The American pattern of development creates the illusion of wealth. Today we are in the process of seeing that illusion destroyed…and with it the prosperity we have come to take for granted.

Introduction I previously wrote how to configure minicom to connect to a device over serial UART. In that post I mentioned that minicom might not be the best tool for the job. Consider that minicom is adding a lot of unnecessary complexity. If you think about…

TOKYO -- Online criticism of the novel coronavirus infection reporting method, which requires doctors to fill out forms by hand and fax them to public

Hopefully some signal in the noise.

Using Color in Information Display Graphics and ATC/ATM Interface Design. Design methods, color science, and color guidelines.

Dear software engineers, Many of you were horrified at the sight of the C++ code that Neil Ferguson and his team wrote to simulate the spread of epidemics. I feel with you. The only reason why I am less horrified than you is that I have seen a lot of sim...

Little Ball of Fur - A graph sampling extension library for NetworkX. - benedekrozemberczki/littleballoffur

Efforts to dilute world health assembly resolution on open licensing decried as ‘appalling’

Uber is reducing staff, closing more than three dozen offices and re-evaluating big bets in areas ranging from freight to self-driving technology, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to employees.

Every so often there comes a processor that captures the market. It ends up being that right combination of price, cores, frequency, performance, features and compatibility when added to the right sort of motherboard that makes it fly off the shelves. The…

Forensic investigation of 20 popular safety apps reveals that every single one, with the exception of Parachute, sends customer information to data collection companies for the purposes of tracking, marketing, analytics and advertising. Customer information…

Three ways negative news engages cognitive biases, trapping us in negativity.

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After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.

SheetHub supports 500+ functions, over 95% of those supported by Excel. It offers high performance and has low latency, as low as 5 milliseconds. It's highly compatible with Excel and supports Macro and VBA.

The new factory is slated to build the Model Y crossover and the Cybertruck.

Food waste is taking on a new meaning in the pandemic era.

Stanford psychiatrist Amy Alexander and colleagues report that women, children and society receive numerous benefits from 12 weeks of paid maternity leave.

I found myself once again writing a long forum post about the problems with standard-provided random number generation facilities (both C++'s <random>, and C's rand) in C++. Since I keep writing these, I decided to write it all down into one blog post so…