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Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nex-playgrou

Just arrived, the result of a rabbit hole I went down recently.
Harich 'Communism without Growth' (1975 Ge, 2034 Sp)
Not available in English ttbomk, but I can read this translation.
Really interesting engagement with the Meadows Limits to Growth report, from the GDR. Parallel to another from Zagreb at the same time.
The quality of the bits I've read is great.
Verso UK should bring it out.

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Analyzing data 180,000x faster with Rust.
https://willcrichton.net/notes/k-corrset/
saved 2023-10-21 https://dotat.…

August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Yen Town Band will reform again to celebrate the 30th years of Swallowtail Butterfly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3KHL60juD4

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Why Python is terrible.
https://josvisser.substack.com/p/why-python-is-terrible
saved 2023-08-02 https://

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On the other hand CSS...

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HOTscript: higher-order TypeScript, a library for type-level madness.
https://github.com/gvergnaud/hotscript
saved 2023-02-28 https://

AI & water,
"Experts stress that, overall, data center water consumption pales in comparison to the usage by industries like agriculture and some kinds of manufacturing. Researchers have estimated that data center cooling systems consumed 66 billion liters of water in 2023, less than 1 percent of the nation’s total consumption."
#AI #water

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What is a parser mismatch vulnerability?
https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2022/04/11/what-is-parser-mismatch/
saved 2023-12-26