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Let's talk about peeing in space. Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.

After almost an year of hard work, I’m excited to finally announce Quark! You can check it out now over at https://quarkjs.io 🎉

Abstract: This RFC proposes a mechanism to package Nix expressions into composable entities called "flakes". Flakes allow hermetic, reproducible evaluation of multi-repository Nix project...

Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered

The article extracts the most general principles established by Wittgenstein's private language arguments in Investigations §§243‐316 and investigates their general application both in philosophy and...

A few days before the Fourth of July, British comic John Oliver used the pulpit of his US infotainment show, Last Week Tonight, to deliver a lengthy monologue about the depredations of Amazon.com. Hi

The concrete has seemingly strengthened over the past two millennia

Bank investors could be forgiven for mistaking executives on recent earnings calls for sports commentators. Their new favorite way to describe trading clients: “on the sidelines.”

A Collection of Scripts Which Disable / Remove Windows 10 Features and Apps - W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

Some 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with even $400 to pay for an emergency expense. Just how are so many Americans so short on cash? Blame debt.

Trail of Bits recently completed a security assessment of Kubernetes, including its interaction with Docker. Felix Wilhelm’s recent tweet of a Proof of Concept (PoC) “container escape” sparked our interest, since we performed similar research and were curious…

An effective way to maximize code coverage in software tests is through
dynamic symbolic execution$-$a technique that uses constraint solving to
systematically explore a program's state space. We...

Hi, Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Earlier this month, I discussed why Boeing’s 737 Max was such a disaster, looking in particular at the company’s merger with McDonnell…

Besides Xeon processors that are officially mentioned on its website and price list, Intel has tens of ‘off roadmap’ server CPUs only available to select customers that have special requests. Recently journalists from ComputerBase discovered that Intel has…

It would take a lot. Like a real lot.