Introduction Netcat is a tool that reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. Netcat has been referred to as the TCP/IP / networking swiss army knife. In this article we’ll look at different applications of netcat and how…

My new paper Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles was published in #Economics of #Transportation. I estimate the role of increasingly large vehicles on #pedestrian deaths in the US over the past 20 years. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecot…

Interactive article explaining how ships float and maintain their stability.

Today, we’re excited to introduce a new home for all those winding discussions happening in your communities: Threads!

THC - Tight Home Control (version 2). Contribute to Drolla/thc development by creating an account on GitHub.

A proof-of-concept jupyter extension which converts english queries into relevant python code - deepklarity/jupyter-text2code

Jorge Cham, aka, PHD Comics, illustrates the excitement over the muon anomaly results in a set of cartoons he made for Physics.

Why did the Russian tsar seek to ban beards?

Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…

Walkouts are a drastic measure in a largely non-unionized field, a testament to just how angry employees are.

We estimate the distribution of television advertising elasticities and the distribution of the advertising return on investment (ROI) for a large number of products in many categories. Our results r...

Creating and extending an embedded domain-specific language for highly configurable and performant data validation.

Earlier today, the United States sold the sole copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” (the “Album”) which had previously been ordered to be forfeited as a substitute asset in connection with the approximately $7.4 million forfeiture…

Where my little ballerina danced

This article is supported by my Patreon. If you like what you see, please consider contributing. I feel like hard counters get a bad rap in RTS games. There are a lot of arguments out there both fo…

A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.

A former supervisor for security operations at eBay Inc (EBAY.O) was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in prison for his role in a cyberstalking campaign that targeted a Massachusetts couple whose online newsletter was viewed as critical of the e-commerce…