More Americans are being sent home to die, placing an overwhelming financial and caregiving burden on families.

Circle back and kill me now.

posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, the January 2018 report, the report at Scheme Workshop 2018, the January 2019 report, the ICFP experience report, an...

Cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWIG desktop publishing—these are just a few of the user interface innovations pioneered by Larry Tesler

"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than…

A collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users, a compact and practical reference.

Microsoft doesn’t want users to set up with a local account, it would seem – and less choice is never a good thing.

by Clifton Sorrell III On the eve of the Civil War, an advertisement appeared in the Texas Almanac announcing the sale of five enslaved people at the Stringer’s Hotel. “Negroes For Sale––I will offer for sale, in the city of Austin, before the Stringer’s…

Hi, I’m the perplexed owner of an AMD Threadripper 3970X CPU on a GIGABYTE TRX40 Aorus Xtreme motherboard. I’m writing this thread as a kind of followup/answer to @DerAlbi’s post here (“3970X - Prime95 stability?”) and to my own thread over at Reddit (“Prime95…

A long-form article ennoscriptd: "Domain Logic and SQL"

Tech flourished in communist Bulgaria and so did a body of science fiction asking vital philosophical questions

Greek Speaker of the House Constantine Tassoulas rebuked MeRA25 leader and ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Friday for handing an envelope over to him containing a USB of the conversations he had secretly recorded while attending a Eurogroup discussion…

It's not a bug, it's a feature, explains the Chocolate Factory

For now, Coinbase looks like a casino, but founder Brian Armstrong sees it as just the beginning of a financial liberation of the planet.

The search-engine company is reluctant to surrender some documents sought by investigators looking into possible anticompetitive practices.

Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’