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by stmw 5y ago
Many technology policy lessons can be drawn from that period.
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NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training, third of astronaut class(news.mit.edu)
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A Mac For Mick (2005)(folklore.org)
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Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation(bmj.com)
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Whirlwind I(en.wikipedia.org)
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“From Controversy to Cure” MIT Documentary – The Biotech Boom in Cambridge, MA(news.mit.edu)
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History of MIT Multics, including source code(web.mit.edu)
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Gene Dresselhaus, influential research scientist in solid-state physics(eecs.mit.edu)
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Challenger Learning Center's Veterans Day Family Event–The Apollo 13 Challenge(mainepublic.org)
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MIT: Using AI and old reports to understand new medical images(news.mit.edu)
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by stmw 5y ago
Well what you really want is something like TOR and/or anonymous email forwarding, not just DNS, to really decouple from location and get control over who can reach you. This turns out to be hard to do because of both laws and business
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PlasticArm SoC Puts Arm Cortex-M0 on Flexible Substrate(eetimes.com)
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by stmw 5y ago
In my experience, companies with poor security or privacy culture will tend to continue to make these kinds of missteps, again and again. Because it's not just one PM or engineer or executive, it's the company environment. Compani
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A Mini Mississippi in Mass. May Help Save New Orleans from Rising Seas(wbur.org)
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Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion(news.mit.edu)
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The True Tragedy of Fukushima Was Our Response to It(medium.com)
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by stmw 6y ago
The cables are well-protected, but if they are damaged - same as with HV overhead lines - there is protection circuitry on both sides that trips and shuts off the power. So it will limit the damage to the rest of the grid, but you probably
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by stmw 6y ago
check out this, too - https://blog.interviewing.io/exactly-what-to-say-when-recrui...
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Crystals Go to War (1943)(youtube.com)
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Holocaust survivor Berta Berkovich Kohút dies in San Rafael at 99 of covid19(sfchronicle.com)
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by stmw 6y ago
While I understand the argument for removing kernel extensions, I don't think I can agree with it. It should be possible to run your own software at the kernel privilege level. There are usecases where that's essential, and for th
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You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t(vox.com)
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Chipmakers Halt Production in Texas After Power Outages(eetimes.com)
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CT Scans Suggest Egyptian Pharaoh Was Brutally Executed on the Battlefield(smithsonianmag.com)
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by stmw 6y ago
Lastpass is very popular but has had a very unfortunate security track record, with several security incidents that make one worry about their whole approach to security. Information on these is widely available and IMHO, the details would&
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by stmw 6y ago
I guess it's all in how you classify it... I'm not sure why "bytecode" vs. "non-bytecode" are an important distinction in the language's usecases, as opposed to implementation. For example, .Net supports b
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by stmw 6y ago
This is sad for the project itself, but I predict that the coming programming competition will be Rust vs. Go, not Swift -- as Swift was always a distant third among the "new" languages. And of course the more mature languages wil
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by stmw 6y ago
some options: - https://pulsar.apache.org/ - the many systems based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Proto... - cloud-specific queues (SNS Kinesis et al)
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by stmw 6y ago
TameAntelope - sorry I should've phrased it differently, not "lucky" but more skillful as you say.
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by stmw 6y ago
Guess your were luckier? YMMV, I've found Kafka generally lives up to its terrible reputation -- and even when it doesn't, it's all somehow more difficult than its initial appeal. I certainly agree with others that inclusion

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