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dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798536

Google Pixel watch. I had a Garmin fitness tracker and a Pixel phone, and had difficulty transferring my fitness metrics to Sheets. So why not combine the two? I'll tell you why; t…

correct URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-has-started-wor...

Lost Lagoon in Vancouver, Canada, is so choked with algae it looks like a lawn https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stanley-park...

TL;DR: the current Sudanese civil war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80...

https://archive.ph/u210O

“More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again. One never had the smallest clue as to what had happened to th…

spoiler: it's about the WGN-TV signal hijack in 1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

The Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen wrote a good cartoon called Rat Park about this experiment; https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/

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TLDR: Paul Erdős https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

CBC Radio had a documentary on Fanon, including archive interviews with people who knew him. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/decolonizing-the-mind-the-lif...

For over a year there was a fake trail that went through a mountain in Google Maps from a ski hill to a waterfall. Local SAR would regularly have to rescue people trying to take th…

“Dream about running races, not about crossing the finish line.” – Benjamin P. Hardy

“The agreement would see Canadian news continue to be shared on Google's platforms in return for the company making annual payments to news companies in the range of $100 million, …

Google Digital Garage is an online learning platform for Google software such as Docs, Sheets, GMail, Workspaces, and others. Google will be transitioning their courses to Skillsho…

Requiring passwords to follow strict rules makes them less secure, not more: https://blog.codinghorror.com/password-rules-are-bullshit/

Note that “Memory Stick” is a trademark of Sony corporation for their proprietary non-USB portable flash RAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick

A much-better “Kitchen of the Future” article was posted on TreeHugger in 2021. Decrying kitchen designs by people who don't cook, the article referred to a lesson by the USDA abou…

This is the behavior of the Unicode Right-to-Left Override character U+202E. Meant to embed Hebrew or Arabic text, it is most used by hackers to change their exploittxt.exe attachm…

We had a situation like that once because of circular dependencies; services that needed another service to start. “How is that possible?” you ask. Code reviews; “take that code ou…

Herbie was also in several movies titled The Love Bug e.g. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064603/