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Pyramid3D Real-time Graphics Processor (1997) [pdf]

vgamuseum.info
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Homelab Cable Television Setup [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Spherical Parallel Manipulator [video]

youtube.com

people & blogs
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The Foundation of a Generic Theorem Prover (1989) [pdf]

arxiv.org
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Corporate America Is Going Un-Woke

businessinsider.com

Unilever spent years crafting its image as a corporate goody-two-shoes. The owner of Dove, Vaseline, Hellmann's,...
Unilever spent years crafting its image as a corporate goody-two-shoes. The owner of Dove, Vaseline, Hellmann's, and a bunch of other brands axed quarterly reporting and earnings guidance in the name of focusing on sustainable long-term growth. Under Paul Polman, its CEO from 2009 to 2019, it said it would take into...

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What are third places? How do I find one?

vox.com
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Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics

davekilian.com

February 2023 Multiprocessor Synchronization was one of my favorite classes during my undergrad — it had...
February 2023 Multiprocessor Synchronization was one of my favorite classes during my undergrad — it had a clear progression from theory to practice, starting at the theory of consensus numbers and moving onto atomic operations and then synchronization primitives and lock-free data structures, all from first princip...
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Animal Well Released

animalwell.net

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100 Years of IBM

tikalon.com

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Evaluating Eye Tracking Systems for Computer Input (2012)

yorku.ca
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Plastic Scanner

plasticscanner.com

👋Hi, we are building a device that can identify the most common types of plastic to...
👋Hi, we are building a device that can identify the most common types of plastic to make plastic recycling simpler, more accessible, and more viable! All in an open source way. We don’t know yet what it is going to look like, but maybe something like these: DIY Version of the Plastic ScannerVisual model from thesis ...
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When Is a Counter-Strike Player Good?

two-wrongs.com

I have downloaded (well, scraped with some JavaScript and regexes) data from 28 matches I’ve played,...
I have downloaded (well, scraped with some JavaScript and regexes) data from 28 matches I’ve played, so there are a total of 280 records, with each record specifying the per-round statistics of the above variables for each player in each match. We can already conclude that matches where a player has killed the entir...
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Link rel="alternate" type="text/plain"

shkspr.mobi

Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, I've now made all of this blog available in...
Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, I've now made all of this blog available in text-only mode.Simply append .txt to the URl of any page and you'll get back the contents in plain UTF-8 text. No formatting, no images (although you can see the alt text), no nothing!This was slightly tricky to get right! While there ...
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Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?

ycombinator.com
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Touchscreens

explainthatstuff.com

by Chris Woodford. Last updated: June 21, 2022. Once upon a time, the way to get...
by Chris Woodford. Last updated: June 21, 2022. Once upon a time, the way to get a computer to do something useful was to feed it a stack of cards with holes punched into them. Thankfully, things soon moved on and, by the end of the 20th century, you could get a computer to do things simply by pointing and clicking ...

capacitive infrared near field imaging resistive surface acoustic wave
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Update your Chrome browser ASAP. Google has confirmed a zero-day exploited

zdnet.com
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Ask HN: 1 passkey per device, or store it in password manager?

ycombinator.com
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G5 (Extreme) Geomagnetic Storm Detected

noaa.gov
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I before E except after C, except …

jawj.github.io
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Why People Follow the Leader: The Power of Transference

hbr.org

Reprint: R0409E We all admire leaders. In trying to understand how leadership works, however, we often...
Reprint: R0409E We all admire leaders. In trying to understand how leadership works, however, we often lose sight of the fact that followers are a crucial part of the equation. Regrettably, they get short shrift in the management literature, where they are described as merely responding to their leaders’ charisma or...

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Fusion record set for tungsten tokamak WEST

phys.org

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Can Wikipedia-like citations on YouTube curb misinformation?

washington.edu

Engineering | News releases | Research | Technology May 9, 2024 University of Washington researchers created...
Engineering | News releases | Research | Technology May 9, 2024 University of Washington researchers created and tested a prototype browser extension called Viblio, which lets viewers and creators add Wikipedia-like citations to YouTube videos.Christian Wiediger/Unsplash While Google has long been synonymous with se...
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How Putin's Gas Empire Crumbled

telegraph.co.uk

In 2021, more than 40pc of European Union gas imports came from Russia. That dropped to...
In 2021, more than 40pc of European Union gas imports came from Russia. That dropped to 8pc last year, according to the European Commission.In raw volumes, the drop took purchases from just over 150bn cubic metres to just under 79bn in 2022 and under 43bn last year.Once contracts to supply gas via pipes through Ukra...

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Will Stone Replace Concrete

construction-physics.com
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