How to tell original from fake DS18B20 temperature sensors. - cpetrich/counterfeit_DS18B20

A quick look at the ballistics and stability of aerial fireworks.

Open a new window somewhere in the world

In and around the CHOP protest zone is starting to resemble law enforcement of a hundred years ago, with no cops but lots of private corporate-hired guns and citizen militias, all trying to protect their turf.

Explaining HDBSCAN in ~5 minutes

A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to “jump around”.

A team of divers and archaeologists discovered the 19th-century fragrance in a shipwreck off the coast of Bermuda.

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Building a replacement for JavaScript's random number generator.

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A few observers in the Southern Hemisphere are beginning to capture Comet NEOWISE, too. Charts here for seeing the comet in late July and early August.

At first, pilots took the blame for crashes. The true cause, however, lay with the design. That lesson led us into our user-friendly age—but there's peril to come.

Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system - apache/pulsar

There’s widespread use of adblockers on the web but users are increasingly blocking cookies and other tracking noscripts too. Browsers such as Safari, Firefox and Brave are privacy-focused.

Google said on Monday that it plans to invest $10 billion in India over next five to seven years as the search giant looks to help accelerate adoption of

There was one remarkable legacy system when I was working in a bank sometime back. This could be summarized as an internal AWS lambda equivalent. The offering was complete with full CI, CD, unit te…