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South Korea declares martial law

koreaherald.com

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South Korea President Yoon declares martial law

reuters.com
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Rewrite Git history via drag-and-drop

retcon.app
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Thoughts on DuckDB's Crazy Grammar Thing

buttondown.com

December 2, 2024 It is the job of modern programming languages to be amenable to abstractions....
December 2, 2024 It is the job of modern programming languages to be amenable to abstractions. It should be easy for users to take a little bundle of functionality and reuse it, or build something more complex on top of it, or give it to someone else to use. A good programming language gives you a set of primitives ...
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Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D Engine

annali.netlify.app
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Two decades after Enron's bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm?

arstechnica.com

Oh, Enron, I thought—hoped and dreamed?—you were long, long gone, confined to the dustbin of history...
Oh, Enron, I thought—hoped and dreamed?—you were long, long gone, confined to the dustbin of history reserved for seriously fraudulent companies. But apparently not. More than two decades after Enron's bankruptcy in December 2001, the company is back. Well, at least an entity using the website Enron.com went public ...
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Introducing integrated inference: Embed, rerank, and retrieve data with one API

pinecone.io

We’re excited to announce expanded inference capabilities alongside our core vector database to make it even...
We’re excited to announce expanded inference capabilities alongside our core vector database to make it even easier and faster to build high-quality, knowledgeable AI applications with Pinecone.We introduced embedding and reranking earlier this year. Today, we’re announcing the GA of those capabilities and bringing ...
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Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine)

stripe.com
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South Korean president declares emergency martial law

apnews.com

ap top news general news government budgets north korea south korea government
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Kagi Search API

kagi.com

The Search API gives programmable access to Kagi's premium search results.NOTE: The Search API is in...
The Search API gives programmable access to Kagi's premium search results.NOTE: The Search API is in closed beta and is currently available to Kagi Business (Team) plan. This is currently $19/mo plus search API cost (2.5c per search). Please reach out to support@kagi.com for invite.We plan to release this API to all...
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The rise of digital housekeeping: the hidden work of smart technology

oslomet.no

Every now and then, we might experience our Wi-Fi signal dropping, having to set up a...
Every now and then, we might experience our Wi-Fi signal dropping, having to set up a gaming account for the kids, or managing photo storage on our phones.In all of these examples, we are engaging in digital housekeeping, which is somewhat overlooked in statistics on household chores.Digital housekeeping"Everyone en...
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Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring a SRE and DevOps Engineer in Europe

workatastartup.com

At Wasmer we are working on the software that will power the next generation of Cloud...
At Wasmer we are working on the software that will power the next generation of Cloud Computing platforms using WebAssembly. Similarly to Node.js, we are moving WebAssembly to the server-side but completely emancipated from JavaScript. Read more about us here: https://wasmer.io/posts Read more about our culture and ...
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Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number

theverge.com

In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection...
In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing a rule limiting data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ sensitive personal and financial information.Under the proposed rule, data brokers that sell information about consumers...
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Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds

bbc.com

Getty ImagesYasmin - not her real name - came from Iran to study for a master’s...
Getty ImagesYasmin - not her real name - came from Iran to study for a master’s degree at a new university in the UK, but she was "shocked" to find many of her fellow students had limited English, and only one or two were British."How is it possible to continue this coursework without understanding a British accent ...
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Show HN: my party game where AI decides if you’re funny

playsnatched.com
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Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival

arstechnica.com

Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom’s takeover a year ago led to...
Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom’s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other controversial changes. Now we have an inside look at one of the larger customers that recently made the move. According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquar...
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Vietnamese tycoon loses death row appeal over biggest bank fraud

bbc.co.uk

Born into a Sino-Vietnamese family in Ho Chi Minh City, Truong My Lan started as a...
Born into a Sino-Vietnamese family in Ho Chi Minh City, Truong My Lan started as a market stall vendor, selling cosmetics with her mother. She began buying land and property after the Communist Party introduced economic reform in 1986. By the 1990s, she owned a large portfolio of hotels and restaurants. When she was...
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Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

arstechnica.com

The "David Mayer" block in particular (now resolved) presents additional questions, first posed on Reddit on...
The "David Mayer" block in particular (now resolved) presents additional questions, first posed on Reddit on November 26, as multiple people share this name. Reddit users speculated about connections to David Mayer de Rothschild, though no evidence supports these theories. The problems with hard-coded filters Allowi...
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Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic statement

arstechnica.com

Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras...
Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras instead of dedicated digital or film cameras. It’s not surprising that, perhaps as a reaction to the ubiquity of the phone, some young creative photographers are leaving their handsets in their pockets in favor of co...
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Addictive nut is driving record rates of cancer

telegraph.co.uk
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Guile-Emacs Relaunched

emacsconf.org

Robin Templeton (they/them) - IRC: robin, - robin on libera.chat - Matrix: @terpri:matrix.org - Mastodon: @lispwitch@octodon.social...
Robin Templeton (they/them) - IRC: robin, - robin on libera.chat - Matrix: @terpri:matrix.org - Mastodon: @lispwitch@octodon.social - Website: http://terpri.org/, robin@terpri.org The following image shows where the talk is in the schedule for Sat 2024-12-07. Solid lines show talks with Q&A via BigBlueButton. Dashed...
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NCSI Probing Needs to Die

github.com
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No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect

haxx.se

curl and libcurl email support
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Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley

commoncog.com

On September 10, 2010, AdGrok founder Antonio Garcia-Martinez was hanging out at co-founder Argyris Zymnis’s San...
On September 10, 2010, AdGrok founder Antonio Garcia-Martinez was hanging out at co-founder Argyris Zymnis’s San Francisco apartment when he received a call from Rodger Cole. Rodger Cole was a litigator at Fenwick & West, and Fenwick & West was one of the big three Silicon Valley law firms. Getting an unexpected cal...
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