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Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement
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I'm always amazed how I skip a whole class of time/money intensive problems by not owning a car.It's a bit of a shame though as "Tesla" has actually been the first kind of car I would have been interested in.
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A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners
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Some of the wording seems a bit too advanced to throw on a newbie right away. I would massage the content with a more relatable, visual representation:>HTML is for adding meaning to raw content by marking it up.HTML is the frame of the house.>CSS is for formatting that marked up content.CSS is the interior and exterior design of the house that's intertwined with the HTML framework.>JavaScript is for making that content and formatting interactive.JavaScript is the hardware door hinges, electrical and plumbing of the house that's also intertwined with HTML and CSS.---------I think graphical content that reinforces the above analogies would go a long way in helping newcomers to more quickly understand and remember the basic concepts.
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Given Choice, Patients Will Choose Cannabis Over Prescribed Opioids
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I was 8 hours from heading to the airport for a family trip to Amsterdam last summer when I burned the heck out of the fingers of my right (dominant) hand. It was probably the most pain I had ever been in, even including a compound fracture of the clavicle that involved 8 screws and a metal bar to repair. The latter caused me to get addicted (unknowningly) to opioids (hydrocodone) which led to a miserable week of withdrawl symptoms. I didn't take any opioids a year later after the surgery to remove all that hardware.I told the doctors at the hospital I didn't want to get addicted again, so they gave me Tramadol.I made it to Amsterdam and, that night, I finally gave in and took one of the Tramadols. It put me through a loop and wringer, but took away the pain and let me sleep through the night mostly.The next day, my wife came back to our place with a "space muffin", or pot-laced chocolate brownie thing. I had never had any edibles before. That night, I figured, what the heck, they're always talking about medical uses so I ate it.I have never been so surprised at something anecdotal in my life.The pain was gone just as well as the night before with Tramadol. Furthermore, although the edible definitely was psychoactive, I was much more functional and less out of it than the single Tramadol I took, and felt much better the next day - not hung over.I became a strong medical marijuana advocate that night.Damn shame we don't have this available in my home state in the USA. Damn shame we have a moron of a President who loves states rights except when he doesn't (most of the time?). Damn shame we have a war on drugs.
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WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents
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Given the other revelations of the last few weeks, I have to wonder if these exploits are getting installed on every phone that the CBP demands people unlock. Seems like the obvious thing to do. Best not to trust your phone or any software on it at least without a factory reset, and preferably a software update, after it's been in CBP custody for any time.
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A quick look at the Ikea Trådfri lighting platform
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There is a lot of development inforomation about communicating with Ikea Trådfri Gateway here:https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge/issues/570Developers there are trying to reverse engineer it for open source home automation software.
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Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python
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Something from a few months back that's a bit closer to Bitcoin's actual implementation but at a similar level of readability: https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain
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We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
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Non US citizens have been subject to warrantless surveillance by NSA etc for some time now. That was fine, apparently?
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Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars
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There's a recurring thing where I run into a person with a very "spicy" potpourri type odor. Happens in elevators and other confined spaces, and the odor is really pungent. Seems to span cultures... sometimes an old white lady, other times a young Indian male, other times just random people. WTF is this smell? Somewhat like cloves, but worse and more nauseating.
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Asciinema 2.0
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Chrome refuses to load this due to an HSTS error. Any mirrors?
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Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology
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I picked 3 random paragraphs from a random article on a local online news site.The voices did sound quite natural and "news-readery", however the one issue I did find is adding a pause between words.With the example phrase: "He bought himself a boat and then took it to his house". You often expect a small pause after the word "boat".I was able to manually fix it by adding some commas and full stops, however the AI was not able to pick up those pauses naturally.It sounded like someone was rushing through the speech instead of stopping occasionally to "take a breath".
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Lessons learned from a failing local mall
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Two things I didn't see mentioned: stagnant wages and rising healthcare costs.I don't think it's a coincidence that malls, especially non-upscale malls, are dying at the same time there's a proliferation of dollar stores and thrift store chains like Savers (basically a for-profit Goodwill).Near a mall where I live there once was a Circuit City. Now there's a dollar store and a Savers.Malls are failing because we simply don't have as much disposable income as we had in the 80s and 90s.The malls that seem to be doing well are the upscale malls whose clientele still have plenty of disposable income.
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Harvard Classics Book Download
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Gist for downloading the guide in text format for easier consumption: https://gist.github.com/mutaphore/e8f2d9fec119288215b186d7dc...
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The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics
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https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/07/cohl-furey-understands-ne...
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Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?
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I hope there could be more tests on Brave browser, too, which aims to improve privacy. But its most lovely feature imo is opening any kind of tab (normal, private, private on Tor network) on the same window. I wonder if this causes some backdoors, though. I support so that it can become better.
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Write – A word processor for handwriting
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This is terrible
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My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb
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I'm reading through Douglas Engelbart's 'Augmenting Human Intellect' at the moment. He talks about getting his thoughts down to a similar level, so that each one is a small note or thought which can be linked together. This seems similar to what has been implemented on this site.He talks a lot about 'trails' the people create, so I think the idea is that you'd be able to take this set of notes and links and integrate it with your own set.
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Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit
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Didn't this come about because Facebook autoplays videos and any video played more than 3 seconds counts as a viewing?
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US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
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Interesting, on October 15 the USPS OIG release a redacted copy of report SAT-AR-18-002, "Use of Postal Service Network to Facilitate Illicit Drug Distribution"[1], which commented on the Universal Postal Union requiring the USPS to accept all international mail from UPU members[2] (basically everyone) that don't want to comply with the US requirement of Advance Electronic Data (basically Secure Flight for mail/packages, the idea is that CBP can identify suspected drug packages just as they do passenger flights, as mail can only be screened without a warrant by CBP at the mail port of entry). Footnote 25 notes that as recently as September 1 of this year, the US moved to require AED on packages sent through UPU's EMS program[3], the partially redacted next sentence appears to indicate that some countries pushed back or had plans not to comply.Sent in a FOIA for the report, so we'll see what exceptions they were claiming, if they actually claim it as non-disclosable under FOIA law. Also interesting that the WHPSEC statement[3] notes that Trump is willing to abandon plans to leave if unspecified goals are met in negotiations.Edit: A conservative think tank recently complained about the UPU and drugs as well: https://www.aei.org/multimedia/universal-postal-union-and-ma...[1] https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Postal_Union_me...
[3] https://www.ems.post/en/about-us-contacts/about-us
[4] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-pr...
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Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers
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You can afford to be selective when you have more candidates than open positions. Also you want to secure the top talent out there.
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Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
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The key failure of the MCAS system I have not seen discussed is that if it is overriden, and triggers again, it cranks the trim another notch. Trigger it five times, and each time it makes the plane less flyable. When Lion Air crashed, it had been triggered many times.Making MCAS pay attention to two sensors might help a bit, but the disaster is still latent. Once it trims, it should never trim again without a full reset back to baseline. There are standards relating to this sort of thing in flight assist, about how much "authority" an automated system may assert, in total, and they were ignored, apparently because they did not treat it as part of the autopilot system.If the standard had been observed, the bad sensor could not have had much effect on the flyability of the plane. The pilots would have needed to apply some force to keep the nose up, but would have succeeded, long enough to discover a fix or to turn around and land.
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Oh shit, git (2016)
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> I use reflog A LOTIf you need to reset with reflog a lot you're probably using git wrong.Sure it can be useful but I don't see why it should be in a workflow.
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A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)
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Cody's Lab recently put together a sealed terrarium meant to emulate the conditions of the Carboniferous period, and although it's going to be slow going I am still excited to see how it progresses.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAbxP9SHQY
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Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving
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Tangential - the turbulent water looks for me like the large scale structure of the Universe.
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NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time
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But the NSA was never collecting data....
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Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
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I found Sourcehut extremely confusing to self-host so I went with RhodeCode recently.Prior to this I tried cgit (I really like how it looks) and gitolite. I even bought a book on gitolite configuration and couldn’t figure that out.Oh well.On topic, it’s great that Mercurial users have an alternative that’s not Github.
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Comparing Parallel Rust and C++
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Very cool. I love the visual explanations for certain iteration to understand the better see how the pre process step prepares the data. What I always miss in such posts is the full tool explanation how to retrieve the resulting assembly code. Don’t get me wrong I know how to search the internet. But the post goes quite some length to explain the basic rust setup. Maybe the post is aimed for veteran cpp programmers. I certainly would appreciate a link or example line how to generate the assembly code lines :)
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How VCs Make Money
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> How VCs Make MoneyA: They don't. VCs are an asset class that generally is loosing money (liquidity adjusted). So do not put your money into VC.[] https://finnscave.com/2016/12/13/venture-capital-cash-return...
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A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
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> REDACTED accelerates your computer vision workflow through automated annotation quality assurance, universal annotation format conversion (like PASCAL VOC XML to COCO JSON), team sharing and versioning, and exports directly to file format, like TFRecords.This is an ad, posing as a sensationalistic blog post.
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What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)
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>> Most times, when I’ve tried to learn a programming technology without a concrete goal to get something built, it is hard for me to maintain interestI feel the same way.However, I take it one step further. I lose interest after I create the one core feature that drew me to the project. I've made shoot em ups before, but I wanted to do one with enemies that flew in like Galaga. After I replicated the first few patterns, I lost interest. You couldn't even shoot the enemies, but I already knew how to do that.
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Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council
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I wonder if this is a deliberate strategy ... I .e. first advisory council halts, does their DD, and then says its all good... which they can then point to and create a defense. Prob not the case but can't rule anything out.
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A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it
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Leaving aside the comments on twitter. That kid would probably do a great job in information security, if he was so inclined; he clearly has the instincts for it.
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Post YC Depression
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I consider any job a training schedule. Progress is then defined entirely differently. I comfortably scale down the amount of work I do by monitoring my own mood. I must be under sufficient stress not just to maintain but also to expand my abilities. Doing slightly less would just do maintenance, doing slightly more in the long run causes injury and burn out.I get a lot of extra comfort from the knowledge I will continuously improve. If I keep the stress slightly to low I wont grow as much but the recovery window will be smaller. If it is slightly to high recovery takes longer and the speed of progress is less than ideal.Needless to say: Nothing is as important as eating properly and getting enough sleep.I'm able to do idiotic amounts of work and enjoy it but if I explain the above to people who know this they never seem to understand. It hurts seeing people ruin their health with work but I keep seeing it.After lots of fiddling I'm 99% sure that a 3 day work week is ideal to fully exhaust ones abilities. (If I'm not recovered fully in 4 days I do slightly less the next week.)I use to think it depends on the job but if the work cant be done any faster you just make longer days. Something like 1 day 16 hours, 1 day off, 2 days 16 hours, 3 days off. If I work 6 or 7 days 8 hours per day I do roughly 1/3 per hour.As one coworker of mine "famously" said when he was again asked to work extra shift: When do I live?
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Termux and Android 10
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Just the ability to run TOR along with a node server made this incredibly useful. This way it was possible to register an onion domain and set up e.g a chat server with just a phone.
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CMU’s ‘Penrose’ Turns Complex Math Notations into Illustrative Diagrams
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Uhhh, pie charts have circles too.
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LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
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If LibreOffice is offering a paid version for extra features / services, considering what they are already offering, I would certainly paid, or at least have a strong interest.
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Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s
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k8s is all about automating resource allocation/topology among other things. this is a focus on what's outside of the scope of the processes that are part of the system.imo, personal servers rarely require this.
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20 Years Later
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I wonder if a similar moment of reckoning will ever come for modern macroeconomics. I remember working on differential equations on the economy one night and having the sudden insight that the data was far too skimpy and uncontrolled to be at all pretending to do science. and yet there I was going through the motions of doing math on the economy.ditto, of course, goes to holding accountable the economic beliefs of politicians and talking heads of all persuasion. the people conscious of how much we don't know get drowned out by the people who don't care.
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Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix
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love it! this is the straw that finally got me to read up on Matrix. Will definitely start running my own server this year.
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FFMPEG from Zero to Hero
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Lovely!A tangentially related question: I've always found FFMPEG-the-cli-program an amazing piece of software, incredibly powerful, versatile and well-made. I therefore expected the same when I had to interact with its library interface (i.e. libavcodec, libavformat) recently. How disappointing, and very frustrating an experience! The docs felt extremely thin and full of "ah yeah don't use the foo function afterall, it's since been replaced with foo_2 and foo_2really3forreal, but the docs don't mention it", and the API conventions seemed very random and inconsistent. Is it just me?This is not a complaint; thank you to the people who spend their free time developing a free multimedia suite for me to use! I was just surprised about the perceived quality differences between FFMPEG-the-cli-program and FFMPEG-the-library.
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Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
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Oh boy.. I can already see the bootcamp-style websites popping up to help you excel at Factorio so you can land a lucrative sw dev job
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Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5
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Honestly I'm amazed it is this low. Who are the 4% that are knowledgeable and interested enough to make this change so they can be tracked?
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Stanford CS Curriculum 2021
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What's the point of this post? This is exactly what you'd expect from any CS course on any decent university.
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It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974
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Sweet jesus. I really thought they'd killed this misfeature off after all the shenanigans we had with it in the late nineties.
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Win at Risk by using systems thinking
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So the article describes the reason why taking and holding Australia early doesn't cause the other players to gang up on you (although I have played with people who definitely wanted to take me out of Australia because of the two extra armies and who were willing to go on crazy suicide marches to achieve their goals) but it does not explain exactly why take and hold Australia early is almost a cliche of 'the key to Risk' strategies one sees about.finally, everyone here seems to argue that Risk is a terrible game but if that's so why do I generally win?! Next you're going to tell me that Stratego isn't any good either!
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Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M
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I’m picturing a waking digger for specialized terrain. I think Hyundai/BD combo has a chance to do it safely. Maybe something small like a Kubota.https://kubota.ca/en/products/power-equipment/excavators/k00...
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Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
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UI became user hostile because companies became user hostile.Software no longer serves the user, but is the user that serves the company behind the software.
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A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
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"A shift in American family values" as if there ever was a unifying "American family values".Selfishness, poor communication skills, and a lack of experience - as always - fuels estrangement.
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Remote OK Open Startup
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Your startup valuation is at ~$17M, would you sell it if you had an offer ?
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Feynman on group decision-making at Los Alamos (1985)
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Narrator: What these guys didn't know is that Compton talked it over with the chair before the meeting.If you've worked in a bureaucracy, you'll know that the important decisions are not made in meetings.
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How does perspective work in pictures?
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It can be nice (and perhaps lucrative) if you present this to Rockstar or some other open-world game producer.
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What they don't teach you about sockets
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"End-to-End Arguments in System Design" (https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoe...) is a must read when it comes to application reliability and network programming
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A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
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I had expected to see him moving the flashlight around the room by just moving his eye and not his head; it hadn't occurred to me before that glass eyes aren't connected to the muscles used to move the eye around. I wonder if doing such a thing is within the realm of possibility.
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Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
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As a lawyer, I would say that giving detailed interviews about all of the crime-ing you did is a pretty poor effort at "not going to jail."
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Binance outflows hit $6B as Mazars halts ‘proof of reserves’ work
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Isn’t Mazdas trumps accounting firm lol
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I worked at LastPass as an engineer
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I feel there is needed work on non-encryption based security. i.e. Nillion
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Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy
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It sounds as if the ring is actually infrared, not red, which means it would be invisible to the naked eye.
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The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
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I am a huge fan of the Pilot Frixion Clicker, the weight felt good and writing with it felt so smooth.Are there any other pens that have a bit of weight to it? Any Recommendations?
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Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
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I thought severance payments went to employees that were laid off?
I believe both the people mentioned chose to leave the foundation?Is severance payment a bonus you accrue by working there?Only time I have gotten it was when I was laid off.
I guess the C* have it better?
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The Open Buddhist University
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I'd like to add more resources about buddhist and dhammahttps://www.watnyanaves.net/en/book-shelf/other-language
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Moderation strike
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This is just the most recent decline in stackoverflow 8-(Ever since the posting system was turned into a social score where people are mostly conncerned with increassing their score versus answering questions, stackoverflow has failed it's users.Just another example in the very long list of for-profit plaforms doing what's best for profit over what's best for the users...
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Linear code is more readable
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I can't believe that 55 years after Go To Statement Considered Harmful we are still operating at medieval level of "I recently found this piece of code and now I have opinions to share".If coding for an employer, it's their business. But for use in collaborative public projects, I want a linter with experimentally measured effect on readability. Not stories from the field.
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Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
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Wonderful but they are actively working to block third world countries from making generic alternative or providing the drug at a cheaper cost.
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Java 21 makes me like Java again
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Java was always a great language. It's the enterprisy ecosystem that make me want to throw up. To implement a line of logic, I have seen dozen classes and interfaces.
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GitHub Actions could be so much better
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Just give me yaml anchors!I'm so sick of having to duplicate pieces of my actions constantly
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Why 3D doesn't work and never will.
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Unfortunately Murch's main argument is just wrong wrong.What he doesn't seem to realize is that your state of focus (accommodation) is just about identical for objects at 10 feet away, 20 feet away, etc., out to infinity. So if your eyes converge on a screen 80 feet away, and try to focus on an object 40 feet away, that's absolutely fine, because the state of focus for 40 and 80 feet away are virtually the same anyway. Your visual system can't tell the difference. This is an experimentally demonstrated fact.That is to say, your state of focus varies only for objects less than about ten feet away. Focus on a salt shaker three feet away, and yes, the distant horizon will be out of focus. But focus on a tree about 20 feet away, and the distant horizon will be in perfect focus.For an object to be in focus, the distance from the lens to the film (or in this case, the retina), dr, the distance from the lens to the object, do, and the lens's optical power must obey the lensmaker's equation, (1/di) + (1/do) = P. In the human eye, do = 0.017 m, and P is adjustable. Plot P vs. do, and you'll see the P quickly asymptotes as you move beyond around 3 m.There are perceptual issues with 3D, but this isn't one of them, at least in cinemas where the screen is far away.
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How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data
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I wonder if there's a way to do this in the US. I will look into this.
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MusicForProgramming();
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I really like DJ Shadow for this kind of thing. Try "Midnight in a Perfect World": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzHRGoKca0
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Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
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Ubuntu is more than Unity.If you don't like or have trouble with Unity, try one of the other Ubuntu variants. I love lubuntu (lxde-based), it's just windows and a panel. Anything that gets between my windows and panel (like Unity) gets thrown over the side without even a wave goodbye. Lubuntu is what xubuntu once aspired to, lightweight and simple.Here are all the ubuntu variants:http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/What is Ubuntu? It's the "easy" Linux distro built on a highly curated version of the debian repository and their apt package system. Mainstream Ubuntu also has Unity. It has a large user base, and a large developer community. It's a nice place to be.When Unity first hit my laptop, I went running to Mint, only to discover that they've made a search deal. I then looked at other debian-based distros, but I missed ubuntu's curated repository. While flirting with other debians, I discovered lxde, and then lubuntu. I'm there, for now.
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UsesThis: Rob Pike
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I'm hesitant to move to the cloud until privacy issues are fundamentally addressed. All these vendors pouring over user data is not in our interest. I think it will take laws and government action to stop this sort of privacy invasion. Until that happens, I'll keep my local storage.
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Poll: Do you select text while reading?
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Am I the only one who read this as:"Poll: Do you text while driving?"
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NeoCities
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The sad thing is that now there are lots of squatters creating "under construction" pages and the like instead of actually putting content. Trying to emulate Geocities without actually doing so (a lot of them did have those banners, but they also had content).Oh well.Here's mine : http://eksith.neocities.org (Also people are forgetting, it's .org not .com)
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Google's Decline Really Bugs Me
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I still like Google.
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Why was this secret?
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Interesting how the author, and the woman who's the subject of his anecdote (and several here), conflate and confuse privacy with secrecy.
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Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone
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Handsdown it has pretty good ui. But i regret buying it, because i can't calculate % seriously why isn't on the front. I have to press folder button to find it.additionally, I am baffled why do i have to press = to find end result, it should automatically calculate as i enter figure just like my $3 citizen calculator does.
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US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests
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"Drug law enforcement's job is to investigate and identify those who abet the illicit drug trade at all levels of production and distribution, including those lining their own pockets by feigning ignorance of any wrong doing and turning a blind eye."Start with congress for making drugs illegal in the first place.
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We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
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I am absolutely fascinated with this tool. I only with I had the ability to write something like it myself. I'm really satisfied others have the same thoughts.Thank you!
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All RGB colors in one image
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You might also like: http://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art
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Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign
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Beautiful photos, fascinating interview snippets. I love compelling narratives that remind us that life isn't over at 30.
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Pro Git, 2nd Edition
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I'm liking asciidoc but wondering if anyone has married it to high quality website "skins". I googled and found some websites done in asciidoc but they all look pretty basic. Has anyone done anything that looks more professional, like a marketing company did it? If it costs money that is fine.
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0h h1 – A little logic game
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For the 8x8 table there's a trick you can do which I suspect the heuristics never considers (because the rule violation is not 1 but many steps away): if you have a chit of one color on 1, 5 and one more above 5 then any more above 5 can't be of this color otherwise 2-4 all three would need to be of the opposite color and that's illegal.Same for 1,2,4: 5 is of the opposite color otherwise 6-8 are of one color.
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The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
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so long and thanks for all the fish, mootles :3
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Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
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site seems down, this should work: https://cdn.rawgit.com/magwo/elevatorsaga/master/index.html
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Cops: We Need Rights More Than You, Citizen
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Might as well make this bill of rights complete and add the right to murder non-whites without consequences to it since that's already a given.I will never understand how anyone can defend or support or even respect the police in the US when they are nothing more than the most powerful, most corrupt, most violent, and most murderous (we think since most figures are suppressed) gang in the country. Fear, yes. It seems to me that at least in other countries, people are less deluded about their police situation (which is generally similar, though the details may be different).What we need are much higher standards for police conduct and independent investigation and prosecutorial forces that are strictly separated from the regular police force / prosecutors (and closely monitored for corruption) to investigate police abuses. There will be plenty of work for such full-time, permanent positions in every single jurisdiction given the amount of corruption and violence police cause. This idea that a police officer's testimony is somehow impervious to scrutiny, so much so that it will be accepted even when the judge knows the officer is lying needs to end. Basically, we have set up a huge, elitist "society" of cops, prosecutors, judges, and the rich people who support them who are beyond the law, not to mention justice. Of course we then get pissed off when these people talk about justice and even more so when they are either acquitted or not even charged with the serious crimes they commit, up to and including murder. Atrocious indeed.Fixing this situation seems rather tricky since the layperson only has the power to vote and there are no candidates who are willing to address this problem at any level. Fixing other laws that criminalize everyday activity, while incredibly difficult, seems to be the only way to try to go about at least reducing the ability of police to insert themselves into everyday situations they have no business inserting themselves in the first place. Still, at best, it's a workaround to reduce abuse, not one to actually eliminate it or deal out justice after the fact. In the case of police, the criminals (police) always get away with it.
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How to undo almost anything with Git
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git checkout is what I want to do most of the time, but I always have been confused with svn checkout, so I never could remember it.
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
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What do we think about the charges for deleting on b2?
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A Requiem for Ian Murdock
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My Condolences. I just lear about Ian. Debian has been an essential tool for my research.
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About rel=noopener
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Some time ago I was surprised that my Google Search page was replaced by something else after I returned from some spammy page (opened in another tab).As the browser I use, Opera 12, also treats all links manually opened in the new tab as if they had target="_blank", giving them opener access, I decided to remove the window.opener altogether by replacing the "opener" string with "opera" in the opera.dll. This way it gets overwritten by the normal window.opera variable and is essentially hidden. So far I haven't encountered a site legitimately relying on this behavior.
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The Science of Making Friends
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This article was deeply personal for me. I have moved around a lot during my 20-something years of life due to a lot of factors including, but not limited to: genocide, civil war, family house foreclosed, crossing the Atlantic, taking a new job in a city 1500 miles away from my "home" state. In all those times, I have made a lot of friends some whom I am still in touch with today and others, I have drifted apart from. As I get older, it is just get too tiring to recreate new friendships. I am quiet and picky and not the kind of personal who has tons of acquaintances. I have gained new insights from this article;be right back as I text an old friend to ask how he is doing...
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Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills
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A fantastic example of create a problem, solve it, make billions!
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Galileo navigation satellite system goes live
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Do we know when Galileo-compatible chips are expected to be deployed widely?
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I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
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> how negligent and dangerous Trump is as the leader of the free world.A torture-endorsing leader of the free world is like the meat-eating leader of vegetarians. Trump is simply not part of the free world, and therefore not it's leader.
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Facebook’s war on free will
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>"At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or sometimes a fortune teller. Mr. Xi declined, according to a person briefed on the matter."Does getting FB into China mean so much to this person that he's willing to consider a name suggested by a complete stranger for his own child?The picture of Mark Zuckerberg running though Tiananmen Square is also quite telling. It's completely stage-managed so that it's taken while Mark is smiling and Chairman Mao's picture is clearly in the frame behind him. I wonder how many attempts this "spontaneous" picture required.I happened to be in Beijing that same weekend as this photo op. The local reaction to that picture wasn't one of celebrity adulation because people recognized Mark Zuckerberg founder of FB as he's not a household name there. The reaction was one of complete consternation that someone would be out jogging in such hazardous air quality. That's not an early morning fog in the background it's air pollution. It seemed like most people were donning air pollution masks that weekend because the particulate in the was so heavy.I mention this only because it seems to the same awkward and obsequious behavior as asking the President of China to offer a name for your unborn child.
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How to set up continuous deployment using free hosted tools
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I still have my stuff on AWS instead of Heroku and use Rollbar instead of Sentry (not for any specific reason), but overall I'm really happy to hear that I'm tracking well with this setup. I find it smooth as butter most days. Thanks so much for sharing!
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A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree
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This type of thing is popular with runners and cyclists. Search for "strava art" The hard part is finding roads that match your desired picture. Or findind a picture with the given roads. Planes have it easy.
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Spotify files for its IPO
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Record labels are already in a dynamic where the streaming services have at least equal leverage. Playlists are already taking over radio which is where the labels would give you the most value.More artists are publishing their music independently. I think the negotiation power of older records owned by record labels will diminish because the next generation of independently owned records will outweigh them.The thing I'm unsure of is how Apple Music vs Spotify is going to play out. I feel that Spotify is currently an overall better product but Apple has had major cultural impact with its curation which IMO is more valuable than building software.
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Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission
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I partially blame the Android permissions system. They are so generic you have no idea what you are giving permissions to. Permission in this case: "Allow INSERT APP NAME HERE to access your contacts?"Access what? Read access? Write access? Get all of their name and contact fields? Send them text messages? Call them? Spam?If I don't give them the access, what happens next? Can I not use the app? Will the app break? Will the app just ignore it?There's no information. If you google it for more information you will have to dig for it in some obscure google groups forum, and then yet it's not really clear. Because when you google for Android App Permissions you get results meant for Android Developers, and not normal human beings (jk about the normal human beings part).
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Foxconn buys Belkin for $866M
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i honestly would think that Belkin would be worth something in the billions. they are the qtip of computer cables.
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Wapp – a single-file web framework by the creator of SQLite
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I'm not a web developer but the times I tried to do some web development I found all the things cool kids talked about overly complicated and fell back to simple things like simple scripts on the server side and simple javascript on the client side or even semi dynamic/static webpages.I always found interesting how the Tcl community solve things, using simple and powerful Tcl metaprogramming features (see beautiful examples on wiki.tcl.tk).I've done a couple of small business solutions in Tcl/Tk as desktop applications. Now I feel more encouraged to try to develop new ones for the web :-)
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Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
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I had similar problems with an extension that I am developing. They threatened to take it down because it didn't have a privacy policy attached, although their developer guidelines state that you only need a privacy policy if you collect personal or sensitive user data, which I am not. It took me several resubmissions (each time I was scared I would be banned from all google products), before they finally approved my extension. The clincher was that my extension was marked as unlisted the whole time; it wasn't even open to the public.
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MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber
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Problems with MBP unibody cooling are known for years... https://www.google.com/search?q=cooling+macbook+drilled&tbm=...
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