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Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich
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The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)
nothings.org · Software engineering
36.8durability95% evidence confidence
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Solar Storm of 1859
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Strncpy() is not a “safer” strcpy()
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The 'specialness spiral:' Why we label ordinary objects as too special to use
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Why do 70% of families lose their wealth in the 2nd generation? (2018)
nasdaq.com · Learning & ideas
25.8durability48% evidence confidence
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Wealth shown to a pixel scale (2021)
mkorostoff.github.io · Learning & ideas
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FiOS customer discovers the limits of “unlimited” data: 77 TB a month
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Thought-Terminating Cliché
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No. 274Unchecked
Feynman Computer Science Lecture – Hardware, Software, Heuristics (1985) [video]
youtube.com · Software engineering
35.6durability100% evidence confidence
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RAML - RESTful API modeling language
raml.org · Software engineering
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Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy
iridiumbrowser.de · Security & privacy
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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
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The Io Language
iolanguage.org · Software engineering
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Sigstore: Making sure your software is what it claims to be
sigstore.dev · Software engineering
30.1durability61% evidence confidence
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No. 280Unchecked
The Crystal Programming Language
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48.2durability100% evidence confidence
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Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal?
nytimes.com · Learning & ideas
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The IPv6 mess (2002)
cr.yp.to · Learning & ideas
28.0durability77% evidence confidence
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Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)
lists.warhead.org.uk · Software engineering
34.5durability64% evidence confidence
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PICO-8 – Fantasy Console
lexaloffle.com · Learning & ideas
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Make your Python functions return something meaningful, typed, and safe
returns.readthedocs.io · Software engineering
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Inventing Cyrillic (2024)
historytoday.com · Learning & ideas
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Plaintext HTTP in a modern world
jcs.org · Web & internet
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