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VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'
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Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work'
Andreessen Horowitz's David Ulevitch said Google was an "amazing example" of a company with "BS jobs."
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J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)
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Open Culture
Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II and starring a young Christian Bale. Say you read the autobiographical novel on which that film is based, written…
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The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound
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Audio Academy - Audio Sound Engineering Education Recording Studio Rentals in Bangalore India
The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound - Audio Academy Audio Legends
While modern improvements in technologies have the benefit of being far more powerful and lightweight, the Wall of Sound remains unparalleled.
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Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
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GitHub - podman-desktop/extension-bootc: Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images
Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images - podman-desktop/extension-bootc
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Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare
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Matt Yeung
Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs Safer for Healthcare
LLMs have the potential to revolutionise our field of healthcare, but the fear and reality of hallucinations prevent adoption in most applications.
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A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics: André Weil's 1940 letter
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Quanta Magazine
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics
In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most exciting developments in the field.
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How rich is too rich? Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
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Nature
How rich is too rich?
Nature - Where should society draw the line on extreme wealth? A fresh account sets out the logic and suggests how to redress inequality.
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Ansible is a Lisp?
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astrid dot tech
Ansible is a Lisp
More specifically, Ansible is homoiconic and has syntactic macros
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Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components
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Mux
Facebook just updated its relationship status with web components | Mux
Learn about React 19 introducing support for web components and what that means for React developers and web component authors.
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Defending the city: An overview of defensive tactics
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Defending the City: An Overview of Defensive Tactics from the Modern History of Urban Warfare - Modern War Institute
Any future war against a peer or near-peer enemy will contain some measure of urban combat. A broad base of historical, demographic, sociopolitical, and military analysis makes that fact abundantly clear. As a result, militaries must be required to conduct…
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Meta String: A more space-efficient string encoding than UTF-8 in Fury
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fory.apache.org
Meta String: A 37.5% space efficient string encoding than UTF-8 in Fury serialization | Apache Fory
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AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do
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Scientific American
AI Doesn’t Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do
We shouldn’t be afraid of AI taking over humanity; we should fear the fact that our humanity hasn’t kept up with our technology
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How not to change PostgreSQL column type
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boringSQL | Supercharge your SQL & PostgreSQL powers
How not to change PostgreSQL column type
Changing PostgreSQL column types can be tricky. Avoid common pitfalls like table rewrites and locks, and follow best practices for safe, efficient migrations with minimal downtime.
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ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic
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Onrender
Hello from Scrapegraph-ai | Scrapegraph-ai
Official documentation of Scrapegraph-ai
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Lila: A Lil Interpreter in Posix Awk
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High performance array programming in Petalisp
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Zenodo
An Introduction to Array Programming in Petalisp
Petalisp is a purely functional array programming language embedded into Common Lisp. It provides simple yet powerful mechanisms for reordering, broadcasting, and combining arrays, as well as an operator for element-wise mapping of arbitrary Common Lisp…
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Instructlab AI CLI
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GitHub - instructlab/instructlab: InstructLab Core package. Use this to chat with a model and execute the InstructLab workflow…
InstructLab Core package. Use this to chat with a model and execute the InstructLab workflow to train a model using custom taxonomy data. - instructlab/instructlab
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Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing
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CNC Kitchen
Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing — CNC Kitchen
Current 3D printing slicers are dumb. What I mean by this is that even though they are slicers for 3D printing they simply stack 2-dimensional layers on top of each other to form your final part. There are basically no movements within the GCode instructions…
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IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
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GitHub - ibm-granite/granite-code-models: Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence - ibm-granite/granite-code-models
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Decker: A fantastic reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics
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The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
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Ars Technica
The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
The new Pixel 8a looks like a mid-range champion.
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