Latin languages, as well as English, speak numbers from left to right, in the same direction in which they are written, e.g. forty-two, quarante-deux, but in German, you write from left to right but

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Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? English adults under 60 who have watched the 1984 Ghostbusters movie are dying at twice the rate of people who have watched the 2021 Ghostbusters move the same age. And have been for six months. The…

There is a lot of anxiety. I have a lot of anxiety. The public is being asked to understand the second most complex system in the human body while navigating a sea of misinformation while coping with significant pandemic exhaustion and mental health problems.…

speed up your Python using Rust

Do we need to measure complexity? With what metrics? What benefits can it brings? This is the questions we'll answer in this article.

Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.

I’m on a mission to find the fastest way to copy and delete files on a modern machine. I thought a quick Google search would reveal the answer, but I only found this Stack Overflow post with people’s opinion on the matter (but no proof), a discussion on what…

"If you have the aspiration of kicking ass when you're 85, you can't afford to be average when you're 50." —Peter Attia

How the pandemic has made Broadway’s risky business even riskier.

I gave four keynote talks in the last two months, at SIGITE, Models 2021 Educators’ Symposium, VL/HCC, and CSERC. I’m honored to be invited to them, but I do suspect that four keynotes in six weeks…

The World Wide Web is broken: it is dominated by a handful of websites, nearly everything is financed by ads, bloated tech needlessly slows down surfing, NFTs and blockchain are digital cancer, et cetera. Stop it. Just stop it.

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde believes that after surviving many takedown attempts, the torrent site can't be stopped by rightsholders.

I spent some time optimizing memset and memcpy in x86 assembly. Here are a few interesting things about memset and memcpy. 1/

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