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Debian 64-bit-time transition

debian.org

Current Status The t64 transition is ongoing (end March 2024) in Debian Co-ordination is occurring on...
Current Status The t64 transition is ongoing (end March 2024) in Debian Co-ordination is occurring on #debian-devel IRC A fairly complete analysis of ABI changes was done from May-Oct 2023. About 495 library packages change ABI, and between 5063 and 5975 packages which depend on those will need a no-change rebuild. ...
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Why am I still doing this?

hey.com

I’ve been doing this for 25 years, so I’ll often be asked why I’m still in...
I’ve been doing this for 25 years, so I’ll often be asked why I’m still in it and how I stay motivated.It ain’t the money, as I’ve been fortunate enough to make more than I’ll ever be able to spend.I enjoy the work and we have a great crew, each a true pleasure to work with. I remain filled with ideas. So that’s par...
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New scanning electron microscope tech sees magnetic field with 100nm resolution

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Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server

neighbor-share.vercel.app

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Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

thegamer.com

Helldivers 2 has had one of the roughest weeks in gaming history after PlayStation announced that...
Helldivers 2 has had one of the roughest weeks in gaming history after PlayStation announced that PC players would be required to log into PSN. Considering a lot of areas of the world don't actually have PSN right now, that effectively makes Helldivers 2 unplayable in certain countries. This has been recognised on S...
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Flags Are Not Languages

flagsarenotlanguages.com

Key lessons learned (the TL;DR version): users are easily able to find translation links in footers...
Key lessons learned (the TL;DR version): users are easily able to find translation links in footers language names work well at communicating links to translations – but only if the user is familiar with that alphabet (for instance, as English-speaking user won’t recognize Chinese lettering if Chinese is the current...
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US prepares to exempt AUKUS nations from ITAR

naval-technology.com

A Los Angeles-class submarine USS Annapolis (SSN 760) tied up alongside Diamantina Pier at Fleet Base...
A Los Angeles-class submarine USS Annapolis (SSN 760) tied up alongside Diamantina Pier at Fleet Base West, HMAS Stirling, Western Australia. Credit: Australia Defence Forces. The US has begun to overcome a major hurdle to defence integration with its AUKUS partners – Australia and the UK – with plans to exempt the ...
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WhatsApp Leaking Contacts to FB

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Ask HN: How to Set Consulting Rate?

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Ask HN: Affordable hardware for running local large language models?

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The Guide to Git I Never Had

glasskube.dev

Have you noticed that Git is so integral to working with code that people hardly ever...
Have you noticed that Git is so integral to working with code that people hardly ever include it in their tech stack or on their CV at all? The assumption is you know it already, or at least enough to get by, but do you? Git is a Version Control System (VCS). The ubiquitous technology that enables us to store, chang...
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Council Bans Apostrophes on Street Signs to Avoid Database Issues

bbc.co.uk
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MIT abandons use of DEI statements

whyevolutionistrue.com

DEI statements are affirmations made when you’re applying for college admission, university jobs, or even science-society...
DEI statements are affirmations made when you’re applying for college admission, university jobs, or even science-society grants, recounting to the authorities your philosophy of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” your history of DEI activities, and how you will implement DEI initiatives if you get the admission/jo...
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They Live

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1988 American science-fiction action film For other uses, see They Live (disambiguation). They Live is a...
1988 American science-fiction action film For other uses, see They Live (disambiguation). They Live is a 1988 American science fiction action horror film[b] written and directed by John Carpenter, based on the 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson. Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg F...
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Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20

github.com
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Xmake: A modern C/C++ build tool

github.com
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Ask HN: Can you recommend some poetry?

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Digital Telecommunication in HF band - WWWAN - World-Wide Wireless Area Network

sysmocom.de

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I went to Yale—and I think two-parent families are more important than college

nypost.com

Social critic Rob Henderson went to Yale for undergrad and earned a PhD at Cambridge, but...
Social critic Rob Henderson went to Yale for undergrad and earned a PhD at Cambridge, but he says we place too much emphasis on degrees and diplomas. “We give education more importance than we should,” he writes in his new book, “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class” (Gallery Books, February 2...

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is AI the future of learning?

ycombinator.com
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Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set, fate of Android, Wear OS apps go unannounced

9to5google.com

Since the launch of Health Connect in 2022, Google has been winding down the Google Fit...
Since the launch of Health Connect in 2022, Google has been winding down the Google Fit developer APIs. Earlier this week, the company fully detailed how the “Google Fit APIs have been deprecated and will be supported until June 30, 2025.” Fitness and exercise apps that previously used Google Fit have until the June...
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Unveiling secrets of the ESP32 part 2: reverse engineering RX

ugent.be

This is the second article in a series about reverse engineering the ESP32 Wi-Fi networking stack,...
This is the second article in a series about reverse engineering the ESP32 Wi-Fi networking stack, with the goal of building our own open-source MAC layer. In the previous article in this series, we built static and dynamic analysis tools for reverse engineering. We also started reverse engineering the transmit path...
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Time-Based CSS Animations

yuanchuan.dev
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Tell HN: A note of gratitude to the people providing answers over here

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