Donald Shoup, famed author of the most fascinating possible book about parking, can also do comedy.  From his recent essay on “The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements“: Everyone wants to park free, and most people consider parking a personal issue, not…

I suspect we all know how hard it is to come up with a single great story idea. Imagine one meeting in which you come up with four great ideas, each of which becomes a hit movie. That happened with…

A fully-functional open source and open hardware mechanical USB computer keyboard with only three keys! - taylorconor/threeboard

Malware targeting multiple operating systems has become no exception in the malware threat landscape. Vermilion Strike, which was documented just last September, is among the latest examples until now.   In December 2021, we discovered a new multi-platform…

Taking apart the GNU coreutils

The new PCIe Gen6 specification from the PCI-SIG is out and will provide for up to 256GB/s of bandwidth on a PCIe Gen6 x16 link

The U.S. Justice Department is creating a new unit to counter domestic terrorism following the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, a senior official said on Tuesday, as it faces a growing threat from white supremacists and anti-government activists.

Ongoing mining craze is actually affecting how some products are designed.

#CommonLisp #Lisp Let's consider the following function: (defun make-adder (x huge-p) (lambda (y)…

This document explains why the IAB believes that, when there is a conflict between the interests of end users of the Internet and other parties, IETF decisions should favor end users. It also explores how the IETF can more effectively achieve this.

3.22.16 This Is What DEFCON Sounds Like: Skyking Emergency Action Messages General Curtis LeMay, known in the Air Force as father of USAF Strategic Air...

A voyager named Tupaia guided Captain James Cook through the South Seas and drew an island-filled chart that has puzzled scholars for more than 250 years

Sorry about the click-baity noscript, but it’s not an overstatement. We ran the numbers. Reading time: 8 min. By Raymond Gulbrandsen.

Passengers hate mental math — and other lessons from one billion New York City cab rides.

Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue