violent confrontation that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining

Physicist Richard Feynman had the following advice for those interested in science: “So I hope you can accept Nature as She is—absurd.”1 Here Feynman captures in stark terms the most basic insight of modern science: nature is not understandable in terms of…

Exploring JVM specification and trying to write a little code to interpret a Java class like a real JVM.

The Police Use of Force Project investigates how police use of force policies can help to end police violence.

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have created a form of nitrogen that’s never been seen before. Nicknamed “black nitrogen,” the new substance is crystalline, occurs in two-dimensional sheets, and could one day be useful in advanced electronics.

There’s a famous blog post by Joel Spolsky where he asserts that you should never rewrite a codebase from scratch. He cites the example of…

Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop - GitHub - szimek/sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop

BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. will both use equipment from Scandinavian component makers Nokia and Ericsson to build out their next-generation 5G networks in Canada.

Irene Triplett collected $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a benefit for her father’s military service in the Civil War.

Repository containing evidence of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests - 2020PB/police-brutality

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Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that:




...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers.  Whenever…

Police app stops working hours after PD requested videos of “illegal activity.”

Zoom Video Communications Inc. demonstrated that paying customers have flocked to its virtual-meeting software, transforming the once-niche appmaker into a popular communications service and positioning it to benefit as the nature of work, school and life…

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A library of reinforcement learning components and agents - google-deepmind/acme

Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file - rochus-keller/Smalltalk

Twisted light beams could boost telecommunications data rates