July 2021 Archive
3091.
Tech workers are preparing to quit. Persuading them to stay won't be easy (zdnet.com)
3092.
Amnesty clarifies: The list of 50000 phone numbers not directly related to NSO (m-calcalist-co-il.translate.goog)
3093.
Flash floods cause havoc across Europe – in pictures (theguardian.com)
3094.
All this abuse and exploitation for a 11 minute amusement park ride into space (twitter.com)
3095.
The Linux Desktop Is Studded with Grifters (thelinuxdesktop.blog)
3096.
Ask HN: As a tech lead, how do you handle a failed project
3097.
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021 (jetbrains.com)
3098.
Internal Apple letter shows employees are still fighting to work from home (vox.com)
3099.
Sourcegraph raises $125M at $2.6B valuation for universal code search (techcrunch.com)
3100.
Matthew Green:I’ve never seen so many broken things in one simple piece of code (threadreaderapp.com)
3101.
Temporary or not, inflation is rattling restaurants and broader economy (msn.com)
3102.
Microsoft engineer stole $10M by selling Xbox gift cards for Bitcoin (pcgamer.com)
3103.
The sociopaths are cocksure while those with empathy are full of doubt (caitlinjohnstone.substack.com)
3104.
Unicode data file compression: achieving 40-70% reduction over gzip alone (devlog.hexops.com)
3105.
Findings by professor suggest UCLA Admissions may be violating Prop 209 (2012) (dailybruin.com)
3106.
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021): a personal view (scottaaronson.com)
3107.
TSMC 2nm chip plans announced (9to5mac.com)
3108.
Warrior Eros (theamericanscholar.org)
3109.
Open-plan office noise increases stress and worsens mood: we've measured (cont) (abc.net.au)
3110.
Addition on Turing Machines (2013) (jeapostrophe.github.io)
3111.
Why Women's Gymnastics Is Legal Child Abuse (2020) (thecorrespondent.com)
3112.
Open-source dev says Audacity owner Muse threatened his deportation to China (theregister.com)
3113.
Lockdown Bait and Switch – By Matt Shapiro – Marginally Compelling (polimath.substack.com)
3114.
Facebook set to finance regional Australia newspaper fund (reuters.com)
3115.
Evidence planted on laptops of jailed Indian activists, says forensics firm (theregister.com)
3116.
The Secret Life of the Word Processor – Remastered (1987) (youtube.com)
3117.
Anthony Bourdain’s AI-Faked Voice in New Documentary Sparks Backlash (variety.com)
3118.
Assembly Language and Computer Architecture (2018) [video] (youtube.com)
3119.
Use Prediction Markets to Fund Investigative Reporting (astralcodexten.substack.com)
3120.
Russia’s most aggressive ransomware group disappeared. It’s unclear who did it (nytimes.com)