🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.
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🛩️ On February 18, 1977...
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NASA's first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, made its first test flight on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (both pictured).
Read more on Wikipedia
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Modern cars rely heavily on proprietary software and remote servers. When automakers or key software providers go bankrupt or end support, vehicles can lose critical functions or even become inoperable, turning them into expensive, unfixable “bricks” despite being mechanically sound.
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NASA’s Artemis 2 faces recurring hydrogen leak and fueling issues during pre-launch “wet dress” tests, echoing Artemis 1 delays. Engineers replaced seals and hardware and will retry tanking Thursday. Success is vital: it’s the first crewed SLS flight and key to future Moon landings.
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Meta’s internal “Project MYST” study suggests parental controls barely reduce teens’ compulsive social media use, especially for kids facing trauma. In a major LA trial, plaintiffs argue platforms knowingly design addictive systems harming youth mental health, while Meta shifts blame to parenting and life circumstances.
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Researchers found Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane “zero‑knowledge” claims break down under certain features (account recovery, sharing, legacy support). A malicious or compromised server can swap keys, downgrade crypto, and potentially read/alter vaults, especially in organizations with recovery enabled.
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Researchers created a liquid “molecular battery” that absorbs UV sunlight, stores it for over a year, and releases it later as heat. It’s safer and denser than previous MOST systems, but currently uses only ~5% of sunlight and has low conversion efficiency.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean once shifted a bit so hard it ended up on another computer.
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⭐ 7079, 🖖 985
Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been.
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⭐ 12525, 🖖 1737
G-code generator for 3D printers (Bambu, Prusa, Voron, VzBot, RatRig, Creality, etc.)
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⭐ 3995, 🖖 191
Clean network diagrams. One-time setup, zero upkeep.
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⭐ 2, 🖖 1
Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing)
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⭐ 75, 🖖 2
Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)
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