The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are "bullshit" has been confirmed by a new study.

We're screaming with excitement as the original Wilhelm Scream — a classic sound effect used since the 1950s — has found its way to Soundly!

Esteemed sound designer Craig Smith discovered and restored the famous scream while converting an old tape-based…

A blog about Java

A few weeks back, we released pg_embedding, a new extension for Postgres and LangChain which introduced Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) indexes for vector similarity search. This new indexing method resulted in 20x faster queries at a 99% accuracy…

Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5

We made the rocks

In Switzerland, there's a new cryonics company: and they invited me to have a look around. I had questions: legal, practical, and ethical, and I want to be clear: this is not an endorsement. I just wasn't going to turn down that invitation. ■ Tomorrow Bio:…

The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

A blog about the ecosystem of PicoLisp - tutorials, real-world projects, functional programming theory.

That's not stopping Meta from making second-gen Stories, WSJ report claims.

The repainting campaign is an important event in the life of the monument and takes on a truly mythical nature, as with everything linked to the Eiffel Tower. It represents the lasting quality of a work of art known...

Serial bootloader for the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040)

After 20 years of above-ground surveys, archaeologists have excavated the famous Iron Age site of Němčice and confirmed the presence of the earliest glass workshop north of the Alps.

Winter temperatures have neared 40 degrees Celsius in parts of South America, which is up to 20C higher than normal for this time of year and the equivalent of Sydney hitting 35C in the first week of August.

One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects…