Parking meter revenues are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels. With 61 years to go on the 75-year lease, Chicago Parking Meters LLC has now recouped its entire $1.16 billion investment, plus $502.5 million more.

The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.

The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973, is uncannily familiar today, because we are living in a world of computing that the Alto created. Here's how the Alto came to be.

Libraries can't escape the push for digitization, but we still need actual books on shelves

Using Stable Diffusion techniques to create 2D game environments

Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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The move is part of the agency's goal to have a fleet of 66,000 electric vehicles deployed by 2028.

Nature - Studies reveal final moments before NASA probe crashed into an asteroid.

Standard Notes helps you gain control in a world that often feels out of control. Protect your life's work with end-to-end encryption, advanced security measures, and unmatched privacy controls.

California-based TAE Technologies and Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science claim success testing new fuel cycle, opening door to cleaner, lower cost en

Eduardo Mendúa, an Indigenous activist who was fighting to protect Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest from oil extraction, has been killed by gunmen, the Indigenous organization CONAIE reports.  Mendúa, the director of international relations for CONAIE, or the…

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Notes: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/oxide-and-friends/blob/master/2023_02_27.md