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Sophgo Sophon SG2380 RISC-V (16 x SiFive P670) announced (nitter.net)

a year ago | rwmj | nitter.net | newest

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'Too dangerous': Why even Google was afraid to release this technology (npr.org)

a year ago | rwmj | npr.org | newest

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The Quest to Recreate a Lost and 'Terrifying' Medieval Mead (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | rwmj | atlasobscura.com | best

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How to debase medieval coinage in order to pay for wars (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

a year ago | rwmj | blogspot.com | newest

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UK Address Oddities (2018) (paulplowman.com)

a year ago | rwmj | paulplowman.com | best

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How to compete with Patreon (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

a year ago | rwmj | dreamwidth.org | best

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How the TRON music was made [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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How to Compete with Patreon (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

a year ago | rwmj | dreamwidth.org | frontpage

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Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing? (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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HP7475 – The Gold Standard Plotter [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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Airbnb reduced partying by 55% in 2 years (cnbc.com)

a year ago | rwmj | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Google accused of directing motorist to drive off collapsed bridge (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Internet Censorship Galore as UK Online Safety Bill Becomes Law (ispreview.co.uk)

a year ago | rwmj | ispreview.co.uk | newest

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US military asks for public's help to find F-35 fighter jet (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | newest

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What is RISC-V, and why we're unlocking its potential (qualcomm.com)

a year ago | rwmj | qualcomm.com | best

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Job fears over computerised tills (1978) [video] (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | newest

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From docking bonuses to desk checking: the WFH clampdown begins (thetimes.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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Business Week: The Death of Equities (1979) (archive.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | archive.org | newest

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The benefits of a good workplace mentoring scheme are undeniable (economist.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | economist.com | newest

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WordPress extension: Detect missing ad-blocker (wordpress.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | wordpress.org | frontpage

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Who should pay for scams? Victims or their banks? (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | blogspot.com | newest

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“Autobesity”: More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | theguardian.com | best

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They Shipped Bricks Instead of Hard Drives – The Miniscribe Accounting Fraud [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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Dissecting a V2 rocket steam pot [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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Disney World is hell on Earth, and it's only getting hotter (fastcompany.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | fastcompany.com | frontpage

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Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (2016) (arcadeblogger.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | arcadeblogger.com | best

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The best of the SF short stories from the journal Nature (concatenation.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | concatenation.org | newest

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AI cameras catch 297 drivers in three days in Cornwall (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Grafikdemo: Real wireframe teapot gimbaled in a Commodore cabinet (niklasroy.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | niklasroy.com | newest

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V2 Rocket in detail: The Turbopump part 2 [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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This 8-bit computer has two CPUs and one acts as a GPU [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | best

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Aibo: The world’s first robot dog (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | newest

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RISC-V Lichee Pi 4A vs. VisionFive 2 vs. HiFive Unmatched vs. Raspberry Pi 4B (rwmj.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | wordpress.com | newest

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Red Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter (techcrunch.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | techcrunch.com | newest

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Two-faced white dwarf with helium and hydrogen sides baffles astronomers (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Prospect of the Childless City (ft.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | ft.com | newest

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El Salvador's secretive mega-jail (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Pulsar Fusion plans 500k MPH nuclear rocket (theengineer.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | theengineer.co.uk | newest

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Seibu Shinjuku Station simultaneous translation screen at ticket counters (nhk.or.jp)

2 years ago | rwmj | nhk.or.jp | newest

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Dark Waters of Self-Delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | medium.com | best

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For the first time ever, euro paper money in circulation is shrinking (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | blogspot.com | newest

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Nick Drake at age 75, revisiting a singer-songwriter nobody knew (honest-broker.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | honest-broker.com | newest

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As AI technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging (nymag.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | nymag.com | newest

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Using __attribute__((cleanup)) inside the Linux kernel (lwn.net)

2 years ago | rwmj | lwn.net | newest

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The Unholy Saga of Phoenix BIOS Hyperspace [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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How much is a human head? Chopping up cadavers is important, little talked about (economist.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | economist.com | newest

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Winners of 2023 Illusion of the Year contest (illusionoftheyear.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | illusionoftheyear.com | newest

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DOOM WAD Simulating Dementia (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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How A Supernova Explodes (1985) [pdf] (uconn.edu)

2 years ago | rwmj | uconn.edu | best

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The lower limit to silver's usefulness in coinage (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | blogspot.com | newest

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The Lost Art of Paste-Up (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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BBC, BA and Boots issued with ultimatum by cyber gang Clop (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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In Defense of Flies (vox.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | vox.com | newest

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CP/M 2.2 port for the Agon Light eZ80 SBC (github.com/nihirash)

2 years ago | rwmj | github.com | newest

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Remotely driven rental cars in Milton Keynes (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | newest

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RISC-V Software Ecosystem (riseproject.dev)

2 years ago | rwmj | riseproject.dev | newest

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Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode (theregister.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | theregister.com | best

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Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings (edconway.substack.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | substack.com | best

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MyHouse.WAD – Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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British Telecom to cut 55,000 jobs with up to a fifth replaced by AI (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | best

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Never Give Artificial Intelligence the Nuclear Codes (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | theatlantic.com | newest

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A Linux kernel without struct buffer_head (lwn.net)

2 years ago | rwmj | lwn.net | best

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Trainbot watches trains and stitches together images of them (jo-m.ch)

2 years ago | rwmj | jo-m.ch | newest

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The boozy story of how we decided alcohol was a health boon in the ’90s (slate.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | slate.com | newest

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Some Three UK (mobile network) customers did not receive UK emergency alert test (twitter.com/threeuk)

2 years ago | rwmj | twitter.com | newest

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Why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health (reuters.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | reuters.com | newest

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Loadall Strikes Again (2013) (os2museum.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | os2museum.com | newest

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In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees (mastodon.social)

2 years ago | rwmj | mastodon.social | best

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IKEA SMÅHAGEL USB power supply tear-down (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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Bank accounts, phone numbers leaked online after attack on UK outsourcing giant (thetimes.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | thetimes.co.uk | newest

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The shrinking role of semaphores in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)

2 years ago | rwmj | lwn.net | newest

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Lazarus Heist: The intercontinental ATM theft that netted $14M in two hours (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | newest

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NFT Plans for Royal Mint produced token dropped (bbc.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.com | newest

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The Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | theatlantic.com | newest

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Red Hat 30th anniversary (redhat.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | redhat.com | best

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Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | rwmj | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Why can’t Bitcoin? (technologyreview.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | technologyreview.com | newest

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Ruthless political repression has decimated Belarus’ once-thriving tech scene (restofworld.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | restofworld.org | frontpage

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How to Moor a British Rigid Airship: The Cardington Mast [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | frontpage

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Stack Allocation for OCaml (2022) (youtube.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | youtube.com | newest

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Meta Shifts UK Users to US Agreements in Post-Brexit Move (bloomberg.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | bloomberg.com | newest

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2 years ago | rwmj | hynek.me | best

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Nuclear Tourism: When atomic tests were a tourist attraction in Las Vegas, 1950s (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | rarehistoricalphotos.com | newest

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Frame pointers vs. DWARF – my verdict (rwmj.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | wordpress.com | best

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Are we racing toward AI catastrophe? (vox.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | vox.com | frontpage

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What does a world with billions of old people look like? (grid.news)

2 years ago | rwmj | grid.news | newest

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Euroclassic Notturno (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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SF’s Market Street subway runs on Reagan-era floppy disks (sfstandard.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | sfstandard.com | best

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Linux kernel GFP flags and the end of __GFP_ATOMIC (lwn.net)

2 years ago | rwmj | lwn.net | frontpage

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KYC and AML: Beyond the Acronyms (bitsaboutmoney.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | bitsaboutmoney.com | newest

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For Sale – A Free Operating System (1998) (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | nytimes.com | newest

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What It’s Like to Be @Josh on Instagram (slate.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | slate.com | newest

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Frame pointers and other practical near-term solutions (gnome.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | gnome.org | newest

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On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages (microsoft.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | microsoft.com | best

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A Field Guide to NOTAMs [pdf] (fixingnotams.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | fixingnotams.org | newest

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Why do traffic reduction schemes attract so many conspiracy theories? (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Gray486linux – Linux for real 486s with 4 or 8 MB RAM (github.com/marmolak)

2 years ago | rwmj | github.com | newest

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Parasite Code (criu.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | criu.org | newest

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No laptops, no phones policy in classes (crookedtimber.org)

2 years ago | rwmj | crookedtimber.org | newest

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TSMC: Semiconductors and Borders of Light (generalist.com)

2 years ago | rwmj | generalist.com | newest