What happens if you ignore expiry dates altogether? One man did that for a year, without ill effects – but his approach is debatable

The Infocom ZIL code dump has kicked off a small whirlwind of news articles and blog posts. A lot of them are somewhat hazy on what ZIL is, and how it relates to MDL, Lisp, Z-code, Inform, and the rest of the Golden-Age IF ecosystem. So I'm ...

So what exactly is Suspension Trauma?
Suspension Trauma (also called Orthostatic Intolerance, or Harness Hang Syndrome) is the loss of consciousness due to a victim being held upright with limited movement for a period of time and can rapidly lead to death…

Nature - Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours.

Our mission is to collect, preserve, and share the source code of all software that is publicly available, including its full development history. To this end, we already periodically fetch...

Meanwhile, inflation adjusted GDP has grown over 232%, inflation adjusted GDP per capita has grown 113%, and the S&P 500, adjusted for inflation, has grown 299%.

Arguments can be passed to Python functions by position or by
keyword—generally both. There are times when API designers may wish to
restrict some function parameters to only be passed by position, which is
harder than some think it should be in pure Python.…

Background RediSearch is a distributed full-text search and aggregation engine built as a module on top of Redis. It enables  users to execute complex search queries on their Redis dataset in an extremely fast manner. The unique architecture of RediSearch…

Learn how to use micro-promotions, mentorship, and small gestures to strengthen your engineering team.

Chinese American community fears ethnic targeting at MD Anderson by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Institutes of Health

Category theory is a relatively new branch of mathematics that has transformed much of pure math research. The technical advance is that category theory provides a framework in which to organize formal systems and by which to translate between them, allowing…

Munich’s Kunsthalle is currently showing selected pieces from Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller’s Samurai Collection in Dallas, Texas. The selection includes armor and weapons as well as household it…

Take a better lesson from philosophy and me, a reformed loudmouth

Many of the laws restricting local voters’ rights were directly written by a telecom sector terrified of real broadband competition.