A little while ago, I wrote a thread on glitch.social about ephemerality of posting on social media as compared to Usenet. It got a little bit of traction, and one person asked if I could post more about Usenet clients. I haven’t gotten to it until today…

Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.

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Myocarditis and pericarditis are potential post-acute cardiac sequelae of COVID-19 infection, arising from adaptive immune responses. We aimed to study the incidence of post-acute COVID-19 myocarditis and pericarditis. Retrospective cohort study of 196,992…

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

How to disable heap (dynamic memory allocation) in an embedded application? This article goes into the details of linker files and how to detect dynamic memory allocation.

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Nature - As interest in academia fades, scholars in PhD and master’s programmes are dubious about the value of their degree in advancing their professional lives, finds Nature survey.

IntroductionIf I am running some software, written by me or someone else, on a server, such as a DigitalOcean droplet, the aim is to always deploy it via docker. On my server, I want a single large do

The search engine that kept up at the speed of blogging created a “search war” with Google. But eventually, the speed of blogging just wasn’t fast enough.

Ben Adida, the founder of nonprofit organization VotingWorks that manufactures these machines, said the machine could be the answer to calls for increased transparency at a time when election integrity is facing immense scrutiny.

When you’re one step ahead of the crowd, you’re a genius. When you’re two steps ahead, you’re a madman
– Shlomo Riskin
I was recently asked by a former colleague why I had increased my exposure to certain sectors in the equity market. After all, the information…

What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja.

Notepad++ official repository. Contribute to notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus development by creating an account on GitHub.

The legendary life of Alexander the Great is the subject of the British Library’s new exhibition Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth which opened on Friday 21 October. A visual feast of stories spanning more than 2000 years, it centres on the Alexander…