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Discovering this years ago was such a rabbit hole. They had a fake SF Bay-adjacent office street address (Walnut Creek maybe?) and had incorporated their US HQ in Michigan using a fake street address. This web site lists Rebex but they stole code from others like SyncFusion, whose staff confirmed to us the scam and that they were aware of them.

Yeoman's work. TY!

caltech

Alliteration. They wrote "paragon of pulchritude", which to me sounds like smart, dry humor. It works.

Pronounced Bidi like MIDI, or Bidi like Wifi, or (?)

Groot force

Tcl was the first language used. I laughed, but only because I've developed in Tcl and it has its time and place. Though I don't remember how to do an if statement in Tcl off the top of my head. Update: ok, its squiggly brackets; that's right.

TL; DR:

What is this? These pages are a collection of facts (identities, approximations, inequalities, relations, ...) about matrices and matters relating to them. It is collected in this form for the convenience of anyone who wants a quick desktop reference.

In case you were, uh, expecting to see Keanu Reeves in a kitchen apron.

Eric Lippert discusses this here (2015):

https://ericlippert.com/2015/04/27/wizards-and-warriors-part...

To summarize, neologism Canary MacGuffin represents one likely, visible event (to the requestor) the requestee would have to do while Shaving the Yak (?)

Antonio Murdaca's tweet thread: https://twitter.com/runc0m/status/1015216562129825793

They used Agora:

https://agora.vote/

(Aside: forgot to turn off my extension and so it appeared as, 'Sierra Leone just ran the first "Multiple copies of a giant Excel spreadsheet"-based election')

https://github.com/cynthiablee/blockchain-to-spreadsheet

"This is thought to be entirely secure against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which require speculative execution on branch instructions."

From the article, it seems like issues with their "order-to-shelf" system:

"Order-to-shelf, or OTS, is a tightly controlled system designed to streamline and track product purchases, displays, storage, and sales. Under OTS, employees largely bypass stock rooms and carry products directly from delivery trucks to store shelves. It is meant to help Whole Foods cut costs, better manage inventory, reduce waste, and clear out storage."

...

"A reduced back stock means that any unexpected increase in shopper demand or a product-shipment delay can result in out-of-stock items across every department, multiple employees said."

Josh Marshall just now: "Announcement to publishers who reshaped business models around Facebook. Bye."

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/951615904760172545

The Mark Twain Project has made his autobiography (and other writings) freely available online:

http://www.marktwainproject.org/landing_writings.shtml

I listened to the audiobook version, as my preference/availability. Highly recommended.

From the article:

"It is common to experience swarms of earthquakes at Mount St. Helens."

"...there is no immediate danger of an eruption."

The State of California recently initiated a reclassification project for IT positions, which includes evaluating salaries. They last reclassified positions in 1976...back when Elvis was alive (note: salaries have risen modestly since that time, thankfully).

Anecdotally, this already seems to represent a thing at the municipal level, at least in Sacramento, where police seem to arbitrarily enforce it to detain people they deem undesirable (e.g., homeless, by the downtown arena).

Heartened by this:

"Since news of the vandalism got out, however, Go Fund Me efforts on Wild Hill Honey's behalf have raised more than $35,000. Engelhardt posted to the company's Facebook page that the money would allow them to rebuild and start operating again in the spring."

Summary: According to Stanford University's account, Lawrence Lessig (then Stanford, now Harvard) helped lead Stanford's lawyers to victory over Joyce's grandson's lawyers in a fair use case, letting an English professor publish certain Joyce-related materials in the USA only...this article represents the coda of the legal argument, with the English professor getting $240,000 in legal fees reimbursed.

For me, installing the free Overdrive app and linking to my public library account--boom, 60-70 audiobooks listened to in one year:

https://app.overdrive.com/

And leave open the possibility of subsequently bringing the other charges, in case of pardon or if he doesn't follow-through

The two main paragraphs:

"Prior work has suggested that energy is involved when quarks fuse together. In studying the properties of one such fusing, a doubly-charmed baryon, the researchers found that it took 130 MeV to force the quarks into such a particular configuration, but they also found that fusing the quarks together wound up releasing 12 MeV more than that. Intrigued by their finding, they quickly focused on bottom quarks, which are much heavier—calculations showed it took 230 MeV to fuse such quarks, but doing so resulted in a net release of approximately 138 MeV, which the team calculated was approximately eight times more than the amount released during hydrogen fusion.

Since hydrogen fusion lies at the heart of hydrogen bombs, the researchers were quite naturally alarmed at their findings. So much so that they considered not publishing their results. But subsequent calculations showed that it would be impossible to cause a chain reaction with quarks because they exist for too short a period of time—approximately one picosecond—not long enough to set off another baryon. They decay into much smaller, less dangerous lighter quarks."