André Malheiro @malheiro

@JaredWDrury @shairnn That was my reasoning. Interestingly people found the same results through a different path.

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Copa do Mundo, para quem tá atento, é uma oportunidade de trazer à tona histórias como essa, da RD do Congo, ex-colônia belga.

cristian leporati @cleporati

3 weeks ago

En esta imagen podemos ver a un tipo de mirada triste centrando su atención en un par de “cosas” que hay en el suelo. La imagen es de 1904 y está tomada en el antiguo Congo belga. El tipo se llama Nsala y se encuentra en la misión de Wala. Ha caminado casi un día entero para

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Iran football TEAM leaves heartfelt THANK-YOU NOTE in LA stadium locker room after World Cup match with Belgium — BBC The note also includes TRIBUTE to 168 Minab School children

Dennis Ritchie invented C in 1972, co-built Unix in 1969, and his code is running inside every device you are reading this on right now and the colleague who announced his death had to do it through a Google+ post because no journalist thought to check. He worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey for 44 years. He never gave a keynote. He never ran a company. He never appeared on a magazine cover. He just wrote code that became the invisible foundation everything else is built on. Here is what he actually built, and why it matters more than almost anything that happened in tech. In 1969, Bell Labs had just walked away from one of the most ambitious computing projects in history. The Multics project, a joint effort between MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, had collapsed under its own weight. Too complex. Too expensive. Too slow. Bell Labs pulled out. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie refused to let the ideas die. Working in a small office in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix in three weeks during the summer of 1969. One week for the file system. One week for the process management. One week for the command shell. Ritchie was working alongside him, and when the system needed a language that could express what they were building, he built one. In 1972 he completed C. C was not just another programming language. It was a different philosophy about what a programming language should be. Before C, most systems code was written in assembly, which meant every program was tied to the specific hardware it ran on. You could not move code between machines. You rewrote it from scratch every time. C changed that. It sat close enough to the hardware to be fast, but abstract enough to run on anything. When Thompson rewrote the Unix kernel in C in 1973, it became the first operating system that could be picked up and moved to a completely different machine without starting over. Portability was a new idea. Ritchie made it real. The branching that followed is almost impossible to overstate. Unix spread from Bell Labs to universities. At Berkeley, it became BSD. BSD became the foundation of macOS and iOS. Unix influenced Linus Torvalds, who built Linux in 1991. Linux now runs every Android phone, every major web server, every supercomputer on the Top500 list, and the overwhelming majority of cloud infrastructure at AWS, Google, and Microsoft. C became the parent language of C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C. Rob Pike, who worked across the hall from Ritchie at Bell Labs for 20 years, said it plainly: "The browsers are written in C. The Unix kernel that the entire internet runs on is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C." Ritchie won the Turing Award in 1983. He won the National Medal of Technology in 1998, presented by President Clinton. He was head of System Software Research at Bell Labs for decades. He answered emails from strangers with technical questions until the end of his life. His home address stayed listed in the phone book. His colleague Brian Kernighan, who co-authored the definitive C textbook with him, said Ritchie was a private person who did no self-salesmanship. That was not false modesty. It was just who he was. He died on October 12, 2011, at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He was 70. He had been ill for some time. The world did not notice until Rob Pike posted a quiet announcement on Google+, and the news spread through the programming community in hushed tones. No front pages. No tributes from heads of state. No candlelight vigils outside corporate campuses. The device you are reading this on runs code that traces directly back to what he built. So does the server that delivered it to you. So does the browser or app you opened to get here. Most people will never know his name. The ones who built everything you use every day do.

@carlosperezbar @gabrielmerino1 Así es como lo veo 👌

"In the West, we do not see the dead."

audrey White @RedRosa91940184

3 months ago

This is British values - Robert Fisk is a real reporter and he’s spot on here …..

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Marconi sent dots and dashes, but a Brazilian priest sent the human voice Fr. Landell de Moura transmitted wirelessly across 4 kilometres north of São Paulo on July 16, 1899 The modulation process he invented to carry the human voice through the air is now called AM radio Every broadcast of the 20th century ran on his principle He couldn't find investors and his patent expired And died unrecognised in 1928

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@Prefeitura_Rio @eduardopaes Mas as folhas das amendoeiras ficam com essa coloração no final do inverno, ao fim da estação seca. Fora isso, concordo que é a estação mais linda no Rio.

Israel bombed a Catholic Church that’s over 1600 years old in Palestine killing 18 people. The church was built in 425AD... ...over 1500 years before the Rothschilds invented the fake state of Israel.

AULA DE SOBERANIA DO LULA: “Ou seja, neste exato momento estamos vendo quantos países ainda acreditam que o Trump vai resolver os problemas da América do Sul. Os espanhóis ficaram 500 anos e não resolveram. Os ingleses exploraram por um tempo e também não resolveram. Os americanos não resolveram. E agora, por que alguém ainda acredita que eles vão resolver? "Deus nos deu uma oportunidade única. Agora descobrimos algo novo: os chamados minerais críticos e as terras raras que estão no nosso solo. E quem os possui somos nós, na América do Sul e na América Latina. Mas agora eles querem nos explorar do mesmo jeito que fizeram com o minério de ferro e com o ouro: extrair tudo e deixar apenas o buraco para trás."

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OMG WOW Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy completely dismantles the Zionist narrative by exposing Israel's brutal occupation, structural apartheid, and devastation of Gaza He explicitly points out that Israel is the aggressor seeking regional domination, making a mockery of the victimhood arguments presented by the Israeli side and defending the rights of Palestinians.

@Flp_130 @panepom @Omardeideais Mas parece que sim. Isso é que pega. Não é o fato do contrato, não é nem o fato de ser bandido. Até aí, é do jogo do estado de direito.

This WaPo article is unreal: they unironically mock China for not being imperialist and failing to use force to defend its interests, arguing that they're losing out to the U.S. (in Venezuela, Panama, etc.) which does precisely that. In essence the article can be summarized as: "You Chinese losers thought you could gain influence by actually building things? The only thing that actually works is bombing people." I'm not even exaggerating. The author literally writes that "China can spend all the money on infrastructure it wants... But in a crunch, it is only military force that counts." He argues that China's approach was "a colossal waste of money" because "control of infrastructure can be changed" with a US-led "change of regime" and "ownership of any asset can be overturned." His article's conclusion? "You can’t buy an empire, nor can you purchase global influence. It is only hard power that counts for anything." As cynical and brutish as the article is, it's also refreshingly honest. It is factual that China's strategy was to win over the Global South by investing in their infrastructure and development, while the U.S. maintains its influence through regime change, various forms of coercion, and the threat (or use) of force. The conclusion that it is China that should feel embarrassed by this as opposed to the U.S. is, however, completely insane. Every sane person on earth should hope that it is China's approach that ultimately prevails, for the sake of our collective future as humanity. China is ultimately trying to prove that one can prevail geopolitically without violence, by building instead of destroying: don't be like this idiot WaPo writer and root for the answer to be "no". Src for the article: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

@Kathlee71013772 @WUTangKids That's more like it. The cult of personality OG.

@rtppt 2006/Gato Fedorento @plnacional_ 🧟‍♂️

@Domingo11958160 @OperacoesRio Isso acontece com frequência

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@Preda2005 @avioesemusicas Repara que o gráfico para em 2023...