A new study has appeared to support an old idea: Aging is inevitable and immutable, so anti-aging research is doomed in advance to failure. In 1957, George Williams wrote This conclusion banishes t…

Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team

I had a fascinating conversation yesterday with a former roommate who's now a postdoc in number theory. I learned a lot about how math research works! Some stuff I found interesting:

The light pollution produced by street lamps, advertising boards, flood lights and our homes is so bad that 80% of the world's population lives in the haze of a perpetual glow.

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THE HAIKU PROJECT CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF BETA 3 Poetry is in motion. The Haiku Project, its developers and team members announced the Haiku operating system released its third beta release, version R1/Beta3, …

Heatwave to next week roast areas already gripped by severe drought, plunging reservoirs and wildfires

One shop sells nothing but buttons, another sells only liquorice, and another is ‘the world’s first textile butcher shop’. In the age of Amazon, it seems the way to thrive is to specialise

So! Rust futures! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Until it’s not. So let’s do the easy thing, and then instead of waiting for the hard thing to sneak up on us, we’ll go for it intentionally.
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Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. The way we work, the work we do, and the organizations within which we work are all part of a connected system. You cannot change anything without changing everything. You…

Il y a plus d’un an, nous avons fait l’objet du vol d’un SSD. Rebondissement insoupçonné: Micode, un Youtubeur, préparant un sujet sur l’effacement des données et de leur...

Taiwanese chipmaker looking at ways to lower costs at planned Japan factory

ttfautohint: a free auto-hinter for TrueType fonts

Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel.

Three years ago I found a 32 GB memory leak caused by CcmExec.exe failing to close process handles. That bug is fixed, but ever since then I have had the handles column in  Windows Task Manage…

Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.