An intro the Jai programmina language via Advent of Code.

Björn Brembs argues that learned societies should lead developments on federated social media platforms, such as Mastodon.

In many contexts, the individual value from consuming a product or service increases as more people consume it. The more of your peers who join TikTok, for example, the more value you probably see in joining yourself. Building on this logic, it’s possible…

A file system is responsible for organising and providing an abstraction over the storage devices where the data is physically stored. In this post, we will learn more about the concepts used by file systems, and how they fit together when writing your own.

portable device containing the entire contents of Wikipedia

Contribute to quelsolaar/makemake development by creating an account on GitHub.

We combine novel micro data with the quasi-random timing of patent decisions over the business cycle to estimate the effects of being born in the Great Recessio

Scientists have spent 18 years looking for the elusive Cross Seamount beaked whale—a potentially new species they’ve heard but never seen.

On October 16, the crew of a Lufthansa A350 inbound to San Francisco found themselves in an unenviable situation: a seemingly unnecessary last-minute diversion to Oakland after a long-haul flight. The diversion was forced by ATC, following the crews inability…

There are a lot of different answers, just as with hydrogen for energy. There's a circle of hope, delusion and despair that is grasping at SMR straws.

The scientist studies the molecular clock mechanisms of bacteria, plants and biomedical research’s most popular insect, the fruit fly

D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax.

Former Wall Street banker Randall Atkins got a lot more than he bargained for when he paid $2 million for a Wyoming coal mine without even seeing it in 2012. At the time, he planned to make money selling coal from his mine to other plants. That was before…

Specification work for JSON Web Proofs. Contribute to json-web-proofs/json-web-proofs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team,  Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business –…

For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?

It was the evening of 16 December 1773. At Boston’s Old South Meeting House, more than 5,000 people awaited word from the governor of Massachusetts Bay, Thomas Hutchinson. Had the governor finally given in to their demand to send back to England the three…

Big Sur ended up with a total of 50 GB of updates on Apple silicon Macs. While Ventura did much better, its smallest update was still just under 2 GB. Now Sonoma is doing much better.