The handling of widowed headings across pages in Apple Books is of particular concern. Since 1997, CSS has had properties to handle this, and yet browsers including Safari and Firefox still don’t support them – why not?

In early modern England, numbers were something you could touch. On tally-sticks and abacuses, counting boards and...

This is part 4 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details cultural differences and things I wasn’t aware of until I stumbled on them.
Politics One thing about Germany, and Europe in general…

With home prices up nearly 40% since 2020, buyers are now wealthier and older, making them more likely to outbid younger buyers with all-cash offers.

Interesting new ability of the OpenAI API - the first time I've seen this from any vendor. If you know your prompt is mostly going to return the same content …

“Maintaining low blood sugar levels, even within the normal range, shows promise for preserving a younger brain, especially when combined with a healthy diet and regular physical activity.

Stephen Edwards, captain of the 58.6m Perini Navi built Seahawk, was previously Captain from 2015 to 2020 for the 56m Perini Navi Bayesian which sank

Inspired by biological systems, evolutionary algorithms model the patterns of multi-generational evolution in order to unearth unique ideas. They work by generating a vast number of potential solutions to a particular problem and then pitting them against…

Data Commons aggregates and harmonizes global, open data, giving everyone the power to uncover insights with natural language questions

How Apple Watch estimates VO2Max to 1.2 ml/kg/min using GPS and heart rate.

HPV vaccines offer a rare opportunity to effectively eliminate one type of cancer. By taking this opportunity, it’s possible to save hundreds of thousands of women each year.

It’s not a project for most people, but watching someone ride up to 20 miles, and up to 30 mph, on tossed-out vape batteries is transfixing.

Nature - A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations.

How do we make good software, and indeed, what makes software good: both as software, and in terms of its place in the world?

Real programming languages in 50 lines of code. Contribute to zserge/tinylangs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Read chapter Front Matter: Building and operating cutting-edge, custom-designed research facilities presents unique challenges, where prior designs and ex...

The raid is part of an investigation in France and the Netherlands that began in November 2022.

rallyup is a lightweight Wake-On-LAN (WOL) scheduler and dependency manager designed for small businesses and homelabs. - darwindarak/rallyup

Simon Critchley seeks to say the unsayable
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