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This is a great recap of a talk on Infrastructure at Scale at Facebook
Posted on 2015-03-29T20:33:26+0000
A court case so secret, US Govt says it can't go on - Business - NZ Herald News
Imagine that someone has wronged you, and you sue them. - New Zealand Herald
How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT Mike Solomon OpenWRT is a powerful Linux distribution for embedded devices, such as my router, and this is the story of how I used it to double my bandwidth at no extra cost to myself. How? By doubling the number of Internet connections I have. My setup M…
TPP leak: states give companies the right to repeal nations' laws
A new Wikileaks-published leak from the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty reveals a January 2015 draft "Investment Chapter" of the agreement, where the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms are set out. They allow companies to repeal nations' environmental, health and la…
The man who proved Stephen Hawking wrong
He grew up in grinding poverty and was forever in trouble at school. So how did Leonard Susskind become one of the world’s greatest physicists?
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:The day that Leonard Susskind decided he was not going to follow his father into the family plumbing business, his parents were appalled. “My father was a tough guy,” says Prof Susskind with a chuckle. “He said: ‘What do you want to be: a ballet dancer?’ I said: ‘No, I don’t want to be a ballet dancer, I want to be a physicist.’ He said: ‘You aint going to work in no drugstore.’ I said: ‘No, not a pharmacist, a physicist.’ He said: ‘What’s a physicist?’ I said: ‘Like Einstein.’ That shook him and from that moment he got it. My mother was crying and saying, ‘We’re going to be broke,’ and he just looked at her and said: ‘Shut up – he’s going to be Einstein.’”"
Posted on 2015-03-28T17:24:01+0000
Super Mario 64 HD
Demonstration project for the Super Character Controller, a recreation of Super Mario 64's first level, Bob-Omb Battlefield. Everything is just as you remember, except some really minor stuff that ...
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Posted on 2015-03-28T17:17:26+0000
Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelter is entering production
Ikea's line of flat-pack refugee shelters are going into production, the Swedish furniture maker announced this week, after being tested among refugee families in Ethiopia, Iraq, and Lebanon. The...
Woman held in psychiatric ward after (correctly) saying Obama follows her on Twitter
A woman is suing a psychiatric ward after claiming she was diagnosed as being delusional because she told doctors Obama follows her on Twitter, according to a suit filed at Manhattan Federal court.
Errata Security: x86 is a high-level language
Inside the CPU, the results always appear as if the processor executed everything in-order, but outside the CPU, things happen in strange order. - shouldn't inside and outside be swapped in this sentence?
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Posted on 2015-03-26T15:14:25+0000
Google Sends Reporter a GIF Instead of a 'No Comment' | WIRED
The GIF was apparently the official answer Google sent to a reporter in response to his seeming scoop on a new YouTube livestreaming plan.
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Posted on 2015-03-26T15:11:25+0000