Companies looking to raise money turn to venture capital for a variety of reasons. Top among them is generally access to capital, but often on the list is the hope that raising capital from experienced (and well-networked) investors will have other positive…

Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today - dspinellis/unix-history-repo

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

For all the new readers who’ve joined since my post about effective altruism and elections, welcome! I’m now back to my usual biology beat, although this one is also influenced by my effective altruism bent. After all, one of the major reasons I started a…

I just discovered an annoying behavior of Safari on iOS: full-screen videos can overlap each other and make it hard to close them without force closing Safari.

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QuestDB created a minor stir in the small but active world of analytics database benchmarking with this blog article:   https://questdb.io/blog/2022/05/26/query-benchmark-questdb-versus-clickhouse-timescale.  This is the money quote:  “QuestDB is an order…

You can read the latest guidance on this subject in the Service Manual. On the Register to vote project, we have been testing different ways of asking for a date of birth. We began with three drop-downs: This tested ok, …

As a place that invokes classic style and traditional masculinity, Rhode Island is a wonderful place to start your career as a barber. The Rhode Island Department of Labor and training expects the number of hairstylist and barbering jobs to grow quickly between…

In April of this year, FreeBSD patched a 13-year-old heap overflow in the Wi-Fi stack that could allow network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of FreeBSD Kernel. This bug was originally reported to the ZDI program by…