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"Stitching wasn’t the only way to make the best of flawed parchment. There are instances of holes being incorporated into illustrations, or used to reveal an illustration on the following page. The stitches themselves could even be embellished."

"Sable Offshore flows crude oil through pipelines responsible for 2015 Refugio spill"
Adding insult to injury, they announced it on the 10-year anniversary of the spill.

"A producer sabotages a rival's play by faking a measles outbreak among the cast, forcing a quarantine. The solution: the Flash plays every part at once!"
Ah, the 1940s, when people still understood what quarantines are for.

"A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing and discovery"

"This find | xargs mawk | mawk pipeline gets us down to a runtime of about 12 seconds, or about 270MB/sec, which is around 235 times faster than the Hadoop implementation."

"Discworld Reading Order Guides - A suggested reading order for the Discworld books of Terry Pratchett"

Short version: because "forbidden" energy states aren't actually impossible, just highly improbable, electrons could occasionally jump up briefly, then down to the ground state, emitting two low-energy photons instead of one high-energy one, slowly cutting down on the likelihood that the hydrogen atom will just get re-ionized again.

"We are not wired for closure. We’re wired for tension, interruption, dangling threads. But we live in an economy that treats incompletion like failure — and sells us endless tools to fix it. Finish the task. Clear the inbox. Optimize the workflow. Productivity has become a moral category, enforced by dashboards and dopamine and deadlines"

"your team almost certainly doesn’t have what it takes to out-engineer the browser. The browser will continuously improve the experience of plain HTML, at no cost to you, using a rendering engine that is orders of magnitude more efficient than JavaScript. "

"Why do some places on Earth have higher gravity than others? Sometimes the reason is unknown. To help better understand the Earth's surface, sensitive measurements by the orbiting satellites GRACE and CHAMP were used to create a map of Earth's gravitational field. Since a center for studying these data is in Potsdam, Germany, and since"