In multithreaded programming, it’s important to make threads wait. They must wait for exclusive access to a resource. They must wait when there’s no work available. …

The 2020s are not the 1990s.

It has been 2 years since I published “CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown”, and it still is easily the most visited article on this blog. Yesterday alone it got 2,614 views t…

Los Angeles lost a hundred thousand affordable homes in a decade. Don’t look to bulldozers to explain how.

I love programming. I've been writing software professionally for decades. But my productivity with home projects is low - I rarely finish anything.
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Make Sunsets was testing the idea of cooling the atmosphere with sunlight-reflecting chemicals in Baja, but came under widespread criticism.

A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself.

The man behind a startup called DoNotPay planned to use AI to help fight a traffic ticket. But professional lawyers shut it down.

Nature - Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Researchers are figuring out what time they will keep.

Convert text to handwriting using an in-browser recurrent neural network. Choose from various print and cursive styles. Customize the outputs and download as SVG.

A well-known author said, “Blogging is dead. People only watch videos.” Sure, visual content is popular. But there are still people who read.