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danjones.substack.com 21h ago

The Vikings didn't wear horned helmets. So who did?

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www.davidpoll.com 2mo ago

Code review is not about catching bugs

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amplifying.ai 3mo ago

What Claude Code Chooses

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aicoding.leaflet.pub 4mo ago

Relocating Rigor

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www.ft.com 1y ago

Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US

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idlewords.com 1y ago

Scott and Scurvy (2010)

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www.lrt.lt 1y ago

Baltics disconnect from Russian power grid, start isolated operation

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www.thelancet.com 2y ago

Chest Radiography as a Biomarker of Ageing

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return.life 3y ago

The Downfall of Healthy Addictions

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spectrum.ieee.org 3y ago

The bionic-hand arms race

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blog.heckel.io 5y ago

Using Let’s Encrypt for internal servers

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www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl 5y ago

A method to do TLS on IoT devices

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www.unwomen.org 5y ago

UN Women data reveals women’s leadership is far from equal and under threat

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Vintage Klipsch KG4 and Sonos Bi-Amp with IKEA Symfonisk

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beancount.github.io 5y ago

Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files

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github.com 5y ago

Awesome-selfhosted: Free Software network services and web applications

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github.com 5y ago

HomeKit Accessory Development Kit

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tasmota.github.io 5y ago

Tasmota: Open-source firmware for ESP8266 devices

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kevq.uk 5y ago

Synology vs. Nextcloud – Which Is Better for a Home Server?

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www.ft.com 5y ago

How Finland Kept Covid in Check

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without.boats 5y ago

Notes on a smaller Rust

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theconversation.com 6y ago

There’s plenty of toilet paper in the US – so why are people hoarding it?

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github.com 6y ago

Volta: The JavaScript Launcher

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www.cs.princeton.edu 6y ago

A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

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ericlippert.com 8y ago

Wizards and warriors (2015)

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pchristensen.com 9y ago

Why Aren’t More Programs Written in Powerful Languages? (2013)

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jeremywsherman.com 9y ago

Why I'm Meh About JSON API

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www.invisionapp.com 10y ago

Do – The most versatile to-do app UI kit you've ever seen

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www.reindex.io 10y ago

Using Auth0 with Reindex, React and React Native

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www.reindex.io 10y ago

Build a GraphQL Shopping Cart API with Reindex

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When it uses 3rd party libraries, it's interesting how it ends up choosing the tools it does: e.g. why does it strongly prefer shadcn/ui as a UI component library and SQLModel as a Python ORM? Is this about which tools were trending in its training data?

According to the FT article:

"Ukrainian officials say Kyiv is now ready to sign the agreement on jointly developing its mineral resources, including oil and gas, after the US dropped demands for a right to $500bn in potential revenue from exploiting the resources."

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"The final version of the agreement, dated February 24 and seen by the FT, would establish a fund into which Ukraine would contribute 50 per cent of proceeds from the “future monetisation” of state-owned mineral resources, including oil and gas, and associated logistics. The fund would invest in projects in Ukraine.

It excludes mineral resources that already contribute to Ukrainian government coffers, meaning it would not cover the existing activities of Naftogaz or Ukrnafta, Ukraine’s largest gas and oil producers.

However, the agreement omits any reference to US security guarantees which Kyiv had originally insisted on in return for agreeing to the deal. It also leaves crucial questions such as the size of the US stake in the fund and the terms of “joint ownership” deals to be hashed out in follow-up agreements."

And on top of that, the Google datacenter in Hamina doesn't use ocean water with 3.5% salinity, but water from the Baltic sea, which in that part of the Gulf of Finland only has roughly 0.3% salinity – a tenth of ocean water.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/ is the "*privacy not included" guide from Mozilla. However, the main "creepiness" score is based on user votes, so it's not particularly useful (people rate brands they like highly, regardless of actual security).

https://templates.blakadder.com is a repository of devices flashable with Tasmota (an open firmaware for devices with ESP8266 or ESP32 which are very common chips for wi-fi based IoT devices

https://zigbee.blakadder.com is a repository of Zigbee devices, which don't connect to internet at all by design. You can use them with a Zigbee gateway.

Amazon has built a LoRa transmitter (Amazon Sidewalk) in their Echo and Ring devices since 2017, it seems.

They’re not hiding it though. It’s marketed as something you might want to keep enabled and “help your neighbors” by sharing its location.

- “if your Echo device loses its wifi connection, Sidewalk can simplify reconnecting to your router”

- “customer support can still troubleshoot problems even if your devices lose their wifi connection”

- you “support community extended coverage benefits such as locating pets”

The statement “This update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook.” seems to be perhaps carefully worded based on a technicality that they, WhatsApp, are not the ones sharing the business conversations with Facebook, but instead Facebook is giving the businesses themselves tools to share them with FB for ad targeting.

From earlier FB announcement (https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/privacy-matters-whatsapp-b...): “When Facebook acts as a hosting provider to a business, it will use the messages it processes on behalf of and at the instruction of the business. This is an industry standard practice among many companies that offer hosting solutions. While Facebook will not automatically use messages to inform the ads that a user sees, as is always the case, businesses will be able to use chats they receive for their own marketing purposes, which may include advertising on Facebook.”

“This update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook.

We’re now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the terms. No one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8.”

Is there an unbiased analysis somewhere about what actually is changed by the new privacy policy?

Firefox 79 6 years ago

The original title is slightly better in this regard: “Firefox 79: The safe return of shared memory, new tooling, and platform updates”

There is a nuclear power plant in Loviisa, some 50 miles east from Helsinki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loviisa_Nuclear_Power_Plant), so this option is within possibilities and has been evaluated.

However the two existing units in Loviisa will reach the end of their 50-year lifetime by 2030, so using them would depend on getting a lifetime extension (uncertain) or building a new reactor (very slow, as shown by the delays with the Olkiluoto unit 3 mentioned in another comment above).

You can use any assertion library and it will just work. At one point I was using Jest with Chai when migrating a codebase that happened to use Chai for assertions.

Most comments here focus on the name and its perceived conflict with the fact that electronics inside will get outdated at a much faster pace than the "heirlooms" of the past.

However what I truly enjoyed when reading this article was the detailed story of the design process for a project like this. Each detail found in the final design went through numerous experiments and iterations, while balancing the requirements for aesthetics, functionality, manufacturing process and sourcing the materials and components. A fascinating read.

They mention in the article that they moved from cash deposits to stocks: "At the time, bank CDs paid around 8 percent. Ah, yesteryear.

“We had to change our investment strategy. Instead of living off our interest, we switched to buying stocks,” says Paul. “We cash in from time to time just before our next trip.”"