Earlier this week, I was writing a Dockerfile to download and run a binary when I noticed the image size was way more than what I would expect. I’m using ubuntu:21.10 as the base image, which is about 70MB. The binary I’m running is about 80MB. Other packages…

Oopsie.

Taylor Hawkins, drummer for the rock band the Foo Fighters, died Friday in Bogota, Colombia.

We’d like to apologize. The last few weeks have been pretty brutal for the Flickr team. Switching hardware platforms on a live site with hundreds of moving parts that’s serving thousand…

I am using Vaex and looking for performance tips.

My use-case is as follows:
I have a large dataframe - let's call it large_df(only a few columns but tens of million rows, and in production, the

Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting

The genome-edited cattle were bred to endure climate change, and their offspring will be used in meat production.

In front of me is something that feels impossible: This is a legal, officially sanctioned DVD of the movie CODA, an Apple Original (Apple Inc.’s name for their exclusive original movies on th…

Before joining Wave four years ago, I spoke to a former employee about his experience. He said something that has stayed in my memory ever since: “Wave is really good at execution, so by working at Wave, you’ll learn how to execute very well.”
Now that I’ve…

Women have a variety of birth control options, ranging from pills to patches to intrauterine implants, and they carry the brunt of the responsibility for avoiding conception. However, men's birth control choices — and hence responsibilities — may be growing…

Scientists have discovered microplastics in human blood for the first time, warning that the ubiquitous particles could also be making their way into organs.

C macros for hash tables and more. Contribute to troydhanson/uthash development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is a hard one to write about. Last year our team lost Pete, a long time engineer. Pete took his own life. He had battled mental health issues for some time.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Eleven power plants near the Salton Sea could produce about 20,000 metric tons of lithium per year which is 10 times the current US demand.