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- Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/why-facebooks-claims-about-the-ad-observer-are-wrong/ 105 comments
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- API design principle: Reading a property or adding an event handler should not alter observable behavior https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20231016-00/?p=108895 7 comments api
- Adding Observability to your Jest tests https://sprkl.dev/observability-jest-tests/ 2 comments webdev
- AEW is adding injury time to Fenix's contract which is said to be "nearly but not quite one year." (Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter) https://x.com/cultaholic/status/1839650588314710298?s=46 1114 comments squaredcircle
- API design principle: Reading a property or adding an event handler should not alter observable behavior - The Old New Thing https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20231016-00/?p=108895 6 comments cpp
- Astronomers studying the clouds of Venus have detected a robust phosphine signal in their latest observations, adding to the case for alien life https://thedebrief.org/another-robust-phosphine-signal-from-the-clouds-of-venus-significantly-bolsters-case-for-alien-life/ 168 comments space
- Eric Staal takes out full-page ad in Raleigh News & Observer: "I want to give you a reason to roar again." http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/eric-staal-takes-full-page-ad-north-carolina-135627455--nhl.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 35 comments hockey
- People who said they always or frequently added salt to their food were 39% more likely to develop stomach cancer over an observation period of around 11 years than those who never or rarely added an extra pinch of salt to their food https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/ueber-uns/news/2024/news-im-mai-2024/frequent-salting-of-food-increases-the-risk-of-stomach-cancer-1/ 245 comments science
- Tourism: €572 billion gross value added in the EU. The highest shares of tourism in total gross value added were observed in Croatia (11%), Portugal (8%), Spain (7%), Italy (6%) and Austria (5%) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/WDN-20230414-1 24 comments europe
- Observing Powell’s testimony, I hear senators discussing all potential factors impacting CPI/inflation. Yet, no one seems to mention the $1T added to M2 in March 2020 and its lagging impact. I was taught money supply has a large impact on inflation - why is no one (seemingly) talking about this? https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2 70 comments economics
- New Release Raspeberry Pi Cluster project (1.6): adopting GitOps methodologies using ArgoCD to automate Kubernetes applications deployment, integrating Secrets Management (Hashicorp Vault) and adding traces to observability platform. Full automated homelab cluster using Ansible and ArgoCD. https://picluster.ricsanfre.com/blog/2023/01/29/announcing-release-1.6/ 4 comments kubernetes
- New findings suggest that long-term exposure to PM2.5 is significantly associated with higher rates of incident dementia and AD and that SO42−, BC, and OM related to traffic and fossil fuel combustion might drive the observed associations. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2211282119?af=R 2 comments environment
- New findings suggest that long-term exposure to PM2.5 is significantly associated with higher rates of incident dementia and AD and that SO42−, BC, and OM related to traffic and fossil fuel combustion might drive the observed associations. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2211282119?af=R 6 comments science
- I made a meditative where you can observe an animated landscape pass by and draw auroras/fireworks in the sky. I shared it here earlier this year and have continued adding to it! https://drawaurora.com/ 9 comments internetisbeautiful
- [Morosi] The @Reds, who rank 3rd in @MLB in team ERA, have the ingredients for a second-half run at a playoff spot, as one NL Central observer said to me this week. The Reds’ front office is open to adding a controllable hitter at the deadline, source says. @MLBNetwork https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/1141702225359777792?s=21 63 comments baseball
- Marvin Lewis on Hue Jackson joining the Bengals: “Hue is here to, you know, right now he's trying to find, you know, just get, uh, immersed back into what we're doing, how we're doing it and the added morsels to me about things he, you know, observes." https://twitter.com/fletcherpage/status/1062817975206584320?s=21 26 comments nfl
- Elon Musk Reveals Why Humanity Needs to Expand Beyond Earth: to “preserve the light of consciousness”. “It is unknown whether we are the only civilization currently alive in the observable universe, but any chance that we are is added impetus for extending life beyond Earth”. https://www.inverse.com/article/46362-spacex-elon-musk-reveals-why-humanity-needs-to-expand-beyond-earth 34 comments space
- Adding probiotics to bees’ food helps make them more resistant to nosemosis, a fungal infection associated with colony collapse disorder observed in Europe and North America over the past 20 years. Probiotics can decrease the mortality rate of this infection in bees by up to 40%, report researchers. https://www.ulaval.ca/en/about-us/media-center/press-releases/details/article/probiotics-protect-bees-from-an-infection-associated-with-colony-collapse-disorder.html 4 comments science
- NRA launches anti-Hillary Clinton ads in North Carolina - Charlotte Observer http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/campaign-tracker-blog/article94892527.html 15 comments politics
- Observed Facebook app listening to conversations and then giving us ad content based on its eavesdropping. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-using-people-s-phones-to-listen-in-on-what-they-re-saying-claims-professor-a7057526.html 16 comments privacy
- Researchers have now shown that particles can be made to "feel" each other even over large distances. By adding such long-range interactions the physicists were able to observe novel phase transitions that result from energetic three-way battles. http://www.rdmag.com/news/2016/04/researchers-study-three-way-battles-quantum-world 3 comments science
- Pakistan rejected what it called “baseless and unfounded allegations” by India of a cross-border attack by Pakistani troops, adding that it was ready for a probe by a UN observer body into the incident. http://dawn.com/2013/01/09/india-summons-pakistans-envoy-after-border-attack/ 40 comments worldnews