big customer is a rite of passage for startups. If you’re an early-stage company, bigger customers want to see that you’ve worked with others like them. This is even more true if you sell infrastructure your customers trust for important parts of their business like billing.‍But getting those cust...
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Don’t look down on print debugging

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Elon Musk is directing harassment toward individual federal workers

theverge.com

Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent...
Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the government’s bloat and posting about them t...
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Agent Blue – Arsenic-Laced Rainbow [pdf]

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Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia

historytoday.com
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How the ZX Spectrum became a 1980s icon

bbc.com

Getty ImagesThe ZX Spectrum was a 1980s icon which played a starring role in the revolution...
Getty ImagesThe ZX Spectrum was a 1980s icon which played a starring role in the revolution that brought computers into the UK’s homes for the first time.The 8-bit computer arrived in 1982 with its distinctive rainbow stripe, rubber keys and the high-pitched electronic screech as games loaded.More than five million ...
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Highest-Resolution Images Ever Captured of the Sun's Entire Surface

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This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured...
This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / PHI & EUI teams; Data processing: J. Hirzberger (MPS) & E. Kraaikamp (ROB) The European Space Agency (E...
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DroidSpeak: Enhancing Cross-LLM Communication

arxiv.org
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