After that first Firebrand of an article on Application Binary Interface (ABI) Stability, I’m not sure anyone expected this to be the noscript of the next one, ...

Industry executives say international hit shows like Squid Game are draining a limited talent pool.

Notable improvements and fixes

fish’s command substitution syntax has been extended: $(cmd) now has the same meaning as (cmd) but it can be used inside double quotes, to prevent line splitting of ...

The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.

David Solomon believes in-office work is crucial to the bank’s success. In a post-pandemic world, will employees agree?

Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere - google/s2geometry

What happened to Mavis Beacon?

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Choices in photographic tone reproduction

The distances between stars are vast, which is why star travel is so far. But now, a new solar sail may be able to travel to Alpha Centauri in 20 years.

You probably need to do fewer things right now. Prioritization, the other definition There’s two loose definitions of prioritization. Prioritization(1): Ordering a todo list. You make a giant list of things you could do, things you should do, things you’d…

The U.S. Coast Guard is warning about the hazards of transporting discarded lithium batteries after a container illegally loaded them caught fire while en route to the Port of Virginia,...

My thoughts on software

Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download links on the website will be taken down. We know this is not something you wanted to hear but it's something we need to do. Thank you all for supporting us over the years.

This article is taken from the March 2022 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we're offering five issue for just £10. If you’ve ever wondered how letters were…

Is this feasible? Yes it is! OpenZFS on Linux compiled from sources for RISC-V, it will work with less than 250MB of RAM for a nearly fully filled 2TB zfs volume with 225.000 files! Even stressing the system and run in parallel (via Wifi): a…