Technology doesn’t always turn out the way we’d expect.

A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure present in many common applications. Its purpose is answering the question: "is this item in the set?" very fast and not using a lot of space. The answers can be NO, or MAYBE YES. They work using hash functions…

Historical German units

systemd inhibitor locks are a really great way to have some control over the system state changes (shutdown, reboot, idle, suspend, etc.). The common use case for this is if you need to ensure that some pre-shutdown/suspend handling takes place before the…

Tokyo sees little risk from treated water, but locals fear consumer backlash

Introduction to the most famous equation in finance

Writer Ted Chiang (author of the fantastic Exhalation) was recently a guest on the Ezra Klein Show. The conversation ranged widely — I enjoyed his thoughts on superheroes — but his comments on capitalism and technology seem particularly relevant right now

An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog - GitHub - jamespwilliams/prolog-isolation-checker: An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog

Corbett discusses how Cree#, which began as a

The city, which has been booming for a decade, has been the top destination for tech workers leaving California during Covid.

Why you might want to stop talking about your anxiety and try this instead

If we want the internet to be different we can’t keep following the same roadmap. I am celebrating a one-year anniversary at Mozilla this week, which is funny in a ...

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C++ `std::unique_ptr` that represents each object as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain - zhuowei/nft_ptr

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When we write


const x = 0.1


in a JavaScript source file and execute it, JavaScript does not interpret the 0.1 as the real number 0.1, because JavaScript numbers cannot represent every single possible real number, and…