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All Placebos are not created equal (2021)

samstack.io

A pair of Perkins TractorsHave you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in...
A pair of Perkins TractorsHave you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in London in the 18th Century, you could buy a pair of Perkins Tractors (shown above) for the steep price of five guineas, and wave them over an aching part of your body for about twenty minutes as a way of relieving your pain. They wor...
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Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds

simonschreibt.de

Korean Version by Woodorl Kim What you see here is the stunning background art of one...
Korean Version by Woodorl Kim What you see here is the stunning background art of one of the most beautiful sci-fi games. H o m e w o r l d 2 Thanks for reading. Just kidding. Of course i have something to say about this. In the company we look at the art of Homeworld from time to time and bow to the...
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A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset

righto.com

In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in...
In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day and was instantly responsive to every action you had, how much va...
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Ask HN: Difficulties with Going Back to School

ycombinator.com
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The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf]

sel4.systems
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Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact

zhero-web-sec.github.io
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Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields

esa.int
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argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go

github.com
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The Worst Programmer I Know

dannorth.net

metrics productivity
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The Race to Decipher Cuneiform in the 19th Century

smithsonianmag.com
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IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anytime soon

techcrunch.com

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says that, despite the Trump administration’s attacks on globalism, global trade isn’t...
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says that, despite the Trump administration’s attacks on globalism, global trade isn’t dead. In fact, he thinks that the U.S.’s key to growth will be embracing an international exchange of goods. “So, I actually am a firm believer — I think it goes all the way back to the economists who studie...
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I made "Character AI" for learning

ycombinator.com
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Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Engineers with Ambitious Career Goals

ycombinator.com

Effortless Financial Compliance$200K - $240K / 0.25% - 0.75%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded...
Effortless Financial Compliance$200K - $240K / 0.25% - 0.75%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›This is a full-time role to be a Founding Software Engineer and Technical Lead, located onsite in New York, NY. About you You have concrete career goals. We expect you to help us h...
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Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone?

theverge.com

In recent weeks, airport Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have drawn public outcry for denying...
In recent weeks, airport Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have drawn public outcry for denying travelers US entry based on searches of their phones. A doctor on an H-1B visa was deported to Lebanon after CBP found “sympathetic photos and videos” of Hezbollah leaders. A French scientist was turned away afte...
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A Canadian's Perspective on US Behavior Since the Trump Regime Was Installed

oliphant.social
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Scientists program stem cells to mimic first days of embryonic development

ucsc.edu

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific...
The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across disciplines. For some animals, the entire process of cellular multiplication, generation of specialized cells, and their ...
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CSS Form Control Styling Level 1 – W3C First Public Working Draft

csswg.org
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The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code

microsoft.com

One of my colleagues in enterprise product support runs a weekly debug talk consisting of a...
One of my colleagues in enterprise product support runs a weekly debug talk consisting of a walkthrough of a debug session. Usually, the debug session comes to a conclusion, but one week, the debug session was unsatisfyingly inconclusive. We knew that something bad was happening, but we couldn’t figure out why. This...
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The Barnacle Goose Myth

wikipedia.org

Sources of ancient myth From Topographia Hibernica British Library MS 13 B VIII (c. 1188 CE)...
Sources of ancient myth From Topographia Hibernica British Library MS 13 B VIII (c. 1188 CE) The barnacle goose myth is a widely-reported historical misconception about the breeding habits of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and brant goose (Branta bernicla).[1] One version of the myth is that these geese emerg...
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In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard

bbc.com
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A single-fibre computer enables textile networks and distributed inference

nature.com
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Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?

economist.com
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ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

youtube.com

science & technology
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Carl Linnaeus's note-taking innovations

substack.com

Even if you know nothing about the Swedish doctor, professor, and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), you...
Even if you know nothing about the Swedish doctor, professor, and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), you probably know about his greatest innovation: binomial nomenclature. Prior to Linnaeus, naturalists had no systematic way to name a plant or animal. Linnaeus came up with the idea of naming according to genus a...
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