Kamala Harris and her fellow Democrats used ancient Greek rhetorical tricks to keep their audiences spellbound: The Democratic Party has had a good week. I’ll start that again – the Democratic Party has had an amazingly good week. Not so long ago, the Democrats seemed down, if not actually out. Now, they’re not merely pulling …
Animals learn survival tricks from others — even if they live alone: Even solitary animals, like the octopus, learn survival tricks from other animals. Olga Visavi/Shutterstock Many animals live in groups. One of the main benefits of this is shared knowledge. This information can help animals tackle problems such as where to find food and …
The marketing tricks that have kept Barbie’s brand alive for over 60 years: TY Lim/Shutterstock Rejected by the toy industry at first, Barbie is now one of America’s most trusted brands. “She” – the 11.5 inch blonde doll, but also her brand persona – generated worldwide sales of around US$ 1.5 billion (£1.3 billion) in …
Essential tips and tricks for your first tech job: Essential tips and tricks for your first tech job ftaj Mon, 02/27/2023 – 03:00 First days at work are scary. I still recall many instances where I lay awake at night before my first day at work, having an internal meltdown over what would happen the …
My favorite tricks for navigating the Linux terminal faster: My favorite tricks for navigating the Linux terminal faster Anamika Tue, 11/15/2022 – 03:00 One of the advantages of working in a terminal is that it’s faster than most other interfaces. Thanks to the GNU Readline library and the built-in syntax of shells like Bash and Zsh, …
13 Google Business Profile Tips and Tricks 2022: Every business today needs a focused Google presence. Most companies know this requires optimizing their websites and their Google Ads. Still, most are unaware that a third entity also requires optimization: their Google business listing. This explosive listing, also known as your business profile, is a dynamic …
Moths and bats have been in an evolutionary battle for millions of years – and we’re still uncovering their tricks: Moths have evolved extraordinary tricks to fend off bat attacks. Todd Cravens/Wikimedia There aren’t many better examples of two species embroiled in an intense struggle for survival than bats and moths. These two animals are …
7 handy tricks for using the Linux wget command: Wget is a free utility to download files from the web. It gets data from the Internet and saves it to a file or displays it in your terminal. This is literally also what web browsers do, such as Firefox or Chromium, except by default, they …
SARS-CoV-2 mutations: why the virus might still have some tricks to pull: The Sars-CoV-2 virus creates about half a mutation per infection. Adao/Shutterstock The pandemic has enabled us to study the details of how evolution happens – in real time. Scientists have generated more than two million genome sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, allowing us …
South Africa in the news: Lions ready for South Africa’s Boks of tricks as Warren Gatland takes a swipe at De Klerk and Erasmus: WARREN GATLAND stuck it to the scheming Springboks by taking a swipe at star player Faf de Klerk and fake waterboy Rassie Erasmus. The Lions chief fired-up the mammoth upcoming Test …
We performed magic tricks on birds to see how they perceive the world: Shutterstock/Piotr Krzeslak Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in people’s attention and perception so the techniques that magicians use to trick audiences are particularly interesting to psychologists like me. Misdirection, for …
7 Git tricks that changed my life: Git is one of the most common version control systems available, and it’s used on private systems and publicly hosted websites for all kinds of development work. Regardless of how proficient with Git I become, it seems there are always features left to discover. Here are seven tricks …
IPCC: the dirty tricks climate scientists faced in three decades since first report: Thirty years ago, in a small Swedish city called Sundsvall, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first major report. Even then, the major dilemmas facing those who sought rapid action were clear. An account by Jeremy Leggett, who had …
Tips and tricks for optimizing container builds: How many iterations does it take to get a container configuration just right? And how long does each iteration take? Well, if you answered “too many times and too long,” then my experiences are similar to yours. On the surface, creating a configuration file seems like a straightforward …
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Tips and tricks for using CUPS for printing with Linux: Did you ever try to configure a printer on a GNU/Linux desktop distribution at the end of the ’90s? Or even before? To make a long story short: That was fine if you worked at a large organization with an IT team to handle it …
December top 10: Linux command-line tricks, CI/CD tools, Ansible how-tos, Kubeflow, and more: Opensource.com brought in 943,071 unique visitors who made 1,505,694 page views in December, a 40% year-over-year increase from December 2017. We published 93 articles last month, and welcomed 16 new authors: read more: Opensource.com Rikki Endsley Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: …
Top Tips and Tricks to teach you to fix your Laptop when it is Not Charging When Plugged-in: I recently faced a testing situation when my laptop refused to charge even though I connected it to the AC charger. It was a challenging moment for me since I had a looming deadline to meet. Thankfully …