🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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SpaceX lost contact with a Starlink satellite due to a mysterious anomaly, causing it to drop 2.5 miles and create debris. The satellite is now falling towards Earth and will reenter the atmosphere within weeks. Investigations are ongoing.
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Researchers discovered that as ant colonies grew larger, they evolved to produce cheaper, less-armored workers. This strategy emphasizes quantity over quality, allowing colonies to withstand individual losses while enhancing adaptability and evolutionary success. This shift parallels the transition from solitary to complex social organisms.
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A new study suggests that billion-year-old microfossils found in Canada might be the earliest fungi, predating previous fossil records by up to 500 million years. This discovery aligns with DNA estimates and may reshape our understanding of early multicellular life evolution.
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Four DiskSats, lightweight and flat disc-shaped satellites with high power-to-weight ratios, were successfully launched by Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle. Designed by the Aerospace Corporation, they aim to optimize launches and improve satellite power efficiency.
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Increased CO2 levels are making food more calorific but less nutritious, with significant declines in essential nutrients like zinc and iron and potential increases in toxic elements like lead. This shift is raising concerns about food security and public health.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: Pytorch
(PyTorch is an open source machine learning library based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing.)
Why: It involves debugging and resolving specific issues in a defined code area, making it manageable for newcomers.
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⭐ 3879, 🖖 238
Clash Mihomo for iOS/Android
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⭐ 3938, 🖖 375
Fully automatic censorship removal for language models
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⭐ 5049, 🖖 456
Jellyfin Desktop Client
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⭐ 4717, 🖖 204
React & React Native Components & Patterns (copy-paste components & patterns crafted with Tailwind CSS (NativeWind))
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⭐ 2744, 🖖 331
Notes for Software Engineers on infrastructure and distributed systems. Covers common data structure and algorithms, web concepts, and more!
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