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Lifetimes in Rust are not that hard to understand

medium.com
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My Heart Surgery vs. Y Combinator Interview

manidoraisamy.com

All posts It was April 2021. With just one week to go before my Y Combinator...
All posts It was April 2021. With just one week to go before my Y Combinator interview, I found myself sitting in my doctor’s office, facing an unexpected crisis. The doctor told me that I had a severe leak in my heart and needed open-heart surgery immediately. The estimated recovery period was two months—one month ...
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Evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange

phys.org

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Show HN: Aiopandas – Async .apply() and .map() for Pandas, Faster API/LLMs Calls

github.com
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The Last Decision by the Leading Thinker on Decisions

wsj.com
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Billionaire Egg Baron Pays Contract Farmers Just 26 Cents per Dozen

farmaction.us
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Hexagon Spiral Coordinates

redblobgames.com
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AutoHete: An Automatic and Efficient Heterogeneous Training System for LLMs

arxiv.org
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Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials

github.blog
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Google Cloud, Azure and AWS "collaborating" on a new OSS project

google.com

Senior Cloud Developer AdvocateApril 9-11 in Las VegasRegister We are thrilled to announce the collaboration between...
Senior Cloud Developer AdvocateApril 9-11 in Las VegasRegister We are thrilled to announce the collaboration between Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure on Kube Resource Orchestrator, or kro (pronounced “crow”). kro introduces a Kubernetes-native, cloud-agnostic way to define groupings of Kubernetes resources. With kro, yo...
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Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected and why it's a problem

arstechnica.com

A sample result from the DSP sample test program. Credit: Allan Cecil A sample result from...
A sample result from the DSP sample test program. Credit: Allan Cecil A sample result from the DSP sample test program. Credit: Allan Cecil Those heat effects paled in comparison to the natural clock variation across different consoles, though. The slowest and fastest DSPs in Cecil's sample showed a clock difference...
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Elderly patients can deteriorate in the ER. This team works to get them out

cbc.ca

It's 7 a.m. in the emergency department of St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal, and geriatric nurse...
It's 7 a.m. in the emergency department of St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal, and geriatric nurse Leeza Paolone is starting her day in front of a screen filled with patient names, taking note of each one highlighted in blue."We're fighting against the clock to get these patients seen, and hopefully out of there," Paol...
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A Polyomino Tiling Algorithm (2018)

gfredericks.com

UPDATE: Thanks to David MacIver for pointing out that the problem being reduced to here is...
UPDATE: Thanks to David MacIver for pointing out that the problem being reduced to here is the Exact Cover problem, and the reduction was described by Donald Knuth in his Dancing Links paper. Over eight years ago I created the Polyomino Tiler (a browser application that attempts to tile arbitrary grids with sets of ...
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They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)

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‘They’re Really Close To My Body’: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic...
‘They’re Really Close To My Body’: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck ‘We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say “I”. This is what we must yield up to God.’ — Simone Weil ‘God break down the door You won’t find the answers here Not the ones you came looking for....
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What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Nearly 60 years after the last of 23 nuclear explosions in its land, air and water,...
Nearly 60 years after the last of 23 nuclear explosions in its land, air and water, Bikini Atoll again looks like the idyllic Pacific paradise it was in 1946 — a bracelet of sandy, palm-covered islets encircling an azure lagoon. But it doesn’t take long to pick up on Bikini’s enduring eeriness, says Stanford biology...

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Stellar Sleep (YC S23) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

We help people with chronic insomnia sleep better, using psychology.San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders...
We help people with chronic insomnia sleep better, using psychology.San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Company background Stellar Sleep is on a mission to help millions of people worldwide with chronic insomnia get better sleep. Since our launch in 2022,...
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LearnLM: An experimental task-specific model for learning science principles (2024)

google.dev

LearnLM is an experimental task-specific model that has been trained to align with learning science principles...
LearnLM is an experimental task-specific model that has been trained to align with learning science principles when following system instructions for teaching and learning use cases (for example, when giving the model a system instruction like "You are an expert tutor"). When given learning specific system instructi...
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How Many Artists Did the Beatles Kill?

cantgetmuchhigher.com

Welcome back to Can’t Get Much Higher, the internet’s top destination for using numbers to understand...
Welcome back to Can’t Get Much Higher, the internet’s top destination for using numbers to understand music and the music industry. This newsletter is made possible by my readers. Consider upgrading to a paid subscription to get access to interviews, link roundups, and other fun features. If not, continue on to a mu...
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Letscage.com – P2P encrypted messaging app

letscage.com
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Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake?

herecomesthemoon.net

A Gopher. Toggle original/dithered image tl;dr: Multiple return values in Go interact poorly with other language...
A Gopher. Toggle original/dithered image tl;dr: Multiple return values in Go interact poorly with other language features. We should probably promote them to full-blown tuple types. The Go programming language is frequently critizied for all sorts of reasons. To name a few crowd favorites: Lack of sum types, lack of...
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Celebrating 8 years of self-hosting Mail-in-a-Box – nilsnh.no

nilsnh.no

One fateful weekend I decided to try and self-host my e-mail. Now over eight years later...
One fateful weekend I decided to try and self-host my e-mail. Now over eight years later I have to commend the Mail-in-a-Box (MiaB) project, its main author @JoshData and the community around it. Thanks for the eight years so far and here’s to eight years more, and beyond!https://nilsnh.no/2023/09/02/celebrating-8-y...
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Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

github.com
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The Day Hobie Made Nixon a Surfboard

surfer.com
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Computers and Mice – Mister Rogers Neighborhood

misterrogers.org

Computers and mice Mister Rogers enters carrying a box and a book; inside the box is...
Computers and mice Mister Rogers enters carrying a box and a book; inside the box is a computer mouse. Mister Rogers explains what a computer mouse is and hooks the mouse up to his computer. Then he goes to the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood website on his computer and navigates around the site to show how it works (Ed...
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