How a snacktime staple embodies a specific cultural moment

Plants emit species- and stress-specific airborne sounds that can be detected in acoustic
chambers and greenhouses.

In distributed systems, logical clocks play a key role in the ordering of system events. What are the various logical clock designs, and how do they help with event ordering? This article answers these questions.

“Memory management is like taking out the trash — it’s not glamorous, but it’s necessary for a clean and efficient system.”

Note to readers: this is an April Fools post, intended to satirize bad arguments made against Rust. I have mixed feelings about it now, as I think people who understood the context appreciated the humor, but some people were confused. That’s partly because…

I found this keyboard on eBay recently, although it wasn’t quite the one I was looking for I still think it is interesting. Let me show you why.

how many of the meetings you attend are actually necessary?

My4TH project page. My4TH is a minimalistic Forth computer with discrete CMOS logic CPU.

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Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’

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A long distance european hiking trail of 3034 km. The longest trek in France in the heart of the most beautiful national parks.
Thru-hike the french mountains and hike through Vosges, Jura, Alps, Ecrins, Vercors, Ardèche, Cevennes, Languedoc and the Pyrenees.

When Future Forum launched in 2020, its head wrote that “the sudden move to remote work provides the opportunity to question decades of orthodoxy about a 9-to-5, office-centric, homogeneous work culture.”

Experts say post-pandemic woes stemming from office workers staying home instead of...

Visualize binary protocols by building parsers in Elixir.

Note the publish day of this article. There will be a proper one on Terascale 3 later on, don’t worry. But for now, happy April Fools Day! Prestige is everything for computer hardware manufac…

The OpenAI CEO navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia.

AI doomism is quickly becoming indistinguishable from an apocalyptic religion.

Complete with prophecies of imminent fire and brimstone caused by an omnipotent entity that doesn't actually exist.

Scientists film a species of snailfish swimming at an extraordinary depth, breaking the current record.

In this article, author Gunnar Morling discusses Postgres database's logical decoding function to retrieve the messages from write-ahead log, process them, and relay them to external consumers, with help of use cases like outbox, audit logs and replication…