The compression algorithm used in zlib is essentially the same as that in gzip and zip. What are gzip and zip? How are they different and how are they same?

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A collection of GPT system prompts and various prompt injection/leaking knowledge. - LouisShark/chatgpt_system_prompt

Bonhoeffer's "theory of stupidity" posits that we have more to fear from stupidity than evil. The latter is easier to defeat than the former.

How some RPGs get coins wrong: they matter a lot until they matter not at all. It’s fun to play until your PCs are rich, but it’s even more fun to be able to buy things with those riches. Absorbing…

Download all of Wikipedia on your phone and never be without the useful internet ever again.

Scientists at UChicago discover that trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a fatty acid found in beef, lamb, and dairy products, improves the ability of immune cells to fight tumors.

Tired of Alexa's feeble "here's what I found on wikianswerspam.com" responses to my eight-year-old son's science questions, I whipped up Robot Dad during my Thanksgiving break. He now runs in the...

Super-slim cooling chip fits in Apple's thinnest laptop and boost its performance while under heavy load.

The New York Police Department is spending $500 million on a new radio system it calls more reliable and secure. But the public will no longer be able to monitor what officers are doing minute to minute.

Andy reviews his favorite NoSQL and NewSQL database shirts.

Tesla may owe punitive damages to victim as key trial over Autopilot proceeds.

Prettier, a JavaScript code formatter, has seen an incredible adoption thanks to its careful handling of the very, very, long tail of ways people can write code. At this point, the formatting logic has been solid and after our work on ternaries lands, it…

Web components can dramatically loosen the coupling of JavaScript frameworks. To prove it, we're going to do something kinda crazy: build an app where every single component is written in a different JavaScript framework.

Python and Go have distinct qualities that can complement each other.

Documents that have been unredacted in a complaint filed earlier by states show Meta conversations about age, product design and potential harms.

A series of arrests including one last week has sparked concerns that a rare 'Scene' crackdown may be underway in the Nordic region.

The Yamaha DX7 was released in 1983, with its FM synthesis engine completely revolutionizing the electronic music world at the time. It didn’t come cheap, and still doesn’t today, but w…