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Nearly half of online articles are now AI-generated. [0] [0]: https://graphite.io/five-percent/ai-now-writes-as-many-onlin...

Gnome has stagnated significantly.

eating their own dogfood

If you like quartz watches that expose their circuitry, you'll definitely enjoy some of Accutron's watches: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/introducing-accutron-314 While usually…

Yes they did. Reduce, reuse, recycle. While recycling is last in that mantra, it is overemphasized more than the other two. It shifts the onus of stewarding our environment to the …

Microsoft Outlook has a bug when you click on the notification after you receive an email, it opens it behind other windows. [0-2] It drives me mad! [0]: https://answers.microsoft.…

Can you draw arrows easily yet?

> It seems you have to decide, do you want to learn Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Quranic Arabic, Modern Arabic... Why do you want to learn Arab…

> The other group (increasingly large) just wants to `git push` and be done with it, and they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money to have that experience.…

The ChatGPT, LLMs, generative AI, and other hyped usecases have been the driving force for Nvidia: it injected huge sums of money into their R&D, which also stimulated the economy …

Profit doesn't care about legality.

In the video: > It just rolled off the runway behind you.

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Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo [0]. > This secrecy was maintained long after the end of the war. “Efforts were made to give the message that the uranium came from Canada, as…

> I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. Emojis, like language, is socia…

Their "Interview with an Agile Coach" [0] parody video is one of the best I've seen. Take a look if you enjoyed this one! [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB340S0tGf8

> The feats accomplished over half a century ago with the very limited resources of that era are truly astonishing. I'm always amazed by this image of how they accomplished the ren…

Happy May Day! Here's a Twitter thread [0] that has excerpts/paraphrases from an old Soviet pamphlet called "How Soviet Workers Spend Their Leisure." (rolled up version [1]) You ca…

There's a recent episode in the Citations Needed podcast [0] (episode 179) that discusses public libraries. There is a bit of history that is presented about Andrew Carnegie's cont…

One misconception that many make regarding the Nyquist frequency is thinking that the sampling rate needs to be twice the highest frequency. Your sampling should really really be t…

> Still, companies also seem to recognize that they’re more vulnerable to organizing tactics like salting than they thought. While the practice is legal, business groups are urging…