A closer look at Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo clock
This pricey bedside clock can sense your movements and wake you up with Nintendo’s beloved characters.
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Amazon really loves co-opting anti-capitalism.
From Packt Publishing:
Getting Started with Lazarus IDE
By Roderick Person
(Publication date: Feb 2013, Pages: 116)
Get to grips with the basics of programming, debugging, creating, and documenting projects with the Lazarus IDE
Get it at: packtpub.com/free-learning
Why Tampa Bay is at such high risk for hurricane damage
The area has not taken a direct hit from a hurricane in over 100 years. But its topography and dense population make it especially susceptible to severe damage from storm surges.
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A Secret Sculpture Built for John F. Kennedy's Grave Vanished in the 1970s. Half a Century Later, the Mystery Has Been Solved
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This morning there was a beautiful blue in the moss...
Green Wood Cup (Chlorociboria aeruginascens)
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Conference dates: April 11 - 13, 2025
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Open-source AI definition finally gets its first release candidate - and a compromise zdnet.com/article/open-source-… by @sjvn
We're getting closer to an #opensource #AI definition that many--but not everyone--can agree on.
Creating Excel spreadsheets with #Python is easy if you use OpenPyXL.
Here's an example of creating a spreadsheet and summing up a couple of columns programmatically:
Interested in learning more about business models and governance in free software?
Check out the English translation of the 2023 podcast episode featuring @goneri and Raphaël Semeteys, released in 2023 !
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#Jaeger V2 is here!🎉
The popular open source #DistributedTracing tool under the #CNCF, is introducing a new architecture with deep #OpenTelemetry integration, which promises more flexibility, performance, extensibility and ease of use.
Next week I'll hold a live stream of 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 🎙 with Jaeger's creator and core maintainer Yuri Shkuro.
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I know how I would make these noises on a Macintosh with Logic Audio in the year 2002 but some of them are honestly startling to hear coming out of electrical oscillators in 1969
Trump Isn't Offering Free Lodging to Displaced Supporters During Hurricane Milton
The story said, "BREAKING: Trump offers free lodging at any of his timeshares (including Mar-a-Lago) to all displaced Trumpers as Milton approaches."
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"It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans."
-@kenshirriff, Wealth distribution in the United States
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What about Corsica? The Isle of Wight? Stewart Island off New Zealand's south island? Guernsey and Jersey? Bornholm, dangling off Sweden but technically part of Denmark? Öland and Gotland, also off Sweden?
There's literal tonnes of them.
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