It takes so damn long to figure all this stuff out

After a high flying 20+ year career in tech, Philip Su burned out. He found solace in an unexpected place: a retail Amazon job.

On Friday, we wrote about hundreds of authors signing a letter calling out the big publishers’ attacks on libraries (in many, many different ways). The publishers pretend to represent the bes…

Postpandemic, the battle between Uber and Lyft is looking a lot more one-sided.

A document that was written just a year after William the Conquer did his conquering has gone on display in the City of London.

The "attention economy" corrupts science. What is valuable to one scientist or institution (like media attention) undermines public trust.

Ultima Online is celebrating its 25th anniversary! You know what that means, right? Story time!

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Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.

The new method converts methane gas into liquid methanol. A team of researchers has successfully converted methane into methanol using light and scattered transition metals such as copper in a process known as photo-oxidation. The reaction was the best achieved…

"What happens on FogCam stays on FogCam."

I got curious about an ExpressCard to NVMe M.2 NGFF adapter I saw on Reddit, so I got one to try out myself, ending up with a total of 4 SSD-s on my ThinkPad T430. Yes, four.

We’re open-sourcing AITemplate, a unified inference system for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. It delivers performance improvements up to 12X on NVIDIA GPUs and 4X on AMD GPUs compared to eager-mode within Pytorch.

Supported Platforms

Linux: compatible with 3.10 - 5.19 kernels
FreeBSD: compatible with releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE

Changes

Fix bad free in skein code #13954
zpool: Don't print &quot...

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