Drag, drop and rotate countries, states, provinces, and regions around the map to compare their relative size.
Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa?
You may be surprised at what you find!
A great tool for educators.

Abstract

VLC is using Qt as its main GUI library since 2009 when it moved to Qt4 and QtWidgets.

Tens years later, we’re heavily changing the interface of VLC, and we’re moving to Qt5 and QML as our main engine for the interface. The new interface, planned…

The first native benchmarks of Apple's M1 chip appeared on the Geekbench site last week showing impressive native performance. Today, new...

Objective reasons to prefer Linux to Windows. Contribute to nbeaver/why-linux-is-better development by creating an account on GitHub.

Coast Phase: https://youtu.be/eVB02SSeqgQ

SpaceX and NASA are targeting Sunday, November 15 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s first operational crew mission (Crew-1) to the International Space Station (ISS) from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s…

Mortar is a GO framework/library for building gRPC (and REST) web services. - go-masonry/mortar

"Hi, remote workers! We'll pay you to work from Tulsa. You're going to love it here," reads the welcoming message from Tulsa Remote. The program, started by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, is paying people $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma to work remotely…

Our model can run 30+FPS for 2X 720p interpolation on a 2080Ti GPU. Currently our method supports 2X/4X interpolation for video, and multi-frame interpolation between a pair of images. Everyone is welcome to use this alpha version and make suggestions!

Github:…

Shanghai residents passing through the city’s eastern Huangpu District earlier this month might have stumbled upon an unusual sight: a ‘walking’ building.

Small, portable laser pointers could be used to guide lightning strikes, with a study suggesting the technology may prevent bolts from sparking wildfires, a researcher told AFP Thursday.

"Link stability is a little rough," but Netflix works great, one user says.

Greetings! I’m a new OCaml user. The intent of this post is simply to share my experience thus far in OCaml and hopefully generate some casual conversation about how other community users think about & use OCaml. What do I hope to get from this post? Critiques…

It is unambitious in scope but marks a win for China and a setback for India and America

It can be tempting to ascribe the affliction’s prevalence to our current climate of indulgence, but that’s not the full story.

Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplatforming.”  Unfortunately, the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep. One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received…

macOS includes a technology called Gatekeeper, that's designed to ensure that only trusted software runs on your Mac.

David Kopec's blog.

The results don't look good for surveillance capitalism ...

I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it’s become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I’m now working at VisioStack and starting a master’s i…