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www.compute-market.com 1mo ago

How to Use an Nvidia EGPU with Your Mac for Local AI in 2026

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www.hetzner.com 1mo ago

Hetzner price adjustment of server products effective 15 June 2026

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wtarreau.blogspot.com 2mo ago

Find bugs in YOUR code using OpenCode, Llama.cpp and Qwen3.6

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The story of Lichess | 4k Documentary [video]

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www.hardware-corner.net 2y ago

Best Mac for Large Language Models

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www.noemamag.com 2y ago

Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here

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www.anthropic.com 2y ago

Releasing Claude Instant 1.2

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 4y ago

Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

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talespire.com 4y ago

TaleSpire is a beautiful way to play pen and paper RPGs online

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beergame.org 4y ago

The Beergame

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uniswap.org 5y ago

Uniswap V3 Mainnet Launch

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pdos.csail.mit.edu 5y ago

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

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zachdaniel.dev 5y ago

Learning How to Learn Japanese

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www.aacalc.com 6y ago

AACalc – Asset Allocation Calculator

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reasonablypolymorphic.com 6y ago

How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)

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www.linuxjournal.com 6y ago

Larry Wall, the Guru of Perl (1999)

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symfony.com 7y ago

SymfonyCloud: Newest member of the Symfony family

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symfony.com 7y ago

SymfonyCloud

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Hal Abelson on Computer Science [video]

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codepip.com 9y ago

Codepip – Play games. Learn to code

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s2js.com 9y ago

S2JS – JavaScript coding after Scratch

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developers.google.com 9y ago

Blockly: A library for building visual programming editors

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www.bogleheads.org 9y ago

Bogleheads getting started

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en.wikipedia.org 9y ago

Six Thinking Hats

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www.cocoawithlove.com 9y ago

Looking at Model-View-Controller in Cocoa

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www.foundersfilms.com 9y ago

Founders Films

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web.archive.org 9y ago

How Will You Measure Your Life? By Clayton M. Christensen (2010)

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sam-falvo.github.io 9y ago

Some Thoughts on Forth Vis-A-vis Oracle and Java SE

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www.ericbmerritt.com 9y ago

How to Manage Erlang/OTP Releases (2012)

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www.staticgen.com 9y ago

StaticGen – Top Open-Source Static Site Generators

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why does bit erasure end up in energy expenditure

Following this explanation from the link:

"Theoretically, room‑temperature computer memory operating at the Landauer limit could be changed at a rate of one billion bits per second with energy being converted to heat in the memory media at the rate of only 2.85 trillionths of a watt (that is, at a rate of only 2.85 pJ/s). Modern computers use millions of times as much energy."

I understand that to flip a 1 to a 0 it is necessary to dissipate that energy into heat.

Edit: But also I'm not sure how reversibility avoids that.

See also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Ins...

Hacks at the MIT are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness

Edit: And this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture

Therefore, the hacker culture originally emerged in academia in the 1960s around the MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT AI Laboratory.

Richard Stallman explains about hackers who program:

What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."

There is a book writen by Paul Graham, creator of HN: Hackers and Painters[1]

And there is one tradition to call a hacker to someone who hacks(with software and hardware)[2], doing clever and/or ugly things, and that is not exactly to be a programmer (and also not exactly a security breaker, the other tradition for the hacker name[3])

I think that following the first tradition, the name of the site is well deserved.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hack

[3] http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/first-recorded-usage-of...

The spanish version of the article[1] links to the alternative explanation (Bayer Nemacur pesticide):

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfermedad_del_aceite_tóxico_d...

[2] http://www.cbgnetwork.org/129.html

[3] http://cbgnetwork.org/1522.html

As early as 1981 relevant spanish newspapers were telling the same story:

[4] http://free-news.org/index02-pag.htm

[5] http://free-news.org/cambio01.htm

Edit:

This is the last interview to Dr. Muro:

[6] http://free-news.org/afaber02.htm

Oh thanks!

I'm intrigued. Today you have found two dupe posts coming from me.

How can you be so fast finding the dupes and replying with this info?

It has to be a very time consuming task if it is not automated (appreciated anyway).

If you have automated the task I want to know how! :-) (If you could briefly explain)

In both cases I've just posted it and expected to upvote the most recent thread, but a new post was created and I have directly supposed that the stories were new (from the forum perspective).

I don't understand the mechanics by which the forum allows dupe posts. Maybe it should only allow to dupe a previous post when it's very recent (less than a day) and don't have any upvotes, or automatically show the previous discussions when is old (months)