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Index – Fedi-Games
Index – Fedi-Games Welcome to Fedi Games. This is a small collection of games which can be played in the fediverse. Use your favorite fediverse app, such as Mastodon, to play the games listed below. Simple mention the bot in a message and the game will begin. Games tic-tac-toe Classic game of tic-tac-toe. Mention me …
How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
a.k.a. Richard Hamming vs. Richard Feynman
Brilliant Pebbles | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(Excerpted from: “Adapting to a Changing Weapons Program,” Science & Technology Review, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, January 2001.) In March 1983, President Reagan unveiled a new vision of national security based on protecting lives rather than threatening them. This announcement kicked off the Strategic Defense Initiative—popularly known as Star Wars—that invigorated weapons work at Livermore. …
How to Write SQL Queries
SQL is a declarative, English-like domain language for querying, analyzing and manipulating data. SQL originated from relational databases but has since been widely adopted elsewhere. SQL is considered a declarative language, meaning users declare what results they want and not how to get to these results (the latter is the approach of imperative programming languages, …
Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?
Hey HN community, I’m here to spark a discussion on a topic that, I believe, many of us have encountered but might not often talk about: projects that we were excited about and believed in, but that ended up failing miserably after release. To kick things off, I want to share my own experience with …
Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons | WSU Insider
Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons | WSU Insider | Washington State University Skip to menu Skip to content Close Quick Links Close Demo Close Menu Search/Quicklinks Source link
Finding stuff in the terminal · FlakM blog
Looking for stuff in code is an essential skill in daily tasks. It lets me keep a laser focus on the problem at hand. Examples of questions I find myself asking over and over again: Does this repository contain this variable? What was the context of changing this variable name? Who is the best person …
Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive?
I spent the daytime during the summer of 2009 at an unpaid internship at a literary magazine, and I spent the nighttime, paid, behind the counter of the gelato stand at the Times Square location of Madame Tussauds wax museum. I was happy to have this job. The Great Recession gripped New York so tightly …
Hectare – Wikipedia
Metric unit of area Image comparing the hectare (the small blue area at lower left) to other units. The entire yellow square is one square mile. The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and …
In praise of pushbuttons (and other physical controls) | Article
In news that will both warm and chill hearts, Euro NCAP, the European automotive safety body, has announced that from 2026, automakers will be “incentivised” to include a greater number of physical controls within their vehicles. A failure to respond will make it impossible for a new vehicle to be awarded their much-coveted 5-star safety …
