🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.
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Researchers modeled how people choose between speaking out and self‑censoring under different punishment systems. They find gradual crackdowns work only if citizens aren’t very bold. Widespread, persistent bold dissent slows authoritarian creep, though some self‑censorship can be socially useful, like obeying traffic laws.
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Mark Thomson becomes Cern’s new director general just as the LHC shuts down for a major upgrade, boosting collision rates tenfold. He’ll oversee this high‑luminosity phase and push for the far larger, controversial Future Circular Collider to keep probing fundamental physics.
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Researchers found a note in Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Madrid II advising surface‑burning debarked wood for preservation, predating Japan’s codified yakisugi by a century. It appears to be an independent, convergent invention and aligns with modern bioarchitecture principles.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: elasticsearch
(Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.)
Why: Limited scope, focused on adding tests and updating docs; good for learning ES|QL behavior and Elasticsearch testing framework.
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⭐ 32461, 🖖 1953
This is the Rust course used by the Android team at Google. It provides you the material to quickly teach Rust.
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⭐ 4304, 🖖 273
PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.
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⭐ 16397, 🖖 3722
Playground (and dump) of stuff I make or modify for the Flipper Zero
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⭐ 3003, 🖖 127
Open-source third-party Telegram client with not many but useful modifications.
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