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“Swedish exports of ball bearings” are commonly brought up in historical discussions of World War II. Why were other countries so reliant on Swedish ball bearings and unable to produce enough themselves? : AskHistorians
I recently watched the Kings and Generals video Why Didn’t the Nazis Invade Sweden? DOCUMENTARY where this factoid was brought…
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GDC reveals finalists for the 27th Independent Games Festival
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week announced the finalists for the Independent Games Festival’s awards event, which is part…
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Beyond RAG: How cache-augmented generation reduces latency, complexity for smaller workloads
As LLMs become more capable, many RAG applications can be replaced with cache-augmented generation that include documents in the prompt.Read…
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Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle
When it comes to information security headlines, a good rule of thumb is that claims about about widespread supply-chain sabotage…
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Runway’s new AI image generator Frames is here, and it looks fittingly cinematic
The model excels in rendering advanced textures, natural lighting and complex compositions, providing more flexibility.Read More
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Branchless UTF-8 Encoding | cceckman.com
Can you encode UTF-8 without branches? Yes. The question On this page: In a Recurse chat, Nathan Goldbaum asked: I…
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Devin 1.2: Updated AI engineer enhances coding with smarter in-context reasoning, voice integration
Devin 1.2 will help developers with accelerated workflows and less cognitive load in file searches, understanding codebases or fixing code. Read…
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Brood War Korean Translations
As work slowed down during the last couple of weeks of 2024, I decided to redirect some of my energy…
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Watching video game history happen again with the Nintendo Switch 2
The Nintendo Switch 2 was announced today and it immediately made me nostalgic about the launch of the original Switch…
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The French modernists loathed and loved the mass media of their day
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the…
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