An awful lot of effort is going these days into boosting product teams’ productivity: getting them to burn those story points faster, deliver the planned scope in every sprint and cycle, and generally ship more stuff, faster. The term “development velocity”…

Just got my M2 Pro Mini today and it’s a mess. If I ping google.com (or any site) I get maybe a 50-60% packet loss. Wifi is OK. Plugged another PC into the same cable and no issues. Went to a...

Discover the skills required for effective communication in various media, including the curse of knowledge, and the importance of listening.

UChicago breakthrough creates methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water

Lightning fast data version control system for structured and unstructured machine learning datasets. We aim to make versioning datasets as easy as versioning code. - Oxen-AI/Oxen

On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council made history. After hearing more than two hours of public comment, a majority of the council voted in favor of a law that makes Seattle the first city in the country to ban a type of discrimination that affects South Asian…

If you aren't in the SF/F industry this tweet might not look like a big deal.

This is a crisis.

Clarkesworld is the fastest/most efficient publisher for responding to story submissions (also one of the best-paying).

They have been overwhelmed by AI-generated…

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I think folks are sleeping on one of the biggest and most obvious "zero interest rate phenomena" that's going to get vaporized slowly and then all at once: Andreessen Horowitz

Here's my thesis:

Microsoft has been working on this new Teams app for years.

Traders surveyed by Bloomberg expect their savings to rise this year.

Serving a metric buttload of WebSockets using no more than a consumer grade laptop and a bit of Wifi

In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties.

Nature Human Behaviour - Yeo et al. use digital data on student behaviour (Wi-Fi connections and Learning Management System logins) to examine associations between sleep and academic outcomes.

Efforts to increase productivity hold lessons for sceptics, too

In which you probably wonder, but ...why?

Maya thought she left caste-based discrimination behind when she came to the U.S. from India to pursue her studies. She was shocked to discover she was wrong, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.