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Struggling to change your duvet cover? The “roll-invert-unroll” method might just save you time and hassle. American Cleaning Institute recommends washing covers monthly, but some say fortnightly or even weekly. Putting on a duvet cover can be a nightmare, but this method makes it simple. Roll the duvet and cover together, invert the cover over […]
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In 1995, El Salvador had the highest intentional homicide rate in the world, which drastically decreased to 2.4 per 100,000 by 2023 due to President Nayib Bukele’s anti-crime efforts. Bukele’s crackdown is considered one of the most successful in modern history. El Salvador saw turmoil post-independence from Spain in 1821, culminating in a civil war […]
In a recent study, scientists have discovered a “mitotic stopwatch” that enables individual cells to remember when their parent cell faced difficulties in dividing. This memory system, observed in various cell types, involves the protein p53 forming a complex with ubiquitin-specific protease 28 and p53-binding protein 1 during prolonged cell division. This complex, designated the […]
The author discusses their experience with Firefox’s media autoplay settings while streaming music from an online source. They compare the differences in autoplay behavior between their work and home instances of Firefox, which led to the discovery of the media.autoplay.blocking_policy preference. The author explains how they historically used this setting to prevent Youtube videos from […]
In March 1983, President Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, to shift focus from threatening lives to protecting them. Livermore National Laboratory saw a surge in weapons work with the development of third-generation weapons, including nuclear-powered x-ray lasers. The main goal was to create an effective nonnuclear defense, with […]
The content discusses how to recreate a window using modern OpenGL shaders by embedding them in the source code. It walks through the process of initializing OpenGL, creating a window, initializing shaders, and vertex data. The post highlights the use of VBO instead of VAO, binds arrays of vertices and colors, and details the vertex […]
In preparation for the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, users can calculate when the eclipse will occur at their location with astonishing accuracy. This ability to predict astronomical events has been a triumph of exact science throughout history, from ancient Babylonian observations to the modern day use of the Wolfram Language. By […]
The Helix 24.03 release has landed with a whopping 125 contributors making it happen. This version introduces Amp-like jumping for efficient selection movement, block comment toggling, and tree-sitter injection improvements. The latter allows parsing of multiple languages within a single document, enhancing syntax tree visualization and navigation. Internally, a new event system using Tokio channels […]
This month, I’ve been challenged with getting used to in-ear monitors. They didn’t live up to the hype, feeling like ear plugs! My tech-savvy mom is cooler than me – she’s a computer systems analyst. Bizarre rumors that she’s a jazz guitarist are false – she just plays records! “Tom’s Diner,” my hit song, led […]
In January 2008, David DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker criticized MapReduce, claiming it to be a step backward in large-scale data applications. They argue that MapReduce lacks key features present in modern databases, such as schemas, high-level access languages, and indexing. By using brute force instead of indexing, MapReduce is seen as a poor implementation compared […]