New research suggests that rocks in the Martian crust could produce the same kind of chemical energy that supports microbial life deep beneath Earth’s surface.

Our rejection of craftsmanship wrongly ignores the cognitive, social, and remunerative rewards of skilled manual work, and wrongly assumes that white-collar work always engages the mind. Matthew B. Crawford recounts life as a motorcycle mechanic and makes…

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The NCAA has no moral compass. That's the truth. The only compass they have points right to the money.

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Huge falls in the cost of renewables for power in the last few years have unlocked an energy reserve that can meet world demand 100 times over

Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might made solar power the cheapest power humanity has seen – and no one saw it coming

Ok, so here #Wasm3 compiles itself (using #Clang compiled to #WebAssembly), and executes another #WASI app in self-hosting mode. 😁
Execution time includes the build time, obviously!

On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

One of the most empowering things you can learn as a new front-end developer who is starting to learn JavaScript is to change classes. If you can change

Posted on Tuesday 20 Apr 2021. 1,566 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Compromised update mechanism for Passwordstate pushes malware that steals data.

Net, the BBC's television series about the possibilities of this much-talked-about new thing called the internet. 'They all tried to see into the future, and they all got it wrong. Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: all, to…

FFmpeg cheat sheet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

In Linux 5.13 ethtool gains an interface for querying IEEE and IETF statistics. This removes the need to parse vendor specific strings in...

Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for o...