He founded the first undercover detective agency in France — which employed only ex-cons like him.

I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I've got a watchlist

"The Conchologist’s First Book" was good enough to elevate the entire field.

Kalker is a calculator that supports user-defined variables, functions, ambiguous syntax, differentiation and integration. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and in web browsers (with WebAssembly).

Get in the game and learn essential computer algorithms by solving competitive programming problems—no math required.

I think it's time for us in the tech world to speak out and make it clear the emperor has no clothes here. Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping…

I think it's time for us in the tech world to speak out and make it clear the emperor has no clothes here. Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping…

Self-rendering Markdown + LaTeX documents. Contribute to susam/texme development by creating an account on GitHub.

Invented centuries ago in France, the bidet has never taken off in the States. That might be changing.

OK, since no one is posting, you get to endure another Monopoly post! After our recent attempt to play the shortest actual game of Monopoly on record, we started to wonder about what the shortest T…

The March 2020 attack was in Libya and perpetrated by a Kargu-2 quadcopter drone produced by Turkish military tech company STM

There has been a misunderstanding about how the virus spreads

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As a driver for Uber I was charged money to drive a passenger thirteen miles today. #Uber #Rideshare #Lyft

New York Times op-ed recently decried tricks websites use to manipulate users… but have you ever tried to cancel your NY Times subnoscription?

For the first half of the 20th century, hungry travelers couldn’t do better than a roadside tea room

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