The personal blog of Thomas Steiner

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Way back in the covid-filled summer of 2020, I wrote a survey article about the ridiculously-rapidly-growing Busy Beaver function. My survey then expanded to nearly twice its original length, with …

There are many claims to be the oldest pub in Britain, but the majority do not stand up to scrutiny. James Wright investigates the necessary criteria – from the age of the building to its history as a pub to its current use – to determine whether it is possible…

We’re happy to announce that "The Swift Programming Language" book is now an open source project. This new project will be the basis of publishing the book on Swift.org in the future (more details below), and will use the open source DocC tool. We’re excited…

.NET 7 is fast. Really fast. This post deep-dives into hundreds of performance improvements that contributed to that reality.

The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting Native American and Alaska Native communities particularly hard.

Brief exposure to rapamycin has the same anti-ageing effects as lifelong treatment

Natural gas prices are 10 times the usual—upending industries, angering consumers, and panicking politicians.

Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition

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A jeweler. A plastic surgeon. An OnlyFans Model. They and others received a blue check in likely the biggest Instagram verification scheme revealed to date. After ProPublica started asking questions, Meta removed badges from over 300 accounts.

Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported "breach" at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false…

“We must now face the consequences of our lower revenue growth.”

Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan's record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake.

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