American consumers spend, on average, 13 hours per year in calling queue with an estimated monetary cost of $38 billion. A third of complaining customers must make two or more calls to resolve their complaint. And that ignores the portion who simply give…

A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders.<br /><br />

A lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines

Ever wanted to do a hacky computer vision project? But you don’t want to invest time on learning/using complicated deep learning libraries like PyTorch or Te...

Zoned Storage is a new paradigm in storage motivated by the incredible explosion of data. Learn what it is, how to adopt, SMR HDDs & Zoned Namespaces SSDs.

Designed to overcome the limitations of the graphcis pipeline of the time, Talisman dealt with graphics much differently than existing approaches.

Nature - A 16-bit microprocessor built from over 14,000 carbon nanotube transistors may enable energy efficiency advances in electronics technologies beyond silicon.

I’ve found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with the recent pushes to get people to switch from Chrome to Firefox. Google keeps pulling dumb trick after dumb trick in an attempt to have more control over the web. It’s hard not to think that this kind of behavior…

I don’t know if this problem has a proper name, but in game development you usually don’t want truly random numbers. I’ve seen the solution named a “pseudo random distributi…

Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians

It's been said that we don't really understand a system until we understand how it fails. Despite having written a (toy) TCP implementation in college and then working for several years in industry, I'm continuing to learn more deeply how TCP works — and…

Cover image: The Couple in the Street (1887) by Charles Angrand. Courtesy Musée d’Orsay/Wikipedia Right now, in millions of bedrooms across the land, people are sighing for love. Love is impo…

9th of August 2019. It’s 4:52pm on a Friday, people are getting ready to go home and enjoy their weekend, then…
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5% of Great Britain goes dark.
Wide spread power outages, trains stop, an airport and hospital lose power.
What happened? This timeline is…

NetNewsWire 5 debuts as one of the simplest and speediest RSS readers available for the Mac and has a classic, recognizably-Mac design that fits right at home in all versions of macOS.

“We learn most when we have to invent” —Piaget In Part 2 you created a minimalistic WSGI server that could handle basic HTTP GET requests. And I asked you a question, “How can you make your server handle more than one request at a time?” In this article you…

An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly - GitHub - GetFirefly/firefly: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly

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