Wilmer
@Wilmer
459 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Wilmer upvoted the following post 12 days ago:
Elliott
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12 days ago
The Search for the Face Behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Jazmin Jones knows what she did. “If you’re online, there’s this idea of trolling,” Jones, the director behind Seeking Mavis Beacon, said during a recent panel for her new documentary. “For this project, some things we’re taking incredibly seriously … and other things we’...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 12 days ago:
Kari
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12 days ago
Meet the professor who just won the Millennium Technology Prize — and $1.1 million
Just a few years after Bantval Jayant Baliga started working at General Electric in the 1970s, word of a discovery he made went all the way to CEO Jack Welch.As an electrical engineer at the time, the now 76-year-old Baliga had developed the beginnings of what's known as ...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 12 days ago:
Geovany
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12 days ago
Poor results, instability, chaos: What’s wrong with Pakistan cricket?
Under grey skies at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, veteran Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan smashed Pakistani leg-spin bowler Abrar Ahmed for a boundary that sealed his team’s six-wicket win in the second Test match and a historic first men’s Test series win over the...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 12 days ago:
Roger
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12 days ago
Bethesda Yanks ‘Doom’ Mod About Killing Margaret Thatcher From Storefront
Heaven lost an angel. Hell lost a politician. Bethesda’s new mod database for Doom & Doom II lost an iconic mod. Bethesda has pulled Thatcher’s Techbase, a Doom mod that sends players to hell to fight Margaret Thatcher, from t...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 13 days ago:
Moises
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14 days ago
Why the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is the Best iPad Alternative This Labor Day
If you’ve been eyeing a new tablet, today’s your lucky day. This Labor Day, Target is offering an unbeatable deal on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 that you won’t want to miss. For just $149.99 – that’s a whopping $80 off – you can sna...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 13 days ago:
Garnet
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14 days ago
Take iPad 10 back to school at $50 off from Amazon
Think of it as an extra $50 you can spend on snacks. Photo: Apple It’s that time of year again — back to school time. So the person who spends all your money — you and/or your beloved child — needs expensive new ga...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 13 days ago:
Monserrat
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14 days ago
Labor Day: Get the 9th-Gen iPad for $199 at Amazon, 5x Cheaper Than iPad Pro and the Lowest Price...
As Labor Day is still here, Amazon is making waves with its highly active sales event and offers shoppers an extensive range of deals that are simply too good to ignore. Known for delivering a top-notch shopping experience, Amazon...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
14 days ago
Gen Z women are leaning into office-inspired clothing — but they're not wearing it to the office
Gen Z women are embracing the "office siren" aesthetic, blurring the lines between work and play in the work-from-anywhere age.
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 14 days ago:
Immanuel
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14 days ago
How Microsoft 365 excelled my American football team to back-to-back northern championships
Two of my biggest passions are technology and American football. When I get the chance, I do everything in my power to connect those threads. Over the years, I've used a variety of technologies to bolster my American football team, Nottingham Caesars U19. I've stood in th...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 15 days ago:
Devin
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15 days ago
Men are investing $5,000 to look better. These stylists are helping them get dressed.
He worked as a buyer for marketing firms and eventually moved to technology startups, where he occasionally put outfits together for photoshoots.But when he left to pursue freelance opportunities, he noticed that his old coworkers needed help getting dressed."A lot of my ...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 15 days ago:
Torey
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15 days ago
Gaza has shown European universities are no longer places of free inquiry
Jamaican-British academic Stuart Hall once said “the university is a critical institution or it is nothing”. Indeed, universities have an important role to play in upholding the imperatives of academic freedom and critical inquiry, especially today, amid the growing debat...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 16 days ago:
Jeffrey
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16 days ago
JD Vance urges Peter Thiel to back Trump: 'Get off the sidelines'
JD Vance is urging Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who helped fund his Senate run, to back Trump.Thiel backed Trump's 2016 campaign but has stepped back from politics since 2022."He's going to be really exhausted by politics if we lose...continued
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Wilmer
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17 days ago
Programming with ChatGPT
Using ChatGPT when I code has been a real productivity boost for me. Instead of reading an example on Stack Overflow and figuring out how to adapt it to my particular case, I immediately get code t…
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 17 days ago:
Ariel
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17 days ago
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 17 days ago:
Rose
@Rose -
18 days ago
Array of iPhones will replace English Premiere League's awful video referee tech
The English Premier League will be upgrading its existing and widely panned refereeing technology with a new system that will rely on iPhones to ensure soccer players obey the infamous offside rule. For years, the English Premier League has employed a video-ass...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 17 days ago:
Maida
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18 days ago
The Premier League Is Ditching VAR in Favor of Dozens of iPhones to Call Offsides
The English Premier League (EPL) is dropping the video-assistant referee (VAR) system for the 2024-2025 season and replacing it with a new system that includes dozens of iPhones to help decide offside calls. Genius Sports designed...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 18 days ago:
Alexander
@Alexander -
18 days ago
Overseas club cricketers face league bans after audit
From 1 January 2019, all matches between ICC members have been given full T20 international status.However, many of those who play for Associate nations outside the top-20 T20 sides in the men's game have never been paid to play cricket and the same applies to most of tho...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 18 days ago:
Angus
@Angus -
18 days ago
A Look Inside the Airbus Factory Revolutionizing the World of Airplanes
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.This is the most important moment in the life of an airliner: when the new owner signs for it and picks it up, much like a driver picking up a new car from a dealer.The aircraft in questio...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 18 days ago:
Teagan
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18 days ago
Premier League Soccer: Livestream Brighton vs. Man United From Anywhere
Man United head to the south coast on Saturday to face Brighton in the first game of week 2 of the new English Premier League season. United got the new campaign off to a winning if unconvincing start as they claimed a narrow 1-0 win over Fulham last Friday. Erik ten...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 18 days ago:
Allene
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18 days ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
The Franco-Ottoman alliance, formed in the 1530s between the king of France, François I, and the Turkish ruler of the Ottoman Empire, Kanuni Sultan Süleiman (‘the Magnificent’), was arguably the first diplomatic alliance between a Christian state and a Muslim empire. It c...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 18 days ago:
Elody
@Elody -
18 days ago
Dozens of iPhones will be used to detect offside rule breaches in Soccer matches
The English Premier League is ditching its current system of video assist for referees in favor of a new one which uses dozens of iPhones to capture high frame-rate video from lots of different angles.The system, pioneered by a US company known for its work in NBA b...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 18 days ago:
Allene
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18 days ago
On the Bus With the RFK Jr. Bros
Kemper was at the front of the bus multitasking, skillfully maneuvering his gigantic vehicle through throngs of people and narrow alleyways. In his spare moments, he hurled Kennedy reading material to people along the sidewalks, part of their “guerrilla marketing” strateg...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 22 days ago:
Priscilla
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22 days ago
I don't let my emotions get in the way of my business. Here's how I overcome 6 common frustrations.
Business is simply a blend of math and emotions. As Warren Buffett said, "Until you can manage your emotions, don't expect to manage money."The money part is easy to understand. Emotions are the messy part. We attach meaning and self-worth to money, which halts our succes...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 22 days ago:
Arvid
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22 days ago
Team USA Men’s Basketball Team Defeats France for Gold at Paris Olympics
The U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team won a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal on Saturday night at Bercy Arena, besting France 98-87 in front of a raucous hometown crowd. The game was a rematch of the Tokyo gold medal game three years ago, and once again, France could...continued
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Wilmer upvoted the following post 24 days ago:
Ezequiel
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24 days ago
Teenage Engineering EP-1320 Medieval Review: The Sampler That Brought Out the Bard in Me
That’s it; I’ve officially multi-classed into Bard. I say this because I’ve become completely enamored with Teenage Engineering’s latest sound product, the $300 EP-1320 Medieval. It’s a sound sampler and groove box—pretty much the same as last ...continued
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