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There is something of a mystery going on at the Royal Mail — but nothing to do with the recent Post Office scandal. Rather it involves a surge in ‘counterfeit’ stamps and a hefty £5 penalty for those who receive … Read more
CNN — Artificial intelligence promises to supercharge scientific research and entrepreneurial innovation, helping researchers and inventors make new discoveries and creations. But how will patent protections apply to inventions made with the help of AI tools, particularly generative AI? For … Read more
“OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.” Alan Kay (the guy who coined the term “Object Oriented Programming”) It seems like a lot of people dislike Object … Read more
I’m a New Yorker so when one of our restaurants opens in Vegas, Miami or London, I laugh to myself and say “can you imagine the a**hole waiting in line for that in a casino?” Well, it’s not always like … Read more
Why not transfer files via Google Drive, DropBox or some other cloud storage provider? Cloud storage providers need to hold a copy of your data in order to have them available to other devices. This alone makes them really appealing … Read more
Botlhokwa Ranta had never flown before, and she was frightened of both the flight and what awaited her when she landed. By the time the wheels of the aeroplane touched the tarmac in Nairobi, she was drunk. She was 26, … Read more
Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres === CLAIRE: Welcome to Path to Citus Con, the podcast for developers who love Postgres, where we’re going to talk about the human side of open source and databases and Postgres and … Read more
The collapse of the UK’s social contract is leaving millions of low-income families “surviving not living” and forced to endure unacceptable levels of poverty, according to an independent cross-party report. The Poverty Strategy Commission, which seeks to forge a new … Read more
06 Aug, 2023 I’m not sure when Hacker News started adorning a black bar on top of the website after a significant person passed, but I compiled a list of people who’ve received it starting from 2016. Bram Moolenaar Bob … Read more