how to get rich and stay rich Above a certain amount of assets, wealth is extremely relative. The goods that most people consume have fairly fixed prices. Some go up 1-10% per year. Some go down 1-10% per year. The prices of the goods and the basket of those…

It’s bad out there for customers of electronic parts and components. The semiconductor shortage is so severe it’s being covered by mainstream media; meanwhile, various politicians have tasked their aides with looking at the global supply chain. Indeed, in…

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Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Thursday raised its planned investment in non-memory chips to 171 trillion won ($151 billion) through 2030, joining a rush of firms ramping up investments amid a global semiconductor shortage.

Playing around with my first AMD Ryzen system. Turns out the "AMD PCI Driver" isn't actually a PCI Driver... at all. Here's a few fun facts: 1) It registers a process creation notify routine, and checks all process names against a list of 19 hashed names.

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Communications Biology - Massen, Hartlieb, Martin et al. study the duration of yawns across mammals and birds to test the brain cooling hypothesis. Consistent with this hypothesis, their findings...

Hi everyone, I’m going to describe the actions we propose to take to address the concerns raised about PR #835 (opt-in Telemetry using Google and Yandex as 3rd party hosts): We are dropping the tel...

For decades, introverts have been written off as ineffective and incapable business leaders. Here's why that's utter BS.

The Suez Canal Authority said this week it plans on widening and deepening parts of the waterway to improve the movement of ships in the area.

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PEP 654 was authored by Irit Katriel, Yury Selivanov, and Guido van Rossum. This PEP is currently at the draft stage. At the 2021 Python La...

Research is characterized by allowing yourself to make mistakes: performing experiments; drawing conclusions; later, realizing that your experiment was not sufficient and you got it wrong; and trying again. Back in March, we thought that we knew how to deal…

SeaGlass is a system designed by security researchers at the University of Washington to measure IMSI-catcher use across a city.     Cellular sensors are built from off-the-shelf parts and installed into volunteers’ vehicles Sensor data is continuously uploaded…

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This post sparked quite a discussion on hackernews. You can read all the interesting comments in this thread. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Ancient technology inspires a future Venus rover that can operate for years at 500 °C