I’ve been doing a lot of swimming over the past few weeks and I’ve regularly been hitting some new personal milestones over the past year. Each milestone brings with in a huge high, an endorphin rush,

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Intro Ruby is so associated with its most famous framework, Rails, that many people forget how amazing this language is. I mean, I know a lot of people who says “I don’t like Ruby” and when I ask why

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions

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Leachim was an early example of Diphone synthetic speech and demonstrated how voice branching could be done quickly via computer discs to create understandable speech (i.e. verbal output).[1][2] This

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The way this worked, historically, was that a developer would first propose a project that complied with all existing rules. After the city determined the project checked all the boxes, it would still

Daily Automated Testing for Milk-V Duo S RISC-V SBC (IKEA TRETAKT / Apache NuttX RTOS) ???? 23 Jun 2024 Last week we upstreamed Milk-V Duo S SBC (pic below) to Apache NuttX RTOS. (Based on Sophgo SG

General idea You can create an alias to a resource, and then share that alias multiple times. You can forget aliases of resources. When the last alias is forgotten, the resource is freed with the giv

I tried to post this in #nix-offtopic, but my client claimed it was rejected by one of the servers involved. I don’t care to find out why, I only used Matrix for the Nix spaces. Matrix doesn’t let yo

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When people talk about self-driving cars, they usually talk about them as though they’re in the future, still a little opaque and unproven. But as so often, the future is already here: it’s just not e

The robotic spacecraft was spinning wildly. The first mission of Trevor Bennett’s spunky space start-up seemed doomed. But then Bennett, co-founder of Starfish Space, and his team started doing the ma

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The Queen of the Night is today best known for her leading role in The Magic Flute, but for Babylonian historians the star of the show is an ancient goddess with the same name. Although almost 4,000 y

Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history Hello, Snackers. This started as a history of one product, but then I found something more interesting. If you’re new here (welcome!), Snack Stack

In “Kitchen Confidential,” the book that launched Anthony Bourdain’s writing career, he explained that his subject was “street-level cooking and its practitioners.” Line cooks—the people actually maki

Move over, GE Widescreen 1000. In 1989 in Japan, Sony introduced to the largest Trinitron CRT ever built, the KV-45ED1, also known as the PVM-4300. And in 1990, they imported 20 of them to the United

Engineers at The University of Manchester have unlocked the secrets to designing a robot capable of jumping 200 metres – higher than any other jumping robot designed to date. Using a combination of m

From the construction industry to the tourism sector, Greek employers cannot find the staff they need. The government's solution: longer working hours. A new law enables employers to implement a six-d

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Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi computers connected to CCTV cameras which are directed upwards to record the night sky. The Raspberry Pi computer analyses the video

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Lynn Conway, codeveloper of very-large-scale integration, died on 9 June at the age of 86. The VLSI process, which creates integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip,

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The center of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, a Balkan country born just 33 years ago as an independent state, is awash in history. A statue of Alexander the Great looms over the central squa

29 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2024 Date Written: June 14, 2024 Abstract People are said to show "algorithm aversion" when (1) they prefer human forecasters or decision-makers to algorithms even though (2

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20 June 2024 Andrew S. Tanenbaum, professor emeritus of Computer Science at VU Amsterdam, receives the ACM Software System Award for MINIX, which influenced the teaching of Operating Systems principl

Is the ruthless pursuit of performance good? What can we say about a society that rewards effort over everything else? Why do we marvel at intellectual prowess more than kindness? I'll be honest: I

Generative AI tools are based on models that use huge amounts of content scraped from the web. OpenAI and Anthropic have said publicly they respect robots.txt and blocks to their web crawlers. Yet,

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Today's links Neither the devil you know nor the devil you don't (permalink) Spotify's relationship to artists can be kind of confusing. On the one hand, they pay a laughably low per-stream

Practical Computing August 1981 page 92 The borderline between the Forth program area and RAM area is clearly defined and the finished, extended Forth program can be saved en bloc on disc and impress