In Japan, local authorities are giving away renovation subsidies to incentivize people to move into the country's rural areas.

How to put a price on the limits of knowledge

It was a winter Sunday morning and the island of Oahu was asleep — its military at Pearl Harbor less alert than they might have been any other day of the week. The winter trade winds blow steadily from the northeast against the Hawaiian island, rushing…

You can mount code from your development machine into a container and save yourself tedious waiting times during development.

Edward Gorey’s imagery is in debt to the Surrealists, and, at times, in its use of line, to Aubrey Beardsley, but...

Allows super-imposing an image of your signature on a PDF. ** Note: you can also do this using Mac Preview, see Tools > Annotate > Signature (docs)** Why not use Adobe? I once had a Adobe subnoscription exactly for this purpose but I was unable to cancel it.…

How to decide what to use for autogenerated primary keys: UUID, serial or identity column? Recommendations are given!

tl;dr Nonprofit/pro bono organizations I suggest for offering mentoring/seeking
mentorship: Mentoring Club
[https://www.mentoring-club.com/the-mentors/category/software-engineering]
(experienced mentors, EU focus), Coding Coach [https://codingcoach.io/]…

The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.

Instead of paying musicians properly, the likes of Spotify have set up ‘donation’ buttons – thus passing the buck to fans, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original coun­try of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with…

Essay 17

Environmental consultancy Quiet Mark is on a mission to ensure technology is seen but barely heard.

The Dragon Go Server (DGS) is a place where you can play turn-based Go (aka Baduk or Weichi) with other players from around the world in different time zones. It functions more or less the same way as playing Go via email but just using your web browser.…

Let's focus on a factor that puts even more extreme limits on home ownership - HOAs. And more specifically why you should avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods.

After showing an impressive demo last year and unleashing recently with the UE5 preview, Nanite is all the rage these days. I just had to go in and have some fun trying to figure it out and explain…

Thoughts about a new direction for desktop UI

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