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Never take health tips from world’s oldest people, say scientists | Ageing | The Guardian
“Never, ever take health and lifestyle tips from a centenarian.”Sat Aug 24 10:06:15 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/24/never-take-health-tips-from-worlds-oldest-people-say-scientists
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GitHub - chrxh/alien: ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.
Artificial LIfe ENvironment (ALIEN) is an artificial life simulation tool based on a specialized 2D particle engine in CUDA for soft bodies and fluidsSat Aug 17 23:14:42 2024 - permalink -- https://github.com/chrxh/alien
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Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissions | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissionsWed Aug 14 07:27:36 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/13/canada-2023-wildfires-nearly-decade-worth-blaze-emissions
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Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen
Jet Rocket was the world's first flight simulator game, the first first-person shooter game, and the first game in which the player made their way through a virtual world (known as an "open world" game)Sun Aug 4 11:19:16 2024 - permalink -- https://newatlas.com/games/sega-jet-rocket-arcade-game/
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Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’ | Energy | The Guardian
Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’Sun Aug 4 09:55:57 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/03/is-the-dream-of-nuclear-fusion-dead-why-the-international-experimental-reactor-is-in-big-trouble
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What does it mean that hundreds of thousands of players are clicking on a banana? - Sherwood News
Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or notSat Aug 3 13:11:15 2024 - permalink -- https://sherwood.news/tech/hundreds-of-thousands-of-players-banana-clicker-game-egg-steam/
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When a bad Trump joke becomes an affair of state, Germany has lost more than its sense of humour | Fatma Aydemir | The Guardian
When a bad Trump joke becomes an affair of state, Germany has lost more than its sense of humour. The dropping of comedian Sebastian Hotz and Elon Musk’s intervention raise serious questions about freedom of speechWed Jul 24 08:34:18 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/23/germany-donald-trump-joke-sebastian-hotz-elon-musk
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Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer
a very short book about copyingMon Jul 22 21:45:31 2024 - permalink -- https://matthewstrom.com/writing/copying/
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Romae Industriae - by Maxwell Tabarrok - Maximum Progress
What were the binding constraints on a Roman Industrial Revolution?Sat Jul 20 10:54:22 2024 - permalink -- https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/romae-industriae
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Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
Ryanair – when every page is a dark patternFri Jul 19 19:08:01 2024 - permalink -- https://hallofshame.design/ryanair-when-every-page-is-a-dark-pattern/
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US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation | Oil | The Guardian
Marathon Petroleum, explained in a company periodical nearly 50 years ago that global temperature rise potentially linked to “industrial expansion” could one day cause “widespread starvation and other social and economic calamities”Fri Jul 19 08:33:53 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/18/us-oil-marathon-petroleum-climate-change
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Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984 | Hackaday
Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984Wed Jul 17 09:45:50 2024 - permalink -- https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/seiko-had-a-smartwatch-in-1984/
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‘We can’t let the animals die’: drought leaves Sicilian farmers facing uncertain future | Italy | The Guardian
Rainfall is down 40% since 2003 and experts predict a third of Sicily will be desert by 2030Sat Jul 6 21:54:41 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/drought-leaves-sicilian-farmers-facing-uncertain-future
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New paper: AI agents that matter
LLM evaluation is a minefield, and it turns out that agent evaluation has a bunch of additional pitfallsWed Jul 3 21:33:12 2024 - permalink -- https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/new-paper-ai-agents-that-matter
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I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great | Music | The Guardian
I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly greatMon Jun 17 08:18:11 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/17/i-just-listened-to-wu-tang-clans-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin-as-music-its-good-as-art-its-truly-great
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Global spending on nuclear weapons up 13% in record rise | Nuclear weapons | The Guardian
Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023Mon Jun 17 08:16:36 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/17/global-spending-on-nuclear-weapons-up-13-in-record-rise
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Subscribers in Germany pay an average of EUR 684 per year for streaming | heise online
Incredible. Was ich an Strom zahle für meine eigene Wohnung, zahlen die hierzulande alleine für Unterhaltung durch Streaming. WTF.Sat Jun 15 09:04:52 2024 - permalink -- https://www.heise.de/en/news/Subscribers-in-Germany-pay-an-average-of-EUR-684-per-year-for-streaming-9759428.html
