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Modern SQLite #1: STRICT tables

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I'm starting a series of short notes about handy SQLite features you may not have heard...
I'm starting a series of short notes about handy SQLite features you may not have heard about. The first one is "strict" tables.As you probably know, SQLite's type system is very flexible (some people even call SQLite the JavaScript of databases) — you can store any value in any column type (e.g. create an INTEGER c...
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We Sent Ralph Nader Some of Our Favorite Pens. He Dismissed Them All

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We sent Nader four alternative pens to try. And we asked him to use his usual...
We sent Nader four alternative pens to try. And we asked him to use his usual Paper Mate pens as a baseline, testing the competition on multiple paper types, using criteria similar to the criteria we use for testing our pen picks: ink smoothness, precision and consistency, and comfort.He was not a fan. Here’s what h...
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NASA Audit Identifies Significant Issues with Orion Heat Shield

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Big data reveals true climate impact of worldwide air travel

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Kaspersky Lab and neural networks for Russian military drones

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Was the Stone Age the Wood Age?

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U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-ye...

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Rust-Written Redox OS Gets USB Keyboards and Mice Working

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What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think

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No car company in recent years has been able to generate more news headlines than Tesla....
No car company in recent years has been able to generate more news headlines than Tesla. Its original founders were among the very first to realize that lithium-ion laptop cells were just about good enough to power a car, assuming you put enough of them in a pack, and with critical funding from current CEO Elon Musk...
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Tview – Golang Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets

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Judge believes Apple is violating Epic Games' U.S. injunction

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Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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A software engineer has been keeping nearly 7,500 Firefox tabs open on her Mac computer for...
A software engineer has been keeping nearly 7,500 Firefox tabs open on her Mac computer for over two years—and doesn't plan on closing them anytime soon.Firefox power user Hazel, who prefers not to give her last name, posted a screenshot showing 7,470 tabs open earlier this week after finding the browser initially u...

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Spotify getting into enterprise IT tools

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You know that mildly jarring experience whenever that well-known celebrity shows up in an entirely different...
You know that mildly jarring experience whenever that well-known celebrity shows up in an entirely different context — e.g. a musician making a horror flick cameo; an NFL player rearing their head in a comedy series; or a Hollywood movie icon selling mobile phone plans on TV? Well, it’s starting to feel like that wi...
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The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs

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CBMC: C bounded model checker (2021)

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CBMC is a Bounded Model Checker for C and C++ programs. It supports C89, C99, most...
CBMC is a Bounded Model Checker for C and C++ programs. It supports C89, C99, most of C11/C17 and most compiler extensions provided by gcc, clang, and Visual Studio. A variant of CBMC that analyses Java bytecode is available as JBMC. CBMC verifies memory safety (which includes array bounds checks and checks for ...
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It's Time to Tax the Billionaires

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Source: Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman • Note: Tax rates shown include levies paid at all...
Source: Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman • Note: Tax rates shown include levies paid at all levels of government. Government transfers such as Social Security benefits have not been subtracted. In the 1960s, the 400 richest Americans paid more than half of their income in taxes.Higher tax rates for the wealthy kept ...

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EU plan to force apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives

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A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private...
A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) could lead to millions of false positives per day, hundreds of security and privacy experts warned in an open letter Thursday. Concern over the EU pr...
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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline,...
Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints once faced by Microsoft, the “evil empire” of the prev...
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StarCoder2-Instruct: Transparent Self-Alignment for Code Generation

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Cancer vaccines are having a renaissance

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Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

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The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023)

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Woman follows advice to not exit Tesla during update – takes longer reaches 115F

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ReCAPTCHA is broken for [some|most|all] Windows users

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I don't want to fill out your contact form

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This article is written solely in my personal capacity, and does not represent the views of...
This article is written solely in my personal capacity, and does not represent the views of any organisations I am affiliated with.Contact forms are almost always worse for users than just putting an email on your website. I explore why they’re terrible, why you’ve done it anyway, and what to do about it. It’s remar...
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