The life of an SSD should be more predictable than a hard disk. All you need is its TBW, and the total amount of data written to it so far.

In the quest to explore the capabilities of ChatGPT, I decided to utilized it as a startup brainstorming partner. From product denoscription to building the product on AWS and GCP, crafting an elevat...

Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone

When a TV channel claimed ownership of a Creative Commons licensed film, YouTube gave a user a copyright strike and rejected every appeal.

How to install FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi, one step in building an Active Directory server with Samba and FreeBSD.

A Calgary man thought it'd be a nice present for his son — ordering computer parts on Amazon so his newly minted high school grad could build his own PC. But when the $690 graphics card arrived, it turned out to be a fake. That was the start of a five-month…

deferring to markets • deferring to experts • deferring to low-information heuristics • why they fail • blindness to outliers • what to do instead

This is something that completely fell beneath our radar as it isn't exactly fresh news. In fact, this is something that happened around 3 years ago and many (including ourselves) never caught it. This is why it is just now making its way to a story. But…

A week after deploying Lichess rewritten with scala 3, I had to revert to the scala 2 version. I need help diagnosing a peculiar JVM behaviour.

With the Raspberry Pi Zero still in short supply, are the alternatives in the same (or similar) form-factor worth looking at? Time to find out..

Requiring all riders to wear a helmet has proven negative effects.

I have a LEGO City train set (60336):

The set includes a remote control as well as an app that can be used to control the train. Is it possible to automate the operation of LEGO City trains, ideally

One of the harshest lessons we learned during the recent…