August 2020 Archive
8071.
Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (docs.microsoft.com)
8072.
The Subway of the Future Has Stations on the Surface (forbes.com)
8073.
How Long Does It Take to Learn a Language? (knowledgeartist.org)
8074.
FBI (Records Vault) tweets Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion (without context) (twitter.com)
8075.
Scoble: Facebook identities on VR are the biggest strategy tax of all time (nwn.blogs.com)
8076.
Apple Silicon Macs to require signed code (mjtsai.com)
8077.
An Update to How We Address Movements and Organizations Tied to Violence (about.fb.com)
8078.
‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth (wired.com)
8079.
First genome comparison gives insight into penguin origins and evolution (phys.org)
8080.
The Graphing Calculator Story (pacifict.com)
8081.
America closes the last loophole in its hounding of Huawei (economist.com)
8082.
Red/System: New Features (red-lang.org)
8083.
Open Mainframe Project (openmainframeproject.org)
8084.
Ask HN: Learning FPGA's as a Software Developer?
8085.
Young Mathematician Solves Old, Famous Knot Problem in Barely a Week (popularmechanics.com)
8086.
Microsoft quietly disables registry hack used to de-activate Windows Defender (androidrookies.com)
8087.
Epic seeks restraining order against Apple's 'devastating' response to lawsuit (pcgamer.com)
8088.
Visual Lambda Calculus [pdf] (bntr.planet.ee)
8089.
Deploying big Spacy NLP models on AWS Lambda and S3 (medium.com)
8090.
Some A.I. experts are concerned about a lack of transparency in OpenAI's GPT-3 (onezero.medium.com)
8091.
Cloudflare Workers Deploy Buttons (developers.cloudflare.com)
8092.
We immortalised our boss' departure on the blockchain (see comment) (etherscan.io)
8093.
New Zealand's Shotover Jet Boat (shotoverjet.com)
8094.
Specialising Dynamic Techniques for Implementing Ruby (TruffleRuby, 2015) (chrisseaton.com)
8095.
I Found Myself in a Command Line vs. GUI Meeting (gravitational.com)
8096.
Why I'm Switching from VSCode to OniVim 2 (seanchen1991.github.io)
8097.
Assessing the Risk of Greynet Medicines (catgirl.online)
8098.
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017) (nayuki.io)
8099.
DIY Silicone Mask (drive.google.com)
8100.
The Tandy 1000 – The best MS-DOS computer in 1984 (youtu.be)