Or how I made CRC-32 calculations 18 times faster than Python, and 3 times slower than Python.

A young economist I know, Patrick DeJarnette, believes a much more radical change in currency is warranted. Here is what Patrick writes: Late one night I was curious how efficient the “penny, nickel, dime, quarter” system was, so I wrote a little noscript…

Despite recent progress, artificial wombs still face technical challenges. De-extinction efforts, of all things, are driving it forward. Just how much is anyone’s guess.

>AI is going to build your whole software product and you need drastically fewer people

I feel like I'm being gas-lit every time I read this and I worry it makes folks early in their software development journey feel like it's a bad time investment.

I'm…

Sometimes a single patient alters a career, as with Chan’s Shchetinina.

Today I heard about the sqlite3-rsync command, currently available in a branch in the SQLite code repository. It provides a mechanism for efficiently creating or updating a copy of a SQLite database that is running in WAL mode, either locally or via SSH to…

Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.

GEICO, the second-largest vehicle insurance underwriter in the US, has decided it will no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks. The company is terminating current Cybertruck policies and says the truck “doesn’t meet our underwriting guidelines.”

I can't believe the tirade has continued. My heart goes out to @RetroGameCorps, please give him a sub he 1000% deserves it.

RIP Yuzu and Ryujinx

Ty Ph4se0n3 for the edit!

An alleged unboxing video for an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 chip was uploaded to YouTube today by Russian channel Wylsacom. The...

Nintendo strikes again! Following Yuzu's shut down, Ryujinx has now been shut down by the gaming giant. Where will emulation go from here?

Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP 1.1 server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it’s a text file that has some specific rules to make parsing it easier.
All HTTP requests look something like this: 1
GET /path HTTP/1.1\r\n…

Bookmarklet that lets you render a full HTML page with any included css and javanoscript that is currently copied to your clipboard. Also works for SVG code. Useful with ChatGPT Canvas - ChatGPT Can...