August 2024 Archive
2491.
US official: Chinese seizure of TSMC in Taiwan would be 'absolutely devastating' (reuters.com)
2492.
12 Coins in Verse: Genius solution of twelve balls and a scale problem (cut-the-knot.org)
2493.
An old hacker's tips on staying employed (2021) (madned.substack.com)
2494.
Please Don't Idolize Me (Or Anyone, Really) (whatever.scalzi.com)
2495.
Sierra On-Line Documentary to be made with impressive ex-employee cast (backerkit.com)
2496.
SQL/SE Query Language Extension for Schema Evolution (1992) [pdf] (dl.acm.org)
2497.
Ideogram 2.0 – Text to Image model (about.ideogram.ai)
2498.
Why did New College throw away all those books? (tampabay.com)
2499.
Neutral beam microscopy using magnetic beam spin encoding (nature.com)
2500.
Subway calls 'emergency' meeting with franchisees as sales plummet (nypost.com)
2501.
Why should anyone boot *you* up? (solmaz.io)
2502.
Delta CEO calls Microsoft 'the most fragile platform' while praising Apple (9to5mac.com)
2503.
iPhone SE 4 due in early 2025 with OLED and Apple Intelligence (appleinsider.com)
2504.
Fair Source: Sustainability with no customer risk (pepicrft.me)
2505.
Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT love the word "eager" so much?
2506.
Google's 'Reimagine' tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to photos (theverge.com)
2507.
Terraforming Mars may be easier than scientists thought (science.org)
2508.
Police can't stop sideshows. Solution: Make the streets more annoying (sfstandard.com)
2509.
Ask HN: Isn't all SaaS just wrappers?
2510.
San Francisco to Ban Rent-Setting Software Amid Gouging Worry (bloomberg.com)
2511.
Essential Terminal Commands Every Developer Should Know (trevorlasn.com)
2512.
'Smart' technology is out of control. We adore this dumb tech (washingtonpost.com)
2513.
Black hole in orbit around planet could be sign of advanced civilization (phys.org)
2514.
oh-my-posh: The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt (github.com)
2515.
Elon Musk interview of Trump hit by technical problems on X (reuters.com)
2516.
GPT-4o System Card (openai.com)
2517.
How Diaries Evolved from Lists to Personal Histories (slate.com)
2518.
Spyware turned a Kansas high school into a 'red zone' of dystopian surveillance (kansasreflector.com)
2519.
TikTok suppresses anti-China content on the platform across the world (networkcontagion.us)
2520.
Unhygienic and referentially opaque macros with Scheme syntax-rules [pdf] (2013) (okmij.org)