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I Always Figured There'd Be Time Enough

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I Always Figured There'd Be Time Enough

All the Feelings That I Know You Never Felt

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The GRAS Loophole

99% of chemicals in our food right now were added without FDA approval. Many were added in secret, through a sneaky loophole built into the 1958 Food Additives Amendment. NPR Planet Money report.

Ecosystem engineers returned to desert decades after local extinction

Ecosystem engineers returned to desert decades after local extinction. Wiped off mainland Australia by the introduction of cats and foxes, burrowing bettongs are making a triumphant comeback in outback New South Wales.

Unprompted

A coder named [SnailMail] has taken on the challenge of writing his own text editor, from scratch, in C, on a 386. Modern IDEs, code completion and AI integration did not gel with him, so he dug up diskettes for Borland Turbo C and Turbo C++ and did it 1980s style -- poring over books and coding by hand. This was the first programming language the young coder learned. In order to emulate the developers of the time, hardware was also limited to period PCs (an IBM he won on an auction for $630.)

[SnailMail] describes how his solution works from about 8:00 in the video (YT). No word on whether he copied that floppy.

Herhaling - Hoe de krimp van Schiphol weer niet doorging

Voordat Haagse Zaken in de Zomer van start gaat, tippen we in de eerste twee weken van het zomerreces afleveringen die wat ons betreft nog steeds relevant zijn.