The phenomenon of acquired savant syndrome reveals what happens when brain damage unleashes brilliance.

Quick, inexpensive, made-to-order treatments

Block Erasure Format - An extensible, fast, and usable file utility to encode and decode interleaved erasure coded streams of data. - gbletr42/bef

Scientists in the United Kingdom have created mini organs from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb.

How to extract raw source protobuf definitions from compiled binaries, regardless of the target architecture

In some Amish communities these days, e-bikes are beginning to outnumber buggies on the roads. Horse-drawn buggies, long a symbol of the Amish lifestyle, are finding less use as more people in Amish communities adopt electric-powered bicycles. In small Amish…

Handling pipe of commands like a single command. Contribute to flonatel/pipexec development by creating an account on GitHub.

"Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful

It’s not just that my clients lie to me a lot, which will only hurt them — it’s that they’re really, really bad at it.
My job as a public defender pu…

The investigation is tied to an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Boeing also told a Senate panel that it cannot find a record of the work done on the Alaska plane.

An interactive exploration of how long things take.

A group of roughly 600 quality assurance (QA) workers at Activision under Microsoft have successfully voted to unionize with the Communication Workers of America (CWA), becoming Activision Quality Assurance United.

This week I finished the most recent book in my self-guided study of 20th century technology, namely The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner. As the noscript implies, it’s a chronicle of research and development wing…

LLMs seem surprisingly good at many things. So much so that not a week goes by without someone coming up with yet another use-case for this technology, often to solve tasks quickly that traditionally …

I wrote a 3D rigid body physics engine datapack for Minecraft 1.20, and I'm also releasing the CBScript compiler that I used to make it.
Datapack: https://sethbling.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Downloads/DataPacks/physics_sandbox.zip
CBScript Code: https:/…