Both Russia and Ukraine were surprised when the war broke out. Now, Russia is softening the cities and their fall is only a matter of time.

Recently, a video showcasing how well the Steam Deck can emulate the Nintendo Switch was taken down with a copyright claim from Nintendo.

Perhaps February was "compiler modernization" month. The Linux kernel
recently decided to move to the C11 standard
for its code; Python has just undergone a similar process for
determining which flavor of C to use for building its
CPython reference implementation.…

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes

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Designing chips is about to get a lot more exciting with Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express or UCIe 1.0

In 2009, mechanical engineer Donald Scruggs received a patent for a hermetically sealed coffin that can be screwed into the ground. David Friedman made a short documentary about Scruggs and his screw-in coffin.



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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Western sanctions were akin to war as his forces pressed their assault on Ukraine on Saturday for a 10th day and the IMF warned the conflict would have a "severe impact" on the global economy.

2021 was an incredible year for Ruby on Rails. We started it off still celebrating the third major version of Ruby, and left it with the accomplishment of the seventh major version of Rails. Together, these releases sparked a renewed enthusiasm for building…

Thanks to our volunteer narrator, this post is now available in audio format. This week, in an effort to fill in some of the theoretical basis for thinking about how weaker powers think about fight…

The ratification, with about 80 percent of ballots in favor, makes it the largest tech union in the United States with collective bargaining rights.

Although Backblaze regularly publishes HDD Drive Stats, we’ve also decided to start showing off our SSDs. Learn about the 2021 annual SSD Drive Stats.

Re: @elonmusk's starlink donation. Good to see. But remember: if #Putin controls the air above #Ukraine, users' uplink transmissions become beacons... for airstrikes. Some background 1/

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