Custom typewriter hack uses Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and GPT-3 to dramatic effect.

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes

Getting error 80072EFE when checking for Windows Updates on your old version of Windows? Legacy Update continues support for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, etc. where Microsoft left off.

... in which we check if your password has been compromised in many inconvenient ways, in a tale of destruction, obsession, and self-discovery.

It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time! Let’s talk about writing your self review. Understand how they’re used - at many organizations managers gather and figure out how everyone performed (often called “calibration”).…

Oh, Elon. Following on yesterday’s nonsense in banning the ElonJet account that robotically posted the public information regarding Elon’s private plane flights, and then trying to just…

Howard Marks’ book The Most Important Thing has sold three-quarters of a million copies.

Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cams.

Gav and Dan decide to have a race between two things that happen instantly to the human eyeball. Both contestants make it to the finish line in one frame of a normal camera, thankfully the high speed cameras are paying attention.
Second channel petabyte vid…

The long read: Nothing is produced at Sellafield anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one

Summary
This PR introduces a module to allow testing the SQLite implementation - as discussed in the performance team's Slack meeting this week.
For background, you can read the SQLite prop...

Colorado River reservoirs have fallen to alarming levels, prompting growing calls for urgent action to cut water use in seven states.

The social media company is betting big on the metaverse, an immersive version of the internet. Carmack was an integral part of this.

The Public Utilities Commission approved Net Energy Metering 3.0, slashing payments for sending rooftop solar production to the grid. New rooftop solar projects are now considered uneconomical without an attached battery.

The elusive author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Mason & Dixon” has sold his papers to the Huntington Library. They include drafts, notes and letters — but sorry, no photographs of him.