How Web Standards Work 1. design a flawed API (it's fine! APIs are hard) 2. ship it in the most-used browser, despite objections 3. get cross-browser working group to fix the API 4. oops, too late, that would break the web

Scenarios indicate that Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is critical to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to ‘well below 2°C’. But, at what scale?

Is it possible to out-eat the price you pay for an all-you-can-eat buffet? How do these places make money in this situation?

The 777X test flight comes after Boeing's 737 Max plane was grounded following two fatal crashes.

Plasma has gained its first user of the new notification inline reply feature in 5.18: Telegram Desktop! Big thanks to Kai Uwe Broulik for venturing forth to contribute a patch to Telegram that mad…

High-tax states are losing people, money and seats in Congress.

List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD, a mechanism for changing application behavior at run-time - gaul/awesome-ld-preload

Here's how your favorite old-school school supply became an icon.

What do the digits of pi, colliding blocks and quantum search algorithms have in common? More than you might expect. Two playful papers, one from 2003 and one from December of 2019, provide...

Today, on Wikipedia’s 19th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation has received reports that access to Wikipedia in Turkey is actively being restored.* This latest development follows a 26 December 2019 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that the more…

Find and compare USB hubs on found Amazon to find the USB hub you have been looking for.

Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while.…

In case you are not yet familiar with why an initramfs (or initrd, or initial ramdisk) is typically used when starting Linux, let me quote the wikipedia definition:
“[…] initrd is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, which may be…

Fluorinated glide wax is being banned from elite competitions, and big brands like Swix say they’re searching for environmentally friendly alternatives. But the seductively speedy—and noxious—compounds are unlikely to loosen their grip on the sport anytime…

Representatives of five prominent European cities are looking into a night train which would stretch all the way from Amsterdam to Helsinki. The train route would conceivably stop in Hamburg,

I’ve been a professional athletic trainer for about 16 years and have been able to work with a range of athletes from the high school to...