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medium.com 4y ago

A Unified Theory of Decentralization

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artbabridgereport.org 4y ago

ARTBA Bridge Report

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www.reuters.com 4y ago

Flight from South Africa to Atlanta diverted for “technical specifications”

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www.forbes.com 4y ago

Pfizer Shot Just 39% Effective Against Delta Infection, Israel Study Suggests

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blog.sonatype.com 5y ago

Dependency Hijacking Software Supply Chain Attack Hits More Than 35 Orgs

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observers.france24.com 5y ago

In Iran, power outages reveal the secret business of Chinese Bitcoin farms

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theinterntm.com 5y ago

The Beep Project – translates distance into tones for the blind

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github.com 5y ago

LifeHash: Hash visualization based on Conway’s Game of Life

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news.byu.edu 6y ago

BYU study takes next step toward treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

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embodied.com 6y ago

Play-Based Learning with Moxie

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youtu.be 6y ago

Starlink – Fairing Deploy Sequence

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www.wsj.com 6y ago

The World’s Cash Is Disappearing. Bankers Aren’t Sure Where It Went.

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www.talos-systems.com 6y ago

Talos: OS for Kubernetes

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messaginglayersecurity.rocks 7y ago

Messaging Layer Security

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www.npr.org 7y ago

Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages

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www.sfchronicle.com 7y ago

Proposed SF law could force tech workers to actually go out for lunch

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What is a “boring” web stack?

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www.ornl.gov 9y ago

Nano-spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol

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Mendon, Missouri 4 years ago

Being a pessimist is easy and lazy. You don’t have to lift a finger. Things can actually get better and do when people believe it and do even just a little bit.

An acquaintance of mine worked for Mozilla on a project to add tor to Firefox. Code was done, but Google, as it’s primary funder, squashed it.

I see it more as idealism vs pragmatism. We need both. I think older people tend to be conservative because they've become jaded by idealists and/or politics in general. To many, conservatism is that government and politics screw everything up, so we need less of it.

Remember that you are the product and not the customer for these companies.

Google’s customers are the advertisers who pay and (I’d argue) those who want to show up in search results. You have to either pay for ads or play their algorithm game to be relevant because of their monopoly position on search. It’s basically the same story for Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc.

Scott Pelley: What is the legal theory behind going to the SEC? What laws are you alleging have been broken?

John Tye: As a publicly-traded company, Facebook is required to not lie to its investors or even withhold material information. So, the SEC regularly brings enforcement actions, alleging that companies like Facebook and others are making material misstatements and omissions that affect investors adversely.

Just like with IP traffic, companies terminate calls through multiple providers. While bandwidth might be the primary termination provider for 911 for a company, the calls can be routed through others. That backup route, however, may not have locale information so the call might have to be taken initially at a national call center so the locale can be determined, after which it is properly forwarded to the local 911 center. Not ideal since it can add precious time to getting help, but at least the call can get through.

Some highlights since the last LTS (JDK 11):

  Language Features
  394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
  395: Records
  306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics
  409: Sealed Classes
  361: Switch Expressions
  378: Text Blocks

  Language Features in Preview (behind a flag)
  406: Pattern Matching for switch
  412: Foreign Function & Memory API
  414: Vector API

  Tooling
  392: Packaging Tool (jpackage)

  JVM
  386: Alpine Linux Port
  391: macOS/AArch64 Port
  340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
  388: Windows/AArch64 Port
(Source: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/jeps-since-jdk-11)
O.mg Cable 5 years ago

I’m sorry for the world you live in. It’s not that way for everyone everywhere. I hope you can find your way to some place better.

Reading the other comments about the lack of integrity in scientific research that they’ve witnessed, is it any wonder why people might be skeptical about important issues like climate change, vaccines, masks, etc? There’s great research being done and a larger part of the population is becoming more and more skeptical because lies are being published and touted. Science needs to clean its house.

Java 16 5 years ago

By being slightly behind, you get to learn from those languages that live on the bleeding edge. The laggards get to benefit from all the corner cases found and mistakes committed.

Is there a simple file-system-like project out there that has git-like capabilities but basically commits and pushes on any save. I’d like to just keep notes in markdown and sync notes among my devices. I don’t even mind dealing with merge conflicts. I want the git-like capabilities for file history.