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The workings of passive investment indexes in times of crisis is already a subplot of the virus drama following histrionics in the oil market. It’s shaping up as a flashpoint in stocks, too, as overseers wrestle with pushing the eject button on wounded companies.

Probabilities and statistics: they are everywhere, but they are hard to understand and can be counter-intuitive. So what's the best way of communicating them to an audience that doesn't have the time, desire, or background to get stuck into the numbers? This…

Newly digitised lending cards from Shakespeare and Company uncover the choices of luminaries including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein

Social Media Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less politically polarized, and reported improved subjective well-being…

Design studio tool to help you graphically plan complex VPC design, calculate the optimal CIDR range for subnets and generate Terraform/Pulumi code on the fly.

Scifiinterfaces analyzes the speculative technology in sci-fi movies and TV shows for fun and erudition.

This PR introduces ZSTD compression to ZFS.
Many thanks to:
The original Proof of Concept by @allanjude see: #9024
The Linux compatibility redesign by @BrainSlayer see: #8941
Spin-off kvmem patch b...

Everybody’s done a Hello World program before. But now that I’ve got a few years of experience with the language, I set out to ask one of the most pressing questions out there - how do we make Hello World in C as convoluted and hard to understand as possible?…

Kubestack documentation: Build a Local Lab - Kubestack is a GitOps framework based on Terraform and Kustomize.

Homebound consumers are flocking to the site for scones, biscuits, muffins, breads, doughnuts and...alkaline tahini spelt cookies. Homebound chefs are eager to satisfy this newfound hunger for baked goods.

The latest attempt by the social media giant to act as a sovereign power is breathtaking in its sheer effrontery