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Worldwide Demonstrations Mourn and Condemn 'Year of Genocide' in Gaza


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21190239

Jake Johnson
Oct 07, 2024



Swift has been successfully adopted on the backend by many companies - one of them is Cultured Code, the company behind the award winning Things app. Hear why it's been a success for them in this talk by Vojtech Rylko (@vry) from this year's conference

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sweet dreams💖

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% of world population with colour-blindness:
Deuteranomaly (green-weak) 4.6%
Deuteranopia (green-blind) 1.3%
Protoanomaly (red-weak) 1%
Protanopia (red-blind) 1%
Tritanopia (blue-blind) ~rare

This condition affects 1 in 12 men, 1 in 200 women, so more than 350m worldwide. 1 in 22 people.




Whomst among us would not do the same for our own dom?

(gift link)

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#CMSPaper 1338 describes a precision measurement of the production rate of the quantum carriers of the weak force, the Z and W bosons. These measurements allow comparison and improvement of detailed understanding of the strong force in the standard model buff.ly/3ZaS4kI


Rewriting one of the of our SpaceJunk-calculating routines from #Python to #Swift:
- Before: 9.1s
- Now: 0.27s

Besides wasted CPU time, how much electric energy is wasted by using Python in science?




Kamala Harris just released this new ad. Please share far and wide.


An Israeli attack on a school for orphans in Gaza City last week killed several people, mostly children and women, sheltering there after being displaced by previous Israeli strikes. theintercept.com/2024/10/06/is…






A Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyers

Now that Google is a monopolist, government lawyers are laying out their plans to deal with the search giant.




Haverhill Council Accepts Powder House Entry on National Register of Historic Places

Haverhill city councilors Tuesday night formally accepted the placement of the 1845-era powder house on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is one of four structures in the city known to have been designed to hold gun powder. The 91 Powder House Ave. structure is one of the few remaining buildings of its kind in the region. As only WHAV reported last year…

whav.net/2024/10/08/haverhill-…