On its “Inclusive Language” website, UNC-Chapel Hill reminds readers that words have consequences: “To fully represent the diversity of our students, faculty, staff and everyone in our community,” UNC states, … Continue reading "“Forbidden-Word” Lists Are…

Erotic magic, Black emancipation, gender fluidity, interplanetary spirit realms — these were but a few of the topics that preoccupied Paschal Beverly Randolph (b. 1825), an occult thinker who believed that his multiracial identity afforded him “peculiar mental…

Last year we announced the beta version of Construct Animate. We're now delighted to launch Construct Animate out of beta! You can try our new browser-based animation tool right now at animate.Construct.Net , and subnoscriptions are now available to purchase…

The result of my exploration of Elixir clustering and automating global network discovery and connection over Tailscale.

I love Linux kernel patches that mention 'massively', use exclamation points when talking about performance, and/or simply mention big speed-ups

The former sheriff “tolerated, if not rewarded” deputy gangs, according to the report

It was supposed to improve taste, but instead led to deadly infections.

Welcome to Datadog US1's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

And how to fix it

We use Notion for the bulk of our knowledge management at CodePen. I have no use for an AI that can write for me.

An IUPUI-led study finds that the same chemical processes caused by modern pollution likely drove mass extinction events over 300 million years ago.

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This PR replaces the current implementation of MJIT with a new JIT called "RJIT" 2.

RJIT uses a pure-Ruby assembler to generate native c...

Comprehensions are currently compiled as nested functions, which provides isolation of the comprehension’s iteration variable, but is inefficient at runtime. This PEP proposes to inline list, dictionary, and set comprehensions into the code where they a...

One of the newer Linux distributions that has been making waves is Vanilla OS as an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu Linux that aims to provide a pleasant Linux desktop experience, close to upstream, and is augmented by the growing selection of Flatpak…

Where should the formal methods community move?

15-year survey finds bees that nest aboveground are especially at risk

Amazon’s decision to pause construction of its second headquarters in Northern Virginia could herald a new era in regional development.