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www.nyc.gov 10mo ago

Green Wave: A Plan for Cycling in New York City [pdf]

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www.latitudemedia.com 1y ago

Portable battery startup Moxion is bankrupt. What happened?

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www.sciencedirect.com 1y ago

Firefly Algorithm – An Overview

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requestly.com 2y ago

Requestly – Intercept and Modify HTTP Requests

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bitwarden.com 2y ago

Bitwarden Secrets Manager

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github.com 2y ago

Farside: A smart redirecting gateway for various front end services

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hackaday.com 2y ago

Air Canada's Chatbot: Why RAG Is Better Than an LLM for Facts

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goblin.tools 2y ago

Goblin Tools

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www.nber.org 2y ago

Turnout across Democracies (2014) [pdf]

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www.pewresearch.org 2y ago

Striking Findings from 2023

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figgie.com 2y ago

Play Figgie at Jane Street

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adventofcode.com 2y ago

Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

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jaredwhite.com 2y ago

Cloud of a Thousand Talking Cats

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www.businessinsider.com 2y ago

Super Commuting Is on the Rise, Thanks to Flexibility of Hybrid Work

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www.nighthawknyc.com 2y ago

Van Gogh's Cypresses: Art from Hell

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www.act.org 2y ago

Evidence of Grade Inflation Since 2010 in High Schools [pdf]

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martinfowler.com 2y ago

TwoHardThings (2009)

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www.reddit.com 2y ago

Reddit Is Down

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leanprover.github.io 3y ago

Lean

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www.themathgenome.com 3y ago

The Math Genome Project

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www.bostonglobe.com 3y ago

Civil rights complaint targets legacy admissions at Harvard

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www.algos.org 3y ago

A Real Pairs Trading Strategy

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www.theatlantic.com 3y ago

Mr. Murdoch Goes to War (2008)

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever

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www.nationalgeographic.com 3y ago

A green comet is passing by Earth. Here’s how to see it

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

AI startup Cohere in talks to raise funding at $6B+ valuation

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www.vice.com 3y ago

ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator Waging Class War

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www.economist.com 3y ago

Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?

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www.csmonitor.com 3y ago

More trust, less bust for cryptocurrency

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www.axios.com 3y ago

Fake meat fad hits the chopping block

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At least for me, even with adblock turned off it still doesn't appear. Thank you for reposting!

I think the coolest thing about this tool that I haven't seen mentioned yet is randomizing homework and tests for students on pen and paper without an expensive web platform. This completely eliminates cheating in a math class. Would some sample AI generated text for problems be nice? Sure. But this is the bulk of the work already done IMO.

I upvoted your comment and they remind me of each other because they are both internet "axioms" of behavior. Sorry for any confusion!

Their official update from last night:

"On Dec 11 at 7:30 PST, our main database crashed & corrupted some of the data. This is unplanned & we've been working around the clock to restore it. It's a painstakingly slow process given the scale of data. We unfortunately have no ETA but we're doing everything we can."

https://www.reddit.com/r/trakt/comments/zkle8t/trakt_downtim...

They have also been sharing updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trakt

I use BTRFS on my laptop and in case anyone is interested in trying it, please be sure you know how to chroot into the system in case it won't start. Arch Linux had a problematic GRUB package pushed to stable a few months ago and it bricked people's computers by booting directly to the BIOS. Whatever you do, make sure to take notes on the configuration (if it is DIY) because there are many difference between BTRFS and EXT4, so you can't use a normal chroot guide to fix your system.

Yes but the issue is that while laying off so many people could have reduced their burn to zero, losing half of your top 100 advertisers AND adding billions in debt, plus losing most of your staff is a recipe for disaster. Sorry if I didn't phrase that well in my comment.

I do agree that they would have collapsed eventually and this is just an accelerated version of that

Twitter now has billions in debt that it has to service and has lost half of their top 100 advertisers. Their plan to sell an 8$ subscription won't have the reach or ability to service that debt, and while layoffs were necessary to cut costs, doing it in such a classless and unorganized way opens them to serious site reliability issues going forward (they were even down a bit today, for example). I don't see this playing out well to be honest.

If you don't like the ads I'm sure there will be ways to block them. Every search engine has ads, StartPage, DDG, Google, etc... None have an option to pay. I don't see what's wrong with them keeping the lights on, every startup can't burn money forever.

From the developer's README on their GitHub profile:

The issue tab is not your free support platform. Sharing coding does not mean that I'm interested in

(1) helping you learning bash, python, what ever,

(2) help you to use basic tools like pip,

(3) help you to debug issues caused by your customizations/configurations,

(4) citing the documentation as you're to lazy to read it,

(5) fixing issues which does not bother or affect me,

(6) and so on.

A disabled issue tab does not mean 'just create an issue in some of my other projects'.

This seems more like what I am looking for. The low tech solutions are great (text files and paper) on a personal level but are horrible for sharing and editing with family. It's too bad about the apple lock in, is there was a way to export to a friendly format like PDF or markdown? (In case the app ever shuts down)