TIL Portal 2 crashes if you have too many cores.😬 "Out of thread ids. Decrease the number of threads or increase MAX_THREAD_IDS" Googling that shows some leaked cs:go source with "const int MAX_THREAD_IDS = 128;". The game is probably allocating an ID per…

An Open Letter on My Resignation from the APA

SmartBolts visually show tension in real time, reducing downtime and improving safety in critical bolted connections across industries.

PAYC and PHAYC both copied the high-priced BAYC NFTs.

It's usually assumed that a person in a vegetative state has no awareness of the world around them. Dr Adrian Owen, who pioneered groundbreaking research that has proven otherwise, explains why we need to be talking to these patients.

a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working - nostr-protocol/nostr

Big news! I sent @sdw the original image. He theorized a leaf from a foreground tree obscured the face. I didn’t think anything was in view, and the closest tree is a Japanese Maple (smaller leaves). But he’s right! Here’s a video I just shot, showing the…

The three reactors now being shuttered were first powered up in the mid-1980s.

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Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI -- a "one year [subnoscription] to web-based platform" for $18K. techinquiry.org/explorer/vendo…

A woman who lost her home in the 2015 Valley Fire shares 15 tips for helping fire victims and their families.

Yep, you read that right, simply pressing a hot key on a fresh install of Brave will get you fired. Default settings, no extensions. Alt+Shift+N...