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π List of Unexplained Sounds
The following is a list of unidentified, or formerly unidentified, sounds. All of the sound files in this article have been sped up by at least a factor of 16 to increase intelligibility by condensing them and raising the frequency from infrasound to a more audible and reproducible range.
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- "List of Unexplained Sounds" | 2012-06-17 | 280 Upvotes 75 Comments
π "Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Safari but not Chrome
Do Not Track (DNT) was a proposed HTTP header field, designed to allow internet users to opt-out of tracking by websitesβwhich includes the collection of data regarding a user's activity across multiple distinct contexts, and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside the context in which it occurred.
The Do Not Track header was originally proposed in 2009 by researchers Christopher Soghoian, Sid Stamm, and Dan Kaminsky. Efforts to standardize Do Not Track by the W3C in the Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) Working Group did not make it past the Candidate Recommendation stage and ended in September 2018 due to insufficient deployment and support.Mozilla Firefox became the first browser to implement the feature, while Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, Opera and Google Chrome all later added support.
DNT is not widely adopted by the industry, with companies citing the lack of legal mandates for its use, as well as unclear standards and guidelines for how websites are to interpret the header. Thus, it is not guaranteed that enabling DNT will actually have any effect at all. The W3C disbanded its DNT working group in January 2019, citing insufficient support and adoption. Apple discontinued support for DNT the following month.
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- ""Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Safari but not Chrome" | 2012-05-20 | 146 Upvotes 100 Comments
π Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World
A Lego tire is a rubber tire manufactured by the toy building block company The Lego Group for use on vehicles within their Lego building sets. The tires are available in a range of sizes depending on the application. Lego first began manufacturing tires in 1962 and included them in what would become their most popular set at the time. Previously, the only tire options for Lego users were either purchasing complete car kits from Lego, or building their own tires out of existing Lego blocks. Lego produced 318 million tires in 2011, making them the world's largest tire manufacturer by number of units produced.
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- "Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World" | 2012-05-20 | 67 Upvotes 31 Comments
π Satellite killed by trajectory patent
AMC-14 is a communications satellite. Initially owned by SES Americom, AMC-14 was designed to be placed in geostationary orbit, following launch on a Proton rocket. Built by Lockheed Martin and based on the A2100 satellite bus, AMC-14 was to have been located at 61.5Β° west longitude for DISH Network service.
It was launched atop a Proton-M/Briz-M rocket at 23:18:55 GMT on 14 March 2008, from LC-200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite was placed in an unusable orbit, following a malfunction of the Briz-M upper stage. Over a six-month period, it was maneuvered into a geosynchronous orbit, and is now near 35Β° East and in an inclined orbit.
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- "Satellite killed by trajectory patent" | 2012-05-20 | 195 Upvotes 71 Comments
π XOR Linked List
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- "XOR Linked List" | 2012-05-03 | 153 Upvotes 84 Comments
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- "XOR Linked List: A Curious List Structure" | 2007-12-03 | 10 Upvotes 3 Comments
π Darwin (1960s programming game)
Darwin was a programming game invented in August 1961 by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas McIlroy. (Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but was not involved.) The game was developed at Bell Labs, and played on an IBM 7090 mainframe there. The game was only played for a few weeks before Morris developed an "ultimate" program that eventually brought the game to an end, as no-one managed to produce anything that could defeat it.
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π Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties
Sprouts is a paper-and-pencil game that can be enjoyed simply by both adults and children. Yet it also can be analyzed for its significant mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s. Setup is even simpler than the popular Dots and Boxes game, but game-play develops much more artistically and organically.
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- "Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties" | 2012-04-01 | 169 Upvotes 9 Comments
- "Sprouts game" | 2008-09-01 | 64 Upvotes 16 Comments
π Python syntax and semantics
The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some definite differences between the languages.
π Errors in the EncyclopΓ¦dia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
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π Work aversion disorder
Refusal of work is behavior in which a person refuses regular employment.
As actual behavior, with or without a political or philosophical program, it has been practiced by various subcultures and individuals. Radical political positions have openly advocated refusal of work. From within Marxism it has been advocated by Paul Lafargue and the Italian workerist/autonomists (e.g. Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti), the French ultra-left (e.g. Γchanges et Mouvement); and within anarchism (especially Bob Black and the post-left anarchy tendency).
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- "Work aversion disorder" | 2012-03-07 | 18 Upvotes 8 Comments