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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…

Tokamak Energy has achieved a plasma temperature of 100m degrees Celcius, the threshold for commercial fusion energy.

My Inspirations
Now as a Director of Engineering at Docker, I’ve been doing some type of engineering leadership for the last decade.
I have learned from the best over the years, and many resources have shaped who I am and philosophies for how I lead....

3D map visualization and web export plugin for QGIS - minorua/Qgis2threejs

Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor's Office of the State Council.

The Wordle Archive was recently shut down at the request of The New York Times, and this may be bad news for the many other Wordle-related games.

A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons

When he retired with stuff left on his to-do list, he expected fixes would flow. They haven't