This is an experiment in bootstrapping some sort of programming language/environment from a clean MS-DOS install. - mniip/BOOTSTRA

Wolf packs take their territory very seriously. That point is illustrated in incredible, colorful, squiggly detail via a new data map from Voyageurs Wolf…

We Roam’s broken promises about a new life of remote work are an object lesson in the darker side of startup turnover.

We found our hard to diagnose Python memory leak problem in numpy and numba using C/C++.  It turned out that the numpy array resulting from the above operation was being passed to a numba generator compiled in "nopython" mode. This generator was not being…

An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis

A senior former Google employee who quit over its controversial plans to launch a search engine in China painted a picture of a company whose upper echelons are obsessed with stopping leaks, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

America turned into a net oil exporter last week, breaking almost 75 years of continued dependence on foreign oil and marking a pivotal -- even if likely brief -- moment toward what U.S. President Donald Trump has branded as "energy independence."

Almost every smartphone uses a processor based on the ARM1 chip created in 1985. The Visual ARM1 simulator shows what happens inside the...

Today’s indoor cat is a tiger robbed of his dominion, a Lamborghini left idling in the garage.

I haven’t posted here much lately, and I admit, it’s because I’ve gotten sidetracked thinking about curves again. I did my PhD thesis on curves, so spent years thinking about them, then put that on hold for a while, aside from some work in crunching font…

On Thursday, the Australian government and its Labor partners rammed a shockingly invasive anti-encryption law through Parliament, over the objections of experts, businesses, and civil rights groups. It endangers the security of everyone who uses online services…

As a general rule, the kernel is supposed to use the least amount of CPU
time possible; any time taken by the kernel is not available for the
applications the user actually wants to run. As a result, not a lot of
thought has gone into optimizing the execution…

Rocket is a web framework for the Rust
programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications
without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.

A common probiotic holds the key