One immediate thing seems clear about 2020: it’s a good year to cover your face. Online, we’re working to scale and improve Signal for everyone that is relying on it, but as one small offline way to help support everyone self-organizing for change in the…

I have to apologize because this is not the normal sort of question for this site, but there have been times in the past where MO was remarkably helpful and kind to undergrads with similar types of

In a previous role, I was an engineering manager for a well-known company for a particular tech stack. One way we sorted through all the applications was requiring coding tests for potential candidates. One truly stood out, and it taught me to think about…

Radix sort sorts n w-bit integers by splitting them up into chunks of log⁡n\log nlogn bits each, and sorting each chunk in linear time. Thus it achieves O(nw/log⁡n)O(nw/\log n)O(nw/logn) time.

tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.

Markets/evolution as backstops/ground truths for reinforcement learning/optimization: on some connections between Coase’s theory of the firm/linear optimization/DRL/evolution/multicellular life/pain/Internet communities as multi-level optimization problems.

A simple yet exhaustive model that describes the things you need to grok and have a thorough understanding of to become an expert in the field.

If students want to retain information, they should repeat their studies, right? Maybe not.

Log what files are accessed by any Linux process. Contribute to spieglt/whatfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

Libmish adds a command prompt to your program, and telnet access. With your own commands. - GitHub - buserror/libmish: Libmish adds a command prompt to your program, and telnet access. With your ow...

Like the rest of the world, we are horrified by the videos of George Floyd’s murder. Once again, police brutality was documented by brave bystanders exercising their First Amendment rights. Their

The open source React and Prosemirror based markdown editor that powers Outline. Want to try it out? Create an account: - outline/rich-markdown-editor

GnuTLS servers are able to use tickets issued by each other without access to the secret key as generated by gnutls_session_ticket_key_generate(). This allows a MITM server without...

Apple Inc. is preparing to announce a shift to its own main processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel Corp., as early as this month at its annual developer conference, according to people familiar with the plans.

Application of formal systems to model biological systems - prathyvsh/formal-systems-in-biology

The fate of AdGrok, as told by the CEO who pulled off one of Silicon Valley’s most amazing outcomes

Over the years, home milk delivery has become exceedingly rare.  The milkman has been disappearing from daily life since the 1950s, when refrigerators

Christopher Tarnovsky shows Wired.com the tricks behind smart-card hacking.

Several months ago, I realized that I had a lot of sensitive files on my computer (my diary, if you must know) that I was afraid of losing, but I didn’t feel comfortable putting them in something like Google Drive or Dropbox. Introducing UtahFS.