Issue #281: Virtual Memory The classic vision of random access memory is just the beginning of the story. Modern hardware – and modern operating systems – manage memory in ways that old-school programmers could only have imagined. This month we take a look at virtual memory in Linux. On the DVD: elementary OS 7.1 and Mageia 9
#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.
Perey was a student of Marie Curie, and was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.
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People are more likely to believe false information that they hear repeatedly than accurate info they are only exposed to occasionally. It's called The Illusory Truth Effect and it often feels like right-wingers and social psychologists are the only people in America who get it.
From: @JoshuaHolland
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Hoy en 2002, hace 21 años: en las costas de Galicia (España) hundimiento del buque petrolero Prestige que se inició el 13 de noviembre.