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6th generation x86 CPU Comparisons

azillionmonkeys.com
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The Endless Maze algorithm (Atari 2600)

gamesthatwerent.com

Speaking recently with Paul Allen Newell, who helped with the Games That Weren’t book due to...
Speaking recently with Paul Allen Newell, who helped with the Games That Weren’t book due to his Vectrex connections, Paul flagged up with us recent stories of how his endless maze algorithm (developed for the Atari 2600) caused a bit of attention. Where researchers tried to figure out how it worked and who did what...
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Humans Sheltered in This Lava Tube for Thousands of Years

gizmodo.com

Three needs are famously fundamental to survival: food, water, and shelter. According to new research, ancient...
Three needs are famously fundamental to survival: food, water, and shelter. According to new research, ancient humans had at least two of those three needs met by a nearly mile-long lava tube about 77 miles (125 kilometers) north of Medina, Saudi Arabia, for at least 7,000 years.The lava tube in question is named Um...

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Discovery of the first fractal molecule in nature

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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Ask HN: What are your favorite tiny, single purpose tools?

ycombinator.com
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Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU

hackster.io

Zilog has announced it is halting production of its standalone DIP-packaged Z80 CPU models — a...
Zilog has announced it is halting production of its standalone DIP-packaged Z80 CPU models — a move that could spell trouble for vintage computing enthusiasts looking to build Z80-based systems or repair existing machines with new parts.Zilog launched the original eight-bit Z80 CPU in 1976 as its first product, desi...
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Do Best Practices Matter?

telkins.dev

Lately I've been re-examining a lot of what I once thought to be best practices.Here's a...
Lately I've been re-examining a lot of what I once thought to be best practices.Here's a common software engineer origin story. You join a team fresh out of college with a blank slate. Your first code review happens and a senior engineer rips it to shreds."You should have used a factory pattern here""You should avoi...
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When MIT and Quaker Oats conducted experiments on unsuspecting young boys

smithsonianmag.com

For years, boys at Fernald State School were subjected to experiments using radioactive tracers in oatmeal....
For years, boys at Fernald State School were subjected to experiments using radioactive tracers in oatmeal. Flickr When Fred Boyce and dozens of other boys joined the Science Club at Fernald State School in 1949, it was more about the perks than the science. Club members scored tickets to Boston Red Sox games, trips...
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Parsing and all that

jeffsmits.net
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Measuring the Mobile Body

eurozine.com

Europe’s high-tech arsenal of border technologies is often narrated as a futuristic tale of light, speed...
Europe’s high-tech arsenal of border technologies is often narrated as a futuristic tale of light, speed and computing power. Identification systems such as the Eurodac database store, process and compare the digitized fingerprints of migrants using near-infrared light, fibre optic cables and centralized servers. Dr...
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Why single vendor is the new proprietary

opensource.net
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Microsoft's VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real...
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for "VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time." On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the futur...
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The Curse of Monkey Island

filfre.net

Fair Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and The Curse...
Fair Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and The Curse of Monkey Island. No puzzle spoilers, however… The ending of 1991’s Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge is as shocking in its way as that of the infamous last episode of the classic television series St. Elsewhere. ...
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The Illustrated Word2Vec (2019)

jalammar.github.io
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Quill – Your powerful rich text editor in V2

quilljs.com
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Paces (YC S22, Climate and AI) Is Hiring Engineers in NYC

ycombinator.com
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First Impressions of Early-Access GPT-4 Fine-Tuning

supersimple.io
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How the Internet Became Shit

bearblog.dev
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Multipath TCP for Linux

mptcp.dev

Multipath TCP or MPTCP is an extension to the standard TCP and is described in RFC...
Multipath TCP or MPTCP is an extension to the standard TCP and is described in RFC 8684. It allows a device to make use of multiple interfaces at once to send and receive TCP packets over a single MPTCP connection. MPTCP can aggregate the bandwidth of multiple interfaces or prefer the one with lowest latency, it als...
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Undersea 'hybrid warfare' threatens security of 1B, NATO commander warns

theguardian.com
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Xi Orders China's Biggest Military Reorganization Since 2015

bloomberg.com

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Apple Ordered to Remove WhatsApp, Threads, Signal from the App Store in China

theverge.com
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I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract

thehandbasket.co

feminism media politics
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Florida ban on Chinese buying property goes to U.S. appeals court

nikkei.com

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