CPUs used to perform better when memory accesses are aligned, that is when the pointer value is a multiple of the alignment value. This differentiation still exists in current CPUs, and still some have only instructions that perform aligned accesses. To take…

The Forbes 30 Under 30 lists have included some people who turned out to be dubious, or even criminals, such as Sam Bankman-Fried and Martin Shkreli.

A stroad is a street/road hybrid. Stroads are dangerous and unproductive, and if we want to build strong towns, we have to eliminate them.

Processors are driven by a clock, which controls the timing of each step inside the chip. In this blog post, I'll examine the clock-generati...

Create precise Boolean search strings to find top talent faster on LinkedIn, Google, Indeed, GitHub and more.

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Earlier this week, Neil Gaiman was interviewed on Icelandic television. Around the twenty-five minute mark of the program, the topic turned to the author’s thoughts ... Read more

From table hacks to CSS kludges, these are some of the techniques that helped web developers get their fancy pages on the internet.

Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs…

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Episode 525: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) pay tribute to Charlie Munger by telling stories about…

New York book publisher Casey McIntyre's health insurance allowed her to receive cancer care without saddling her family in medical debt. But as she navigated the health-care system, she met other patients who weren't so fortunate.

I was running some benchmarks the other day. I usually have a lot of things running (Teams, Chrome, IDE, etc…) but I have to close everything to run some tight benchmarks. When I am done, one of th…

Did star neuroscientist Berislav Zlokovic manipulate data that support NIH-funded stroke trial and important Alzheimer’s research?

The share of workers being called back to the office has flatlined, suggesting remote work is an entrenched feature of the U.S. labor market.

Nature - The power naps of the chinstrap penguin are even briefer and more frequent when it is tending eggs.

Researchers say cyber-criminals are offering big sums for hotels' log-in details to target holidaymakers.

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Chip machine maker ASML intends to appoint Christophe Fouquet as CEO to succeed co-presidents Peter Wennink and Martin van den Brink. The Veldhoven company will present Fouquet’s appointment at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 24 April 2024,…