A panel of judges has said that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the 2021 blackout. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market.

David Hilderman, who ran for the PPC in the Saanich—Gulf Islands riding in 2021, has a university degree in engineering but is not licensed as a professional engineer, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment.

This link captures the confusion about how to pronounce "fsck":

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Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name…

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After alleged thefts from the British Museum, a curator explains the challenges of keeping collections—and U.K. laws preventing repatriations.

Global shipping firms are suspending voyages in the Red Sea

(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity…

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible...

It offers new hope to people unable to communicate in other ways.

Nature - Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.

Wang Yi's GPT solution. Contribute to wangyi-fudan/wyGPT development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Production-ready Reinforcement Learning AI Agent Library brought by the Applied Reinforcement Learning team at Meta. - GitHub - facebookresearch/Pearl: A Production-ready Reinforcement Learning ...

All things prompt engineering. Contribute to microsoft/promptbase development by creating an account on GitHub.

3M knew its chemicals were toxic decades ago, but didn’t tell the public or government, internal documents show.

Naming is hard. After all, it is one of the two hard problems of computer science, with cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.
Mostly we would assume that poorly chosen type and variable names would merely make the code harder to read, but turns out they…

Posting a torrent of fake negative book reviews — sometimes before a book is out or has even been written — is a known problem on the literary social media site.

To reach the Senior level, you need to increase your scope, impact, and ownership. One of the best ways to do that is to become a “go-to” person or an expert. You could be the “database expert”, “Python expert”, “caching expert”, “frontend expert”, “Typenoscript…

As we consider Cash’s career and the range of musical worlds it embraces, our challenge is to understand its breadth as well as its enduring themes of social justice and the human condition.

Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a 32-bit processor but also switching to a...