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I Went to China and Drove a Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked

insideevs.com

In just the past few months, the rift between the U.S. and China has expanded at...
In just the past few months, the rift between the U.S. and China has expanded at an astounding rate. TikTok is set to be banned if it does not divest from its U.S operations. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to battling a surge of cheap Chinese clean energy exports. ...
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Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1B – report

theguardian.com

Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses...
Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell...
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UniSuper's Google Cloud environment was deleted

itnews.com.au

By Ry Crozier May 9 2024 6:47AM Industry superannuation fund UniSuper has revealed that its private...
By Ry Crozier May 9 2024 6:47AM Industry superannuation fund UniSuper has revealed that its private cloud infrastructure “subscription” with Google Cloud was deleted due to an error made during provisioning. In a joint statement released overnight, the fund shed light on cryptic earlier commentary that it had lost p...
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Boeing whistleblower says he was pressured to hide defects

thehill.com

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In-Car Hydration and Urination Systems for Race Car Drivers

core77.com
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Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'

theverge.com
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Bloop (YC S21) Is Hiring AI Engineers. Devin for Legacy Code (London, Onsite)

ycombinator.com
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Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell

elv.sh
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RIP Paleo

exfatloss.com
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Yes, Ruby Is Fast, But

dev.to

John Hawthorn wrote a nice post discussing a recent tool to incorporate Crystal into your Ruby...
John Hawthorn wrote a nice post discussing a recent tool to incorporate Crystal into your Ruby app. While JH brings an important point, it overlooks certain aspects that are worth consideration. I'll discuss Crystal's real performance and benefits, highlighting why such Ruby/Crystal integration is an indispensable t...

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Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car

dezeen.com

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Muse Book laptop features SpacemiT K1 octa-core RISC-V AI processor, up to 16GB

cnx-software.com

SpacemiT, a chip design company from China with RISC-V as its core technology, recently unveiled the...
SpacemiT, a chip design company from China with RISC-V as its core technology, recently unveiled the Muse Book laptop based on the K1 octa-core RISC-V chip. Unlike our daily laptops, it has many interesting unique features and is mainly sold to hardware engineers and DIY enthusiasts. This Muse Book runs the Bianbu O...
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Does the Universe expand by stretching or creating space?

bigthink.com
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Weaver: An ergonomic CLI parsing library for Roc lang

sammohr.dev
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Radient – vectorize many data types, not just text

github.com
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Estimating Pi with Kafka streams

fredrikmeyer.net

Recently I wanted to learn a bit about Apache Kafka. It is often used as a...
Recently I wanted to learn a bit about Apache Kafka. It is often used as a way to do event sourcing (or similar message-driven architectures). An “add-on” to the simple publish/subscribe pattern in Kafka is Kafka Streams, which provides ways to process unbounded data sets. I wanted to write something slightly more c...
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Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

substack.com

A still from Ghost in the Shell (1995)Welcome! We’re back with a new Sunday issue of...
A still from Ghost in the Shell (1995)Welcome! We’re back with a new Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Our lineup goes like this:1) When Ghost in the Shell (1995) became a hit.2) The news in animation.Now, here we go!Anime is unavoidable today. It’s “bigger than the NFL” for Gen Z, claims Polygon. ...
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Logicola 3

medium.com

LogiCola is a software designed to help students learn logic. It was created by Harry Gensler,...
LogiCola is a software designed to help students learn logic. It was created by Harry Gensler, who also authored Introduction to Logic (Routledge 2017, 2010, 2002), one of the most well-known textbooks in the field, for introductory and intermediate logic courses.The textbook and software are still present in many i...

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I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)

melmagazine.com
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Energy-Efficient Llama 2 Inference on FPGAs via High Level Synthesis

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become the leading hardware accelerator...
Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become the leading hardware accelerator for deep learning applications and are used widely in training and inference of transformers; transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many areas of machine learning and are especial...
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Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)

lwn.net

Benefits for LWN subscribersThe primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing,...
Benefits for LWN subscribersThe primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! Despite the fact that the Linux Kernel is mostly written in C, it makes...
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The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)

filippo.io

dispatches
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Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time

bbc.com
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Chips and Cheese State of the Union

chipsandcheese.com
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