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The LM383 Story
LM383For a while it was always a pleasure to see one of my ICs being sold to hobbyists. Although the LM383 had perhaps a typical life for an IC, it was sad to see the part beingdiscontinued.But it is...
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Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (2013)
How does it work?As outlined by xkcd's recent alt text, this site downloads the top answers from StackOverflow for the tags "javascript" and "sort". It grabs the last code block in the answer (in...
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Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain
Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a “reading area” could not be specified in our genes. A kind of recycling process has to take place in the brain while...
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Improving Ourselves to Death
Self-help advice reflects the beliefs and priorities of the era that spawned it.Illustration by Nishant ChoksiHappy New Year, you! Now that the champagne has gone flat and the Christmas tree is off to...
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Emissions-free energy system saves heat from the summer sun for winter
A research group from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has made great, rapid strides towards the development of a specially designed molecule which can store solar energy for later use....
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The Most Misread Poem in America (2015)
Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong.Frost in 1913.From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong, a...
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Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives...
A glitched rendering of a Samsung SSD T3 model Original photo by SamsungResearchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have revealed today vulnerabilities in some solid-state drives (SSDs) that...
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Lab-Made Whiskey, Lab-Made Wine
Via Chemjobber’s Twitter account comes a link to a really interesting Wall Street Journal story on a chemical approach to things like wine and whiskey (last explored here in this 2015 post). The...
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Decoding Utility Markings Spray-Painted on City Streets
In 1976, construction workers accidentally cut into a petroleum pipeline running under the streets of Culver City, California, resulting in a fatal explosion that essentially leveled half of a city...
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Accelerated “Ray Tracing in One Weekend” in CUDA
Recent announcements of NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs, RTX technology, and Microsoft’s DirectX Ray Tracing have spurred a renewed interest in ray tracing. Using these technologies vastly simplifies the...
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RPCS3 Progress Report: September 2018
Welcome to September’s progress report! Firstly, we would like to apologise for the delay. Our progress reports are written by voluntary writers and sadly most of them were unavailable to contribute...
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The Copyleft Bust Up
What’s going on with new software license terms for businesses?Redis Labs has some.Neo4j, Dgraph, and Vespene, too. Mongo did its own.Midas guy’s in favor.A whole new VC firm wants more. Why?The two...
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The Rust borrow checker from a different perspective
Today we’re looking at the rust borrow checker from a different perspective. As you may know, the borrow checker is designed to safely handle memory allocation and ownership, preventing accessess to...
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Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them
They say posts with great images attract more viewers…Hey there 👋 I’m Fabio, a self-taught developer passionate about open source and empowering people. I also like to make my own tools, so naturally I...
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A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke
A lumpy disc of dark-gray steel covers a bench in the lab space of Boston Metal, an MIT spinout located a half-hour north of its namesake city.It’s the company’s first batch of the high-strength alloy,...
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An Independent Assessment of the Human Rights Impact of Facebook in Myanmar
By Alex Warofka, Product Policy Manager We want Facebook to be a place where people can express themselves freely and safely around the world.As part of that commitment, we commissioned an independent...
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Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You)
My dentist, a registered Republican, did not vote in the last midterm elections, in 2014.But the owner of my local bookstore, a registered Democrat, did vote then. So did my accountant, who is not...
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Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA
About 1,800 people in advertising, fashion and publishing already work for Amazon in New York, and roughly 2,500 corporate and technical employees work in Northern Virginia and Washington.Amazon...
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