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π Doom released 20 years ago today
Doom may refer to:
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- "Doom released 20 years ago today" | 2013-12-10 | 256 Upvotes 108 Comments
π List of important publications in philosophy
This is a list of important publications in philosophy, organized by field. The publications on this list are regarded as important because they have served or are serving as one or more of the following roles:
- Foundation β A publication whose ideas would go on to be the foundation of a topic or field within philosophy.
- Breakthrough β A publication that changed or added to philosophical knowledge significantly.
- Influence β A publication that has had a significant impact on the academic study of philosophy or the world.
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- "List of important publications in philosophy" | 2013-11-29 | 46 Upvotes 23 Comments
π List of Countries by Incarceration Rate
This is a list of countries by incarceration rate.
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- "List of Countries by Incarceration Rate" | 2013-11-16 | 42 Upvotes 35 Comments
π Manhole cover thought to be propelled into space
A manhole cover or maintenance hole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.
Manhole covers date back at least to the era of ancient Rome, which had sewer grates made from stone.
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π Aptronym
An aptronym, aptonym or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner.
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π The Two Cultures
The Two Cultures is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow which were published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution the same year. Its thesis was that science and the humanities which represented "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" had become split into "two cultures" and that this division was a major handicap to both in solving the world's problems.
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π Soyuz 11
Soyuz 11 (Russian: Π‘ΠΎΡΠ· 11, Union 11) was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1 (Soyuz 10 had soft-docked but had not been able to enter due to latching problems). The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971 and departed on 29 June. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurized during preparations for reentry, killing the three-man crew. The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the only humans known to have died in space.
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- "Soyuz 11" | 2013-10-13 | 48 Upvotes 28 Comments
π X32 ABI
The x32 ABI is an application binary interface (ABI) and one of the interfaces of the Linux kernel. It allows programs to take advantage of the benefits of x86-64 instruction set (larger number of CPU registers, better floating-point performance, faster position-independent code, shared libraries, function parameters passed via registers, faster syscall instruction) while using 32-bit pointers and thus avoiding the overhead of 64-bit pointers.
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- "X32 ABI" | 2013-10-10 | 65 Upvotes 19 Comments