A cyclist discovered widespread cheating on the popular online cycling platform Zwift. Then came the death threats.

Merlin Mann attempts to capture the best advice he's heard and learned from. - merlinmann/wisdom

TL;DR having options is good strategy, OpenTofu is your insurance policy and competition makes things great.

Target is closing nine stores in major cities across four states, claiming theft and organized retail crime have made the environment unsafe for staff and customers – and unsustainable for business.

Why the function signatures in the slices packages are so complicated.

The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all…

Update 2023: I have made a YouTube video with some more content about the iterations I went through making this, have a look if you are…

(New to this series? Consider starting from part 1)
At the end of the last post, we started to get some interesting functionality with the ability to resolve addresses to names in a module. This was the last functionality missing before we could implement…

Context
Around a year and a half ago, I’ve asked my former company for some time to
work on an issue that was impacting the debugging capabilities in our project:
gdbserver couldn’t debug multithreaded applications running on a PowerPC32
architecture. The…

In ‘The Internet Con,’ the writer and activist makes a forceful case for cutting Big Tech down to size.

It has become a dominant view in the philosophy of time that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity showed that the passage of time is an illusion, and that in fact the past, present, and future all coexist. But the philosopher Henri Bergson, a contemporary of Einstein’s…

In this guide, we share findings experimenting with GPT-4 with Vision, released by OpenAI in September 2023.

Be My Eyes’ AI assistant, powered by GPT-4, is rolling out to hundreds of thousands of iOS and Android users over the next several weeks.

There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist. In the back of each store, past the displays of Realistic 8-track players, Minimus-7 speake…

A pipe-like function to verticalize your JavaScript code - laurentpayot/verticalize

Americans think college tuition is rising out of control. But it would be more accurate to say that tuition rates are dishonest and indecipherable. They are distorted by a system that deliberately lists tuition levels much higher than what students p...