Lucas Schmid's find led to the discovery of hundreds of other ancient artifacts linked to a 15 B.C.E. battle between imperial and Rhaetian forces

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Have you ever sat down and thought “I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?” Neither have we. That’s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of u…

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More than a century ago, Srinivasa Ramanujan shocked the mathematical world with his extraordinary ability to see remarkable patterns in numbers that no one else could see. The self-taught mathematician from India described his insights as deeply intuitive…

A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system. - jes/scamp-cpu

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Ontario just passed a law making it illegal for bosses to bug their employees after-hours.
The provincial government passed the Working for Workers...

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Signal has no data to sell, no advertisers to sell it to, and no shareholders to benefit from such a sale. We’re building a different kind of tech – where your data stays in your hands – but we’re also building a different kind of tech organization. One without…

This post is about minimizing amount of disk IO and CPU overhead when reading Zip files.
I recently saw an article about a new format that was faster than zip.
This is quite surprising as to my mind, …

Floods and megadroughts affected the Neolithic cultures in the Yangtze River Delta between 4300 and 4000 years ago.