This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 Peruvian rural primary schools. We use administrative data on academic performance and grade progression over 10 years to estimate the long-run effects…

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Reactive rendering. #2662
Time travel debugging. #2910
Animation API for application code. #2757
Headless mode testing. #2698
First-class end-to-end testing. #3059
Input method support. #277...

Programmer’s dilemma

: New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters

A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.

An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.

Earth's radiation is harvested to power a Stirling engine for air circulation, mechanical work, and electricity.

OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?

Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men went missing, too, giving rise to a host of conspiracy theories

How bipartisan lawmakers (and “your voice at the IRS”) helped improve the tax system.

Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subnoscription or on Stripe. Or support our Kickstarter campaign! News in batteries and electrification has been coming fast and furious lately. Recently, Su Yi, the head of CATL’s marine division, stated, “CATL’s…

You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is pegged at 100% doing nothing useful. This is the synchronization primitive trap…

Good riddance.

In many ways, America’s social safety net falls short of those of our liberal democratic peers, yet we have no shortage of policies intended to provide social protections. Why is that, and how can we fix it?

Create plottable hand-coded art online using a JavaScript Turtle graphics API. Joy is in the craft.

On Friday, we talked about some of the bad things that can happen if you call a function with the wrong signature. The ia64 introduces yet another possible bad consequence of a mismatched function signature which you may have thought was harmless. The CreateThread…

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