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The bridge is at 52.114667, -102.139722 [1][2], on a road named 'Dyck Memorial Road' (unsigned) [3], west of the hamlet of Swan Plain which lies at the intersection of SK Highway 8 and the aforementioned road. The previous bridge
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The publisher of the AMP content can configure hooks into their analytics solution [1]. These events can fire during any AMP pageview. Given this, I'm not convinced they'll mourn the lack of httpd logs. The typical practice for CD
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The suggestion that the advantages that AMP purports to bring can be better realized instead with just lean websites that aren't full of obtrusive Javascript and dynamic ads seems to entirely miss the fact that just-in-time ad auctions
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The difference between "stealing traffic" and the "Google Search Mobile is a captive newsreader" is nuanced. It's surprising and upsetting to people when they find out that in Google Search Mobile, their attempt to
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This move is aimed to quell the critique based on a hypothetis that contributions to AMP that go against Google's vision would be rejected. It also is a move in good faith to transition the project's governance away from Google to
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' Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies ' by Nayuki [1] (HN thread [2]) is an essay about such filename-less, tagging-based systems, covering prior art, technical background, and user experience. It'
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It's got more credence coming out of Troy's mouth than, say, a random commenter's like mine, his somewhat bit too scathing snark notwithstanding, but on the "stripe.ian.sh" thread a few months ago I observed [1] tha
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Representing memory hierarchy in a somewhat-HLL was the goal of the programming language Sequoia, presented in the paper 'Sequoia: Programming the Memory Hierarchy' [1][2] from Stanford University. Abstract: "We present Sequ
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Google Contributor was service from Google that used a pool of money set aside by the user to bid on ad slots, and if a particular ad auction was won, the ad would be replaced in the pageview with a pictorial pattern of the user's choi
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This is a remarkable deep-dive into the history of RSS and the ideas and vision behind it, and how those camps diverged. But despite beginning the article with Kevin Werbach's prediction that syndication was going to become a dominant
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For App Engine at least, they've offered this [1] for a year now; since 2017-09-14. [1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-man...
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This submission's title was editorialized by the submitter. It was submitted as "Google CA", which is misleading, as the submission is about the preexisting Google CA's addition as a root CA in the Mozilla trust store. T
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Once you delve into the article, it becomes clear that it's the changes in the town's infrastructure and urban form that have to be done to enable safe and worry-free cycling that result in a more livable space, where mobility goe
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JSON maps well and intuitively to common datatypes: with a list and a hashmap, you can model a lot. Conversely, structs needing to be passed around in application code will probably be made up of stuff that maps well to JSON. XML's gre
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Although palm oil consumption (of RBD palm oil) by industrial food processors has been rising for a while, a significant development was the scrutiny, public awakening, and regulatory phase-out of trans fats that happened in jurisdictions i
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Duo Press Release: https://duo.com/about/press/releases/cisco-announces-intent-... Cisco Press Release: https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcon... Letter sent by Duo CEO
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Excel installing a captive Windows, a technical detail they could have hid, was instead played up to demo the windowing GUI, in a better implementation of shareware than nearly anything that came after. This ingenious decision really ought
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REST as seen in HTTP has always been about resources (identified by URLs), representations thereof that take the form of a particular mediatype (selected explicitly or by content negotiation), and hyperlinks (with targets and rels). When re
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Corner stores were an essential feature when walking proximity to your customer base was necessary, but between the economics of plopping a greyfield Walmart on a busy avenue (as in the States), or a greenfield Carrefour or Auchan on the ri
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The purpose of the algorithmic feed (vs. chronological) is to decouple the surfaced content from clear and present attributes of the content like its creation time and author, such that the feed is a neverending, if mostly pleasing smatteri
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There's no one clear place to point to about how the decision was made for Cargo, but some nuggets have been left by authors [1]. The gist seems to be that JSON (and YAML, per that comment) was considered a poor format to author and ma
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The news here is (presumably) the announcement of version 0.5.0 a few days prior [1], which includes several clarifications, rollup changes, and enhancements that accumulated over the last 3 years. In my opinion, one of the more useful feat
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The frustrating part about solar is that because the peak generation output doesn't line up with typical peak consumption ("the duck curve"), utilities need natgas peakers, which sit mostly idle, to fill in the gap. As solar
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I fully buy the argument that code is a liability, while the underlying algorithm, or the overlying service is the asset. Following this line of thinking encourages the writing of simple code. Far more of a problem than code complexity is t
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"A regional government asks: which industry sectors are we already comparatively good at?" Nothing. Most regions that don't already tilt toward a particular specialty dominated by a few large employers aren't specifica
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Orthodox automakers have reasons behind their methods that aren't legacy bullshit: they're the product of years of practical experience in production line design: a finely-honed way of cranking out lots of an identical product at
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Teletext is such a clever usecase, it's a shame it's not more widely deployed, and on the way out. It fills some of the empty space among frames of a broadcast with dense text about news and current affairs, giving technologically
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So, while probably being a skilled navigator, he was either a serial bullshitter who may or may not have been before the King of Spain and may not have actually seen features that were later ascribed to the area, or a man wronged probably b
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The Southwest Chief runs between Chicago and LA, via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff. It approaches Wichita within 25 miles, but bypasses it to run west for ~350 miles across rural Kansas and Colorado, serving several small towns, a
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Amtrak exploring ending Southwest Chief through service(hutchnews.com)
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