Why our scale requires us to conduct performance experiments to optimize our SQL, and how we conduct those experiments.

Apple is providing stock bonuses to some engineers in order to prevent them from moving on to companies like Meta, reports Bloomberg. Last week,...

A question that inevitably comes up while traveling is the topic of where you’re from. While I lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I was met with many blank looks, the asker not entirely certain of where it is on a map. I then also explain the Twin Cities, which…

The members of estranged parents' forums claim their children cut them off for no reason, but their own postings say otherwise.

I spent 24 days digging into the code of {Shan, Shui}* Chinese painting generator and lived to tell the story.

They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for.

Insurers need experts to calculate risk. Among those number-crunchers’ riskiest endeavors are the tortuous exams for credentials; ‘Calculate the number of blue balls in the second urn.’

This is not a “fuck SF” post. This is a lament of what has been lost, and a wistfulness for what could have been.

GitHub is where widevinedump builds software.

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On a barren lava plateau in Iceland, a new facility is sucking in air and stashing the carbon dioxide in rock. The next step: Build 10,000 more.

John Madden, a legendary figure known to one generation as a Hall of Fame coach, another generation as the sport’s greatest announcer, and yet another generation for the video game that bears his name, has died at the age of 85.The NFL announced Madden’s…

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Amedia, the largest local news publisher in Norway, announced on Tuesday that several of its central computer systems were shut down in what it is calling an apparent “serious” cyberattack.

Reforge drives team performance, with the most actionable learning from vetted operators that your team will actually use and apply.

Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.

The newspaper Izvestiya dismissed the film of Dr No as ‘rubbish’; but Novy Mir had a shrewder, more prescient take on the Bond ‘brand’, James Fleming discovers