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Hasnain says:

"This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random "someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bothers me enough that I have to make an exception. Today I wanted to write specifically about Google Chrome, how much I’ve loved it in the past, and why — due to Chrome’s new user-unfriendly forced login policy — I won’t be using it going forward."

Posted on 2018-09-24T05:20:49+0000

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Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down.

Clocksource PSA: We discovered our database machines were very slow at getting the time. This post is a look at what was causing it, how you can check if your machines are affected, and the single command needed to fix it.

Click to view the original at heapanalytics.com

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Is It Time to Get Rid of Time? - Issue 64: The Unseen - Nautilus

Poets often think of time as a river, a free-flowing stream that carries us from the radiant morning of birth to the golden twilight…

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Hasnain says:

“Time, they say, may more resemble a physical property such as temperature or pressure. Pressure has no meaning when you talk about one particle or one atom; the concept of pressure arises only when we consider trillions of atoms. The notion of time could very well share this statistical feature.”

Posted on 2018-09-22T15:44:53+0000

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Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture | Quanta Magazine

Two mathematicians have found what they say is a hole at the heart of a proof that has convulsed the mathematics community for nearly six years.

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'For me, this is paradise': life in the Spanish city that banned cars

In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans

Click to view the original at theguardian.com

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'A public relations nightmare': Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program | CBC News

Read about what CBC News and the Toronto Star discovered after sending a pair of reporters undercover to a ticket industry convention in Las Vegas that brings together box-office giants and the world's top scalpers in the same room.

Click to view the original at cbc.ca

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How to write a novella in just 5 easy steps – Hasnain Lakhani – Medium

I recently self-published my first novella, Unearthly Whispers, on Amazon — it’s a story about a futuristic historian who tries to uncover…

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Hasnain says:

I wrote a thing about writing a thing!

This doesn't cover the mechanics of how to publish on Amazon and stuff - happy to elaborate on that in more detail if there's interest.

Posted on 2018-09-19T05:08:46+0000