Aims to provide both short and simple answers to the common recurring questions of novice programmers about floating-point numbers not 'adding up' correctly, and more in-depth information about how IEEE 754 floats work, when and how to use them correctly…

I’m afraid that there is no cure for burnout. After all, you can’t untoast toast.

The Lego community has been flooded with people looking to turn a profit. Will it last?

Prosecutors drop a rape inquiry into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is in custody in the UK.

Privacy groups this week began pushing regulators to block the Fitbit acquisition, which the company originally hoped to close in early 2020.

Algebraic data types and algebraic data structures sound similar. It’s like they ought to be the same thing. But they’re not. They both have ‘algebraic’ in the name, so it’s confusing. I got them mixed up at times. Others have too. But, they’re different…

A growing industry of "preppers" repackages goods from other stores before sending them to Amazon

I was studying the effectiveness of a head-mounted device to stop motion sickness in driverless cars when something unexpected happened. One of the participants in my experiment reported that her tinnitus had dramatically improved, she scored 100% for motion…

A long time ago— like 15 years ago— I worked at Sun Microsystems. The company was nearly dead at the time (it died a couple years later) because they didn't make anything that anyone wanted to buy anymore. So they had a lot of strange ideas about how they'd…

How to Have Sex in the 600s: A very NSFW #MedievalTwitter Thread. Archbishop Theodore gave many judgments on what sexual acts were appropriate (and not) in the late 600s in England. So...how *was* it appropriate to have sex? (Lyon, BM, MS 5128, f. 100r)

TikTok is posing a growing threat to Facebook and Instagram, which have both tried to clone its success.

The ultimate list of (almost) everything we used to create our premium Steam hit game Curious Expedition.

Language is always changing. How has technology forced it to evolve?

Goodness me, Valve actually are making a new Half-Life game. Following the weekend’s leaky rumours of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve have confirmed yup, it actually is real. They actually are making a new Half-Life, and it actually is for VR. They call Half-Life:…

One of the greatest comic book writers says it's embarrassing for adults to like superheroes.

A YouTuber who used a royalty-free track supplied by YouTube itself has had all of his videos copyright claimed by companies including SonyATV and Warner Chappell. According to the music outfits, Matt Lownes' use the use of the track 'Dreams' by Joakim Karud…

Oversaid emails you what Tech executives are saying, cutting through the BS with irreverent commentary and in-depth analysis.

Jimmy Wales says his new social network, WT:Social, now has more than 160,000 members.

Today you toil. Who knows what tomorrow brings?