One man’s crusade against guns in space finally paid off

A very misleading article on marine life has been getting a lot of attention.

A centuries-old sailor’s hack enters the ecologist’s toolkit.

We had a nice chat with Douglas Crockford, a well-known American computer programmer who was involved in the development of the JavaScript language. Douglas is the author of How JavaScript Works. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world’s…

Most who are familiar with Sony's MiniDisc know it as a portable music playback format. But the MDCC-2000 had a much more unique purpose.

MDCC-2000 operating instructions (PDF): https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/res/manuals/W000/W0006658M.pdf

Sources:…

VW is creating a spinoff U.S.-based EV company

This post explores the experimental WebGPU API through examples and helps
you get started with performing data-parallel computations using the GPU.

The traditional soft deletion pattern using <code>deleted_at</code> columns leaks into code, curbs the usefulness of foreign keys, and makes data removal difficult. Luckily, there’s an alternative.

Contribute to chip-red-pill/MicrocodeDecryptor development by creating an account on GitHub.

Amazon ICML paper proposes information-theoretic measurement of quantitative causal contribution.

comma.ai has raised $8.1 million, Zoox has raised $990 million. Cruise and Waymo have raised even more.

Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A CBT therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits

On corporate abuse of free and open-source software, particularly as it relates to GitHub's Copilot, and explaining why & how I began self-hosting my own code.

The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice

[Note that this article is a trannoscript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full…

The world's smallest ABS, developed based on motorcycle technology, makes eBiking even safer