The Brief Wondrous Life of Branch

This week’s deep dive into internet history features a company whose trajectory is best described by its name: Branch! | Continue reading


@october.substack.com | 4 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

Try to do some form of keyword and market research – Talk with ScheduleLeave

Try to do some form of keyword and market research - Interview with Ryan Musselwhite of ScheduleLeave . Try to remember, building an application is one thing, selling it however, is a different skill all together. | Continue reading


@oyestartups.com | 4 years ago

Implementing Raft, Part 3: Persistence and Optimizations

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@eli.thegreenplace.net | 4 years ago

Catchy Banjo Song About the Importance of Washing Hands and Covering Sneezes to Avoid Infection

Tired of singing the same old songs while washing your hands for 20 seconds? We asked @musicjoeyoung to write a new one!Listen for some important | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

(Podcast) Rebound #279: The Luke Skywalker

Dan, Lex and John discuss the coronavirus, WWDC, sketchy rumors, hoarding and Apple not making the things we want.... | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 4 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

Docker Desktop for Windows Home is here

Last year we announced that Docker had released a preview of Docker Desktop with WSL 2 integration. We are now pleased to announce that we have completed the work to enable experimental support for Windows Home WSL 2 integration. This means that Windows Insider users on 19040 or … | Continue reading


@docker.com | 4 years ago

Five reasons why organizations should invest in open source

Learn about the top five reasons why leading enterprise organizations are investing in open source. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry?

Drug companies fail to take account of the public interest and relentlessly focus on short term returns, say Mariana Mazzucato and Henry Lishi Li . But Ara Darzi argues that the profits drug companies make are vital for developing new medicinesDo we support state ownership of the … | Continue reading


@bmj.com | 4 years ago

Why hoard paper towels for coronadoomsday?

Earlier this week, I met a friend in the paper products aisle at Costco. She said “This place has been stripped barer than a line of actresses auditioning for a role with Miramax.” We l… | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 4 years ago

Microcensus in bacteria: Bacillus subtilis can determine proportions of different groups within a mixed population

Bacteria have a sense of their own number. They release and sense signaling molecules that accumulate with increasing cell numbers, which allows them to change their behavior when a certain group size is reached. A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Veterinarians: Dogs, too, can experience hearing loss

Just like humans, dogs are sometimes born with impaired hearing or experience hearing loss as a result of disease, inflammation, aging or exposure to noise. Dog owners and K-9 handlers ought to keep this in mind when adopting or caring for dogs, and when bringing them into noisy … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Ari Aster's Hereditary to Screen at Ebertfest 2020 with Alex Wolff in Attendance

An article about Ari Aster's "Hereditary" screening at Ebertfest 2020, with actor Alex Wolff in attendance. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

X-ray eyes peer deeper into deadly pathogen

Tularemia is a rare but often lethal disease. It is caused by one of the most aggressive pathogens on earth, the bacterium Francisella tularensis. The microbe, transported by a variety of animals and insects, is able to enter and attack the body through a range of pathways, resul … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

‘The Last of Us’ TV Series Headed to HBO With ‘Chernobyl’ Creator and Game’s Original Writer

The Last of Us TV series is in the works at HBO with Craig Mazin, creator of Chernobyl, and Neil Druckmann, the writer and creative director of the game. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

I Guess Heidi Klum Is Back on America’s Got Talent

Alongside Sofia Vergara?!? | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

Balancing bushmeat trade and conservation vital to ensure livelihoods not threatened

Local communities in the Congo rainforest have been working with researchers from the University of York in a bid to balance the bushmeat trade with conservation. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

When older people feel excluded at work

Employees over 50 can feel excluded and demotivated in the workplace for various reasons. They feel particularly excluded when they believe that their cognitive abilities decrease with age, as psychologists from the University of Basel report in the journal Work, Aging, and Retir … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

Rivers: How they contribute to better understand Mediterranean Sea dynamics

Do rivers play a significant role in ocean circulation and dynamics? Do we need a fine representation of river release into regional ocean models? | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Scientists for Future on the current draft for a European climate regulation

Scientists for Future - die Stellungnahme, Infomaterial, Klimawandel - Argumente, Regionalgruppen, thematische Arbeitsgruppen, Empfehlungen | Continue reading


@scientists4future.org | 4 years ago

Simos Xenitellis: Using command aliases in LXD to exec a shell

First, create a container mycontainer with the command lxc launch ubuntu: mycontainer. This command creates a container with the currently default LTS version (at the time of writing, 18.04, soon i… | Continue reading


@blog.simos.info | 4 years ago

How to Read (Almost) All Scientific Papers for Free

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@lettucebecereal.com | 4 years ago

Is Vienna Really All That Livable? Depends on Where You Look.

A new report questions the methods used by the Economist Intelligence Unit to rank global cities, saying that environmental justice issues can get ignored. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 4 years ago

Superhydrophobic magnetic sponge to help purify water from oil products

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with the University of Lille (France) have developed a new material capable of purifying water effectively from oil products. It is based on an ordinary household polyurethane sponge. The research team made it superhydrophobic— … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

New software tool fosters quality control of genome-scale models of metabolism

The application areas of genome-scale metabolic models are widespread, ranging from designing cell factories and investigating cancer metabolism, to analysing how microbes interact within our guts. Hence, the number of publications of manually and automatically generated models h … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

New ESO study evaluates impact of satellite constellations on astronomical observations

Astronomers have recently raised concerns about the impact of satellite mega-constellations on scientific research. To better understand the effect these constellations could have on astronomical observations, ESO commissioned a scientific study of their impact, focusing on obser … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Great Escapes (Your Shot of the Day) (OT)

[Note: This post is invisible to Muggles.] Happy to report that Dresden Hotel, my Pool League team, won last night 8-1 and are still in first place in the County. But boy, did we win ugly. And my partner and... | Continue reading


@theonlinephotographer.typepad.com | 4 years ago

Steve Blank Organizational Debt is like Technical debt (2015)

Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can be… | Continue reading


@steveblank.com | 4 years ago

Daily Habits for Docs

Your documentation doesn’t need an overhaul — your habits do | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Karambolage

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

The arrival of the laptop in the classroom and parental mediation

A study by Carme Bach, a lecturer with the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at UPF, and Cristina Aliagas, a lecturer with the Faculty of Education at the UAB, both members of the GR@EL research group, analyses the view of families regarding the eduCAT1x1 programme, … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

All-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries with high capacity and long life

Prof. Atsunori Matsuda, Prof. Hiroyuki Muto, Assistant Prof. Kazuhiro Hikima, Assistant Prof. Nguyen Huu Huy Phuc, Researcher Reiko Matsuda, and Mr. Takaki Maeda (Master Program) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Techn … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Shortcuts Rewind: Dates, Calendars, and Beyond

For this installment of Shortcuts Rewind, I’m going to focus on date and calendar actions. I’ll also touch on some of the Shortcuts actions that Apple Maps offers and explain dictionaries. I wanted to cover date and calendar actions early in the Shortcuts Rewind series because th … | Continue reading


@macstories.net | 4 years ago

Running Robot Operating System, ROS2, from the Web Browser with Docker

Blog for ROSdroid. | Continue reading


@blog.rosdroid.com | 4 years ago

Welcome to Women Writers Week 2020

An introduction to Women Writers Week 2020 at Rogerebert.com, #WWW2020 | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

BraveStarr – A Fedora 31 netkit telnetd remote exploit

Ronald Huizer It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing... | Continue reading


@appgateresearch.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Developer jobs: These are the coders who are most in demand

If you're a mid-level developer with about four years' experience, your job prospects look pretty good right now. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 4 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

Erich Eickmeyer: Putting-On a New Hat

Before I began leading Ubuntu Studio, I was using a “spin” of Fedora called Fedora Jam. It was a musician/audio “lab” for Fedora which seemed to work well for me. Think of i… | Continue reading


@ericheickmeyer.com | 4 years ago

Hacking Unikernels Through Process Injection

A lot of people have this mistaken notion that unikernels have this 'unhackable' characteristic about them. This is untrue. They absolutely are hackable depending on what is deployed and how they are configured. | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 4 years ago

Missing Marizela: Nine years

I still remember the moment like it was yesterday when my family contacted me in a panic to let me know that my cousin and goddaughter, Marizela "EmEm" Perez, had gone missing.It's the text you get in the middle of the night that doesn't seem real. That was nine years ago today w … | Continue reading


@michellemalkin.com | 4 years ago

Missing Marizela: Nine Years, by Michelle Malkin

I still remember the moment like it was yesterday when my family contacted me in a panic to let me know that my cousin and goddaughter, Marizela “EmEm” Perez, had gone missing. It’s the text you get in the middle of the night that doesn’t seem real. That was nine years ago today … | Continue reading


@unz.com | 4 years ago

Work from home? Things I wish someone had told me before I started

With the rising concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, more and more businesses are considering sending their employees home to work. If you've just been given the assignment to work from home, here are some tips from a seasoned couch commuter. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 4 years ago

Random marble run creator for 3D printers

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

Building a Real-Time Embeddings Similarity Matching System

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@cloud.google.com | 4 years ago

The Fight Goes On

Remarks from Elizabeth Warren shared in a call with campaign staff | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago