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New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes
In 1847, Gabriel Lamé proved Fermat’s Last Theorem. Or so he thought. Lamé was a French mathematician who had made many important discoveries. In March of that year he sensed he’d made perhaps his...
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Automatically turn a web app into a desktop app without writing any code
README.mdAutomatic desktop integration of webapps via Electron
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Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances
Your app(s) + only 4 moving partsthe Linux kernelthe Raspberry Pi firmware filesthe Go compiler and standard librarythe gokrazy userland All are updated using the same command.Web status interface On a...
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Lever: a programming language with built-in support for GUI and OpenGL
Lever Programming LanguageLever is a general purpose programming language, in the Perl/Python/Ruby group, with built-in support for GUI applications, including OpenGL, and a packaging feature that...
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Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic
What is an account suspension? If your account was suspended due to invalid traffic, ad serving has been turned off on all of your content for a fixed period (most frequently 30 days). This includes...
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Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA
Image copyrightSPLImage caption Healthy red blood cells are round, but the genetic defect makes them sickle shapedA French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment...
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A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks
Aurich LawsonWhen wireless networking based around the 802.11b standard first hit consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper. Promising "11 Mbps" compared to original wired...
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A blockchain in 200 lines of code
The basic concept of blockchain is quite simple: a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records. However, it is easy to get mixed up as usually when we talk about...
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street (2012)
Once in the dear dead days beyond recall, an out-of-town visitor was being shown the wonders of the New York financial district. When the party arrived at the Battery, one of his guides indicated some...
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How I discovered my left AirPod was bad
tl;dr: My left AirPod had some hardware issue. I got a new one. Now the AirPods work great.The morning Apple's AirPods went up for sale, I was boarding a plane, and had just gotten to my seat on the...
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What happens when you swipe a credit card
Ninety percent of Americans have used a credit card, but far fewer understand the underlying systems enabling their payments. So let’s dive in to see what happens when you swipe your card!Source: The...
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Two fingers scroll moves through time instead of space
README.mdTwo fingers (horizontal) scroll moves through time instead of space _ xkcd (#1806)
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A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years
It can seat four people, in a squeeze, and weighs a little under 800kg without fuel or its passengers. It has a maximum speed of 140mph (226km/h), though you could push this up to 185mph at a pinch –...
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WebAssembly back end for the GNU toolchain (binutils, gcc, glibc)
Pip Cet - Partial WebAssembly backendThis is the mail archive of the binutils@sourceware.org mailing list for the binutils project.From: Pip Cet <pipcet at gmail dot com>To: binutils at...
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The charisma droids: today's robots and the artists who foresaw them
An android toddler lies on a pallet, its doll-like face staring at the ceiling. On a shelf rests a much more grisly creation that mixes imitation human bones and muscles, with wires instead of arteries...
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Syntax is the last thing you should design
If someone listens me at a language design this is a valuable lesson I'd like to pass along: Avoid focus on syntax or grammar when you design a new programming language.Temptation to create syntax...
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Which Cognitive Bias Is Making NFL Coaches Predictable?
February 5, 2017by Jesse GalefIn football, it pays to be unpredictable (although the “wrong way touchdown” might be taking it a bit far.) If the other team picks up on an unintended pattern in your...
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Building a Road Map for the Self-Driving Car
Creating them, however, is a monumental task. There are more than four million miles of roads in the United States. And compared with the maps used by GPS and navigation systems, the level of precision...
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How is news marked as disputed on Facebook?
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