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Using GPS in the Year 1565

verbeeld.be

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

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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

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Edging Toward Japan: In his mind's eye, Rembrandt was always headed toward Japan

mainichi.jp

Rembrandt: "Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar" (1659, public domain) By Damian Flanagan I recently...
Rembrandt: "Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar" (1659, public domain) By Damian Flanagan I recently spent a few days in the Netherlands with my two daughters, and when stopped at Immigration and asked the purpose of my visit I was able to respond, with not great inaccuracy: "Rembrandt, I guess." I've been...

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SQLite's Use of Tcl

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OpenMPTCProuter: Aggregate and encrypt multiple internet connections using MPTCP

openmptcprouter.com
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Archetypes of LLM apps

contraption.co
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Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door

arstechnica.com
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Teslas Are Involved in More Fatal Accidents Than Any Other Brand, Study Finds

gizmodo.com

Elon Musk has sought to portray Tesla’s vehicles as the “safest cars on the road.” However,...
Elon Musk has sought to portray Tesla’s vehicles as the “safest cars on the road.” However, a new analysis of federal data purports to show that Musk’s company actually has the highest rate of involvement with fatal accidents of any car brand. The analysis, which was put together by automotive search engine iSeeCars...
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'Thirsty' ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

thetimes.com

You may be hungry for knowledge, but your chatbot is thirsty for the world’s water supplies....
You may be hungry for knowledge, but your chatbot is thirsty for the world’s water supplies. The huge computer clusters powering ChatGPT need four times as much water to deliver answers than previously thought, it has been claimed. Using the chatbot for between ten to 50 queries consumes about two litres of water, a...
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Baby's Second Garbage Collector

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A simple semi-space collector – wingolog

wingolog.org

Good day, hackfolk. Today’s article is about semi-space collectors. Many of you know what these are,...
Good day, hackfolk. Today’s article is about semi-space collectors. Many of you know what these are, but perhaps not so many have seen an annotated implementation, so let’s do that.Just to recap, the big picture here is that a semi-space collector divides a chunk of memory into two equal halves or spaces, called the...

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Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes

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How Tailscale's infra team stays small

tailscale.com

When I talk to other infrastructure folks at tech conferences, they’re usually shocked to hear that...
When I talk to other infrastructure folks at tech conferences, they’re usually shocked to hear that Tailscale’s infra team is just three engineers. Companies of similar size often have multiples of that. How do we manage to get by with so few people?The honest answer is that we at Tailscale use Tailscale in nearly a...
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Oral History of Nolan Bushnell [video]

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Chinese hackers preparing for conflict, US cyber official says

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UK sees privatisation 'opportunities' in Ukraine war

declassifieduk.org

Zelensky meets Starmer and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. (Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 handout)Amid...
Zelensky meets Starmer and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. (Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 handout)Amid the devastating war in Ukraine, British economic aid to the country is focused on promoting pro-private sector reforms and on pressing the government to open up its economy to foreign investors. Recently-published...
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