— You can find the source code for this blog series here. Over the last several months, I’ve been looking for ways to produce physical outputs from my generative code. I’m interested in the idea of developing real, tangible objects that are no...

PostgreSQL subtransactions (nested transactions) may cause multiple performance and scalability issues: higher rates of XID growth and higher risks of transaction ID wraparound, performance degradation when more than PGPROC_MAX_CACHED_SUBXIDS (64) are used…

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Nesting Module. This module introduces the ability to nest one style rule inside another, with the selector of the child rule relative to the selector of the parent rule. This increases…

Google shares its latest breakthroughs in the area of using artificial intelligence to upscale low-res photos, and the results are amazing.

Haskell programmers often code in ivory towers with their heads in the cloud. In this multi-part article series, we’ll get our feet wet diving deep below C l...

ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for years to come.

Demo of the potential of C# for systems programming with the .NET native ahead-of-time compilation technology. - MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp

A longstanding tug-of-war between system package managers and Python's own
installation mechanisms (primarily pip, but there are others) looks
on its way to being resolved—or at least regularized. PEP 668
("Graceful cooperation between external and Python…

What are the penalties in real-world use for running your code on Icestorm cores, using around 10% of the power used by Firestorms?

The difficulty of UK relocation post-Brexit is trouble for the country's status as a tech hub — especially considering European competition.

In this lecture, Dr. Sapolsky discusses depression. He provides a history of the biological elements, touching on the role of neurotransmitters (epinephrine, dopamine and serotonin) in depression,...

I must be mellowing in my old age (possibly as opposed to bellowing) because I have been getting praise and compliments recently on comments in various places. Dont worry, there are still people angrily shouting at me as well. This was the earlier comment…

Bare metal Apple M1 Debian at 4K@60. Display driver development, day #7. A million thanks to @svenpeter42 for helping me tread water in the Linux kernel driver deep end and to @marcan42 for reverse-engineering the Apple display controller.

Smaller entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are trying to avoid negative interest on savings by opening new accounts with different banks, Financieele Dagblad reported after speaking to Dutch banks. Various banks introduced negative interest rates on larger…

Some people can wiggle their ears, some can fold their tongues ... this man can dilate and constrict his pupils on demand.

Runs AWS graviton2 images on intel, with native-speed compile times - GitHub - valkmit/aws-graviton2-on-intel: Runs AWS graviton2 images on intel, with native-speed compile times

Bad things lead to more bad things. But (some) bad things can be fixed.

Today, we’re announcing a continuation of these efforts to live up to our regulatory obligations around the world and to provide age-appropriate experiences when people come to YouTube.