Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries. - genuinetools/binctr

Comparing product development stories - and difficulties - across the continent.

Let's game this out a bit.

(Leer en español aquí.)   Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole.  Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see…

It is frustrating to learn about principles such as maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), maximum a posteriori (MAP) and Bayesian inference in general. The main

The cryptocurrency is going on an energy diet to compete with more efficient blockchains

Ugh. It’s always astounding when a mammoth technology company shows how completely out of touch they are with everyday end user reality, or that they could give two figs about YOUR situation. This rant focuses on Google’s education-oriented Expedition application.…

The Deep Tunnel was supposed to provide “a total solution to the flood problem.” It hasn’t.

Minus zero behaves like zero, right?

5G is overkill for phones but that's okay because for carriers it is really about destroying broadcast and cable TV, ISPs, and telephone companies. One network to rule them all.

It was China’s second moon landing, and the first spacecraft to touch down on the side of the moon that always faces away from Earth.

It’s a space feat no nation has accomplished until now.

Here we are at the beginning of 2019 and I’m engaged in yet another discussion on the merits (or lack thereof) of keeping all of an…

Alec Nevala-Lee considers the science fiction writer’s concept of “psychohistory,” a fictional method for predicting the future dreamed up during turbulent times.

Shaohua Li — Linux RAID Storage Discusion and Development Archive

By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, they may have inadvertently skewed the results of their experiments.